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PleaseNotPoll

PleaseNotPoll

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Now this isn't an attack on our delightful neighbours, as you might have thought, but comment about ticket prices in the Premier League in general.
City's fans have simply refused to pay the £62 that Arsenal were charging for the privilege of attending the game at the Emirates today, returning nearly a third of their 3,000 allocation.
Given that City's cheapest season ticket costs £275, the game today would cost nearly a quarter of that.

It's about time that somebody took a stand against this sort of ridiculous pricing, so fair play to the City fans.
I'm sure that a lot of Goons would actually agree with them.
Maybe it's time that Premier League fans as a whole started to stand up for themselves, as they do in Germany?
With the massive TV revenue windfall that everyone's going to receive next season, perhaps it's time for the clubs to take the recession into account and charge less for tickets?
 
Completely agree with the stance taken by City fans at this ticket price. However, £62 doesn't look so bad when one considers we were charged £55 at the dump called Loftus Road yesterday. The real point is though that whether it's at the Emirates or QPR, the prices are completely over the top.

We shouldn't be exempt from criticism ourselves though, because our charge for a category A game for vistiting fans is £54.

Personally I would like to see this category price structure disappear, after all, who is to say that a game against Man City is definitely going to be better than a game against say Reading ?? This system is also open to abuse as in the case where Arsenal had their PL game against Swansea as a category C game, yet somehow have decided the FAC replay this coming week against Swansea, is a category B game. A lack of consideration for the fans as are these unrealistic ticket prices.
 
I know a few Arsenal fans that are very pissed off about that change in price for the Swansea game, SC. Would've gone, aren't going now.

I'd agree that we're one of the worst offenders with ticket prices.
The clubs seem to think that they can basically charge what they like, as long as people keep buying them.
Not a plan with a view to the future and one that clearly considers fans as mere customers.
 
The clubs will justify the charges by stating 'supply and demand' PNP, which is fair enough but only to a point. People simply do not have the spare cash these days that clubs seem to think they have.

The attendances at WHL this season may not reflect any significant change, but I can tell you that at most games, hospitality boxes are being unused and there are usually special offers to be had at a significantlly reduced prices to try and fill these empty boxes. Again it's because of pricing at an unrealistic cost in the first place and it won't be too long before these gaps will extend to the stands if prices are not curbed.
 
Fair play to the City fans.

I totally agree that ticket prices are a rip off, and our club is one of the worst offenders of this, along with QPR, goons, Chelsea & Fulham.

I paid £840 for my season ticket this season plus however much for the extra cup games.
I also buy a membership/season ticket for Middlesex CCC for £168, I get far better value for my money at the cricket.

Football clubs are setting the prices far to high. But as someone has already mentioned, it's supply & demand.
 
I agree with ticket prices are far too high, but don't most of the London clubs charge more that the other clubs, seems everything is more expensive in London. The only small excuse I can make is at least people get to enjoy the game in a nice new stadium, poor excuse I know. The only alternative is that prices should be standardised across the division, regardless of opposition, I fear that until people really stop attending, nothing will happen, what should really happen is every supporter from all PL clubs should boycott a game on the same weekend, then when every premier league game is half empty people might listen. Unfortunately it's very unlikely to happen.
 
PleaseNotPoll said:
The clubs seem to think that they can basically charge what they like, as long as people keep buying them.
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but they can and the fans that buy them are to blame. What will missing a few matches do? i seriously dont think it would effect the team and if it does so be it...id rather thousands of working class people get looked after instead of worrying about 11 players not having any support for a few matches. If fans dont make the sacrifice then they cant complain.
 
Spurlock said:
but they can and the fans that buy them are to blame. What will missing a few matches do? i seriously dont think it would effect the team and if it does so be it...id rather thousands of working class people get looked after instead of worrying about 11 players not having any support for a few matches. If fans dont make the sacrifice then they cant complain.
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Sadly, the days of looking after the 'working class people' have long since gone and are unlikely to return.

Many clubs (Spurs included), will claim they do help the man on the street fan by reducing prices at every possible opportunity, which basically means this will not apply to a league game (which would be a real gesture), but only when we get drawn at home to crap opposition. Hence the £20 per ticket in all areas of the stadium against Coventry recently.

As a starting point, there should be a fixed price for Capital One Cup games at the Lane of drastically reduced prices for adults and kids, family packages available (deals for 2 adults and 2 kids etc), and the kick off time to be at 7pm to encourage parents to bring kids and minimising the impact of kids being out the evening before a school day.

Until clubs start treating this matter seriously, the working class fan will continue to be banging his head against a brick wall.
 
£62 is way too much to watch a game of football. I paid £65 last season to watch Arsenal v Spurs (but that was worth every penny in the end) As pointed out though, it's not just Arsenal. There were tickets at £55 at Loftus Rd yesterday and your category A games are something like the same price. It's a league wide problem.

This is partly why I'm so in favour of redeveloping grounds to include some safe standing areas. In order than clubs can offer some cheaper tickets and increase capacity at the same time.
 
PISKIE said:
This is partly why I'm so in favour of redeveloping grounds to include some safe standing areas. In order than clubs can offer some cheaper tickets and increase capacity at the same time.
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They wouldn't though, unfortunately. They'd be happy to get a few extra thousand customers in and charge the same amount.

Germans protest about paying €20 for a game and they get rail travel thrown in. We'd be lucky to pay three times that with travel on top.
 
PISKIE said:
£62 is way too much to watch a game of football. I paid £65 last season to watch Arsenal v Spurs (but that was worth every penny in the end) As pointed out though, it's not just Arsenal. There were tickets at £55 at Loftus Rd yesterday and your category A games are something like the same price. It's a league wide problem.

This is partly why I'm so in favour of redeveloping grounds to include some safe standing areas. In order than clubs can offer some cheaper tickets and increase capacity at the same time.
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Our top whack for away fans is £54 and as you probably know, they're placed in a corner of the ground. Our highest for home fans is £84 in our west stand. This is of course for the whole stand, yet the price fails to recognise that the view from the wings of the stands is not the same as the centre of the stands.

If I go to the theatre, I pay less if I sit closer to the back than to the front, so a 'reduced' view is taken into consideration. Do football clubs do this ?? Only when you're stuck behind a bloody great pillar do they (as is in the case of our east stand).
 
....and I remember when it cost a shilling to see Stanley Matthews at The Lane.........
 
[video=youtube;H_CEQV1DODs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_CEQV1DODs[/video]

"They paid £62 over there, go and see them!" <laugh>
 
Original Spurcat said:
Our top whack for away fans is £54 and as you probably know, they're placed in a corner of the ground. Our highest for home fans is £84 in our west stand. This is of course for the whole stand, yet the price fails to recognise that the view from the wings of the stands is not the same as the centre of the stands.

If I go to the theatre, I pay less if I sit closer to the back than to the front, so a 'reduced' view is taken into consideration. Do football clubs do this ?? Only when you're stuck behind a bloody great pillar do they (as is in the case of our east stand).
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One thing about the Emirates is that the views are great, so there isn't any restricted view pricing. Our ticketing system means you can see some games for £25, which is good value. But we have Cat A and Cat B games, city was a Cat A game, so that's why tickets were expensive. I can fully understand not wanting to pay £62, especially if you're going with family. I haven't traveled to away games for a good few years now, but when I was last at WHL the price reflected the view and it was good value <laugh>
 
The views are great at Saint's stadium, too, PESKIE - one of the best UK stadiums I've had the pleasure to visit - yet their pricing is half yours.

Don't tell me that you believe most Gooners think your club is giving you good value for money, at the moment, or has been for the past 8 seasons, because I know it isn't true.
 
PISKIE said:
One thing about the Emirates is that the views are great, so there isn't any restricted view pricing. Our ticketing system means you can see some games for £25, which is good value. But we have Cat A and Cat B games, city was a Cat A game, so that's why tickets were expensive. I can fully understand not wanting to pay £62, especially if you're going with family. I haven't traveled to away games for a good few years now, but when I was last at WHL the price reflected the view and it was good value <laugh>
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We heard you the first time, and the second time you put something along these lines. <doh>
 
I remember reading the leader of some supporter's association was saying the extra £3billion(or something like that) that the PL made in selling TV rights should have some allocated to getting clubs to put their prices down by a tenner on every ticket. It's a shame to think that this reasonable suggestion will be totally ignored and the new money will either be spent on agents and players wages rising, spending money on new players to make the Premier League the best league in the World again or just to make some chaimen a bit richer.
 
Hoddle Is A God said:
The views are great at Saint's stadium, too, PESKIE - one of the best UK stadiums I've had the pleasure to visit - yet their pricing is half yours.

Don't tell me that you believe most Gooners think your club is giving you good value for money, at the moment, or has been for the past 8 seasons, because I know it isn't true.
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It is a good stadium, but you pay less to watch teams lower down the league, that's standard. Not sure it's half the price though, unless you can show me some pricing. Would be interested to see it.

And no, I don't think we are getting good value for money overall at emirates, I didn't say we were, so you don't need to make unnecessary assumptions <ok>
 
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