@HumbersideSport: #hcafc Allam rules out Hull ticket price cut: Hull City owner Assem Allam rules out cutting ticket prices at t... http://t.co/5n7lIbVmIf
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/31477065 Not sure where he's going with this latest outburst. Doesn't seem to be saying that he can only reduce ticket prices if he gets the name change. He does however seem to be saying that he could only do that with an increased stadium capacity. I thought that bridge was well and truly burned???
Except he didn't actually say that exactly. He does have a point, from a business angle, about not reducing prices when in many cases demand outstrips supply. Any other business would be ecstatic over the occupancy rates of seats at PL games. Of course we would all like a reduction to get rid of the tourists and people who treat a football match like a visit to the theatre and kill the atmosphere but isn't going to happen whilst crowds are at their highest since 1950.
So if i'm reading this right, he's suggesting the council should pay to expand the stadium,and we should all be very angry with them for making football so expensive to attend ? Yeah right on Doc
Of course he isn't, it was never anything to do with the name change other than to be a threat used to pass the hostility away from himself when they increased them. If it was it would have been ridiculous for it to be an either/or situation. I said at the time if it they thought it would make more money then they should be doing it regardless of the name change. I'd have disagreed with the decision they took as we were at near enough optimal prices (we're above them now or we wouldn't have 4,000 empty seats at some games), but I'd only have viewed it as a mistake and a fair one for them to be making (even if it makes more money short term you're reducing customer base for the future as well so it will cost us then). As it was, he acted like a **** by using it to try to sway public opinion on the name change and create infighting amongst the fans, but that's hardly a surprise from someone as manipulative and deceitful as him. When he bought the club he said it should be like breathing air. So either he wants cheaper tickets or he thinks people should be charged for air to breathe. They were higher last season. He's obviously having a pop at the Council and saying if we had the stadium it wouldn't have happened. But let's not forget he doesn't like certain Council members and it's an election year, so if he thinks he can influence things in any way against the Council he will, and getting people blaming them for the huge increase in ticket prices might as well be a starting point to it. It'll fail, but it's really no different to last year blaming it on fans opposed to the name change to divide people.
I have no qualms if he'd rather invest the money in capacity, and indirectly reduce the ticket prices, rather than do it directly now (assuming that 20,000 are happy paying current prices). See you all in 10 years when it's come to fruition!
I don't think he's suggesting anyone in particular should pay for an expansion so much as just having another go about the Council not being prepared to sell the stadium (Geraghty on the radio, car boot and fair). It's just going back to the old bit about if the club owned the stadium they'd have borrowed to build the sports village but because they don't he couldn't. (and wouldn't)
well someone should be putting up the cash for the stadium expansion and given the extra tv revenue it should be Allam imho
Perhaps he should first use the new TV deal to make an offer to buy the stadium? Assuming we're still in the PL in the first season of the new deals there'll be an extra £50M comes in that year. Why not offer £20M or whatever the stadium is worth now/then, and use the other extra £30M to build on the squad. Then assuming we stay up again use £20M to fund the development.
What he says is completely logical. You can either subsidise prices for a short term, and then they will rise again when the money runs out... Helping existing fans and some new ones... Or Create a bigger stadium that holds more and can sustain a smaller price per head indefinitely subject to people coming. It's not contentious, just true.
He aways said bigger capacity = cheaper tickets. But I don't believe him now though I once did. Wtf is he on about cheaper tickets won't help anyone ? It would help thousands who can't afford to go !
I'm hoping Castro is going to continue in knocking down and explaining all the rank stupidty and ignorance on here. Well done sir.
I don't know in what context his comments were made, but having only read the BBC quotes attached on here, I cannot find anything wrong with what he has said. I am assuming someone asked him if he would use the extra TV income to subsidise ticket prices and he has given a very sensible answer. The way to move towards his solution is another thing, but I don't believe he brought that up, did he? Having said that I do find it amusing that, considering he is selling up, he can be arsed to make such long-term projections. What a shame, how good he could have been if it were not for his vitriolic nature. Just want Villa to get a goal now and prolong their misery!
