The cost of the Chelsea game has gone up a tenner for those that claimed to have bought kids tickets for tonight.
Credit where it's due - now Liverpool fans are pxxxxd off at our ticket prices
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The cost of the Chelsea game has gone up a tenner for those that claimed to have bought kids tickets for tonight.
All tickets for that game are subsidised £10 by Liverpool.
Are they actually taking that privilege away from those that are protesting tonight?
I meant if they've bought a kids ticket with no intention of turning up, to keep their away points going, they've added £10 to the price of their next ticket. That will probably make it dearer than ours.
Fair enough really, whilst I agree with their right to protest and agree with what they stand for, they are essentially denying a genuine fan the opportunity to attend a game because they personally deem the tickets 'too expensive' and have picked this game to make a point.
What is too expensive for them may be completely affordable for someone else, a person who wanted that ticket and wanted to support their team.
Looking at the tout sites, I wonder if some are covering their costs by reselling the tickets at more than face value?
Mate, it's a Tuesday night in Hull. How many fans do you think we have that REALLY want to go. Even with somewhere in the region of 1000 people buying kids tickets and not going, it's gone to All Season Ticket Holders and it's only the second game that's done that all season.
Fundamentally, we're football fans and we want to go to the match. There's no hypocrisy anywhere. I really have no idea why people appear to be trying to crab people for this like some are here. Utterly bizarre.
Do it at every game then
Home games included.
When it's possible for me to send my season ticket back and leave my seat empty at a cost of 20% of my season ticket I will do just that. But that's not possible. So all there is is an empty seat I've paid for and not a jot of difference is made to anything.
And I'd also quite like to go and watch football. If we did this every away game then in by September teams will just stop giving us away tickets.
So tonight's 'protest' is just a bit pointless really. I suspected as much, thanks for clarifying.
How did I clarify that?
Start with a battle we can win (Hull away, on a Tuesday, at the end of the season) and then see what happens.
Not sure how you've won anything. Whilst I support the aim of lower ticket prices, and your protest has had some media attention, plus of course comments from Brucie (interesting that Rogers didn't know anything about it), the simple fact is the away end will be full tonight. There will also be plastic Liverpool fans dotted around the stadium too.
I appreciate that isn't your fault per se, but clubs like yours attract these plastics, as well as the tourists, and those are the root cause of the problems in football imo. Clubs are obviously going to charge what they can, that's simple business. Unfortunately clubs like yours have fans who can moan (rightly so) about the prices but the bottom line is your full allocation has sold out.
Doesn't look like much of a protest then does it?
A proper protest would be buying a season ticket then simply not turning up, although of course that would need popular support and engagement to work, which I suspect would be unlikely. Those pesky plastics and tourists, who pump money into your club in tickets and merchandise would just take your places.
The PL needs to set the limits on ticket prices, they are the only people who can really, the clubs would just have to follow suit then. As ever, the powers that be in English football are just as useless as ever, but noone ever seems to want to go up against them in a sustained campaign, they pick the wrong battles at the wrong times and thus, nowt changes.
I didn't say we had won anything. I said we should pick a battle that we can win. And if we aren't going to win this, we aren't going to win another battle are we? The away end will not be full. Absolutely categorically 100% not full. There's at least 700 people who've said they've bought a kids ticket and have no intention of using it, so how it's going to be full, I've got no idea.
Our allocation has sold out you're right, you just don't seem very well informed here. Not even close to being well enough informed to even have an opinion on it to be honest. Given that the whole intention was to sell all of our tickets.
This is a sustained campaign. It's part of a wider thing. The £200k to each team didn't just magically appear out of thin air.
Personally the part that annoys me is that you've stopped a few hundred fans going to the game, you bought tickets to stop others getting them all because you don't agree with the prices but you don't want to loose precious away credits. It's hypocritical and selfish.
We only sold out yesterday. No one was 'stopped' from going to the match.
But yes, trying to make tickets cheaper is selfish. Are you all there in the head?
Stop whinging.
Lpool charge £69 for their category A matches. City are charging £50 for ours. Therefore ours is a bargain.
Or don't you class yourself as a category A attraction?
Good on ya for doing something.
There are many on here that whine and cry and moan but do nowt. Then when some actually go off and do something do nowt but critisize their actions.
The problem is, they don't see us a Cat A attraction.
Kudos for the empty seats, always good to see at the KC when we're playing Liverpool, but unless it's carried on to ALL their games, it's pointless and clearly just a cynical attempt to justify not travelling to the East Riding.
We don't charge £69 for anything. And I think our ticket prices are a disgrace and should be cheaper. I don't price our tickets though so your point couldn't be more moot.