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Credit where it's due - now Liverpool fans are pxxxxd off at our ticket prices

Discussion in 'Hull City' started by Flashback Minstrel, Apr 17, 2015.

  1. HCAFC (Airlie Tiger)

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    My thoughts exactly!
     
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    It's unlikely to be the same people though isn't it?
     
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  3. DMD

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    A campaign against them would have longer term benefits over the sound bite approach these groups seem to favour, and probably get more support from other clubs and the controlling bodies.

    Of course, it would put some of the blame for their situation on Liverpool fans...
     
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    Liverpool fans are campaigning against their own ticket prices, as well as the prices they are charged by other clubs.

    They seem to be getting grief merely because they're Liverpool fans, which is a shame, as it's a worthwhile cause.
     
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  5. DMD

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    They're not getting grief just because they're Liverpool fans, that's nonsense. People are just pointing out flaws in the approach.

    Most agree in principle, it's the practice that's being questioned.
     
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    What would you suggest they do?
     
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  7. DMD

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    Take on board the comments from other fans, and consider them.

    City have said quite early on that we got our pricing structure wrong and are changing it next year. Any campaign against our prices is an easy win.
     
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    I'd suggest they boycott every overpriced game, including home games and the big aways (Chelsea, Arsenal, Man U etc.) which they're so concerned about keeping their loyalty points for, rather than just targetting the easy ones like little old Hull on a cold Tuesday night.

    There's a whiff of hypocrisy buying £10 tickets boycotting a £50 away game to relegation contenders to keep their loyalty points in order to pay £60 or so to go away to Chelsea.
     
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    This loyalty points thing has been trotted out a few times, in reality, there is no mention of loyalty points on Liverpool's ticket arrangements for the Chelsea game. To be eligible for a ticket in the first batch of sales, you needed to have attended 11 games this season and for the second batch, 9 games. Obviously having a ticket for our game would get you one closer to qualifying, but I doubt it was a significant driving factor.

    By doing what they did, they cut our revenue from almost £50 a ticket, to just over £30 a ticket, which I assume was the aim(in addition to a load of publicity).

    They didn't actually pay £60 to go to Chelsea, Liverpool used their ASI fund to discount the tickets to £49, just as they discounted the Arsenal tickets to £32.

    It's obviously easier to get support for a boycott of a midweek night game against one of the less attractive clubs, but I'd just see that as taking a pragmatic common sense approach, rather than it being double standards(though obviously I can understand why others wouldn't agree).
     
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    Things might be reviewed if we're relegated, but had we stayed up, I'd have expected our overall matchday pricing to still increase next season. Though I expected the end of the headline £50 tickets, I doubt they'd have dropped below £45 and with the Cat C prices going up to £25, overall prices would still have to go up in line with the season ticket price increases.

    We'll have to wait and see what happens to our pricing on relegation, obviously we won't have a prayer with £45 tickets in the Championship, but our overall matchday ticket prices will need to exceed the cost of a pass, or nobody will buy one.
     
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    The 'trotting out' of loyalty points was from Liverpool fans comments about the £10.
     
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    But the club have said they got the pricing structure wrong, and would correct it for next season haven't they.
     
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    Maybe they changed the rules as a consequence of what happened.

    Chelsea certainly did, to avoid the same thing happening at their place, you could only buy one child ticket with each adult ticket.
     
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    They've said that the £16 tickets were too cheap and the £50 tickets were too expensive, but the overall pricing won't change.

    They've also said lots of other things that turned out to be bollocks.
     
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    Not according to the scousers pre and post match. They bought the £10 tickets to keep points in the loyalty scheme be it for Chelsea or elsewhere.
     
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    So they did agree that they got this year's pricing structure wrong.
     
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    Of course.
     
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    Not according to olm who thinks it's fine <laugh>
     
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    So they added £10 to another ticket, that was already more expensive than the £48 they'd have paid for ours even after a discount, to make a point about something City had already said was wrong.

    In doing that, they bumped the price the touts charged for tickets to City.
     
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    Taking a pop at the kopites for the stand they made over the prices at Hull is a shocker lads.

    I was amazed that they actually followed through with it in decent numbers, as it was an important game for them and one they needed to win to keep their chase for CL alive. So, I've got to eat some **** aswell.

    They chose that game due to the massive hike in price and with respect, because that hike was at Hull.

    £50 a ticket is a ****ing disgrace irrespective of who the club is, the game is rapidly becoming unaffordable for the working man. The massive TV deal gave clubs a window where they could have collectively re-addressed their pricing structures and given the fans something back, but they've largely chosen to do **** all and keep milking us dry.
     
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