Neither of us know how many people who bought a kids ticket for City went to Chelsea, there'll have been plenty of people with 9 or 11 games attended this season who didn't need a City ticket to qualify. The amount of people who overpaid a tout, for a ticket to Hull City v Liverpool, is likely to have been roughly none(in my humble opinion).
Sorry but that's bollocks, it was an easy game for them to miss and they've gone straight back to paying the same stupid prices they did before, which completely defeats the object.
It turned out to be the game that cost them their chance of catching United, so how was it an easy game to miss? They were making a statement, it's not solely their responsibility to try and raise the profile of the issue on a National level to try and influence change. They were merely doing their bit, which is more than can be said for your fans or mine. To have a pop at them for making a stand, (however ultimately futile it may turn out to be) is harsh in the extreme.
Given the away end was sold out, but with empty seats, it's reasonable to assume a fair few bought £10 tickets to boost their points, be it for Chelsea or otherwise. I made a point of looking on the tout sites, and tickets that had been available, were later flagged as sold, so your guess would appear wrong. They used an issue that's already acknowledged as a problem by our club, to highlight something that's down to others, and in doing so, cost themselves and other Liverpool fans money. As I said, I support the principal, but not a practice that wrongly implies it's our fault, especially when they don't do the same at other clubs.
The club had said months ago the pricing was wrong and would be corrected. There were better ways of making the point in places where it was more relevant.
Like I've said before, I applaud the sentiment but I don't think their actions before, during or after this 'stand' has helped their case.
Touts just try it on, I've had loads contact me over my Wembley seats, they just quote a daft price and if they sell them they take a cut, if they don't, they just mark them as sold at the last minute to make it look like they sold them. There are touts offering tickets in the away end at Spurs on Saturday for £95, despite the fact that they're £32 and they're still available. Despite us not selling out, they'll still say they're sold by Saturday, same with the £993 tickets being offered in the away end at our place on the final day.
Liverpool fans were obviously not aware that James Mooney said he'd cocked up our pricing this season.
It's a shame they didn't do that bit of basic research before hand, or that someone never pointed it out to them. They could have saved a few bob and targeted their actions more appropriately.
Research it where, at a FWG meeting? The club have never said they got it wrong, or that it's being changed for next season, we only have that from James.
Didn't you know about the protest, and the admission they got the pricing wrong before hand? I'd have thought a quick scan of the overall pricing policy for the club you're targeting your protest at was fundamental, smiley head or no smiley head.
You've completely missed the point and have gone on a daft defensive of Hull City. Their protest wasn't an attack on Hull, as it happens nearly everywhere, it was an attack on the principle and the headline prices being at that level up and down the country. They've protested at their own ground aswell btw. Oh and reason they bought the £10 concession tickets wasn't solely about their points tally, if they'd have not taken up their option to buy a ticket that their current points tally allowed them to, then it'd have gone to the next level down, and so on, until they ultimately reached general sale when they'd have definitely sold, which would have negated the entire point as the seats would have been filled.
By paying full price and then displaying some banners before quietly watching the game. What gives them the right to take the seats from other fans? By all means leave your season ticket seat empty if you want to make a point but those seats were not theirs to leave empty.
How silly of me. I was basing my version on what Liverpool fans said, and a quick look round at the other games that they didn't boycott. All the time I could have just asked someone that's not a supporter of either club.
Yeah right oh lad, their entire protest was solely aimed at Hull City, there was no wider point being made at all, you're completely correct. Oh wait........... http://www.spiritofshankly.com/news/hull-protest-a-massive-success The views of the actual group of Liverpool fans who organised it.
They had the right to leave a seat empty as a) they paid for it and b ) they had the opportunity to do so because they were pass holders who'd attended virtually every away this season. You could say they'd paid for the right in more ways than one.
...or the complete converse as they were paying for the privilege of leaving a seat empty and as match goers who attend every game, depriving themselves of their favourite pastime, in order to make a National point about football ticket pricing, with their ultimate aim being to help the entire match going PL public.
