The interesting thing i read was tickets could be reduced by as much as £32 per game. My season ticket was £575 so divide that by 19 that gives me a ticket price of £30.26p per game meaning i would actually be owed £1.74p per game. If i times that by 19 Southampton fc will actually have to pay ME £33.06p for a season ticket next season!
What I don't understand is why the BBC would waste license payers money writing that article. Whilst it is factually correct so is "TV cash could result in all stadiums being filled with baked beans and players and fans will unite in who can eat their way out for 3 points". What I'd like to know is which is more likely......
Have to agree with this wholeheartedly............I haven't seen the BBC article. I have to wander sometimes at the intelligence of their reporters. Football is a business and any board that can bring in more revenue from what ever quarter. Will do so for profit and running costs. The board's will all tell you that they need the extra money for this or that and some, yes, will invest some of it in new stadia etc. The truth of that is in reality ways to make even more money long term. The only guarantee that we the fan have got is that all the time you are in the league you are in........ there will be a match fee increase year on year!
Heck, with that kind of money, they could provide every fan with a free pony! *Pony redeemable in lasagna form only.
There must be a critical point at which people stop paying to go to football. God knows what it is, though - about £60 judging by recent events at the Emirates, but possibly lower outside London, where everything comes at an inflated price.
Tickets will be cheaper, so football clubs will raise their food and drink prices to Wembley standard.
Yes but people will buy food whatever the price, some people are idiots like that. A football club could charge what they like, people will still buy pies and pints at half time.
Some people will continue to purchase food and drink certainly, but others might be priced out of doing so. Everybody, however, has to buy a ticket.
It's not likely, but I don't understand why this article deserves this scorn. By informing fans that the clubs could afford to drop ticket prices, it empowers them to argue for cheaper tickets. They could knock £10 off and still have plenty left over. Who would object to that? Considering the recent controversy over the Arsenal tickets, it seems a perfectly sensible and relevant point to raise to me.
Clubs could afford to drop ticket prices now, but why should they? Its supply and demand and the lack of competition. Tesco don't keep their prices down out of respect or love of their customers, but out of necessity. People would **** off to Asda if they were too high. Supporters don't do that. Its supply and demand, if nicola could charge £100 a game and fill the ground, he would. That's why this article deserves scorn, everybody knows prices could come down but its a pipe dream. Its like an article saying " wouldn't the world be a better place with no wars".
Your final comparison maybe a bit extreme Ducky.......but the rest of your statement carries a lot of merit.!
I would say that attendances are falling compared to the Bundesliga which is much better attended, where prices are lower. It is not solely supply and demand or otherwise more clubs would adjust prices retrospectively when crowds are lower, however clubs don't want to encourage this partly because it is such a marginal part of a Premier League teams income and secondly they do not want to upset season ticket holders. Sadly while enough people will pay these current prices or attend matches because they love the club despite whatever deplorable behaviour is going on therefore nothing will change.
What rubbish! They won't go to another club but they will stay at home. TV needs the atmosphere provided by a big crowd, and the TV money won't be quite so forthcoming if only the corporate boxes are full. They might not realise it but it's in the interest of clubs to keep the game accessible to lower earners.
I agree with you PSF, but I am reminded of an owner of an Italian club [maybe Berlesconi] who remarked that he could see the day when they bussed in a capacity crowd, for free, in order to provide the atmosphere. I wouldn't rule it out anywhere.
Things rarely go down, but they may stabilise for a few seasons. It would be good if a higher income means SMS could be expanded, because then there could be more variation in price...would like kids tickets to be cheaper to encourage the next generation. Won't happen at a capacity of 32,000. Cortese would have to get the sums right.
I wondering if we stay up! That NC will use the new money to build the new stadium? I would be happy with that, because we won't be able to compete with the top clubs with out it
