Bristol City Supporters' Club & Trust have announced that they will not be attending the opening match of the season at Hillsborough in protest at Sheffield Wednesday's ticket prices. Last week, Sheffield Wednesday announced its new ticket pricing plan that means Bristol City fans, as a Category B, team will pay £39 per adult away ticket. The club announced a wider range of categories this year compared with last, with the most expensive ticket, Category A* set at £52. In a statement on their website, the Trust said: "Undoubtedly, many City fans now feel conflicted by the news that our first away game back in the Championship at Sheffield Wednesday is being charged at an astronomical £39. "For some it just isn’t a choice, on top of travel and everything else an away day holds, it is just too expensive. For those that have already booked travel, you probably have to go or lose that money. "For some of us, it is a matter of principle. It is going to hurt to do this, but the board of the Supporters Club & Trust have collectively decided not to attend this game. "Nobody’s calling for a boycott, we just think it is a step too far. We think many City fans will vote likewise and choose not to go. "Maybe in that way Sheffield Wednesday will get the message that this is unreasonable. After all, it will only cost Reading fans £25 when they go to Hillsborough. Where’s the sense in that?" Bristol City's initial allocation for the match was 1,000 tickets. The Trust told us that it is difficult to gauge how many will be avoiding the fixture due to high prices. Additionally, many have already booked travel for the fixture leaving them in a difficult position - for this reason the Trust decided against calling for a general boycott. Displeasure at Sheffield Wednesday's pricing isn't limited to away fans visiting Hillsborough. Home fans are also taking action, setting up a petition challenging the club's ticket price hike. It's been a week of eye-watering ticket price rises. West Ham United also published their ticket prices for their final season at Upton Park - with Category A adult ticket prices ranging from £60 to £85. Away fans visiting Upton Park this year will be paying £60 if they support a "Category A" team, and £45 for Category B. http://www.fsf.org.uk/latest-news/v...-board-protest-sheff-wed#sthash.XAWIbbn9.dpuf Forgetting their ridiculous prices for a minute, why the hell did they make Bristol a Cat B game, it's a seven hour round trip?
So they're not demanding obedience from all fans and anyone who does go won't be subjected to abuse. If only we had that. Good on them too, the prices at Hillsborough this season are a piss take.
It's cheaper than the £50 they'll be charging us as a Cat A game. I assume that if City fans decide on a similar boycott, you'll ignore it again?
One example of demanding obedience? I can find you one of Chazz frutratedly referring to fans singing City songs as disobedience. But you just see what you don't want don't you, you silly ****.
Football is eating itself. Stadiums will get more and more empty, it's just too expensive for a flipping game of football.
I suppose it's down to personal choice, Imp. 2 adults watching City at Weds £52 each plus travel, food etc probably cost in the region of £150 and you get treat like **** by South Yorks finest or 2 adults at Ferriby £12 each probably no more then £40 total and you get yourself a nice afternoon out, watching a reasonable level of football in a nice atmosphere, whilst keeping tabs on City's score at Weds. I must be gerring owld.......
I went through Dunswell today and there was a board opposite the Dene Park entrance advertising Hull United and how welcoming they are towards fans. In effect it was a direct at dig at the Allams.
Didn't Bristol City fans rip up the KC seats and throw them at us? They deserve pricing out of all stadiums!
I agree that it's better value but it's still too much. It's presumably trickle down based on covering costs. I was living in London last year and saw 3 games total (4 if you include OLM's generous donation of tickets to England v Lithuania). They were: Trencin home (£10 including programme) Swansea home (£16 - £16 too expensive based on the team's performance) North Ferriby v Wrexham (£20 - couldn't afford to go to the FA cup final last year and was too poor to get down to the Whitby final in the late 90s) I guess I'm very price sensitive. I don't think I'll be going to the KC this season (name change or no name change) but I may go to Church Road for the odd game if I stay local.
I don't remember anything happening in a game against Brizzle and there isn't a single message board post or media story about anything happening, are you sure you didn't just dream it?
Comment in HDM by someone else who must of dreamt it: "Operations commander Chief Inspector Rich Kirven believes the system in place is working well. He said: "There are a number of tools available to us to deal with football disorder." The biggest and most widely used tool they have is the one that lets visiting fans commit crimes and mayhem and then lets them get away with it. Huddersfield, Cardiff, Millwall, Bristol City. All had CCTV evidence against them for criminal damage and various football related offences.. The Bristol city perpetrators were even given a police escort out of the city. I know it didn't mention chairs but it did happen. I got hit by a two pence which was a bonus as I got a couple of cola bottles on way home.
