This is what I can't get my head around - if kids and adult prices are the same in whichever 'zone' they are in, what difference does it make whether they are single adults or families? The argument presumably is that the cheaper zones would attract adults who would then be paying less than for example E4. However, the club has already decided that the prices are based on whatever view someone has - therefore they are making the centre of the East more expensive than behind the goal in the North. If the argument is that it's a Family Stand, then make it so attractive pricing wise for families to want to go in there. Not a few quid a month off each but a real incentive for parents to take their kids. Make the kids 'cards' or whatever they are going to be called a different colour and have them checked as they go in. Or whatever checks the club would choose to do.
Having been a supporter since 1954 and a Founder member of the KC. I really wonder what the Club is thinking of, especially at this important stage of the season. To discontinue concessions is not only a backwards step but a kick in the teeth to the loyal supporters who have continued to support Hull City through the years. No doubt we will be the only! Club in Football to start such a scheme. I really wonder what the true reasons are behind the proposals. Allams trying to upset the loyal supporters comes to mind didn't get their way with the Hull Tigers name change and now don't bother to attend games home or away. Seems to me they have lost all interest in the Club other than the financial return of the money they have lent.
I suspect it was just something he was mulling over for a couple of years, I doubt he was actually sat at a desk working on it for all that long.
If the prices stand I'm out. I pay for my 16 year old son who goes with his 69 year old grandad. Both will have to pay either £324 £414 or £498 cos they are being kicked out of the West upper. Nah! Future support and 60 year support just dismissed by the club. They can ****ing ram it
Spoke to the lads nr me in N4 on phone. Thats 8 empty seats in a row where i stand if this insane plan to charge kids ADULT prices goes ahead.
Apparently all the disabled are being grouped together as well - looks like that policy came from the Auschwitz guide book
If I had been charged an adult price to watch Hull City in 1964, when I attended my first ever game, and had to commit to 12 monthly payments to do so there is no way on God's Earth that I would have been able to afford to support my local football club. They would have lost over 50 years of solid support from me and I dare so every other boy who started supporting City at that time. I believe I have earned my stripes over the years, time and time again through thick and mostly thin. Maggie Thatchers Government tried to enforce a members only scheme on football and it was opposed by every fan in the land and duly dropped. I forecast that if this dogs dinner of attending football is forced upon us then attendances and season pass sales will plummet and it could take a generation or more for the club to recover.
Today Mr Allam, son of the club's owner Assem, said: "For too long, the price of football in this country has been much too high. This new scheme will at least ensure the same cannot be said ofHull. “The membership scheme is about rewarding the supporters for their fundamental part in this remarkable story and ensuring that, wherever the team start their new campaign, the club and the fans will be doing it together.” Good job everyone's getting rewarded. If we are in the Championship next year I'm sure the club and the fans will be doing it together. Though not at the stadium unfortunately.
Spot on. A big part of the problem is that many of the people that are involved in the decision making process, never fully experienced the 'old days' and don't properly grasp the soul of football, nor the people of Hull.
I don't think you need to have experienced the old days, you just need a bit of common sense. The expulsions from E1 to E3 didn't go down well. We lost some support from that so you'd have thought they would have learnt their lesson before evicting anyone else from their seat. But no, they just carried on. You'd have also thought they'd have asked themselves, if I take three children to City how much extra is it going to cost and can I afford it? Again no. I was away yesterday and haven't checked through the thread but I see OLM said on CI that the evictions of the upper west are unlikely to happen. If that is the case then that's good news. Let's hope the club finally sees sense.
I popped into my corner shop yesterday and an old timer was talking to the shop owner about the new scheme. He is West lower, and he said if the prices stand that's grandad and grandson not going again. He said he wasn't bothered either way with the name change, but this scheme is nuts.
I think the reasons behind both the evictions show a lack of understanding of how football fans work. For example, both included 'improving atmosphere' in their justification, when it was pretty obvious neither move would do that.
I wouldn't agree, if they insist I won't be joining the membership scheme. Apart from objecting to being evicted it is financially corrupt logic to move season ticket holders out of the most expensive seats in the stadium to be replaced by an unknown quantity, i.e. they won't guarantee to sell the stand out every match, of opposing fans paying a maximum of £30 per game!
