Priced out

[broughtonblue]

After being made redundant last year I was forced to take a lesser paid job. to take myself and both my teenage kids to the boro match I was quoted £28 for me and £18 per kid, £64 in total, plus the program and 3 drinks brings it to around £75. After going to watch lcfc at both the walkers and filbert st. I finally had to draw a line and say NO. With only 21,000 turning up leaving approx 10,000 empty seats, surely it would be wiser to lower prices and fill the stadium rather than having it only 3/4's full for most matches. I believe the dearest season ticket for premier club Wigan is only £325. Any views?

[Bugg]

After being made redundant last year I was forced to take a lesser paid job. to take myself and both my teenage kids to the boro match I was quoted £28 for me and £18 per kid, £64 in total, plus the program and 3 drinks brings it to around £75. After going to watch lcfc at both the walkers and filbert st. I finally had to draw a line and say NO. With only 21,000 turning up leaving approx 10,000 empty seats, surely it would be wiser to lower prices and fill the stadium rather than having it only 3/4's full for most matches. I believe the dearest season ticket for premier club Wigan is only £325. Any views?

If you went to a shop in the town instead it would save you a lot more than buying drinks from the ground.

[Fosse Boy]

Good on you for saying no if you feel it's gone too far. Seems most in this country will happily pay the prices then just have a little moan about it and repeat the process a couple of weeks later.

[Bellend Sebastian]

I can see why they want to sell season tickets, and why they make them better value as a result, but I do feel sorry for folks like yourself that might just want to buy a ticket when they fancy it, and I can see why you wouldn't bother, particularly if you've got to pay that much for kids to get in. Two blokes sat with us had paid £30 each on Saturday. If I didn't have a season ticket I think matchday ticket prices would put me right off going

[broughtonblue]

Okay, I could have poss saved a tenner! But the whole matchday experience is about a pie and a pint the banter and the atmosphere. It's like going to the cinema and not having popcorn! I have been going for about 30 years on and off and it wasn't a decision I took lightly as I knew the alternative was tidying my garage whilst listening to radio Leicester with stringer!!!

[davieG]

Matchday ticket prices are outrageous and I've been in a similar position although it was a few years ago but even back then I couldn't afford to take my teenagers very often.

It's little consolation and I don't know where you were planning to sit but having looked at the prices for a Gold fixture if you go for Block C1 where I sit I think you can do it for £58 (26 + 16x2). Don't buy the programme and surely you can last 90 minutes without a drink. Not that £58 is and less outragious.

Best of luck and hope you manage to afford a few games.

[evs_the_fox]

If you went to a shop in the town instead it would save you a lot more than buying drinks from the ground.

ha, yeah that extra £11 is the issue.

[Guest]

ha, yeah that extra £11 is the issue.

Well it's part of the issue. And if the guy really wants to see matches in the current climate and with his particular situation, any money that can be saved is surely a bonus.

I know it changes the experience of going to match but to be honest I've stopped buying food and drink because on top of a ST it all adds up

[Spiritwalker]

Good post, Saturdays attendance must be one of our lowest opening game attendances for years.

A new manager, new owners and Championship favourites the visitors, surely this could have been

a full house. Strangely I wasn't suprised and we were not the only club with a disappointing turnout.

Putting up ticket prices in the middle of a recession is a bad move by the club.

Having sold 14,000 S.T's the club may have to get used to seeing only 21,000 through the turnstiles.

Many casual supporters will be put off when the cheapest adult ticket for some games is £28

[broughtonblue]

Matchday ticket prices are outrageous and I've been in a similar position although it was a few years ago but even back then I couldn't afford to take my teenagers very often.

It's little consolation and I don't know where you were planning to sit but having looked at the prices for a Gold fixture if you go for Block C1 where I sit I think you can do it for £58 (26 + 16x2). Don't buy the programme and surely you can last 90 minutes without a drink. Not that £58 is and less outragious.

Best of luck and hope you manage to afford a few games.

Thanks, i know s.t are better value but having to work some sat days now makes them a no no, my other son has one for sk3 now he is working after going down with me over the years. Looks like it's the sun's offer and any promotions the mercury do for now. I was looking to sit around my usual place g2 mm.

[bjblyth]

There are numerous schemes out there this season to help make attending matches cheaper. For example switching to NPower for your energy provider gives you £45 worth of ticket vouchers. The Sun is also running a campaign to help get reduced tickets, like their successful Sun Holidays scheme.

As well, look out for the online deals which can come up late. If games aren't selling out at the moment, don't rush to buy tickets. You can pay online/over the phone for deals and collect tickets on the day.

Sign up to the emails, look out for the offers in your inbox.

Finally, if you aren't in a position to buy a season ticket, but a membership - it's worth it after attending just one or two games I believe.

And as others have said, take your own food/drink and avoid the corporate hype and expense for a 'Pukka' pie and a 'Coca Cola'. Grab a sarnie and a bottle of pop from Morrisons pre-match and that £4 pie and £3 drink has become £2 in total.

There are ways to make it a cheaper day out.

[john_lcfc]

the Sun's scheme is good and many should take advantage, but on the whole the opening post was correct. Ticket prices at LCFC are totally unmanagable and unjustifiable and out of touch with the average fan.

[Spiritwalker]

It will be interesting to see what sort of crowd we get for the Sun's fixtures. In the past we have had

near sellouts for games that have been on offer. Some clubs struggle to fill their grounds whatever

their ticket prices are. It shows that we have the support it's just getting the balance right.

I understand that as a buisness the club needs to maximise income but surely it would be better to

have lower prices and larger crowds.

[Heart-Shaped Fox]

Just the poor state of football nowadays, taking advantage of fans by over pricing them. 21K was a poor attendance for a first game of the season, but hopefully the club realise why this was and lower prices.

[Anish]

Match day ticket prices are scandalous, even with a membership. And this season (unlike the past few years), the club's Platinum Plus membership gives only 4 match vouchers rather than 5. I'm now going to go to fewer home games (around 6/7, including my 4 games with the Platinum plus vouchers) because I don't fancy paying £27-30 a pop.

The club is going to lose casual fans like me with their pricing structure and in the long run (unless we're successful and gain promotion or they bring prices down to a reasonable level) they will find it hard to attract us back.

[C-man]

I wonder what shocking gate we'd have to pull in for a league game for the club to reconsider their pricing structure.

I can see several crowds of around 16,000 this season. Reading in two weeks could be one of them.

[themotivator]

make it £5 a pop and we will get 75,000 a week no probs.

[davieG]

I wonder what shocking gate we'd have to pull in for a league game for the club to reconsider their pricing structure.

I can see several crowds of around 16,000 this season. Reading in two weeks could be one of them.

I'm guessing a few ST holders wont bother either because they can now use their coupon to get a ticket for another game, sell it for more than they paid and watch down the pub or at home on Sky.

[Guest Bilo]

The annoying thing is that the club need only look a few miles up the road for the example. Derby have decent price structures for season tickets in particular and regularly 30,000 through the turnstiles as a result. Only Leicester could look down the M69 for inspiration in the face of that. That said, the attendances may rise slightly once the summer holidays are out of the way and if we're doing well. But if we aren't there could be a problem. £30 to watch us take on Watford? No thanks.

[broughtonblue]

I wonder what shocking gate we'd have to pull in for a league game for the club to reconsider their pricing structure.

I can see several crowds of around 16,000 this season. Reading in two weeks could be one of them.

Funny you should mention the Reading match. It is one of the 2 matches included in the suns offer(S****horpe the other) I believe Reading has been included because it has been moved to a 5.20 kick off cos it is on the box

[C-man]

The annoying thing is that the club need only look a few miles up the road for the example. Derby have decent price structures for season tickets in particular and regularly 30,000 through the turnstiles as a result. Only Leicester could look down the M69 for inspiration in the face of that. That said, the attendances may rise slightly once the summer holidays are out of the way and if we're doing well. But if we aren't there could be a problem. £30 to watch us take on Watford? No thanks.

Even Derby are going the wrong way this season. 25k against Cardiff. Admittedly still good, but down 6k on the same fixture just three months ago.

Plus they've had a mare with the South Stand this season. Made it away fans only for some bizarre reason. Good news for us if we manage to persuade OB to give us the full 4.5k... (Highly doubtful)

[Guest Bilo]

Even Derby are going the wrong way this season. 25k against Cardiff. Admittedly still good, but down 6k on the same fixture just three months ago.

Plus they've had a mare with the South Stand this season. Made it away fans only for some bizarre reason. Good news for us if we manage to persuade OB to give us the full 4.5k... (Highly doubtful)

Their matchday pricing isn't great for big games, £30 was the reason I had to give it a miss last season. In terms of attendances, the recession isn't helping anyone. Even so, 4,000 more than us when we have a new manager, new owners and optimism is higher here is still a poor show on our part.

The decision with the South Stand is a weird one though. I do remember Forest getting upset about only being given 2.5k last season when they could easily have taken twice that, but to increase the allocation for every game seems an odd decision.

[Donut]

After being made redundant last year I was forced to take a lesser paid job. to take myself and both my teenage kids to the boro match I was quoted £28 for me and £18 per kid, £64 in total, plus the program and 3 drinks brings it to around £75. After going to watch lcfc at both the walkers and filbert st. I finally had to draw a line and say NO. With only 21,000 turning up leaving approx 10,000 empty seats, surely it would be wiser to lower prices and fill the stadium rather than having it only 3/4's full for most matches. I believe the dearest season ticket for premier club Wigan is only £325. Any views?

A point was raised like this on monday nights phone in.

Ive got every sympathy with you mate. To pay £75 to come to 90 mins footy with your kids is outrageous.

The clubs pricing structures are keeping genuine people like yourself away from supporting their own club. I think this is reflected by an opening day crowd of 21/22,000 in what is arguably one of the 'bigger' games we will have this season outside of the derbies.

Its not an isolated case either.......there are other championship clubs (was a story going around about ipswich's season tickets) charging the most extortionate prices imaginable, and in recession times it is not justifiable.

Im a season ticket holder but fans have every right to vote with their feet if they so wish to.

[Maybes]

I look at the matchday ticket prices and think to myself week in week out, who are these people that can afford to stump up £30 for a single game.

I know I wouldnt bother coming to the odd game.

I can see night games this season hitting attendances of around 17k.

[Leicester_Loyal]

Glad I got my season ticket, only £155. Not bad for 23 games in my opinion.