davieG Posted 2 August 2011 Posted 2 August 2011 Report - http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14366574.stm Championship prices - http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14367357.stm
Wymsey Posted 2 August 2011 Posted 2 August 2011 Not surprising to be honest, quite competitive. But surprised a ticket for an Ipswich game would cost up to £59....
goose2010 Posted 2 August 2011 Posted 2 August 2011 how can doncaster be the second most expensive! that is just crazy! i think we fare quite well really! i bet people would expect us to be more expensive with the amount of cash we have spent. £3.60 for a pie at crystal palace is just shocking!
Durnerz Posted 2 August 2011 Posted 2 August 2011 Meanwhile in the Prem.....£35 for a ticket at Swansea.
MC Prussian Posted 2 August 2011 Posted 2 August 2011 Just to complete it: http://news.bbc.co.u...ll/14367357.stm We've got the third most expensive ticket category. And how come Leeds charge £4 for their matchday programme? I thought £3 was standard? (West Ham £3.50 )
RobHawk Posted 2 August 2011 Posted 2 August 2011 Meanwhile in the Prem.....£35 for a ticket at Swansea. Its becasue they only have about 3000 tickets available per game! They have sold the maximum amount season tickets they can! Even at £35 a ticket every game will easily sell out!!! They only have approx 20,000 capacity and the city went premier league crazy when they were promoted!
chrisfox Posted 2 August 2011 Posted 2 August 2011 how can doncaster be the second most expensive! that is just crazy! Bear in mind the 'final' price if for the cheapest day out you can get including ticket, programme, pie and cup of tea. Since all of Donnies tickests are £27 it pushes that cheap price up by a considerable margin. The survey is a little rough though as you get no indicator of quality of the programme, pie, tea or matchday experience
Daggers Posted 2 August 2011 Posted 2 August 2011 What are you factoring into your 'Matchday Experience'? The queues for the overpriced tea? The servers who can't communicate in English? The PA announcer? The small seating space? How much of a library the ground resembles? The stewards? The inane ramblings of a half-sharp who believes the manager should be playing 2-4-2-1-1 because it works in FM? The delightful homophobic and racist ditties chanted by standing cretins? The odour concentration resulting from too many fat men wearing polyester?
chrisfox Posted 2 August 2011 Posted 2 August 2011 What are you factoring into your 'Matchday Experience'? The queues for the overpriced tea? The servers who can't communicate in English? The PA announcer? The small seating space? How much of a library the ground resembles? The stewards? The inane ramblings of a half-sharp who believes the manager should be playing 2-4-2-1-1 because it works in FM? The delightful homophobic and racist ditties chanted by standing cretins? The odour concentration resulting from too many fat men wearing polyester? All of that. You could pay £20 for a day out at the footy but you'd probably be watching shite, eating shite and drinking shite, in a stadium that's shite with a bunch of shite's.... Shite! then again you might not. also anyone any idea why Newcastle would be bottom off that table considering their cheapest day out price is the lowest with Blackburn? http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14367608.stm
cc_star Posted 2 August 2011 Posted 2 August 2011 The BBC have pulled together a survey of ticket, programme, pie & cup of tea prices and ranked the clubs in each division Leicester came 8th in the Championship, which given the level of investment I think is pretty good value. West Ham was the poorest value, with Watford the best http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14366574.stm
Zingari Posted 2 August 2011 Posted 2 August 2011 They sting the rich in Ipswich £15 cheap seats, £59 in the gods Hull £24 cheap seats, only £26 in the gods just seems strange that
NeilyBoy Posted 2 August 2011 Posted 2 August 2011 All of that. You could pay £20 for a day out at the footy but you'd probably be watching shite, eating shite and drinking shite, in a stadium that's shite with a bunch of shite's.... Shite! then again you might not. also anyone any idea why Newcastle would be bottom off that table considering their cheapest day out price is the lowest with Blackburn? http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14367608.stm In the article they say Newcastle didn't respond to the survey, so perhaps it's last season's prices and they put it at the bottom because it technically doesn't apply to this season.
deepbluedevil Posted 2 August 2011 Posted 2 August 2011 Can't believe that top end price at Ipswich...
THEBIGJOHNSTEADER; Posted 2 August 2011 Posted 2 August 2011 Watford are cheap due to the fact you might have to look at Elton Johns minging face
shen Posted 2 August 2011 Posted 2 August 2011 What are you factoring into your 'Matchday Experience'? The queues for the overpriced tea? The servers who can't communicate in English? The PA announcer? The small seating space? How much of a library the ground resembles? The stewards? The inane ramblings of a half-sharp who believes the manager should be playing 2-4-2-1-1 because it works in FM? The delightful homophobic and racist ditties chanted by standing cretins? The odour concentration resulting from too many fat men wearing polyester? Football matches are grotesquely over-priced
Houdini Logic Posted 2 August 2011 Posted 2 August 2011 What are you factoring into your 'Matchday Experience'? The queues for the overpriced tea? The servers who can't communicate in English? The PA announcer? The small seating space? How much of a library the ground resembles? The stewards? The inane ramblings of a half-sharp who believes the manager should be playing 2-4-2-1-1 because it works in FM? The delightful homophobic and racist ditties chanted by standing cretins? The odour concentration resulting from too many fat men wearing polyester? Fair point - Orient top the most expensive ticket price for League one but it fails to mention or take into account the fact that you'll have no pie or tea because you'll have your wallet confiscated by some east end rude boy on your way to the match, followed by having to sit on a small wooden chair recycled from an out of business local primary school and then spend most of the match watching fat people in the corner sitting in their undies, smoking cigarettes on their balconies.
Daggers Posted 2 August 2011 Posted 2 August 2011 Football matches are grotesquely over-priced That's the opinion of Imran Ladak too. And me. And that the modern game is over-hyped beyond belief. The number of games which are actually worth watching in any given season in the top flight could be counted on a pair of hands. You could get away with one hand in the championship. The quality of the play watched isn't balanced out by the price being charged. It's a gamble on the part of Ladak to make tickets a third of the price he was charging at Rockingham Road but I guess the logic is that he may be able to get three times the number of people coming along to Nene Park. Whichever way it cuts, I'll be going along because I'm sure as shit sick of forking out fifty to a hundred quid every Saturday for (at best) insipid football. I'll go back to the ground where it all started for me, where I used to get in free as a kid at half-time and collect my A4 folded-in-half "program". Where Howard Kettleborough was a star and the highpoint was the installation of floodlights for the FA Cup final qualifying round against Dagenham in 1978. No goal music and no players on Premiership salaries driving cars costing more than I earn a year but unable to stick a boot on a ball. Just honest to goodness shit football, crap playing surfaces and stinking fog rising from the River Nene - reminiscent of the old tannery next door. I devoted years and thousands of pounds in following City but it simply isn't my club any longer, it belongs to accountants and investors and its soul can be bought in the club shop for £75 in a plastic frame. You have a choice - continue to pay these ridiculous prices and "they" will continue to rob you blind.
Guest Bilo Posted 2 August 2011 Posted 2 August 2011 I'd love to meet the person who would willingly pay £59 to watch Ipswich Town. My views are similar to Daggers now I no longer live in Leicester or get student discounts on tickets, away games cost little more and given the choice of Selhurst Park or the KP it isn't a difficult one to make in my current circumstances.
@mrtonycox Posted 2 August 2011 Posted 2 August 2011 Tickets for 2 adults, 4 kids and 1 senior citizen for Real Madrid was £125... 5 burgers, 1 chips and 6 bottles of coke outside the ground was £38.40. (we ate out the tonight before us at a pub for the same price and was much better food)!!.. We then bought 4 new shirts at £40 each.. The total for the day was over £320......!! Season ticket costs me £100 a month.
shen Posted 2 August 2011 Posted 2 August 2011 That's the opinion of Imran Ladak too. And me. ... I devoted years and thousands of pounds in following City but it simply isn't my club any longer, it belongs to accountants and investors and its soul can be bought in the club shop for £75 in a plastic frame. You have a choice - continue to pay these ridiculous prices and "they" will continue to rob you blind. I can totally relate to your views. But if people are willing to pay that much to see Champo football, it's perfectly understandable that those prices are charged. However I don't think it's acceptable that fans are being exploited through their loyalty and basically held to ransom. I can completely understand the 'masochist' term when talking about football fans in general. Hope it works out for Ladak and Kettering by the way. Admirable gesture even if £5 is still a solid price for that level of footie Tickets for 2 adults, 4 kids and 1 senior citizen for Real Madrid was £125... 5 burgers, 1 chips and 6 bottles of coke outside the ground was £38.40. (we ate out the tonight before us at a pub for the same price and was much better food)!!.. We then bought 4 new shirts at £40 each.. The total for the day was over £320......!! Season ticket costs me £100 a month. £40 for a shirt?! That's obscene!
Houdini Logic Posted 2 August 2011 Posted 2 August 2011 That's the opinion of Imran Ladak too. And me. And that the modern game is over-hyped beyond belief. The number of games which are actually worth watching in any given season in the top flight could be counted on a pair of hands. You could get away with one hand in the championship. The quality of the play watched isn't balanced out by the price being charged. It's a gamble on the part of Ladak to make tickets a third of the price he was charging at Rockingham Road but I guess the logic is that he may be able to get three times the number of people coming along to Nene Park. Whichever way it cuts, I'll be going along because I'm sure as shit sick of forking out fifty to a hundred quid every Saturday for (at best) insipid football. I'll go back to the ground where it all started for me, where I used to get in free as a kid at half-time and collect my A4 folded-in-half "program". Where Howard Kettleborough was a star and the highpoint was the installation of floodlights for the FA Cup final qualifying round against Dagenham in 1978. No goal music and no players on Premiership salaries driving cars costing more than I earn a year but unable to stick a boot on a ball. Just honest to goodness shit football, crap playing surfaces and stinking fog rising from the River Nene - reminiscent of the old tannery next door. I devoted years and thousands of pounds in following City but it simply isn't my club any longer, it belongs to accountants and investors and its soul can be bought in the club shop for £75 in a plastic frame. You have a choice - continue to pay these ridiculous prices and "they" will continue to rob you blind. The guy's relocating his football team 10 miles away because he can make use of the cheap out of use ground and steal the out of use fans. Kettering fans are horrified by this. You've really convinced me that this is the club, the level and kind of people I should be supporting
Jagdinho Posted 2 August 2011 Posted 2 August 2011 Tickets for 2 adults, 4 kids and 1 senior citizen for Real Madrid was £125... 5 burgers, 1 chips and 6 bottles of coke outside the ground was £38.40. (we ate out the tonight before us at a pub for the same price and was much better food)!!.. We then bought 4 new shirts at £40 each.. The total for the day was over £320......!! Season ticket costs me £100 a month. If your a STH why did you pay £40 for the shirts? You could get 10% off each or 20% if you was a STH last year too.
jamesmilner Posted 2 August 2011 Posted 2 August 2011 the shop took £60 000 for the real game , putting the tickets up to get money into the club looks dodgy (pricey already)and all other income (tv,food,sponsorship etc )looks like the target of "self suffiency" might be hard to achieve . the amount some families have to payout to watch their team looks hard to shelve out week in week out looking at what some spent to watch the real game . tough business as everyone knows .
John Matrix Posted 2 August 2011 Posted 2 August 2011 The guy's relocating his football team 10 miles away because he can make use of the cheap out of use ground and steal the out of use fans. Kettering fans are horrified by this. You've really convinced me that this is the club, the level and kind of people I should be supporting
Super_horns Posted 2 August 2011 Posted 2 August 2011 I think they've put us top because we offer 5/6 games at a tenner to boost the crowds..sadly these games often tend to be the worse of the season!
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