undey Posted 21 December 2011 Posted 21 December 2011 Was planning to go to Ipswich on boxing day and just went to book the tickets and saw the prices! No wonder they aren't getting sizeable attendances! Must be one of the highest in the league! Recession and all that?!
Jagdinho Posted 21 December 2011 Posted 21 December 2011 Yeah I agree, it's awful pricing. I have a season ticket, so I'm kind of okay. I bought it at the beginning of the year during the 'Early-bird' time for £130 (Under-18's) and now for a half season ticket for the same ages it's £130 again. Silly pricing, I look at the individual match ticket prices sometimes, and in J3 where i sit it costs £21 each game! Where are Under-18's meant to get that kind of money from on a regular basis! EMA has stopped too so if you don;t have a job your stuffed!
MrFox781 Posted 21 December 2011 Posted 21 December 2011 Yeah I agree, it's awful pricing. I have a season ticket, so I'm kind of okay. I bought it at the beginning of the year during the 'Early-bird' time for £130 (Under-18's) and now for a half season ticket for the same ages it's £130 again. Silly pricing, I look at the individual match ticket prices sometimes, and in J3 where i sit it costs £21 each game! Where are Under-18's meant to get that kind of money from on a regular basis! EMA has stopped too so if you don;t have a job your stuffed! And you cant get a job cuz every saturday your at a ****in game.
undey Posted 21 December 2011 Author Posted 21 December 2011 Its terrible .. my dad would cost 32 pounds, and me and my sister 22 and that's without fuel from Lincoln, food and anything from the store!
Jagdinho Posted 21 December 2011 Posted 21 December 2011 And you cant get a job cuz every saturday your at a ****in game. Well that's fairly incorrect? I'm at college trying to get A-levels to increase my chance of a better job in the long term? Even if I didn't go to games Saturdays, getting a job is not easy.
MrFox781 Posted 21 December 2011 Posted 21 December 2011 Well that's fairly incorrect? I'm at college trying to get A-levels to increase my chance of a better job in the long term? Even if I didn't go to games Saturdays, getting a job is not easy. good point even im at college tryin to A levels but having a season ticket, i cant get a saturday job because im at the games. this means unfortunetly, next year no season ticket as i have no job and EMA is stopped.
Jagdinho Posted 21 December 2011 Posted 21 December 2011 good point even im at college tryin to A levels but having a season ticket, i cant get a saturday job because im at the games. this means unfortunetly, next year no season ticket as i have no job and EMA is stopped. Hmm.. maybe we should become coach stewards? I think they get ticket paid for them and a bit of money?
bluearmy7 Posted 21 December 2011 Posted 21 December 2011 i agree wiv i sit in l1 so i nave to have a season ticket and at 450 quid its a lot of money when you double it cuz the mrs comes now nearly a grand a season but if ya love em thats what you have to pay and they know that
MrFox781 Posted 21 December 2011 Posted 21 December 2011 Hmm.. maybe we should become coach stewards? I think they get ticket paid for them and a bit of money? Do ball boys get paid? even though im way to tall to be one. what a about stringers job he gets paid and he gets to go to every game of the season. .
Jagdinho Posted 21 December 2011 Posted 21 December 2011 Do ball boys get paid? even though im way to tall to be one. what a about stringers job he gets paid and he gets to go to every game of the season. . I don't think so! There usually the younger academy players. In seriousness though, U18's should never be any more than £15. Where are we meant to get the money from.
The Doctor Posted 22 December 2011 Posted 22 December 2011 Well, if you don't like them then don't ****ing pay them - grumble all you want but if you continue to just pay them then the club won't give a shit in a month of Sundays.
Criggers Posted 22 December 2011 Posted 22 December 2011 Match days are expensive and I can't afford to go very often. I only seem to go now when my dad needs me to be his assistant for his wheelchair season ticket. By the time I've had a pie, a bovril and paid for a ticket you're usually looking at £40. I don't think any ticket should be more than £20 and they need to look at their costs if that isn't possible. It is certainly something they should consider because you can't deny that a home attendance of 30k every week would certainly help the atmosphere and ultimately the team.
ousefox Posted 22 December 2011 Posted 22 December 2011 Yeah I agree, it's awful pricing. I have a season ticket, so I'm kind of okay. I bought it at the beginning of the year during the 'Early-bird' time for £130 (Under-18's) and now for a half season ticket for the same ages it's £130 again. Silly pricing, I look at the individual match ticket prices sometimes, and in J3 where i sit it costs £21 each game! Where are Under-18's meant to get that kind of money from on a regular basis! EMA has stopped too so if you don;t have a job your stuffed! Agree the pricing is not good at all, will hit me if i don't have a season ticket next year, going to Uni. But if you were spending your EMA on watching football you shouldn't have been getting it in the first place.
Alexikokopops Posted 22 December 2011 Posted 22 December 2011 I have no idea what it costs for me, the last home game I made it to was the Cardiff play-off semi.
Mack Posted 22 December 2011 Posted 22 December 2011 Anyone who goes away will tell you the prices the club charge are about par for the league we are in. I agree it's dear but until something is done about player wages on a league wide basis it will only go one way.
Head Honcho Posted 22 December 2011 Posted 22 December 2011 I don't think so! There usually the younger academy players. In seriousness though, U18's should never be any more than £15. Where are we meant to get the money from. I appreciate your still at school, but when I was even younger than you, I'd do everything I could to get money to go down the city. At 14 I used to get up at 4.30am walk from the pork pie library down Saffron Lane to work on the market 6 days a week..............even in summer it was freezing!
ousefox Posted 22 December 2011 Posted 22 December 2011 I appreciate your still at school, but when I was even younger than you, I'd do everything I could to get money to go down the city. At 14 I used to get up at 4.30am walk from the pork pie library down Saffron Lane to work on the market 6 days a week..............even in summer it was freezing! But ticket prices will have increased significantly since then. If you got a job under 18 you'd probably be looking at a fiver an hour. 3 hours work to watch 90 mins of football is ridiculous if tou think about it. £25 for and u16 at Leeds vs Pompey i think, now that is disgusting.
Jagdinho Posted 22 December 2011 Posted 22 December 2011 I appreciate your still at school, but when I was even younger than you, I'd do everything I could to get money to go down the city. At 14 I used to get up at 4.30am walk from the pork pie library down Saffron Lane to work on the market 6 days a week..............even in summer it was freezing! Now that's commitment. Although I think It is a lot more harder to get any type of job now? Also as Watson said prices will have gone up too. If you woke up at 4.30 am and still went school, what time did you go sleep?
liamsm Posted 23 December 2011 Posted 23 December 2011 I don't think so! There usually the younger academy players. In seriousness though, U18's should never be any more than £15. Where are we meant to get the money from. I'm not including you in this comment, but if U18's wanna come down to the match most could afford it if they stopped smoking or didn't do drugs
liamsm Posted 23 December 2011 Posted 23 December 2011 Match days are expensive and I can't afford to go very often. I only seem to go now when my dad needs me to be his assistant for his wheelchair season ticket. By the time I've had a pie, a bovril and paid for a ticket you're usually looking at £40. I don't think any ticket should be more than £20 and they need to look at their costs if that isn't possible. It is certainly something they should consider because you can't deny that a home attendance of 30k every week would certainly help the atmosphere and ultimately the team. If you go as your dads assistant/carer you should get in free of charge, and if there was 30,000 at every game that is just another 7k not singing
Kitchandro Posted 23 December 2011 Posted 23 December 2011 Well, if you don't like them then don't ****ing pay them - grumble all you want but if you continue to just pay them then the club won't give a shit in a month of Sundays. Well it's not that simple is it? This is a passion for a lot of people and it's not really easy just to not go, especially as they know tickets will stay the same for this season at least, the owners aren't going to lower them just because a few less people are there. Why shouldn't people complain about the prices?
Kitchandro Posted 23 December 2011 Posted 23 December 2011 If you go as your dads assistant/carer you should get in free of charge, and if there was 30,000 at every game that is just another 7k not singing Not necessarily, a lot of potential singers (young people and working class men) are being priced out at the moment. Plus the next generation are watching Sky Sports instead of getting into Leicester. How is that going to help future attendances? Higher attendances can only be a positive thing.
The Doctor Posted 23 December 2011 Posted 23 December 2011 Well it's not that simple is it? This is a passion for a lot of people and it's not really easy just to not go, especially as they know tickets will stay the same for this season at least, the owners aren't going to lower them just because a few less people are there. Why shouldn't people complain about the prices? You talk like I'm an idiot - I ****ing well know that, I've felt that passion for roughly a decade now but, especially over the past year and a half or so it's faded somewhat - overpriced shit and I feel like the club I invested so much of my time and money into couldn't give the slightest of shits about me. I appreciate that it's hard to give up and that, in reality, it won't affect the club much (match-day receipts are a minute amount of a clubs income nowadays) but if you actually want cheaper prices, you've got to be prepared to look them in the metaphorical eye and tell them to shove it where the sun don't shine. I've never said you shouldn't complain about prices, I'm not slow in voicing my displeasure at them, but words mean nothing unless supported by actions.
Kitchandro Posted 23 December 2011 Posted 23 December 2011 You talk like I'm an idiot - I ****ing well know that, I've felt that passion for roughly a decade now but, especially over the past year and a half or so it's faded somewhat - overpriced shit and I feel like the club I invested so much of my time and money into couldn't give the slightest of shits about me. I appreciate that it's hard to give up and that, in reality, it won't affect the club much (match-day receipts are a minute amount of a clubs income nowadays) but if you actually want cheaper prices, you've got to be prepared to look them in the metaphorical eye and tell them to shove it where the sun don't shine. I've never said you shouldn't complain about prices, I'm not slow in voicing my displeasure at them, but words mean nothing unless supported by actions. Not nice is it? Pot calling the kettle black from you. And I'm struggling to see how else I could have responded to such a silly post. You don't seem to grasp the very basic point. How is not turning up going to get cheaper prices? Even if people boycotted (which most people wouldn't be prepared to do) it may well make no difference. And you'd have to miss something you love doing for a significant amount of time, which isn't worth it when you know it probably won't make a difference. People don't want to boycott because they love going, but they know they are getting taken to the cleaners all the same. And even though I've got a season ticket and therefore it's not really as issue for me, I know for a fact that the ticket prices put people off. So I'm going to go, because I've already paid, but I'm still going to complain because I know it's not helping attendances. See, very simple, it makes sense for people to complain and still go.
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