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£24?!?! Shame on you!
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westsussexmackem
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So is that why they struggle to get 15k nowadays? I've seen some hilarious stuff posted on message boards but I think this takes the biscuit.
Anyways, I don't think £24 is that bad especially with prices such as QPR's £50, West Ham's £46 (end of last season) it's just how modern football is now.
can i have my hook and line back please? dude im messing about haha go get a cold flannel - your bigger then middlesboro really..........................
- Jul 7, 2003
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He said it was tongue in cheek but I'm not sure....
Boro are renowned for the vast swathes of empty seats at their ground, for most league games never mind the cup.
This is a tough one to call, attendance-wise. Prices are high, and, with all due respect, Sunderland aren't a big draw in the true sense of the term. A lower to mid ranking Premier League team, similar to Stoke last year, Bolton, West Brom, Blackburn etc is never going to fire the imagination. Mrs Doubtfire will no doubt play the second string anyway which is even less of a pull. Crowd will probably be similar to the last round against Gillingham, which was helped by reduced prices and the fact that it was only the second chance ever to see the new stadium.
PS the QPR prices are appalling aren't they? There were loads of gaps in the crowd at Loftus Road the other day, for their first Premier League game in however many years. Terrible marketing by their club. Ecclestone and Briatore seem to be trying to get rid of all the normal fans and replace them with London rich-boy day trippers. The trouble is, such people are more likely to be at Twickenham than at a football game, and even if they did decide on a spot of round ball fun, they'd go to Chelsea or Arsenal or Spurs long before they bothered to look up the route to Loftus Road. Feel very sorry for their fans, for whom the experience must have been ruined. And never mind the 4-0 home defeat to Bolton...
Boris Yeltsin
MR PRESIDENT to you, mate
It's been a long time since Sunderland were known as the "Team of All Talents" or the "Bank of England club"!!
cjd
Well-known member
For a carling cup tie £24 is a high price to pay for tickets!
Whilst I agree that £24 is a high price to pay for tickets, was it not the Premiership teams that paid ludicrous amount of wages to the players...resulting in necessary 'high' prices for tickets to pay for them...and of course, this mentality, following down through the leagues in order to give us 'little' clubs a chance to compete with the 'big boys'....?
On behalf of Brighton and Hove Albion , I apologise for our club attempting to compete with you.
I pay about 45 quid in total very time I travel to the AMEX coming from Kent once you
have added ticket plus travel fares.
Last season I didn't have a season ticket and it was even more expensive.
The bottom line is: I love watching and supporting the Albion so much that
I willingly pay this and have to constantly juggle my other responsibilities
to get down to watch (as I'm sure we all do).
If you don't like paying 24 quid........then look at it as contributing to the
success of the club.
have added ticket plus travel fares.
Last season I didn't have a season ticket and it was even more expensive.
The bottom line is: I love watching and supporting the Albion so much that
I willingly pay this and have to constantly juggle my other responsibilities
to get down to watch (as I'm sure we all do).
If you don't like paying 24 quid........then look at it as contributing to the
success of the club.
clippedgull
Hotdogs, extra onions
Poor away following? Getting the excuses ready?
the wanderbus
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I thought Arsenal were the Bank of England club?
Bwian
Kiss my (_!_)
- Jul 14, 2003
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Spot on! It's not that long ago they were in the same position as us-now they think they'll be doing us a favour by playing their reserves plus a couple of decent players? Like I said in an earlier post-I hope we really embarrass them on the night whether they play their reserves or not.
Boris Yeltsin
MR PRESIDENT to you, mate
Arsenal were the Bank of England club in the 30s. Sunderland was the Bank of England club in the 50s!
sunderland fan
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- Aug 12, 2011
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The timing of the game doesnt help, we will still have over 1k there IMO
Box of Frogs
Zamoras Left Boot
For a carling cup tie £24 is a high price to pay for tickets!
Rubbish
last season £24 would have got you a plastic seat on a rickety bit of scaffolding at a ground only fit for the school sports day. Oh and the away fans would have paid top whack for only a couple of hundred tickets, a view they needed binoculars for and no roof (but a nice plastic bag aka a poncho, in your club colours, to sit in if it rained)
Now £24 GETS YOU a padded seat in an award winning state of the art stadium, WITH A ROOF and some of the FINEST PIES I have experienced in forty years watching BHA and THOUSANDS of tickets for away fans
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Tony Meolas Loan Spell
Slut Faced Whores
Rubbish
last season £24 would have got you a plastic seat on a rickety bit of scaffolding at a ground only fit for the school sports day. Oh and the away fans would have paid top whack for only a couple of hundred tickets, a view they needed binoculars for and no roof (but a nice plastic bag aka a poncho, in your club colours, to sit in if it rained)
Now £24 GETS YOU a padded seat in an award winning state of the art stadium, WITH A ROOF and some of the FINEST PIES I have experienced in forty years watching BHA and THOUSANDS of tickets for away fans
This
NUFC1892
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Prices are like that for a league game at the Stadium of Shite though.
severnside gull
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For a carling cup tie £24 is a high price to pay for tickets!
Gotta laugh - Sunderland tickets for an equivalent (category B) match are £29 - now f*** off back to the Wear!
