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[El Presidente]

So el press is a brummie dear o dear

It's news to me, unless Woodingdean is twinned with Smethick.

 

[El Presidente]

And lets not start with CMS.. £2 Million plus !..

I think US was talking about the two years prior to the start of this season WCP.

 

[Taybha]

The £41 tickets were for ESU which are some of the most expensive seats going. Apart from North or South, they could have gone in West Lower or Upper or East Lower for cheaper tickets. Perhaps ESU was the only option for 3 together.

The only thing i do know is the price quoted were for tickets in the east lower not upper , so its even more startling to discover there are more expensive options on offer as Portlock says , crazy stuff .

 

[father_and_son]

3 walk ups in front of me in the queue for a on the day ticket yesterday , 1 had been before the other 2 newbies , they were wanting to sit in the east
Stand , they left ticketless , £41 a pop !!! Seriously thats mental , yep there were £31 tickets available in the North but they wanted the east ,this cat A B C is a bit of a pisstake frankly and the sooner its binned the better .

In short football is starting to alienate people on lower incomes who simply cant afford a matchday with all the trimmings a lot of us take for granted and it bloody stinks , it would be fantastic if the club took the lead and did away with cat matches at the very least.

Little confused...

Why does some newbie, walk-up expect to get the best seats in the house? (talking view, not atmosphere) Am I alone in thinking this is just f'cking cheeky?

Surely, anyone would expect the best seats to be for regular, die-hard, rain-or-shine, STH and if you just rock up to the occasional (or indeed entirely one-off) game, you get the "cheap seats" and aspire to be a STH in the better seats one day??

Am I just not a modern day I-want-it-all-and-I-want-it-now-despite-my-fickle-nature, demanding customer?

If I book theatre tickets or concert tickets, the die-hard fan who was logged in pressing refresh on his laptop the second tickets go on sale gets the best seats and the casual, couldn't care less buyer gets what's left when he logs in 2 days later. Doesn't this correlate to STH getting first dibs at where to sit and walk-ups getting whatever is left?

 

[Phat Baz 68]

Our support is going down and down a little more each week which says to me
that some people are only interested in watching sexy football as played by Oscar and Poyet each week.
I maybe wrong but but I certainly can't find any other reason.
IF !! this is the reason , then piss off we don't need supporters like that.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Our support is going down and down a little more each week which says to me
that some people are only interested in watching sexy football as played by Oscar and Poyet each week.
I maybe wrong but but I certainly can't find any other reason.
IF !! this is the reason , then piss off we don't need supporters like that.

No, I'm pretty sure it's the non renewals from last season I certainly think the ones missing are the glory hunters - I'd renew in League 2 and so would the blokes all round me - but they are not likely to pay the one off game prices just to admit they made a mistake. They'll be back in the Premier League

 

[Blue3]

After we scored our second and before they pulled one back I was thinking how was this current team compared to the best under Gus or Garcia when we were last filling the stadium?

 

[El Presidente]

Our support is going down and down a little more each week which says to me
that some people are only interested in watching sexy football as played by Oscar and Poyet each week.
I maybe wrong but but I certainly can't find any other reason.
IF !! this is the reason , then piss off we don't need supporters like that.

The attendance was higher than Rovers, Rotherham, Bristol City though.

More fans are attending, but it's measured in high hundreds rather than 3-4,000.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Stockdale £1 million
Baldock £1.8 million
Colunga €1.5 million
Stephens £750k
Crofts £650k
COG £500k
Kayal £300k

........and keeping within the confines of FFP.

Not quite a total lack of investment is it?

How much did the sales come to ?

 

[El Presidente]

How much did the sales come to ?

I'm not sure, but that wasn't the point you made, which was the claim that there was a total lack of investment.

Ulloa cost £2 million.

 

[Ernest]

Anyone could see this happening, once you lose supporters/customers/JCL's/whatever it is a lot harder to get them back, now it's like people don't believe we're top of the table so still not coming back

 

[Vegas Seagull]

Not bad since it's 27 games since we won by more than 1

 

[portlock seagull]

Anyone could see this happening, once you lose supporters/customers/JCL's/whatever it is a lot harder to get them back, now it's like people don't believe we're top of the table so still not coming back

It's tricky to get back in the habit. That's a big issue once you're out of it. Especially when dark, pissing down and expensive in the mid season

 

[Wilko]

I cannot help think that if they made those south stand tickets behind the goal '20s plenty' then we would get another 2/3k and would make for a far better atmosphere crammed in next to the away fans. Continue to charge a higher price for other parts of the ground if they must but 20 notes for south stand seats would attract a lot of people imho.

 

[Spider]

I'm not sure, but that wasn't the point you made, which was the claim that there was a total lack of investment.

Ulloa cost £2 million.

I'm pretty sure that any sensible discussion about investment in the team would be about net spend rather than simply expenditure. I have no opinion on the argument that you are having, but this is playground backtracking of the highest order...

 

[Taybha]

Little confused...

Why does some newbie, walk-up expect to get the best seats in the house? (talking view, not atmosphere) Am I alone in thinking this is just f'cking cheeky?

Surely, anyone would expect the best seats to be for regular, die-hard, rain-or-shine, STH and if you just rock up to the occasional (or indeed entirely one-off) game, you get the "cheap seats" and aspire to be a STH in the better seats one day??

Am I just not a modern day I-want-it-all-and-I-want-it-now-despite-my-fickle-nature, demanding customer?

If I book theatre tickets or concert tickets, the die-hard fan who was logged in pressing refresh on his laptop the second tickets go on sale gets the best seats and the casual, couldn't care less buyer gets what's left when he logs in 2 days later. Doesn't this correlate to STH getting first dibs at where to sit and walk-ups getting whatever is left?

I do not have the answers ,just a opinion , the way i see it right or wrong football has now become a luxury for many people and newbies are a vital part of sustaining a healthy fanbase not something to be milked or seen as a less worthy value for money type of supporter .

 

[Ernest]

It's tricky to get back in the habit. That's a big issue once you're out of it. Especially when dark, pissing down and expensive in the mid season

It's a lot of cash for a Dad and a Lad to pay for one game unlike the debit when the ticket is paid for

 

[portlock seagull]

It's a lot of cash for a Dad and a Lad to pay for one game unlike the debit when the ticket is paid for

But you've got plenty of cash though on account of the Cup Final?

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

I'm not sure, but that wasn't the point you made, which was the claim that there was a total lack of investment.

Ulloa cost £2 million.

The point I was making was that all the new signing were for that period inferior to what we had

 

[El Presidente]

I'm pretty sure that any sensible discussion about investment in the team would be about net spend rather than simply expenditure. I have no opinion on the argument that you are having, but this is playground backtracking of the highest order...

It's not, as the sale of Ulloa was a single windfall, no other players commanded significant proceeds.

We lost £25.3 million in the two seasons we made the playoffs. That was mainly an investment in wages for players such as Koosh, Bridge, Upson, Ward, who didn't cost the club a transfer fee, but they were on high incomes, and there were loan fees too.