Blackburn lead call to cut ticket prices...

[Barrel of Fun]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/b/blackburn_rovers/6293645.stm

Great. If this goes ahead, it will be cheaper for the floating fans of smaller teams to watch Premiership football...

Is anyone else sick to death of the Premiership?

Scudamore harping on about how good the TV deal is for football....Is it!?

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

I can see why Blackburn are leading the charge, Ewood Park boasts so many empty seats on match days they should consider opening just the two main stands (see also Wigan, Middlesboro)

 

[The Large One]

£625m for 20 clubs and none for the other 72 is anything but good for football. What a f***ing idiot. Clubs are milking the cash cow of the Premiership in fear of it one day running out on them. Then I will laugh and laugh and laugh.

 

[Commander]

£625m for 20 clubs and none for the other 72 is anything but good for football. What a f***ing idiot. Clubs are milking the cash cow of the Premiership in fear of it one day running out on them. Then I will laugh and laugh and laugh.

And laugh and laugh and laugh.

 

[Tubby Mondays]

I wonder whether Blackburn would be of that opinion if Uncle Jack were still alive and pouring in the cash?

 

[butchy]

would a premiership cut in costs have a trickle-down effect to the lower league? i dont think so somehow, could not be a great thing for clubs like us if you could suddenly see charlton and fulham for less than us

 

[Barrel of Fun]

I wonder whether Blackburn would be of that opinion if Uncle Jack were still alive and pouring in the cash?

I doubt it very much.

Poor hard done by fans....Fancy paying £220 for a half season Season Ticket to watch Premiership football. Makes you want to cry for them....

A team that bought their way to win the Premiership is now struggling to fill the ground...

 

[Kent Seagull]

would a premiership cut in costs have a trickle-down effect to the lower league? i dont think so somehow, could not be a great thing for clubs like us if you could suddenly see charlton and fulham for less than us

You already can! From where I live in Kent Ican also get picked upat the end of my road and driven to the ground, dooor to door service for a fiver. Some games at Charlton are only £20.

 

[Tooting Gull]

You look at this at first and think 'great, they've finally realised the fleecing can't go on'. But very quickly you realise it is yet more self-interest. Blackburn have loads of empty seats. Why should their empty seats be everyone else's problem?

What you really want, what would be a really principled stand would be for a Man Utd, Arsenal or Chelsea, who are selling out every week, to lead the initiative and bring the prices down.

And to be fair, Arsenal and Chelsea are far more culpable on pricing than Man United.

 

[Bakesy]

Ticket prices are high because the players wages are so extorsionate.Until there is a cap on players wages you can forget about sensible ticket prices.Players and their Agents are too damn powerful and unfortunately it's killing football.Your average working man is being priced out of the game...hence loads of empty seats at grounds like Blackburn, Boro etc.
The big clubs from the Capital and the Big cities will survive because there are plenty of the Prawn Sarni brigade who will go to watch a BIG team, but the smaller clubs aren't such an attractive proposition.