[Football] The BBC Price of Football Survey 2015

[nwgull]

This thread is a bit depressing. Watching football is certainly a wealthy person's pastime these days.

Bit of an overstatement to say 'wealthy' - my gym membership at Virgin active costs me 40% more per month.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

£10 a week. Hardly expensive.

£520/23 for the cheapest/worst seats in the house AND only if you make a year long commitment? Expensive and probably prohibitive to newcomers.

 

[nwgull]

£520/23 for the cheapest/worst seats in the house AND only if you make a year long commitment? Expensive and probably prohibitive to newcomers.

So how did we end up getting 16000 new supporters since Withdean?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Bit of an overstatement to say 'wealthy' - my gym membership at Virgin active costs me 40% more per month.

Arguing your gym membership is more expensive is NOT going to convince me football is still the domain of the working class man.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

So how did we end up getting 16000 new supporters since Withdean?

Fair point. My angle is the working class. Bad choice of word from me. My point is that the current high prices possibly now exclude a section of society traditionally associated with the game we love and youngsters/the next generation.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

So how did we end up getting 16000 new supporters since Withdean?

I wonder how many of those 'new' supporters were older, and wouldn't sit at Withdean in all weathers? A season ticket in the North stand for an over 65 is £217 with interest free direct debit.
What's not to like?

 

[crabface]

Wonder why Swansea decided not to take part?

 

[trueblue]

I hate the self-congratulatory BBC back-slapping that comes with the useless survey every season. Not a bad thing to keep pressure on so prices stay/get reasonable but the figures they quote most of the time are meaningless out of context.

 

[nwgull]

Fair point. My angle is the working class. Bad choice of word from me. My point is that the current high prices possibly now exclude a section of society traditionally associated with the game we love and youngsters/the next generation.

What does working class mean these days? Is it to do with income or background?

Brighton has never been a traditional 'working class' town as far as I can tell.

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

So how did we end up getting 16000 new supporters since Withdean?

JCL's
regards
DR

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

what does working class mean these days? Is it to do with income or background?

Brighton has never been a traditional 'working class' town as far as i can tell.

full of lefty hipsters and smelly students
regards
DR

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

i wonder how many of those 'new' supporters were older, and wouldn't sit at withdean in all weathers? A season ticket in the north stand for an over 65 is £217 with interest free direct debit.
What's not to like?

being 65
regards
DR

 

[No. 25]

Went to Birmingham last season. Was watered down basic tea. I expected unicorn blood for that price.

When is a tea not watered down??

 

[StonehamPark]

£10 a week. Hardly expensive.

How do you work it out at £10.00 per week?

The cheapest season ticket is £465.00

If you're working that figure out weekly, it's £20.21p per week based on 23 games, more than double your figure.

Unless I've missed something?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Brighton has never been a traditional 'working class' town as far as I can tell.

We are talking about Brighton supporter base which spreads far beyond Brighton. I'd argue that Brighton has huge areas of working class. And Sussex certainly does.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

being 65
regards
DR

I'm enjoying life now more than I ever did when I was young.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

How do you work it out at £10.00 per week?

The cheapest season ticket is £465.00

If you're working that figure out weekly, it's £20.21p per week based on 23 games, more than double your figure.

Unless I've missed something?

You pay it over a year, therefore 52 weeks. The direct debit doesn't just run from August to May.

 

[La` Cucaracha¤]

 

[nwgull]

We are talking about Brighton supporter base which spreads far beyond Brighton. I'd argue that Brighton has huge areas of working class. And Sussex certainly does.

I think this is where definitions of working class and a working class town differ. I'm not saying either is right or wrong, but my definition of a working class town is one where there are large blue collar industries that employ a significant proportion of the town's working age population. This does not apply to anywhere in Sussex. Who is the largest employer in Brighton itself for example - it's Amex, isn't it?

 

[StonehamPark]

You pay it over a year, therefore 52 weeks. The direct debit doesn't just run from August to May.

The cheapest season ticket is £465.00
That's £20.21p per game (23 weeks).

You can make that figure look lower if you feel the urge to, by spreading it out over 52 weeks, but that's a rubbish spin.
The extra 29 weeks you're paying £10.00 p/w for no product/service is only being added to the original 23 weeks payments.