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Up to £41 for a match day ticket at the Amex next season, too much?
- Thread starter El Presidente
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Indeed. I think this is the plan, sell as many season tickets as possible. For the floating fan it would be cheaper to have a monthly standing order for a season ticket than it would be to attend one match per month in a good seat.
I do have to say that if prices keep going up and up then I will become pretty disillusioned with the game. If it gets to the point of paying £50/60 a game in the next few years then I am afraid to say I will turn my back on the game as much as I love the Albion.
beautifully put
25 years ago 2 hours working behind a bar paid enough to buy a ticket for a game + a couple of pints, now a 6 hour shift wouldn't be enough. 'The people's game' my hairy arse.
and people shouldn't compare it to the price of the cinema either 'cause that's a f***ing rip off too. ....
1 hour's work for an average Joe/ Joanna should pay enough for a ticket for 1 hour's play. 27,000 x minimum wage 24 times a year should be the clubs budget.
Socialism doesn't rule
This is a good way of thinking about it actually. I also think of all those thousands of students that live on the doorstep of the stadium, there is a mass market there but how many students can pay £40? In fact, how many students could afford £28 for that matter for less than 2 hours of entertainment?
HastingsSeagull
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Not sure I can afford to take my dad and brother to the odd game at those prices. ST for me would be fine except the travelling to and from for every match adds considerably to cost, not to mention pie and pint. Few games I get to looks like deffo north for me then rather than few of both prices
At the moment the club don't have to cater their prices for the student market as they are selling out what they have at higher prices. When the harder times come back (hopefully not for many many years) then they will have to restructure the ticketing process to incorporate student prices and other various deals i.e. early bird prices, or a discount if you buy tickets for 3 different matches together.
At the moment the business plan is obviously to have minimal match by match tickets available and get everyone paying for ST's. All well and good while we're doing so well, but I do worry it's putting off the potential one off visitors who may go on to get hooked and buy an ST in future. And with ST's so well priced at the moment, and no ticket exchange in operation - it's leading to having the high number of no shows, especially for evening games. You're not losing out financially by missing a few games, but the club is missing out on the extra match day revenue by having someone using the seat and buying food/drink/merchandise.
I have complete faith in Mr Bloom to get it right every year as he is obviously a far more successful businessman than I ever will be!
Season tickets are pretty good value for those who can afford them,but for those who can only attend one off games the price of that is pretty expensive,but not just at the Albion.
Football has become a very expensive treat for the casual fan and many are now priced out of watching on a regular basis,which is a shame.Many moons ago when I was a student and before I had a season ticket,I had no trouble attending virtually all the games at home and plenty more away.No chance for the average student now.
I may be an old git now and miss the Goldstone when it was possible to decide to go on the spur of the moment and possibly take someone with you,but it must be very difficult for mums and /or dads who would like to take their kids to matches and introduce them to the game.Cinema trips are bad enough,but football is in another 'league' altogether!
Football has become a very expensive treat for the casual fan and many are now priced out of watching on a regular basis,which is a shame.Many moons ago when I was a student and before I had a season ticket,I had no trouble attending virtually all the games at home and plenty more away.No chance for the average student now.
I may be an old git now and miss the Goldstone when it was possible to decide to go on the spur of the moment and possibly take someone with you,but it must be very difficult for mums and /or dads who would like to take their kids to matches and introduce them to the game.Cinema trips are bad enough,but football is in another 'league' altogether!
Birdie Boy
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Christ, what is all this moaning about £41 for a top banana seat? It's the top price seat, not the only seat. £28 in the South Stand with cost of travel is not expensive, these will be the match day tickets anyway. Now, lets pick up on a few moaners;
Living far away, so the cost of petrol, pies and beers plus ticket is expensive. It is not the clubs thought that you live at the other end of the country. Take away your petrol, 1 pie and 1 pint plus £28 ticket = £35.50. Please bear in mind that the pie and pint is optional.
Student can't afford ticket.. this is because you are a student, when you finish studying, hopefully you will get a job where you can afford £28 for a ticket.
Families - £99 for a child in the family area is fantastic value, actually it is probably £114 now with travel voucher. £4.95 per game with travel, nice.
We all want players of Vicente's calibre at the Amex, so there has to be £41 tickets, otherwise we can't afford them.
Living far away, so the cost of petrol, pies and beers plus ticket is expensive. It is not the clubs thought that you live at the other end of the country. Take away your petrol, 1 pie and 1 pint plus £28 ticket = £35.50. Please bear in mind that the pie and pint is optional.
Student can't afford ticket.. this is because you are a student, when you finish studying, hopefully you will get a job where you can afford £28 for a ticket.
Families - £99 for a child in the family area is fantastic value, actually it is probably £114 now with travel voucher. £4.95 per game with travel, nice.
We all want players of Vicente's calibre at the Amex, so there has to be £41 tickets, otherwise we can't afford them.
Gritt23
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Football is too expensive these days, and we are showing that we are no different.
Groups of kids don't go to games with their mates anymore, they go by hanging onto their dads wallet most of the time. The exceptions are very few and far between, and are especially committed to the Albion. Modern football does not bring along casual fans who happen to be mates of more keen fans, and just go along as something to do. At those prices, we don't mop up that potential fanbase, and I think it's going to be to the detriment of the long-term fan base.
Groups of kids don't go to games with their mates anymore, they go by hanging onto their dads wallet most of the time. The exceptions are very few and far between, and are especially committed to the Albion. Modern football does not bring along casual fans who happen to be mates of more keen fans, and just go along as something to do. At those prices, we don't mop up that potential fanbase, and I think it's going to be to the detriment of the long-term fan base.
I understand what you say,but it just shows how expensive it has got for many casual fans,including students,to watch a football match.
As I said,season tickets are good value.
I agree with some of your points, that is how much football is these days, it does not make it right though! By pricing students out of the game then you are losing a mass market and whole new generation of fans. To pick up on your second point, I am not a parent so difficult for me to comment but is £114 for 1.5hrs of entertainment good value?
If you actually think about it on a basic level then paying around £30 to watch a football match is ridiculous, but the whole time we have footballers being paid thousands per week then this is going to happen.
I long for the day when footballers get paid a normal, reasonable salary for doing the best job in the world and the whole of a city goes to watch the game for £10 a match in stadiums holding 100,000. Dream on eh!
To be honest, with a brand new stadium, training ground and additions to the squad I wouldn't have expected any less, I can only see them getting more expensive if the club are promoted (maybe only ST and not match day though). Plus, to all those moaning about the prices of the tickets, how many of you are also moaning about the type of signings Gus should be making and the strides to keep the likes of Vicente at the club?
Food for thought...
Food for thought...
On the kids point isn't that the price of the season ticket so £114 for a whole season?
Gilliver's Travels
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And that's the point, isn't it? It's not a case of wicked Tony Bloom ripping us all off. Rather one of his having to balance the books somehow, in the face of footballers' wages that spiralled way beyond obscene years ago.
Wayne Rooney illustrates the point perfectly. Were it not for football, Rooney would be delighted to earn £500 a week on a building site. Instead, we are invited to believe that Rooney the footballer is actually worth £300,000 – the weekly wage of SIX HUNDRED men.
Thanks to the good work of footballers' parasitic agents and advisers, people who used to watch the game can no longer afford it. Clubs go into administration regularly. And the rest of us roll our eyes and fork out stupid amounts of money for our fortnightly fix.
We're all being taken for mugs by players' agents. A new, maximum wage formula would stop all this. The idea that players would all go abroad if this happened is ludicrous – there simply isn't enough abroad to go round. And in the case of Rooney, especially after last Sunday, who would want him?
Time to get real on footballers' wages. After that, ticket prices can become far more manageable.
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I disagree, having bought tickets last season on a match basis most of the time I ended up in the East, where tickets will be £34-37.
Hotchilidog
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But next season the east will be mostly ST and the South Stand will be reserved for math by match sales.
Birdie Boy
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Yes, it is the whole season, so £4.95 per game with travel.
I understand players are payed way too much but as a club there is not a lot they can do about it, except stay within their means. It needs to be done by Fifa to put a wage cap on but then the players have so much money they will run to the European Court of Human Rights and win.
saafend_seagull
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I don't understand how people can't afford to pay for a season ticket on a direct debit if you are employed...that cost is less than one night out per month!
Count your blessings that you're in such a lofty financial position that you cannot understand.The cost of a night out is a lot to some households.
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As I have mentioned, I do not have an issue with the prices per se. More that there is not a tranche of cheap tickets always available. If I ran the club there would be a 1000 tickets for sale at £10 for all games.
and one of the directors would just have to stump up another half a million to pay for it each season... or would it come out of the playing budget?