'Use TV billions to cut ticket prices'

[Stat Brother]

The Premier League's £5.14bn TV rights deal starting in 2016 should prompt a ticket price cut for fans, says the Swansea director representing supporters on the club's board

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/31494008

Anyone want that job, at the Albion?

I was called a lapdog for 2 years, will look good on your CV.

 

[fat old seagull]

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The Premier League's £5.14bn TV rights deal starting in 2016 should prompt a ticket price cut for fans, says the Swansea director representing supporters on the club's board

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/31494008

Anyone want that job, at the Albion?

I was called a lapdog for 2 years, will look good on your CV.

That's as likely to happen as this........

 

[Stuart Munday]

A ticket price reduction or more money for players and agents I wonder what will happen.

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

There's absolutely no reason why it shouldn't lead to a reduction in Ticket prices, Ticket revenue at this point must pale in comparison and not make a dent in terms of a Premier League clubs overall finances, greed is the only thing stopping it.

It is also in the interest of Clubs and the 'spectacle' of the premier league that all grounds are packed to the brim with young vociferous supporters, not ageing rich people who are unfortunately the only ones who can generally afford to attend premier league matches.

If clubs won't do it, the Government should get involved make away tickets mandatory £20, tell them they need to financially justify their home ticket pricing.

 

[Creaky]

If the increased TV revenues were used by Premier League teams to substantially reduce ticket prices I imagine that the effect on non-PL attendances would not be welcomed by many.

 

[BigGully]

There's absolutely no reason why it shouldn't lead to a reduction in Ticket prices, Ticket revenue at this point must pale in comparison and not make a dent in terms of a Premier League clubs overall finances, greed is the only thing stopping it.

It is also in the interest of Clubs and the 'spectacle' of the premier league that all grounds are packed to the brim with young vociferous supporters, not ageing rich people who are unfortunately the only ones who can generally afford to attend premier league matches.

If clubs won't do it, the Government should get involved make away tickets mandatory £20, tell them they need to financially justify their home ticket pricing.

They will charge what the market will bear, seems a little counter productive to reduce prices to supporters that would quite readily pay the normal higher price.

If it encouraged new supporters or increased crowds that then positively impacted on the teams performance then great, but I would suspect most clubs are already sensitive to this.

 

[Gwylan]

The Premier League's £5.14bn TV rights deal starting in 2016 should prompt a ticket price cut for fans, says the Swansea director representing supporters on the club's board
Anyone want that job, at the Albion?

We have one: he's called the chairman

 

[beorhthelm]

There's absolutely no reason why it shouldn't lead to a reduction in Ticket prices, Ticket revenue at this point must pale in comparison and not make a dent in terms of a Premier League clubs overall finances, greed is the only thing stopping it.

is it greed or an insatiable desire for success from club and supporters? which leads to clubs chasing the top players with ever increasing wages and sign on fees, which drags up the prices for the average players too. until clubs collectively decide they wont continue to inflate wages (and feed agents), ticket prices wont come down or even stay static.

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

Every premier league team has done the equivalent of just winning the lottery, they are now inconceivably rich and ticket revenue is a breadcrumb on their accounts. There is absolutely no excuse for fleecing fans anymore, or for any premier league ground not to be full as a result.

 

[The Birdman]

I would rather some of the money was directed at improving pitches and providing 3G pitches for grassroots football and we would produce more skilful players and the cost of home grown players may help to keep the costs down in the future but to much of our ticket money goes out the country?

 

[Postman Pat]

Most PL clubs have 95% attendances, why would they want to cut ticket prices

http://www.soccerstats.com/attendance.asp?league=england

 

[Czechmate]

This is where some of the money should go , help the fans for once , prove that the PL teams are not greedy and appreciate the fans !

http://www.stokecityfc.com/news/art...ree-away-travel-offer-for-201415-1772960.aspx

Are you looking Mr Barber

 

[El Presidente]

Rather than give the money to fans, why don't PL clubs commit to paying the living wage for all of their staff? There are plenty of people who work at clubs who are paid a pittance.

Chelsea have led the way on this issue.

http://www.chelseafc.com/news/latest-news/2014/12/chelsea-to-pay-living-wage.html

 

[BigGully]

Rather than give the money to fans, why don't PL clubs commit to paying the living wage for all of their staff? There are plenty of people who work at clubs who are paid a pittance.

Chelsea have led the way on this issue.

http://www.chelseafc.com/news/latest-news/2014/12/chelsea-to-pay-living-wage.html

It will only lead to 'tea ladies' having agents, endless transfer sagas of groundsman and laundry people, and bosman's for those reaching 68 years old .....

 

[BigGully]

I would rather some of the money was directed at improving pitches and providing 3G pitches for grassroots football and we would produce more skilful players and the cost of home grown players may help to keep the costs down in the future but to much of our ticket money goes out the country?

The professional teams have their own state of the art facilities for any starlet from the age of 6 years old, unfortunately outside of this really is not their priority, thats for councils and local government to fund and build.

 

[Gullflyinghigh]

No chance.

All of the TV money will be used to help capture and develop the best talent available, ensuring that paying customers are seeing the best possible product, maintaining the PL's spot as the world's best league.

Or at least that's what I imagine a press release from random bod will say.

 

[The Birdman]

The professional teams have their own state of the art facilities for any starlet from the age of 6 years old, unfortunately outside of this really is not their priority, thats for councils and local government to fund and build.

It needs to be a joined up approach to catch up with Holland France Germany Spain Italy etc etc council don't have the money to do it on there own but look what the albion have produced new training ground working with the local council . We could put 3G on school playing fields as long as they don't price clubs out of hiring them? The school would have good facilities and the community could use them at the weekends and school holidays and they could be hired out in the evenings giving schools an income. So maybe the premership money could be part grants and part loans.win win

 

[father_and_son]

Most PL clubs have 95% attendances, why would they want to cut ticket prices

http://www.soccerstats.com/attendance.asp?league=england

This...However the flip side is the German model. Bayern Munich's chair was quizzed a couple of years ago on why their season ticket prices start at ~£100 and he said that they could charge more but if they charged say £300, the additional income would last less than 5 minutes in the next player negotiation, so what was the point!?

Only the PL/FA have the power to force the issue because no club with a stadium 90-odd% full will cut prices. However, if a club were to reinvent itself as a charity instead of a business then you might find a trail-blazer driving change. A board have an obligation to act in the best financial interests of the owners of a company and so would be negligent if they didn't optimise profit from ticket sales - only legislation or a change of status could change this.

 

[34064 Fighter Command]

The professional teams have their own state of the art facilities for any starlet from the age of 6 years old, unfortunately outside of this really is not their priority, thats for councils and local government to fund and build.

So that's why the Government have been selling off school playing fields for housing development left, right and centre.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-Fields-disposed-two-weeks-London-Games.html

The public sector is broke. It can't even fund a decent Police service. If you think sports facilities are going to be high on the priority of any politician you'd better think again. Your arguement is a mandate to raise Council tax, which Govt won't allow, and Council taxpayers won't stomach at the ballot box.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

If the increased TV revenues were used by Premier League teams to substantially reduce ticket prices I imagine that the effect on non-PL attendances would not be welcomed by many.

Yes shortsightedness by some on here. The lowering of prices in the Premiership would put pressure on lower league clubs leaving loss making clubs like us even more perilous. We like all other lower league clubs totally rely on attendance income.