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Sixty quid a ticket, the robbing bastards! I thought they were supposed to be loaded?

And their deluded cunt of a chairman reckons Real "handpicked" them  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

 http://m.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/jul/02/afc-bournemouth-real-madrid

More ego fuel for the deluded fuck wits!

It is utterly obscene. Would I pay it if it was at the County Ground? Yes.

They've got to charge £60 a head to make back the obscene amounts of money they must have paid Real to slum it.

That smug cunt who does the sport on South Today was just gushing about it being a 'statement of intent, sign that Bournemouth have really arrived'. Didn't mention the price until the other presenter picked him up on that. Fucker.

Would I pay to see it at the CG? Probably not. £60 is too fucking much for a game of football, especially one where I'm going to watch my team get dicked over.

9,600 seats.. Just over £500k before all the days expenses. How much do you think Madrid would want for a trip to Bournemouth?

Heard it was only their B team anyway

£60 to watch your team get dicked by Real Madrid reserves/youths? No thanks.

Get a grip gents.

They've got a game against Real Madrid.

That's fucking quality.

If that was us then I would not only not go but I'd also be livid at the audacity and probably write an angry letter to the club or something. (Well, I'd moan on here anyway.)

I imagine a lot of the crowd won't be Bournemouth fans but plastics just wanting to watch Madrid.

...or simply as admirers of world football :) Or is that what plastics are?

£60 is very high but if I'm honest, I'd probably do my best to go if I was local.

Bournemouth is one of the more affluent areas around so the place will sell out regardless of ticket being £60 or £6. Actually pretty good business sense to charge obscene amounts and take advantage.

Looking at Real's pre-season lineup I doubt they will bother with charging Muff too much, they will make shed loads from the the games after.

Who have Bournemouth's first eleven got then?

Less than £500k as the VAT man will take 1/6 of the money.

All to get dicked by Real's 2nd team.

I don't see why the hatred against Bournemouth. Fair play to them.

If people a willing to pay it then its down to them.

We're getting to sound just like Pox fans did when we had Black

Insane.

Emirates Cup (this year, Napoli, Porto, Galatasaray, Arsenal) tickets are £25.
At the Emirates, not Dean Court.

Brazil v Italy at the Emirates was £35, I think.

50,000 say x £25 = £1,250,000 plus tv rights, sushi and champagne sales etc for ok euro teams

9,000 say x £60  =  £540,000 plus pie and bovril sales

I'd pay that to watch Real at home but you pay a bit more and go watch them in Spain.

Hmmm I moaned £20 was too much for Tottenham, yet if it was us I may be tempted because we may never see it again. However it would have to be a nailed on Real first team.

£60 is a joke though.

£60 is ridiculous.  Sadly, people will probably turn up anyway, thereby justifying to that idiot Mitchell his decision.  Wouldn't it be great if nobody turned up?

I'd pay it to watch Town v Real Madrid. Good luck to Bournemouth - I agree with Sippo.

This sums it up pretty well: http://www.standamf.com/2013/07/02/unreal-madrid/

It cost me about £40.00 for the whole Brentford play-off 2nd leg 'experience' (ticket, petrol, parking, drink). Worth it.

£60.00 for a pre-season friendly. Bollocks.

£60 is pretty disgusting for a pre-season friendly. But I also don't get the whole Against Modern Football bollocks, considering most of those who are "AMF" will still go every week anyway. Go the whole hog and don't turn up or stop moaning.

If you went against Chesterfield in the tinpot piece of shit then you'd have spent over £60. A couple of pre match pints in the CGH, Real Madrid on the hallowed turf, Nate Dog v Ronaldo, Navarro v Kaka, a coupe more pints, a bag of chips from the Frying Fish and home  - how surreal is that - well worth it.

Yes, I did go, and the whole tin pot final cost me more than £60. I've even shelled out to see pre-season in Finland (twice).

Any match day ticket at £60 is bollocks.

I suppose there are different perspectives on how much £60 actually is.  To me it is far too much for a day out - including watching us v Real Madrid.  To others, £60 might well be disposable. 

No - sod that - £60 for a friendly is disgusting.

Ok Cibo, I won't go to Boremuff v Real. That's my stand!

Can I still go and continue moaning now?! :-)

I can't remember exactly how much the ticket was but we paid x hundred to see Real Madrid v Barcelona at the Nou Camp (4-1, RVN and Robben was playing for Madrid) in a Spanish league match.

Of course, It would be different if Swindon were playing Real's first team in a pre-season friendly but £60 is a lot of cash, would I pay it, probably.

The only justification I can really think of for Bournemouth's decision to charge £60/ticket is supply & demand.  They have such a poxy little ground for the level they will be playing at next season that the game would be massively over-subscribed if they didn't set such a steep price.  And that it turn would give them a headache about how to allocate/distribute tickets.  Madrid are going to use it as little more than a warm up/fitness exercise anyway.  I almost feel sorry for their fans.

On a related note, Radio 5 tried to interview their Chairman this morning, but no reply on the other end of the line so they quickly moved on to something else.  But not before describing Bournemouth as a 'League 1 club', which made me smile anyway.

One Muff fan who commented on the BBC sidte, that even if they sold twice as many tickets at the prices mentioned, they wouldn't break even.

131.AFCB_Dave
24 Minutes ago
Just to reiterate, the ticket prices will not allow AFCB to break even or make any money out of this. The rumour is that even if we sold twice the amount of tickets as are available, we wouldn't break even still. This explains the prices, its just an unfortunate side to being able to host such a club. I guess the club view the publicity alone as worth hosting the game still.

Total madness.

Got to make their money back, do people think that they wouldnt have paid Real Madrid to be able to play them?

But by the Muff fans comments above they could be losing money on the deal, just for a publicity stunt.

And this from a club that the fans were collecting donations for their survival a few years ago.

AFC Bournemouth makes me think of a firework that's going to burn very brightly for a very short space of time.  And then into darkness.  I don't see any capital investment in the manner that Reading or Swansea have undertaken to step up a few levels.  They're just spending...for now.  They may prove me wrong, but I just can't see them sustaining themselves at that level without the cash drip-feed.

??? where did they acquire the extra seats from

There were plans to put in a 4th stand over the summer, I assume this is happening

Their own website shows the 3 sided hole still under Ticket information for the 2013/14 season

 :hmmm:

My suspicion is the owners took at face value the statistics on the catchment area and thought with a bit of money, good PR and showmanship (of which the Real Madrid fixture is a prime example) they could tap what they see as a big dormant fanbase waiting to be awoken.

I wonder though if in the case of Bournemouth (without wanting to stereotype too much) the figures for the catchment area represent not so much the financial potential of a sleeping giant, which a cold reading of the numbers might suggest, as the Sisyphean task of having to constantly reignite the interest of a perpetually dying one. 

£60 a ticket for a pre-season friendly is ridiculous IMO.

The catchment argument is an interesting one.  Years ago, I used to think that Reading was a very big place to have such a rubbish football team.  The town itself seemed fairly prosperous, so it seemed strange to me that the football team hadn't had more time in the upper leagues.  And sure enough, some time later they came good.

There's a part of me that thinks Bournemouth could follow the same path.  The urban area (incl Poole and Christchurch) is massive...several times the size of Swindon.  And fairly well off.  If (big if) they invested for the future, I genuinely do think that there would be a market there to tap.  Not everyone there is a pensioner.  But I see no sign of Denim investing for the future.  A new stand to take the ground capacity to 12,000?  Big deal.  Just seems to be wildly throwing cash at the playing squad.

My guess is they're testing the waters with a few baby steps: new stand, new training ground, more investment in youth etc., while gauging the reaction in terms of crowd numbers to increased success on the pitch upon which, good or bad, greater investment in infrastructure might be predicated.

Well they sold out within 3 hours of going on general sale even at that ridiculous price.

Fair play to them.

Money laundering is a piece of piss.

I expect most of them would pay that amount just to see Ronaldo. Superb for Bournemouth fans getting a friendly like that.

Until somebody wonders why so many tickets were sold, yet so few people turn up..........

Who won?  ???

I see 5 pages discusding the £60 ticket prices, but no-one has answered thr actul question in the first post. :-[

Not sure but I shall use my time machine and fly forward to the fixture on the 21st July and let you know.

............

[edit]Real Madrid won.

Oops, wrong thread  :)

I see the fans got 1 RM goal for every £10 they spent on the ticket then, the game finishing 6-0 to Real in the end.

Having looked at their line up, initially I thought the tickets were ridiculous, I would have spent that to see swindon play them. Incredible to have that talent down to play

Atleast they put a strong team out for them

£60 for a friendly is just plain wrong regardless of whether the Winker and his mates are turning out or not.

Gareth Bale is allegedly worth almost as much as Ronaldo and I only had to pay £15 to watch him last week.

yes, but Bale only had to get on a bus down the m4.

I just noticed that Oslo-based club Vålerenga are playing Barcelona in a friendly next weekend, tickets range from £80 to £102. A couple of weeks later they're playing Liverpool and prices start at £70.

A ticket for their next league match is about £22.

And it's midway through the Norwegian football season.