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« Reply #13725 on: Tuesday, July 23, 2024, 09:35:00 » |
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£28 for a Crewe ticket is worthy of comment.
It is what it is, but might not be too long before we are paying the same as or more than away fans in the PL, albeit away tickets are capped at £30 for another season or two.
For a lunchtime kick off thats on the sky + thing Its like they dont want people to attend! |
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« Reply #13726 on: Tuesday, July 23, 2024, 09:50:19 » |
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WB you are right it is what it is but thats obscene to be charged more than fans attanding Premier League games. Crewe need to give their heads a wobble.
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But we don't know where we've been
And we know what we're knowin'
But we can't say what we've seen
And we're not little children
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And the future is certain
Give us time to work it out
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« Reply #13727 on: Tuesday, July 23, 2024, 10:03:27 » |
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There is a real challenge here for lower league clubs.
Gate receipts are at least a third of lower league clubs income, and all lower league clubs are losing money. They can't keep ticket prices at £20 because thats what we paid 20 years ago for a game. They have to raise prices to stay competitive.
Premier league clubs their gate receipts are way less important as a percentage of total income. So they can afford to sell some cheap tickets (and a lot of expensive ones), because it has less of an effect on their business.
There was some talk during covid, which highlighted the importance of full stadiums even for tv audiences, that top clubs could get to a point where they are very cheap just to keep the stadiums full.
So yeah lower league will appear expensive compared to premier league, but thats the reality of the business model. It doesn't feel right, but its one of the only things lower league clubs can do to income up with costs.
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« Reply #13728 on: Tuesday, July 23, 2024, 10:07:13 » |
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For a lunchtime kick off thats on the sky + thing
Its like they dont want people to attend!
Also they can't reduce prices because its on Sky. The new broadcast deal is supposes to be extra income, so if clubs reduce ticket prices to offset the effect of it being broadcast then the clubs don't benefit from the deal at all. It sucks and i hate the price thats charged, but its a reality. |
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« Reply #13729 on: Tuesday, July 23, 2024, 10:15:55 » |
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It doesnt matter to me what the business models of Prem Clubs are, the real world is the real world.
£28 for a Crewe v Swindon game is taking the piss....just as we have ref away fans the last few seasons.....
If a Kia is priced the same as a BMW, No Kias would sell....
Wet Pubs bitching about how much they should charge for a pint as costs have risen.....nobody is going to pay £10 a pint!
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« Reply #13730 on: Tuesday, July 23, 2024, 10:21:08 » |
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Football tickets haven't increased by anything like the rate of inflation, it's a funny one. I agree that £28 feels ridiculous, but it was £25 for Town games 12 years ago (admittedly in L1), which would be more like £35 now.
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« Reply #13731 on: Tuesday, July 23, 2024, 11:09:15 » |
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It doesnt matter to me what the business models of Prem Clubs are, the real world is the real world.
£28 for a Crewe v Swindon game is taking the piss....just as we have ref away fans the last few seasons.....
If a Kia is priced the same as a BMW, No Kias would sell....
Wet Pubs bitching about how much they should charge for a pint as costs have risen.....nobody is going to pay £10 a pint!
If football clubs are not cars though, we are not following Swindon for the best football, or are we, is that why everyone is angry. |
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« Reply #13732 on: Tuesday, July 23, 2024, 16:58:35 » |
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I was in Cumbria at the weekend and paid £8.60 for a pint of ale and half a lager shandy. FFS.
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« Reply #13733 on: Tuesday, July 23, 2024, 17:03:11 » |
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Football tickets haven't increased by anything like the rate of inflation, it's a funny one. I agree that £28 feels ridiculous, but it was £25 for Town games 12 years ago (admittedly in L1), which would be more like £35 now.
Memory could be playing tricks on me here but I *think* we were the first football league club to break the £20 barrier for tickets back in about 2002 maybe 2003. Madness to think 20+ years on paying £20 a ticket is considered cheap. |
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« Reply #13734 on: Wednesday, July 24, 2024, 17:20:29 » |
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Having said that, 30 years ago we blew nearly £1M on Joey Beauchamp (RIP). Can you imagine that now?
Yeah I know.. Bosman.. Wages inflation.. Etc.
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« Reply #13735 on: Wednesday, July 24, 2024, 17:24:55 » |
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Memory could be playing tricks on me here but I *think* we were the first football league club to break the £20 barrier for tickets back in about 2002 maybe 2003.
Madness to think 20+ years on paying £20 a ticket is considered cheap.
I think it was 2002. I would have been 11, but I can remember my old man and late Grandad driving me up to Chesterfield on a Tuesday night, I think it was the second game of the season. As we were entering I can remember a steward saying to my old man ‘don’t worry, you won’t pay £20 up here’ and them laughing about it. We went on to win 4.2 and Eric Sabin scored a header. An absolutely pointless bit of information that I can remember. |
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« Reply #13736 on: Wednesday, July 24, 2024, 17:40:37 » |
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I think it was 2002.
I would have been 11, but I can remember my old man and late Grandad driving me up to Chesterfield on a Tuesday night, I think it was the second game of the season.
As we were entering I can remember a steward saying to my old man ‘don’t worry, you won’t pay £20 up here’ and them laughing about it.
We went on to win 4.2 and Eric Sabin scored a header.
An absolutely pointless bit of information that I can remember.
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« Reply #13737 on: Thursday, July 25, 2024, 07:33:40 » |
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« Reply #13738 on: Thursday, July 25, 2024, 07:45:46 » |
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What do all the other L2 do? |
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« Reply #13739 on: Thursday, July 25, 2024, 08:23:41 » |
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