Are You Officially Priced Out Yet, Or Almost?

[jrb]

Nice one jrb. Kicking off another blue on blue battle on bluemoon.

Don't mention it mate. ;-)

I stopped going to London games years ago. OK, I've been to Wembley a few times. :-) I can't justify £50+ match tickets, £35 on a coach or train, and spending money. You can't go the whole day without eating or drinking either. That's £100. If there's two matches in London in a moNth, which has happened, that's £200!

When I went to Barcelona I didn't have much change left form £1000. Tickets were about £130. The flights were just under £300. The Hotel was about £350. And then spending money. That was for 2 of us. I had no choice but to fly from Liverpool, Monday to Friday. Hence booking 4 nights in a Hotel. Sorry, but I'm not driving to a London Airport. That was my Holiday for this year.

Like others have stated, You can't fault the club on season tickets prices, even though they are now creeping up, season, after season. The 4 interest free instalments has to be applauded. The Capital One Cup and FA Cup ticket prices are cheap. The CL ticket prices are expensive, hence more tourists around me than season tickets holders.

I stand corrected on his, but season ticket and matchday ticket prices have recently gone up by roughly 10% year, on year. My season ticket used to be £440. It's now £690.(I think) Admittedly I'm platinum, so I could shave £50 of that price. However, I'm loathed to miss the away games in the North and the Midlands, that I can still afford. Another £10% next season and it will be.......

An interesting read.

Premier League ticket prices defy the very culture that built the game

David Conn

Fans continue to be asked to part with sums that have risen wildly in excess of inflation – and the issue unites them

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/jul/28/premier-league-ticket-prices-football" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.theguardian.com/football/blo ... s-football</a>

If the figures are correct?

Arsenal +£188
Aston Villa +£65
Chelsea +£45
Everton +£88
Liverpool +80
City +£345
United +£19
Newcastle +£37
Stoke +£270
Sunderland +£64
*Spurs +£720!*

 

[mrtwiceaseason]

The point has just been made about the payments being interest free but is it really ? Say a ticket was £600 ticket now £650 some would have paid £600 one off payment some £600 + interest =£650 now everyone is paying £650 .
A crafty way of putting prices up ?

 

[ChicagoBlue]

City's price comes from the LOWEST IN THE TABLE to the lowest of the top teams in the league, and must still is a good value by most fans over 19 games.

Decisions, decisions...City or Stoke? City or Stoke?

 

[Why Always Ste]

Whilst like us all I of course love what's been happening over recent years and the football we now watch.
The price for that it seems however is the onslaught of the gentrification of our beloved City from every angle.

This word is spot on with where football has gone.

The poor/working classes will be watching the Stockport County's/Bury/Oldhams of the lower leagues in the run down stadiums, whilst the middle/upper classes will be dressed for the occasion, all suited and enjoying the hospitality.

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I'll be long gone before it's all turned like this anyway, but this is where it's going.

I won recent hospitality tickets to replace my SC seat and I felt like I was on another planet.
Everyone all suited, fine dining and all that.

As much as I like a nice restaurant, I go to football for the passion, the atmosphere, and it's vanishing :(

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Yeah, but did you have prawn sandwiches?

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

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I'll be long gone before it's all turned like this anyway, but this is where it's going.

I thought you were in favour of bringing back standing?

 

[goat boy]

It's too expensive. There's no way this will change, FSF or not. The job of maximising ticket income at City, who jealously look at figures from other big teams, is a high level and well paid one.

It ain't going away. Maybe if an Arsenal or a Liverpool did something genuinely different, that forced entire fan bases to push for a follow-suit.

Still, cheaper tickets would only mean more knobheads would buy one and not show up.

 

[moomba]

When a poster who says he religiously saves his money at £12 pw from one July to the next gets slagged off cos he isnt being fair on those who dont have £12 a week we really have reached a ridiculous point that can only end up with everyone living in boxes in the middle of the road.

Kiam isnt being slagged off for saving £12 a week.

 

[jma]

City's price comes from the LOWEST IN THE TABLE to the lowest of the top teams in the league, and must still is a good value by most fans over 19 games.

Decisions, decisions...City or Stoke? City or Stoke?

Not really how people decide which football team they would like to watch is it?

Or is this another veiled attempt to suggest that each fan should conduct a cost/success analysis and choose the team and ticket that gives them most wins for their buck?

Of course, it isn't, cos you and all the others who bang this "we must pay for success" drum either didn't, or won't admit that they did, do the opposite and fuck City off when they were shit but still more expensive than the other teams in the shit division they were in.

At what point in your City supporting career did you start using the level of success (compared to price or not) to decide whether you should actually support them or fuck of somewhere else instead. I suspect you didn't, as that is not how being a fan works, which invalidates your cost/success argument. And if you did you don't deserve a say on this matter.

 

[St Helens Blue (Exiled)]

Kiam

I am sorry but you have completely missed the point here.

You say "just save £12 per week".

You see the way you put it is that it's just £12 per week when in essence it is £48-£60 per month which in the real world not Kiams world is a lot of fucking money to a normal family. It is easy to say stop eating takeaways,canel your sky,drive a smaller car,live in a smaller house. Are you being serious?? I used to be of a similar mindset "Stop smoking" etc but this is a seperate issue. The issue we are trying to debate is the cost for normal families to go to football. Families who cannot afford the luxury of a couple of season tickets etc or families who are in a less fortunate position to yourself.
Yesterday I pulled out of the CL cup scheme. Not for the cost but simply because I have become annoyed with the fucking plastic ipad carrying so called fans sat around me in South Level 2 with their half and half scarves and the dogshit atmosphere.
Kiam I presume you have got no kids? Not that this is really relevent to debate however trust me kids make a huge impact on your finances. Whatever you earn,you live to your means. Bigger income = bigger mortgage bigger car normally. Not many people are lucky enough to just save a few hundred quid a month for a rainy day.
I find your lack of empathy towards other long standing blues with less disposable income than yourself quite shocking. I'm alright Jack is not the attitude to have on this subject. I know lads (including myself) who have not had a pay rise for 4 yrs now so do us a favour, show a little more empathy to others and you will go far in life.
Personally,I hope the club do listen to the groundswell of opinion on this. Next year will be interesting with the opening of the new stand,will ticket prices reduce...I hope for the fans who are currently missing out they do.