Effective Ticket Price Protest

[jayfx]

It's getting ridiculous. And it hurts that a club I love unconditionally is willing to price me out and turn match day into an expensive tourists day out or an occasional treat. Sad days for football.
That being said, most of our fans leave shortly after 77 minutes anyway nowadays, so if we were to demonstrate in similar fashion to Liverpool, it'd probably go unnoticed!

 

[Oystercatcher28]

Print out giant bank notes and paper airplane them all over the pitch?

 

[Why Always Ste]

Some interesting replies in this topic, one idea grabbed me the most and that's to leave the stadium completely empty for the first 15mins.
Imagine the media having to explain to the billion people watching around the world why nobody is inside?

With social media this is the platform to explain why the stadium is empty (for people who will query the reason)
And expose the media if they don't explain why.

It angers me when I'm learning of people, who were once passionate fans, regularly going to matches, now feeling disconnected from Football, not "part of it"
And have packed it all in.
Reasons some have given me include the whole commercialisation of football and how it's now an expensive hobby for them, unjustifiable to pay the prices.

Action needs to start... it's just a case of gathering numbers and momentum.

 

[dickie davies]

Dont buy tickets for away games
So for example, our club will have been offered something like 1500 tickets for Bournemouth which the club takes/buy and then sell to supporters
Boycott this game and leave the club with all/the majority of tickets which it has paid for
Or, as already said, a protest at a televised home game by not entering the stands until 10 minutes after kick off

 

[LadislavMplmx]

Some interesting replies in this topic, one idea grabbed me the most and that's to leave the stadium completely empty for the first 15mins.
Imagine the media having to explain to the billion people watching around the world why nobody is inside?

With social media this is the platform to explain why the stadium is empty (for people who will query the reason)
And expose the media if they don't explain why.

It angers me when I'm learning of people, who were once passionate fans, regularly going to matches, now feeling disconnected from Football, not "part of it"
And have packed it all in.
Reasons some have given me include the whole commercialisation of football and how it's now an expensive hobby for them, unjustifiable to pay the prices.

Action needs to start... it's just a case of gathering numbers and momentum.

not everyone is part of social media,not everyone cares.....

 

[Eccles Blue]

Now this is scary!! Getting politicians involved in anything of this nature concerns me! I've lived too long to expect fairness from any of them.

"Prime Minister to look at football ticket prices
Football

Ticket prices in England is a cause for debate at the moment. And the debate has gone right to the top.

In Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, David Cameron was asked by Labour MP Clive Efford, the Shadow Minister for Sport, if he would act to give fans a place in club boardrooms so their voices are heard on important issues like ticket prices.

Cameron responded: “I will look very carefully at the suggestion the honourable gentleman makes.

"I think there is a problem here where some teams and some clubs put up prices very rapidly every year, even though so much of the money for football actually comes through the sponsorship and the equipment and other sources.”

 

[Manchester33]

Now this is scary!! Getting politicians involved in anything of this nature concerns me! I've lived too long to expect fairness from any of them.

"Prime Minister to look at football ticket prices
Football

Ticket prices in England is a cause for debate at the moment. And the debate has gone right to the top.

In Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, David Cameron was asked by Labour MP Clive Efford, the Shadow Minister for Sport, if he would act to give fans a place in club boardrooms so their voices are heard on important issues like ticket prices.

Cameron responded: “I will look very carefully at the suggestion the honourable gentleman makes.

"I think there is a problem here where some teams and some clubs put up prices very rapidly every year, even though so much of the money for football actually comes through the sponsorship and the equipment and other sources.”

The only political party that have a 'football fan friendly' policy is the lib dems. No one else cares. It's good that it's been highlighted, but if anything positive comes from it I'll eat my hat!

 

[Ruhr]

What (for you) would be an effective way of protesting against the pricing of tickets for Football matches?

Dortmund fans recently did this



Those with no video access - The B.Dortmund fans threw tennis balls onto the pitch.

Is this effective enough?

If something is terribly going the wrong direction, people in germany use to say ironically: "This is really great tennis "
(or also "this is really great cinema")
that´s why they´ve thrown tennis balls

fits also to the term " tennis audience" for very quiet fans (while the real and singing ones are outpriced, though usually this is more known as "opera audience"

 

[weeman19_89]

Unfortunately we are watching football in the premier league if everyone didn't go then tickets would be snapped up by tourists.

We could go on the 77th minute but then again our stadium looks a joke with loads leaving on 80 odd minutes so what's 5/10 minutes, the owners/players would just think it's just like our norm.

If we boycotted an FA Cup game well they are already well priced.

I think best thing would be at the beginning, no buying beer, pies etc, stay out and protest up until kick off, everyone then goes to their gate and gets into the concourse and stays there and then on 15minutes everyone piles in.

I don't like disrupting play because we still want to win the game but if they don't listen then it would be Dortmund's approach but on a bigger scale throwing inflatables, tennis balls, footballs onto the pitch, banners in the stands, make a proper noise about it.

Do enough then they would listen, we don't want bad press on City but look at Liverpool and they've won so to speak.

 

[bluetom]

Looks like Liverpool fans just got a 2 year ticket price freeze after the protest at the weekend.

Direct action gets the goods.