if fans get priced out of attending matches

[WNRH]

Our average price per seat achieved is a little more than £20. The rags is a little over £60.

How do you come to that?

 

[Hamann Pineapple]

Our average price per seat achieved is a little more than £20. The rags is a little over £60.

How do you come to that?

.. as much as I like him, he's no Vorderman.

 

[Skashion]

PB is right. You can do the maths yourself. Look at the accounts and find ticketing revenue, find our average attendance and, viola, you have the numbers. City's major issue is lack of corporate revenue. Becoming like the rags is in some part inevitable and some part not. Pricing pre-takeover fans out is not a necessity. Season ticket holders make up a tiny fraction of revenue in today's football. As far as I'm concerned, whilst it's unfortunate that Blue Members get done for league games (cup games are still readily available at affordable prices so don't make out like you can't get to games anymore), we're entitled to charge what all the London clubs charge us. Why should London have it all their own way? We pay through the nose going down there even though our average wage is far lower but they get it up much cheaper here by way of reciprocation when their wages are much higher? Nah, make 'em pay a proper price.

 

[johnbmcr]

It's not just us, in 20 years attending a game will be free, everything will be through a device. They will allow fans in for free for atmosphere and to gee the players on.

. . . and the evil machines will rise up, scorching the sky black in revolution against their human creators in the battle for control of the surface of the earth.


Meanwhile, back in reality-ville..........

don't knock the idea I actually think he's on to something sport will not go the way of music where the money is in attendance at gigs

I think it will be more like printers:
attending games dirt cheap to deliver the points made by De Niro for buzz and atmosphere

and the consumables shirts personal appearances ie having vinny cook your dinner or Joe hart clean your jet car prohibitive £££££

(ps I know some one will post back 'on something' so saved you the bother )<br /><br />-- Fri Jul 27, 2012 2:08 pm --<br /><br />

Our average price per seat achieved is a little more than £20. The rags is a little over £60.

How do you come to that?

.. as much as I like him, he's no Vorderman.

think its closer to £30 maybe £20 if value gold or yoofs

 

[ped]

its the price of life today ,bloody expensive.good saturday night out inc taxi £50,movie and meal out £50,tickets for a top band £50,dont get me started on price of fuel,good job i dont smoke anymore.city ticket prices are comparable,rip of britain.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Our average price per seat achieved is a little more than £20. The rags is a little over £60.

How do you come to that?

Just a quick calculation based on 2011 matchday revenue/capacity/25 games. In fact ours is wrong as we only achieved just under £20m matchday revenue in 2011 not the £25m I thought we'd got. so it's £17 per seat for us. I also underestimated their capacity so they should be about £58 per seat.

I know that assumes we sold every seat for every game but I just couldn't be arsed looking up attendances. Whatever, they get an average 3.5 times per seat more than we get. A lot of that is down to hospitality as their 8,000 seats bring in 50% or more of their matchday income.

 

[Deleted member 14625]

PB is right. You can do the maths yourself. Look at the accounts and find ticketing revenue, find our average attendance and, viola, you have the numbers. City's major issue is lack of corporate revenue. Becoming like the rags is in some part inevitable and some part not. Pricing pre-takeover fans out is not a necessity. Season ticket holders make up a tiny fraction of revenue in today's football. As far as I'm concerned, whilst it's unfortunate that Blue Members get done for league games (cup games are still readily available at affordable prices so don't make out like you can't get to games anymore), we're entitled to charge what all the London clubs charge us. Why should London have it all their own way? We pay through the nose going down there even though our average wage is far lower but they get it up much cheaper here by way of reciprocation when their wages are much higher? Nah, make 'em pay a proper price.

Indeed. Let's say Vincent's new contract is 6 years at £200,000 per week (making the contract worth about £62.4m); well, even if all SeasonCards were £1500 each we still wouldn't cover that contract. And that is one player out of 25 plus all the staff to boot.

I don't think of it as what we're charging Southern muppets, i think of it as what we're charging what the majority of Mancunians can afford.

 

[Mrs Merton]

will the club as we know it lose its identity? Or will it just adopt a new one?

I think it will adopt the identity of a Slovakian tobacconist whose business in Bratislava is struggling, who suffers heavily from hay fever and gout and who hangs around outside the municipal library hoping to catch a glimpse of the woman who once let him off his late fines when he forgot to return, 'The Definitive Guide To Modern Flower Arranging,' on time.

I suspect this is an astonishingly accurate prediction - but I think your book identification is just pure guesswork !

 

[Anonymous]

Season ticket prices are still far from pricing at least 36,000 diehard fans out of going IMO. Our ST prices are the best value in the league and still affordable for people like myself (not high income). The remaining 8,000 or so could definitely lead to more tarquins and tourists in the nosebleeds though if the Southampton prices become the norm.

Things could well change on the season ticket pricing front too next season ..... and then it won't just be blue members and their like who are complaining.

Last season we had an average crowd of over 47,000 people ....... with only 36,000 season tickets available(that sold like wildfire), it's no wonder some fans are losing out , when they have no chance of getting one ...... they then effectively are forced to buy blue membership . but if they can't afford the new ticket prices , and a lot of them can't ,what good is it?

 

[1_barry_conlon]

Another thread about ticket prices,who'd have thought it?


I take it the people whingeing about this also vigorously do the same with supermarkets,petrol prices,car insurance etc. The majority of prices on anything we consume/buy goes up,its a fact of life and if you can name a half decent club who has put their prices down then i'm all ears? Or are City the only ogres doing this?