Liverpool at Home... FROM £57

[Paulmcfc2703]

It amazes me that some people can defend this increase of £10 from last season.

If you think that we have around 5000 tickets on sale each game. If the increase of £10 is the same for every game then it makes the club less than £1 million for the season.

And we are looking to break the £400 Million mark soon. Not much in the grand scheme of things.

It seems the only clubs that aren't out to milk the fans are the Germans.

 

[St Helens Blue (Exiled)]

Said it earlier and will say it again. Absolutely disgusting pricing from the club.
Thank god I have 2 season tickets,one adult and one junior both gold South level 2.
I am 95% considering dropping the CL games cup scheme this year and will just retain the domestic cup schemes on my season cards as I dread to think what the pricing will be for the 3 home CL group games.
As a working class lad from Salford who has been through thick and thin with this club I am gutted that the club feels the need to price these games at such a high level.
I used to be of the opinion of well stop smoking stop drinking stop this stop that to pay for tickets but realise that life simply isn't that simple.
I am lucky. I have a fantastic income in my family so could afford these prices if I didn't have my season cards but I simply WOULD NOT pay them.
City need to realise they are going to lose a lot of the long standing support if this carries on. Let the tourists take over as it is clear this is what the club wants.
A sad sad day in my opinion.It seems ticket prices are going to be such a divisive issue.
I will be very interested to see how much the Stoke tickets are available for.

 

[malg]

I gave my season ticket up this year as I just miss too many games due to other commitments. However, my Level 3 ticket had gone up to £700, and I just think that's too much. I was considering getting a card so I could get to the odd match, but I personally believe the club are ripping the piss with £35 just for the opportunity to buy a ticket, so I voted the only way that was open to me.

I've said it before, and I believe it. The club are looking to maximise the spend of each matchday going Blue, and the more you can pay for a ticket leads them to believe you have more cash to put through the tills once you're there. I'd be interested to see the figures of the average spend of Blues going to home games now as opposed to pre-takeover.

Unfortunately the Rags are the model, income wise, that every football club aspires to. With that in mind, if you can afford the ever increasing prices then fine, if you can't then it's either the pub, streaming, or the ticket thread for you.

 

[jimharri]

IMO they are pricing out the core supporter that sustained us in the hard times in favour ofnthe new supporter/tourist that spends innthe club shop but doesnt have the same affinity with and loyalty to the club.

I disagree

The core support it the majority of the 36,000+ ST holders..most of which have been holders for years

I think you can add a majority of blue/ citizen members to that as well I was a season ticket holder from 1976, now I live away and a season ticket doesn't suit me. I can only get to 6 games a year.
However if I can get one for £299 in the expanded stadium I could well get one. Trouble is I will still only be able to make around 6 games / season so it could well be empty except for a few games when I can lend it to friends.

Hear hear. I was a ST holder from '76 (when I could first afford to buy one at 13 years old) to '82 when I moved over here. And, like you, a season card (even the cheap one)is not a realistic option for me due to the limited number of games I could get over to and the lack of fellow blues around here who I could pass the ticket on to (the practicalities of getting a ticket to and from a city fan living in the UK makes that option unrealistic also). I hope people on here don't assume that all ''blue/Cityzen'' card holders are tourists. We're not. ''Circumstances dictate actions''.

 

[chesterguy]

Said it earlier and will say it again. Absolutely disgusting pricing from the club.
Thank god I have 2 season tickets,one adult and one junior both gold South level 2.
I am 95% considering dropping the CL games cup scheme this year and will just retain the domestic cup schemes on my season cards as I dread to think what the pricing will be for the 3 home CL group games.
As a working class lad from Salford who has been through thick and thin with this club I am gutted that the club feels the need to price these games at such a high level.
I used to be of the opinion of well stop smoking stop drinking stop this stop that to pay for tickets but realise that life simply isn't that simple.
I am lucky. I have a fantastic income in my family so could afford these prices if I didn't have my season cards but I simply WOULD NOT pay them.
City need to realise they are going to lose a lot of the long standing support if this carries on. Let the tourists take over as it is clear this is what the club wants.
A sad sad day in my opinion.It seems ticket prices are going to be such a divisive issue.
I will be very interested to see how much the Stoke tickets are available for.

But as has been pointed out they wont because the vast majority of long standing supporters are season ticket holders many of whom have been season ticket holders for many years. Obviously if there are huge price hikes in season ticket prices than you may have a point

I am sure the club would prefer to go to all tickets going to season ticket holders as the admin involved in having open sale tickets must be a pain but if you bulk buy any product you will get it much cheaper than paying singles its just the way it is

 

[St Helens Blue (Exiled)]

Said it earlier and will say it again. Absolutely disgusting pricing from the club.
Thank god I have 2 season tickets,one adult and one junior both gold South level 2.
I am 95% considering dropping the CL games cup scheme this year and will just retain the domestic cup schemes on my season cards as I dread to think what the pricing will be for the 3 home CL group games.
As a working class lad from Salford who has been through thick and thin with this club I am gutted that the club feels the need to price these games at such a high level.
I used to be of the opinion of well stop smoking stop drinking stop this stop that to pay for tickets but realise that life simply isn't that simple.
I am lucky. I have a fantastic income in my family so could afford these prices if I didn't have my season cards but I simply WOULD NOT pay them.
City need to realise they are going to lose a lot of the long standing support if this carries on. Let the tourists take over as it is clear this is what the club wants.
A sad sad day in my opinion.It seems ticket prices are going to be such a divisive issue.
I will be very interested to see how much the Stoke tickets are available for.

But as has been pointed out they wont because the vast majority of long standing supporters are season ticket holders many of whom have been season ticket holders for many years. Obviously if there are huge price hikes in season ticket prices than you may have a point

I am sure the club would prefer to go to all tickets going to season ticket holders as the admin involved in having open sale tickets must be a pain but if you bulk buy any product you will get it much cheaper than paying singles its just the way it is

Morning pal. Yeah the majority are however they are going up £50 per season minimum over the past few years so how long before us long standers fuck it off?
I'm not believing this is to do with FFP Ireally don't,I just do not see how £57 can be justified for anyone. As many posters have said they were long standing season ticket holders and have had to give up for various reasons so why should they be expected to pay £57 notes.
I now it is all about choice but the club aren't really giving the normal working class bloke much choice with those prices

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Said it earlier and will say it again. Absolutely disgusting pricing from the club.
Thank god I have 2 season tickets,one adult and one junior both gold South level 2.
I am 95% considering dropping the CL games cup scheme this year and will just retain the domestic cup schemes on my season cards as I dread to think what the pricing will be for the 3 home CL group games.
As a working class lad from Salford who has been through thick and thin with this club I am gutted that the club feels the need to price these games at such a high level.
I used to be of the opinion of well stop smoking stop drinking stop this stop that to pay for tickets but realise that life simply isn't that simple.
I am lucky. I have a fantastic income in my family so could afford these prices if I didn't have my season cards but I simply WOULD NOT pay them.
City need to realise they are going to lose a lot of the long standing support if this carries on. Let the tourists take over as it is clear this is what the club wants.
A sad sad day in my opinion.It seems ticket prices are going to be such a divisive issue.
I will be very interested to see how much the Stoke tickets are available for.

But as has been pointed out they wont because the vast majority of long standing supporters are season ticket holders many of whom have been season ticket holders for many years. Obviously if there are huge price hikes in season ticket prices than you may have a point

I am sure the club would prefer to go to all tickets going to season ticket holders as the admin involved in having open sale tickets must be a pain but if you bulk buy any product you will get it much cheaper than paying singles its just the way it is

Morning pal. Yeah the majority are however they are going up £50 per season minimum over the past few years so how long before us long standers fuck it off?
I'm not believing this is to do with FFP Ireally don't,I just do not see how £57 can be justified for anyone. As many posters have said they were long standing season ticket holders and have had to give up for various reasons so why should they be expected to pay £57 notes.
I now it is all about choice but the club aren't really giving the normal working class bloke much choice with those prices

I agree, ST prices are rising steadily when other clubs are freezing their prices.

I have dropped Platinum as a result, am 80% likely to drop CL (as most of the ST holders around me already have) and am not going to the Community Shield.

I also have the (mis)fortune of sitting in level 2 padded seats and being told I either fork out £1250 going forward or relocate so that's what has to happen. I have had to do this once as started life in family stand with the lad so not a major problem for me but some of the people I sit near have had those seats for 10 years and feel forced out.

Price for both when in FS was under £500 for both. This year (and he isn't 21 yet) is £1300 is for both. Next year it would be £2500 for both.

The club do some good things like value gold and the prices for the new stand seem reasonable but charging these prices for the 5-7000 seats we have on sale match by match is surely to attract the day tripper spender rather than the fan who has been with us all his life but can't make many games any more.

All this is well and good for the club if the success continues. If it doesn't the support would fall off a cliff because these lapsed fans would never come back and the trippers would move on to the next successful club. It's a risky strategy.

It's also about time we started to produce some players who can step into the first team from the academy. This would help much more with FFP than raising ticket prices. Since the takeover we haven't seen one player come through and become a regular starter. In 6 years this is poor.

 

[CheethamHillBlue]

I understand that some find it difficult to pay these prices but season tickets are in comparison cheap and you can spread the cost

What seems to annoy some is that those that just want to come for the odd high profile game resent paying high prices. My season ticket on level 1 is £480 which is about £25 per game

People say that in 10 years time all our tickets will be sold to "tourists" "prawn sandwich brigade" etc is crap what you mean to say is that the small proportion of tickets (bear in mind the vast majority of tickets are sold to season ticket holders) that do come available on open sale you aren't prepared to pay for fine that is your choice

The sheikh cannot just make all the tickets £20 each and absorb the cost a) because he doesnt have to b) FFP c) City is a business and this is about market value not about appeasing some fans who just want to come to the odd game and get a cheap ticket

This was my point yesterday. It's only very expensive if you're going as a one off or cherry picking the top matches. Btw, some say the revenue from the gate money is next to nothing. I don't know what the gate money is over a season 47,000 x £30 (taking into account £57 tickets for A matches, £40 odd for the rest and £299 S/T's) that's over £1.25m per match. Multiply that by 19 and it becomes nearly £24m. Add on to that domestic cup matches plus at least 3, maybe 4 or more high profile C/L matches and the gate money suddenly becomes a possible £40m.
Anyone who thinks that doesn't impact on FFP needs a check up from the neck up.

 

[mrtwiceaseason]

Said it earlier and will say it again. Absolutely disgusting pricing from the club.
Thank god I have 2 season tickets,one adult and one junior both gold South level 2.
I am 95% considering dropping the CL games cup scheme this year and will just retain the domestic cup schemes on my season cards as I dread to think what the pricing will be for the 3 home CL group games.
As a working class lad from Salford who has been through thick and thin with this club I am gutted that the club feels the need to price these games at such a high level.
I used to be of the opinion of well stop smoking stop drinking stop this stop that to pay for tickets but realise that life simply isn't that simple.
I am lucky. I have a fantastic income in my family so could afford these prices if I didn't have my season cards but I simply WOULD NOT pay them.
City need to realise they are going to lose a lot of the long standing support if this carries on. Let the tourists take over as it is clear this is what the club wants.
A sad sad day in my opinion.It seems ticket prices are going to be such a divisive issue.
I will be very interested to see how much the Stoke tickets are available for.

But as has been pointed out they wont because the vast majority of long standing supporters are season ticket holders many of whom have been season ticket holders for many years. Obviously if there are huge price hikes in season ticket prices than you may have a point

I am sure the club would prefer to go to all tickets going to season ticket holders as the admin involved in having open sale tickets must be a pain but if you bulk buy any product you will get it much cheaper than paying singles its just the way it is

Disagree mate I'm sure the club wants as many match day purchasers as possible that's where they make their money it must be a fine act to know how many safe sold seats "season tickets" to have and how many match tickets and what cash they can fleece out of fans.utd reduced there s/t down from 64,000 to 55,000 to maximize profit .city have got to realise in the next 3 years they are looking at finding another 12,000 punters

 

[mrtwiceaseason]

I understand that some find it difficult to pay these prices but season tickets are in comparison cheap and you can spread the cost

What seems to annoy some is that those that just want to come for the odd high profile game resent paying high prices. My season ticket on level 1 is £480 which is about £25 per game

People say that in 10 years time all our tickets will be sold to "tourists" "prawn sandwich brigade" etc is crap what you mean to say is that the small proportion of tickets (bear in mind the vast majority of tickets are sold to season ticket holders) that do come available on open sale you aren't prepared to pay for fine that is your choice

The sheikh cannot just make all the tickets £20 each and absorb the cost a) because he doesnt have to b) FFP c) City is a business and this is about market value not about appeasing some fans who just want to come to the odd game and get a cheap ticket

This was my point yesterday. It's only very expensive if you're going as a one off or cherry picking the top matches. Btw, some say the revenue from the gate money is next to nothing. I don't know what the gate money is over a season 47,000 x £30 (taking into account £57 tickets for A matches, £40 odd for the rest and £299 S/T's) that's over £1.25m per match. Multiply that by 19 and it becomes nearly £24m. Add on to that domestic cup matches plus at least 3, maybe 4 or more high profile C/L matches and the gate money suddenly becomes a possible £40m.
Anyone who thinks that doesn't impact on FFP needs a check up from the neck up.

Missing the point its the extra £10 on the 4000 match day tickets that's wrong absolutely wrong fuck all in football terms have 1 less eds lad would have the same effect