Priced out? | Club announce that matchday tickets being reduced by up to 43% (p93)

smevchenko said:
I won't pay the cost for a membership, might not be much to some, but not paying £70 just to be eligible to attend games for me and my daughter. I have had a seasoncard for about 12 years previously, but would happily pay for single games such as Dortmund, or cup games that don't sell out, but obviously can't do that if I'm not prepared to pay the membership. But how many seasoncard holders are buying an additional 4 tickets when people like me would buy tickets for such games?
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Paying for the privilege of getting access to a ticket is just wrong, on every level it's wrong.
 
Anybody who has held a season ticket for a few years and has decent cup purchase history shouldn't have to buy a membership every year just because their ST has lapsed.
 
With the prices this year it could be cheaper with a membership if you want to attend the 3pm Sat games for example.

It is £20 for the child one not £35, so it seems like there was no real desire to go anyway.
 
jrb said:
Off topic for 1 post.

It's not only City just struggling to sell tickets.

The top tier of the Villa main stand.

Villa yesterday.

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But you won't hear any jibes about Villa not selling out a 43,000 capacity.
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The atmosphere was pretty feeble from their fans as well. I was in the sub-standard upper tier. A shithole similar to the old away section at Goodison. A terrible away trip all round.
 
Corky said:
With the prices this year it could be cheaper with a membership if you want to attend the 3pm Sat games for example.

It is £20 for the child one not £35, so it seems like there was no real desire to go anyway.
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I think the last paragraph has hit the nail on the head. Fans have got out of the habit of going.
 
jrb said:
Off topic for 1 post.

It's not only City just struggling to sell tickets.

The top tier of the Villa main stand.

Villa yesterday.

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But you won't hear any jibes about Villa not selling out a 43,000 capacity.
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That’s got ‘ticket tout partners’ written all over it.

Same thing happens at City, especially for CL games; chunks of tickets in concentrated areas that haven’t been sold yet there appears to be little to no ST holders there (and there’s no way all the ST holders in a concentrated area like that all decided at random that they weren’t going to turn up for the same game).

This is part of a league-wide problem that is the beginning of the end of the PL as the top league in the world. It might take years to eventuate, but this is the start of it, these are the first signs.

Villa didn’t do quite as well last season as they had the previous one, and they had a poor start to this season, plus City are coming to town but we aren’t the champions of anything this season… therefore the tourists didn’t fancy it in the numbers they will have done this time last year, and the ticket tout sites couldn’t shift the tickets.

Clubs are overestimating the number of tourists tickets they can sell but, even if they relist them to proper fans, they have fucked loyal local fans off from attending by upping prices for years.

Prices of season tickets have gone up over £300 at Villa in just 4 years:
www.avfc.co.uk

Aston Villa is excited to announce season tickets for the 2021/22 Premier League campaign are open for renewal NOW!

Aston Villa is excited to announce season tickets for the 2021/22 Premier League campaign are open for renewal NOW!
www.avfc.co.uk www.avfc.co.uk
www.avfc.co.uk

Season Tickets 2025/26: Renewals now open

Renewal window closes at 5pm on Friday, July 4
www.avfc.co.uk www.avfc.co.uk

…plus it was £90 for CL game tickets there last season.

So they’re left with empty seats.

They - like City - won’t care at the moment because they’ll have contracts with ticket tout sites so have made their money no matter what. But eventually the ticket tout sites will not renew contracts with PL clubs because they can’t shift the tickets so they’re the ones losing out.

Then what will clubs do?
 
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Bri1975 said:
There are a few other little perks chucked in :View attachment 173364
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Giving you stuff you don't want isn't a deal it's just selling you stuff you never wanted.

I want a ticket to the mens matches not a discount to the womens football or 5% off a £90 hoodie.
 
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