Priced out?

[dadnlad]

£71.00 ticket
£10.00 parking/travel
£10.00 2 pints.
Get home after 11pm
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£91.00

IPTV (Sky) £0.00
4 pint cans £8.00
Takeaway £12.00
bed for 10.30pm
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£20.00


Saved £71.00 to spend on a prostitute weekend ;-)

Don't leave page open on laptop when going to work his son opened it mum what's this ......house pension the lot gone
One expensive pleasure

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

That’s the cheapest price. It’s that expensive on the front rows of Level 1 and the back rows of Level 3.

It goes up to £88 in other areas.

And kids’ tickets are very expensive n’all.

And it’s VERY likely to be cancelled so even booking a cheap train isn’t an option.

 

[asahartford1]

My Uncle is one. Been going since the 60s, his reward for 60 years of loyalty to them, a £340 price increase on his season ticket there.

He should have stuck with my Dad and Grandad who were Blues!

Funny story - my Grandad used to take my Dad+Uncle to Maine Road one week and Old Trafford the next (like many used to do from when United shared Maine Road with us after WW2, and probably used to happen up until probably the early 70s), when City beat Utd 1-4 at OT and Doyle scored this goal at the Stretford End, my Grandad was jumping up and down in celebration in the Stretford End but it was my Uncle, the Red, who got punched off a fellow Rag hahaha

Good story.
I went in the 70s to old Trafford regularly.
My mates dad( rags) geve me a lift. It was pennies to get in.
The difference was when I went to Maine Rd I felt nervous and happy at the same time. At OldTrafford I felt sick in the stomach.
There were few alternatives back in the day, I played Sat morning and watched Sat afternoon.
I was at that Match and we escaped unhurt, my first taste, at 11.

 

[Craig]

115 pages to be told being a (tightarse) armchair supporter is better than going to a game, FFS

You crack on and keep bending over for them then mate.

 

[CTID Somerset]

Quickest way to get to grip with Ticket price increases, if the Club is really bothered???

Is to get to grip with Player wages ???

Premier League wages as a whole twice the amount of any other European League!!
Spain or Germany

Everything needs to increase to keep feeding the ever increasing wages!!!

But I think this horse has bolted and will not be returning to the Stables anytime soon!!!

Premier League proper Salary cap, anyone???

Or just leave everything to the market!!??

 

[Edghill OG]

Quickest way to get to grip with Ticket price increases, if the Club is really bothered???

Is to get to grip with Player wages ???

Premier League wages as a whole twice the amount of any other European League!!
Spain or Germany

Everything needs to increase to keep feeding the ever increasing wages!!!

But I think this horse has bolted and will not be returning to the Stables anytime soon!!!

Premier League proper Salary cap, anyone???

Or just leave everything to the market!!??

This is 100 percent the problem alongside the transfer and agent fees.

It's hard not to be disgruntled when the club is happy to piss off tens of thousands of match-going fans for the sake of a few hundred quid. Then have the players on hundreds of thousands of pounds a week and not bat an eyelid. Negotiate harder with them!!! Have Erling on 495k a week instead of 500k. That's 260+ people's season ticket taken care of outright. Erling won't miss it, but it could be 5-10 percent of somebody's annual income... potentially more after tax and NI contributions. I winced when that new contract was signed. Obviously delighted he was prepared to commit his future to us, but at what cost to the people going to watch him?!!

So out of touch.

Tickets and players salaries should be capped. Getting royally out of hand now.

 

[Citi-leaks]

This is 100 percent the problem alongside the transfer and agent fees.

It's hard not to be disgruntled when the club is happy to piss off tens of thousands of match-going fans for the sake of a few hundred quid. Then have the players on hundreds of thousands of pounds a week and not bat an eyelid. Negotiate harder with them!!! Have Erling on 495k a week instead of 500k. That's 260+ people's season ticket taken care of outright. Erling won't miss it, but it could be 5-10 percent of somebody's annual income... potentially more after tax and NI contributions. I winced when that new contract was signed. Obviously delighted he was prepared to commit his future to us, but at what cost to the people going to watch him?!!

So out of touch.

Tickets and players salaries should be capped. Getting royally out of hand now.

The only thing that concerns me about a salary cap would be the queue of players outside Real Madrid/Barcelona. Because they would get more exposure and would be able to get more money from sponsors and not have to live in England in the pissing rain. And Saudi would probably ignore the cap and everyone would go there.

 

[Jazzyblue]

The pressure is mounting on Khaldoon, Soriano, and the other Directors.

Discontent and unhappiness with match day ticket prices, etc, has spread throughout the (Legacy) fan base.

Fan groups have come together to protest on behalf of the fans and to challenge the Directors about season ticket availability, match day ticket prices, away fans in the home ends, and the way the City fans are being treated inside the ground by the stewards

The media, locally and nationally have picked up on the fans discontent and are now reporting it openly.

The question is, will Khaldoon, Soriano, and the other directors buckle under the growing pressure from the fans(and the media), or will they brush the pressure off and carry on as normal, hoping to ride out the continued discontent and unhappiness of the fans?

Strongly suspect they will brush the pressure off and carry on as normal. That will make it more difficult to fill the new stand, but I also suspect they will double down on current tactics - fencing off tickets at high prices to agencies - before they ever see sense. The problem is, the more they fill the ground with half and halfs and insta-fanboys and girls, the more older true Blues will jack it in, because they've been on the journey all the way from the third division to Istanbul and seen it all, and now matchdays have become more expensive, less fun, less familiar and more complicated for them.

I would never wish ill on the club, I've tried very hard to rationalise their decision making, but the sentiment is very clear in the matchgoing fanbase. The club is being complacent about the mood, and complacency in management is mismanagement, and mismanagement creates problems.

Our problem will be empty seats. Remember the rush for tickets when they put them all on sale at the beginning of the season? I reckon I'll be able to pick up extra tickets near me for every match left, apart from the last home game, on the day itself now, because ST holders are relisting and the scarcity has been manufactured by the way they hold off tickets and trickle them out in an effort to maximise short-term profits. The only way we can avoid embarrassment when 8k extra seats are thrown into the mix is if they enable existing season ticket holders to get new STs for friends and family nearby - otherwise we're heading towards white elephant territory.

 

[Edghill OG]

The only thing that concerns me about a salary cap would be the queue of players outside Real Madrid/Barcelona. Because they would get more exposure and would be able to get more money from sponsors and not have to live in England in the pissing rain. And Saudi would probably ignore the cap and everyone would go there.

Players may go elsewhere, we may be less competitive. Depends on what you value. I'd rather have a team that I can go and watch. I don't care if they're competing for the title or not. That's a bonus. Once I'm priced out I'll probably go somewhere else and watch a lower standard of football.

It's great having some of the best players in the world playing in the Premier League and representing our club. At the same time sides relying more on their academies and home grown players doesn't sound too bad to me. It would certainly give those in the stands players they could relate to more.

 

[A57 the snake]

Strongly suspect they will brush the pressure off and carry on as normal. That will make it more difficult to fill the new stand, but I also suspect they will double down on current tactics - fencing off tickets at high prices to agencies - before they ever see sense. The problem is, the more they fill the ground with half and halfs and insta-fanboys and girls, the more older true Blues will jack it in, because they've been on the journey all the way from the third division to Istanbul and seen it all, and now matchdays have become more expensive, less fun, less familiar and more complicated for them.

I would never wish ill on the club, I've tried very hard to rationalise their decision making, but the sentiment is very clear in the matchgoing fanbase. The club is being complacent about the mood, and complacency in management is mismanagement, and mismanagement creates problems.

Our problem will be empty seats. Remember the rush for tickets when they put them all on sale at the beginning of the season? I reckon I'll be able to pick up extra tickets near me for every match left, apart from the last home game, on the day itself now, because ST holders are relisting and the scarcity has been manufactured by the way they hold off tickets and trickle them out in an effort to maximise short-term profits. The only way we can avoid embarrassment when 8k extra seats are thrown into the mix is if they enable existing season ticket holders to get new STs for friends and family nearby - otherwise we're heading towards white elephant territory.

Great post … brilliant!!