PSG ticket prices - Protest options v West Brom.

[flb]

We are becoming a plastic piss pot club before our very eyes and there are frightening numbers only pleased by hitching up there skirts for a glimpse of silverware.

It's how you win the silverware that counts.

 

[BlueDeadHead]

I understand your logic but the obvious retort is that a final is out of our control as we don't set the prices and don't have to worry about filling the stadium. We'd only have to sell 20,000 tickets in someone else's stadium. It's a big, prestigious global occasion and demand will be high. For the semi or quarters, it's in our stadium and we have 50,000 tickets to sell. We have to balance demand and price against the benefits of a full stadium, great atmosphere and the impact that will have on the team.

But to give you a straight answer, if I think that £70/80 is OK for a final, then I'd expect £50/60 for a semi-final and maybe £35/40 for a quarter final. I've already said that I thought the Kiev price structure was more appropriate for this game and the one for this game would have been more appropriate for the semi-final. To be honest, whatever the competition, it doesn't really get interesting until the semi's which is why I think the club has misjudged this.

Fair enough. Could be that where I am from that price is normal for just your run of the mill weekend game. Cheers.

 

[Paul_Powers_Tash]

Imagine Churchill in 1940

"We won't fight on the beaches, no way will we fight on the landing grounds, we definitely won't fight in the fields and in the streets, And you'd better not fight in the hills;. We're going to leave it to the Yanks as we don't want to upset anyone or get a bad write up in the Daily Mail".

My point is that the press would have a field day if we start to demonstrate against the club. Liverpool can do it and it's great. The press give it the best possible spin and they are fighting the good fight. Do you really think the message in the Daily Mirror et al would be the same if we did it?

It would be mana from heaven for the 'agenda'. Let's be smart. The secret is timing, let's not dash blindly into another PR disaster that could be easily avoided.

I think, and it's only my opinion, that we would have greater influence if everyone who feels as you do wrote to the club individually expressing their view. PoB may have petitioned the club in the past but a few mailbags full of letters all expressing the same issue may drive the point home with greater significance.

 

[blueish swede]

But you are undercutting your last post. If you can charge more for a CL final why can't you charge more for a quarterfinal. As you said...same hard seat, same pie etc...

It's also the case that if you buy a ticket for the final you get to see the whole final. For a quarter final you're only purchasing the right to see half the tie at that price.
£60 for both legs would be better, if clubs could co-operate. That would mean perhaps £35-40 for a single game in a tie.

 

[Blue Mooner]

My point is that the press would have a field day if we start to demonstrate against the club. Liverpool can do it and it's great. The press give it the best possible spin and they are fighting the good fight. Do you really think the message in the Daily Mirror et al would be the same if we did it?

It would be mana from heaven for the 'agenda'. Let's be smart. The secret is timing, let's not dash blindly into another PR disaster that could be easily avoided.

I think, and it's only my opinion, that we would have greater influence if everyone who feels as you do wrote to the club individually expressing their view. PoB may have petitioned the club in the past but a few mailbags full of letters all expressing the same issue may drive the point home with greater significance.

You're right of course, but you're calling on deaf ears, these fans simply don't get it. Rather than working with the club and believing that we all have a common goal - look at Soriano's recent speech - these fans would rather create a divide between the club and fans, and between fans and fans. They simply revel in a crisis, it's what they've grown up with, it's probably what attracted many of them to support City in the first place.

They seem to think they are a acting on behalf of the rest of us but I can assure you they don't represent me or doubtless thousands of other fans. The club have a fan engagement platform called city voice where they survey the opinions of thousands of blues across all aspects of the club including ticket prices. I can only assume that survey indicates broad satisfaction with our ticket pricing policies as they are broadly in line if not less than most of our competitors. These fans seem to want the club to compete with one hand tied behind their back.

They're entitled to their view Re the club's ticket pricing policy, but creating division and shining a negative light on the club and creating further false perceptions on our club is the wrong way to go about it.

Write to the club, get fans groups to engage, complete the city voice surveys, join up unilaterally across fans of other clubs who feel the same is the right way to go about this - demonstrating in isolation against the best ownership in world football and creating division is totally the wrong approach.

 

[quiet_riot]

My point is that the press would have a field day if we start to demonstrate against the club. Liverpool can do it and it's great. The press give it the best possible spin and they are fighting the good fight. Do you really think the message in the Daily Mirror et al would be the same if we did it?

It would be mana from heaven for the 'agenda'. Let's be smart. The secret is timing, let's not dash blindly into another PR disaster that could be easily avoided.

I think, and it's only my opinion, that we would have greater influence if everyone who feels as you do wrote to the club individually expressing their view. PoB may have petitioned the club in the past but a few mailbags full of letters all expressing the same issue may drive the point home with greater significance.

Who gives a fuck what the press think, write or say?

 

[Newman Noggs]

No. I don't believe we'd be having this discussion if we were playng well. The most effective protest for those who feel the price is too high is not to go to the game so that the club is forced to adhere to market forces in the future. Open dissent and more division is exactly what we do not need right now.

 

[jrb]

Paul. You obviously haven't been following the different threads. The press have been very supportive of our unhappiness and a possible protest. Apart from us, the vast majority of other football fans are also pist off with continual ticket price rises.

No offence, but if the majority were like you, and we didn't have groups of football fans up and the country campaigning and protesting about the price of tickets with all the new TV money, etc, flowing into the clubs coffers, we wouldn't now have £30 away tickets for 3 season's, and clubs up and down the country wouldn't be either freezing or reducing ticket prices, with Everton being the latest.

• ALL Adult Season Ticket prices reduced by more than 5%.
• Junior price age category extended by two years from 16 to 18.
• Junior Season Tickets reduced by £50 from £199 to £149 in all stands other than the Family Enclosure. Family Enclosure frozen at £149.
• Young Adult Season Ticket extended up to the age of 22 and priced at £299 in all stands.
• All Senior (65 and over) Season Tickets reduced to £299 in all stands.
• Kids’ (up to 11) Season Tickets frozen at £95.
• Adult prices start at just over £22 per game.
• Concession prices:
  - Up to 11: £5 per game
  - 11 to 18: less than £8 per game
  - Young adults 18-22: less than £16 per game
• One in four of our current Season Ticket holders is under the age of 22.
• Season Tickets on sale from Monday 21 March at 8am.

http://www.evertonfc.com/news/2016/03/04/season-ticket-prices-reduced

If Everton can do that, why can't the so called richest club in the World do something similar?

Is the penny dropping yet Paul, or are you going to continue your belligerent one Man stand against any form of action or protest regarding season ticket and matchday ticket prices at City?

 

[Paul_Powers_Tash]

Who gives a fuck what the press think, write or say?

We don't live in a bubble. What the press say has a huge impact on which team young fans support. Of course they don't hear this information first hand by reading the article itself but the sum of the articles build a picture of what people perceive to be true i.e City can't fill their ground, they are only a small club with no history. We know that this isn't true but it seems to be the current narrative. Demonstrating against the club only reinforces this gross misrepresentation.

But sadly for some that doesn't seem to matter. It appears that the 'fuck it' I'm kicking off even though it's monumentally stupid and against our best interests and the best interests of our club is the default position.

The response from some on here comes as no surprise, However I am hugely disappointed by the stance and response taken by Prestwich Blue. He really should know better and not fall for the mob mentality. Maybe he feels alienated by the PoB situation and has an axe to grind?

Whatever the case to suggest a demonstration or mass walk out will further our cause is folly in the extreme.

 

[Paul_Powers_Tash]

Paul. You obviously haven't been following the different threads. The press have been very supportive of our unhappiness and a possible protest. Apart from us, the vast majority of other football fans are also pist off with continual ticket price rises.

No offence, but if the majority were like you, and we didn't have groups of football fans up and the country campaigning and protesting about the price of tickets with all the new TV money, etc, flowing into the clubs coffers, we wouldn't now have £30 away tickets for 3 season's, and clubs up and down the country wouldn't be either freezing or reducing ticket prices, with Everton being the latest.

• ALL Adult Season Ticket prices reduced by more than 5%.
• Junior price age category extended by two years from 16 to 18.
• Junior Season Tickets reduced by £50 from £199 to £149 in all stands other than the Family Enclosure. Family Enclosure frozen at £149.
• Young Adult Season Ticket extended up to the age of 22 and priced at £299 in all stands.
• All Senior (65 and over) Season Tickets reduced to £299 in all stands.
• Kids’ (up to 11) Season Tickets frozen at £95.
• Adult prices start at just over £22 per game.
• Concession prices:
  - Up to 11: £5 per game
  - 11 to 18: less than £8 per game
  - Young adults 18-22: less than £16 per game
• One in four of our current Season Ticket holders is under the age of 22.
• Season Tickets on sale from Monday 21 March at 8am.

http://www.evertonfc.com/news/2016/03/04/season-ticket-prices-reduced

If Everton can do that, why can't the so called richest club in the World do something similar?

Is the penny dropping yet Paul, or are you going to continue your belligerent one Man stand against any form of action or protest regarding season ticket and matchday ticket prices at City?

You misunderstand me. I am not advocating higher ticket prices, I am however saying very clearly that protests and demonstrations are NOT the way to go about changing things.

I applaud Evertons price cuts. Have City released ticket prices for next season yet?