PSG ticket prices - Protest options v West Brom.

[Centurions]

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?

Must admit I was leaning the other way (Ohh Matron!!!) but some of the posts from the likes of Paul_Powers_Tash are pushing we more to your side of the fence jrb. He's not a plant by PB acting as a double bluff is he?

 

[moomba]

There seems to be a bit of an anti Soriano thing to this as if we can blame him and not the Sheik, personally I think these levels of matchday prices go back to 2011 when Cook was still there, and He might have taken his eye of the bal on this but has still made us one of the best run clubs in football.

I have no problem with Soriano. In fact as a strong supporter of the CFG concept I think somebof the work he's done in that area has been amazing. Doesnt mean I have to agree with every policy, strategy or decision.

Feedback from supporters is something he should encourage and welcome. It's a good thing.

Maybe part of this is this protest seems to be coming from s/c holders who apart from a few Prestwich Blue etc haven't really thought about matchday prices before and are now in a rush to do something about it, whereas people like me who have been paying this for years don't have quite the same urgency to make it about PSG, when at £50 for my son and me it will be one of our cheaper games.

I've been posting on here for years now on our pricing. There have been plenty of others that have done the same. Usually met by resistance from posters that would rather criticise blues for speaking up than hear any criticism of the club.

 

[squirtyflower]

Against our best interests to take a stand before ticket prices price out even more blues? Bizarre.

The walk out was ONE OPTION mentioned at the start - something that hasn't been helped by lack of an 'official' poll on here, stickied and all that. In fact, other than PB, the lack of opinions on this from the mod team has been odd to say the least.

Now if ever there was a bizarre post its this one

• Ric made it quite clear that the beginning he had far too much on to get involved
• Bluemoon is not an 'official' site, I'm sure it also states it somewhere, therefore how could there be an 'official' poll?
• And, finally, why has my, or other mods', lack of posts (not opinions) on this topic been odd to say the least? For all you know the mod team has left it to PB with our full support so that we can continue to mod the topic having not been overly involved.

 

[blueparrot]

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I have no problem with Soriano.



I've been posting on here for years now on our pricing. There have been plenty of others that have done the same. Usually met by resistance from posters that would rather criticise blues for speaking up than hear any criticism of the club.

I did say some had been posting for years and it wasn't a dig at s/ c holders, trouble with a forum is we all post bits that don't have the full context and can sound different to intended , if we were all sat in the pup chatting we would probably all come out in agreement, well most of us anyway. We all want the same end result just different views on how best to achieve it.

 

[jrb]

Must admit I was leaning the other way (Ohh Matron!!!) but some of the posts from the likes of Paul_Powers_Tash are pushing we more to your side of the fence jrb. He's not a plant by PB acting as a double bluff is he?

Nobody is trying to split the fans. Certainly not me. We all want what's best for every City fan, regardless of what people think. Unfortunately when a protest is mentioned there will always be two sides, for and against it. It doesn't mean those against are wrong. It just means they don't support such direct action to start off with, or at all.

From my point of view there comes a time when you have to make a stance and be more direct. So far all the letters and complaints to the club, directly or indirectly, have got us nowhere. In the main season ticket and matchday ticket prices went up again this season, bar the £299 season tickets in the SS. If we don't make a stance and our voices aren't heard over the final games of this season, then there is a real possibility season ticket and matchday tickets will go up again next season.

Putting everything aside. If City released a statement on the OS saying season ticket prices will be frozen(and or reduced), and the prices of matchday tickets are currently being reviewed/discussed, or whatever term they want to use, any planned protest would probably be halted. That's all it takes. Unfortunately with little or no information or feedback coming from the club, which is another issue/problem currently being discussed, we are no further along as regards cheaper season tickets and matchday ticket prices, hence any protest, if it happens, will still take place.

 

[blueparrot]

Nobody is trying to split the fans. Certainly not me. We all want what's best for every City fan, regardless of what people think. Unfortunately when a protest is mentioned there will always be two sides, for and against it. It doesn't mean those against are wrong. It just means they don't support such direct action to start off with, or at all.

From my point of view there comes a time when you have to make a stance and be more direct. So far all the letters and complaints to the club, directly or indirectly, have got us nowhere. In the main season ticket and matchday ticket prices went up again this season, bar the £299 season tickets in the SS. If we don't make a stance and our voices aren't heard over the final games of this season, then there is a real possibility season ticket and matchday tickets will go up again next season.

Putting everything aside. If City released a statement on the OS saying season ticket prices will be frozen(and or reduced), and the prices of matchday tickets are currently being reviewed/discussed, or whatever term they want to use, any planned protest would probably be halted. That's all it takes. Unfortunately with little or no information or feedback coming from the club, which is another issue/problem currently being discussed, we are no further along as regards cheaper season tickets and matchday ticket prices, hence any protest, if it happens, will still take place.

I may be wrong on this but I thought somewhere wearethesouthstand said the club had agreed to meet with 1894 and supporters club to discuss this, not sure where to look but I'll try and find his posts.
Edit had a quick skim through can't see it maybe I did imagine it or somebody else said it.

 

[jrb]

I may be wrong on this but I thought somewhere wearethesouthstand said the club had agreed to meet with 1894 and supporters club to discuss this, not sure where to look but I'll try and find his posts.

That's true. It's a start. At least the club are now listening and talking directly to the OSB, 1894, etc.

Another thing that may not have been touched upon yet, is that important decisions such as season ticket and matchday ticket prices, coupled with the on-going fans discontent, may be being discussed at the highest level, perhaps as high as Kaldoon, or even Sheikh Mansour? Obviously in such a World, and in those kind of circles, things take time to filter down to the fans. Hopefully over the coming Days and Weeks the club will release a positive statement regarding future season ticket and matchday ticket prices? We'll see.

 

[blueparrot]

That's true. It's a start. At least the club are now listening and talking directly to the OSB, 1894, etc.

Another thing that may not have been touched upon yet, is that important decisions such as season ticket and matchday ticket prices, coupled with the on-going fans discontent, may be being discussed at the highest level, perhaps as high as Kaldoon, or even Sheikh Mansour? Obviously in such a World, and in those kind of circles, things take time to filter down to the fans. Hopefully over the coming Days and Weeks the club will release a positive statement regarding future season ticket and matchday ticket prices? We'll see.

Hopefully, then with any luck things can get moving with the other stuff and you can get the camera out :)

 

[Paul_Powers_Tash]

See above.

You also left out Everton's wage bill.

 

[blueparrot]

You also left out Everton's wage bill.

And Evertons commercial / tv / and prize money , plus the losses we are lucky enough to have had an owner to cover, while those incomes increased You really can't put ticket prices down to players wages. That said are Evertons match day prices much less than ours? so it certainly is a football problem not just a City problem.