Rodrigoooooooo
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Just messaged supporter services with a link to this page, hope they get the idea
Real Madrid (H) Ticket Info | SOLD OUT
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tolmie's hairdoo
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Wankers. Where's Damo when you need his technical know-how to send these bastards a big fucking system hack!
HelloCity
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City Matters needs to be all in on things like this.
EastMidlandsBlue
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I don't agree with it but this could be the clubs logic.
As a season ticket holder of many years, on an average game I spend:
£5 on pint
Maybe £3 on chips if I'm hungry
Total £8 at most
A tourist who's never been to a game will spend:
Well in excess of £50 in the club shop on scarves and shirts and other tat.
£5 on a programme
3 couse meal inside the ground probably totalling over £15.
Total at least £70
If they fill the ground up with 50,000 tourists rather than 50,000 regulars, you're looking at an extra £3million+ in revenue, before you even go in to the overpriced ticket sales.
If this is their logic, it's incredibly short sighted, as this will start alienating local fans, which at the end of the day is the backbone of the club. When we have a 62,000 seat stadium with 20,000 empty seats for a less attractive fixture, the club will only have itself to blame.
As a season ticket holder of many years, on an average game I spend:
£5 on pint
Maybe £3 on chips if I'm hungry
Total £8 at most
A tourist who's never been to a game will spend:
Well in excess of £50 in the club shop on scarves and shirts and other tat.
£5 on a programme
3 couse meal inside the ground probably totalling over £15.
Total at least £70
If they fill the ground up with 50,000 tourists rather than 50,000 regulars, you're looking at an extra £3million+ in revenue, before you even go in to the overpriced ticket sales.
If this is their logic, it's incredibly short sighted, as this will start alienating local fans, which at the end of the day is the backbone of the club. When we have a 62,000 seat stadium with 20,000 empty seats for a less attractive fixture, the club will only have itself to blame.
dadnlad
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chelsea arent involved
thegundogang
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I wonder how many people paid £35 to sign up to be able to get a ticket for this match and didn't get one. Bet they are pissed off too along with everyone else who missed out.
I've got mine so doesn't affect me but can see the club have majorly fucked up on this.
John Wayne
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This Real Madrid game has been deliberately sold in such a way so as to increase demand. The additional membership revenue is of course welcome, as is the revenue from people on a first-time visit who fill the club shop coffers. Yet the long-term ploy is to get people into the cycle of attending matches who do not ordinarily attend. They know that many old-school fans will be pissed off, but they can take these people for granted because, like an abused spouse, they'll always return.
I can almost predict what the reaction will be to season ticket prices - the majority will condemn the inevitable hike, reactions ranging from disappointment to rage. The club will be accused of being tone-deaf, uncaring, and insensitive to the increased living costs we're all experiencing. Nevertheless, the majority will renew without hesitation. You'll then get a minority of the Alright Jack brigade coming on saying "£400 for me and my two lads to watch the best football in the world, absolute bargain, etc, etc" and the like.
All of this leads me to conclude that football is completely detached from real life - at a time when many are genuinely skint, clubs can put up prices and the demand can still go up. It is the most captive market you're ever likely to see. And boy, don't the clubs know it.
Impeccable One
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Don't think they had to 'sign up' before trying to get a ticket, they could do it at the same time !