Mikecini said:GSW Blue said:Spoke to my Mrs (Villa ST holder and in away end Saturday) about this and she raised the issue that being an away fan at ours is not the best experience due to stewards and police treating them like potential terrorists.
Apparently Villa are thought of as one of the worst group of fans to police.
Is £40 really over the top?
GSW Blue said:Spoke to my Mrs (Villa ST holder and in away end Saturday) about this and she raised the issue that being an away fan at ours is not the best experience due to stewards and police treating them like potential terrorists.
cheddar404 said:Mikecini said:GSW Blue said:Spoke to my Mrs (Villa ST holder and in away end Saturday) about this and she raised the issue that being an away fan at ours is not the best experience due to stewards and police treating them like potential terrorists.
Apparently Villa are thought of as one of the worst group of fans to police.
Is £40 really over the top?
You can argue that it's not when we're paying around 50 notes for an away match these days but £40 for 90 minutes of football is still shocking. It's probably not so bad if you go to the odd matchbut the proper football fan who follows his/her team all over will become a thing of the past unless they are very wealthy.
No real intelligent fan is having a pop at your support mate. Its overpriced prem football these days.Im considering stopping going to the chumps league games next year as its far too expensive for me. Recession, not much work, everything costs more, and yet the match day prices go up! I will renew my season cards and go to the domestic cup games but £120 for 2 adults and 2 kids for one game in CL is the last time getting mugged. Away games no chance had to give them up long ago. Clubs please take note you are killing the real fans off.HolteEnder said:I can understand why some of you are taking the piss, I'm sure some of our fans would if the roles were reversed. However it says everything about the state of modern football when a club of our size can't sell 2800 let alone 1700 tickets for a saturday 3pm kick off just up the road. It's nothing to do with 'loyalty', it's everything to do with price and the fact we've got hardly any chance of winning. Paying £40 when you know more than likely your team will lose is hardly appealing. Yes I know we charge you £43 but that's not the fans' fault, we don't decide the prices. Away supporters are a dying breed unless you're rich or support a successful team that wins most weeks. Sunderland only took 1200 to Everton last week, that wasn't even £40 but they knew b efore the game kicked off they probably wouldn't win. It's not just the ticket you have to pay for either, if I came to yours saturday it would cost me over £100 once I'd brought my lad's ticket, train tickets, beer, food. That's a lot of money and an expensive day for 90 minutes of football that we will more than likely lose. I simply can't justify paying that money with Christmas around the corner and when we're playing in a competition where the best we can achieve is about 12th. Its got to the stage where I and many more of our fans are having to pick and choose which away games are the best because it's too expensive to attend them all. We took 3000 to West Ham, 3200 to Southampton, 3300 to Swindon, 4000+ to Fulham yet we took 1400 to Sunderland, 1100 to Newcastle, 1500 to Tottenham. Emphasising it's all about having to pick and choose which aways you attend, rather than it being about loyalty. Apparantly we've already sold 3000 of our 4100 allocation for Norwich because it's £25 and it's in a competition we've got a chance of winning, simple as that. Still give me 1500 of our fans stood singing all game over the like of Everton who take 3000 and sit in silence.
Good read. we know the score. It's not just the Villa. take it as a compliment that there's such a long thread about it.HolteEnder said:I can understand why some of you are taking the piss, I'm sure some of our fans would if the roles were reversed. However it says everything about the state of modern football when a club of our size can't sell 2800 let alone 1700 tickets for a saturday 3pm kick off just up the road. It's nothing to do with 'loyalty', it's everything to do with price and the fact we've got hardly any chance of winning. Paying £40 when you know more than likely your team will lose is hardly appealing. Yes I know we charge you £43 but that's not the fans' fault, we don't decide the prices. Away supporters are a dying breed unless you're rich or support a successful team that wins most weeks. Sunderland only took 1200 to Everton last week, that wasn't even £40 but they knew b efore the game kicked off they probably wouldn't win. It's not just the ticket you have to pay for either, if I came to yours saturday it would cost me over £100 once I'd brought my lad's ticket, train tickets, beer, food. That's a lot of money and an expensive day for 90 minutes of football that we will more than likely lose. I simply can't justify paying that money with Christmas around the corner and when we're playing in a competition where the best we can achieve is about 12th. Its got to the stage where I and many more of our fans are having to pick and choose which away games are the best because it's too expensive to attend them all. We took 3000 to West Ham, 3200 to Southampton, 3300 to Swindon, 4000+ to Fulham yet we took 1400 to Sunderland, 1100 to Newcastle, 1500 to Tottenham. Emphasising it's all about having to pick and choose which aways you attend, rather than it being about loyalty. Apparantly we've already sold 3000 of our 4100 allocation for Norwich because it's £25 and it's in a competition we've got a chance of winning, simple as that. Still give me 1500 of our fans stood singing all game over the like of Everton who take 3000 and sit in silence.
It's not often I'm called unintelligent, even off my most vociferous critics.Dexter Morgan said:No real intelligent fan is having a pop at your support mate.
Not having a go at anyone in particular, just making the point that slagging off people who cant afford these daft prices anymore is acting without taking all things into consideration. At the league cup game this season when tickets were about half of what City are charging for sat, they brought a decent following which made lots of noise. Was only a few years ago we only took 1500 to Wigan because Whelan shafted us over ticket prices. You cant blame fans for picking and choosing these days. I repeat its overpriced.Skashion said:It's not often I'm called unintelligent, even off my most vociferous critics.Dexter Morgan said:No real intelligent fan is having a pop at your support mate.
Mikecini said:cheddar404 said:Mikecini said:Apparently Villa are thought of as one of the worst group of fans to police.
Is £40 really over the top?
You can argue that it's not when we're paying around 50 notes for an away match these days but £40 for 90 minutes of football is still shocking. It's probably not so bad if you go to the odd matchbut the proper football fan who follows his/her team all over will become a thing of the past unless they are very wealthy.
Firstly I think if Villa where doing better and hadn't made a balls up last year with the selection of Manager they would have sold out their allocation. IIRC they had it cut the year before because of the way the fans behaved?
£40 to see your team play the Champions? Shocking? Around the £60 mark, yes I'd agree. I feel sure that every game City supporters go to would be cat A. What can you buy, as a one off, first class event, for £40? Don't get me wrong as a traveling supporter I know it's also the associated costs but go to any event out of your area and that would be the same. Maybe £40 is/should be the upper limit?
On a slightly different note. I'm more disappointed that a supporter can't even watch City on TV, if they can't afford for whatever reason (time or cash restraints or even simple unavailability of tickets), to go to the ground because of the 3 o'clock rule.