Pat McCrotch
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That's Swansea City, currently 8th in the Premier League.
Yes, I appreciate they're from Wales, but otherwise...
Discuss.
Yes, I appreciate they're from Wales, but otherwise...
Discuss.
They are IN Wales, not FROM there.That's Swansea City, currently 8th in the Premier League.
Yes, I appreciate they're from Wales, but otherwise...
Discuss.
Discuss.
You've already said it, they're from Wales.
We happen to be in the south east which is expensive. Expensive for houses, for beer, for pies, and yes for football tickets too.
When they get to Newcastle for Saturday's game, they will be from Wales, innit.
Masses of tv money and no transport to pay for.
Exactly this
Clubs in the Prem could cut their prices in half and still make money due to the new TV deal.
It's what makes match-by-match ticket prices at places like Arsenal so obscene.
And think that Paul Barber said he'd hike our season tickets prices if we gain promotion to the premier league.
I think the word was "review", to be pedantic
Marvellous! I expect Dylan Thomas would have loved to be your pen pal!I don't particularly like the welsh but one I do know pricewise you cannot take the p1ss with them.
Marvellous! I expect Dylan Thomas would have loved to be your pen pal!
Read something this morning which suggested plenty of PL clubs have got the right hump with West Ham over this "season tickets from £289" plan for their move to the Olympic Stadium. They fear it will make their own clubs look bad and claim they can't afford to reduce ticket prices.
With all the money they're getting from TV, ticket revenue must be such a small part of these clubs' income lately. Of course they can "afford" to reduce prices: they just don't want to.
It's all well & good comparing Swansea's prices to ours, but the TV money is exactly what it's all about: they have it, we don't. South Wales isn't necessarily a massively affluent area either, so perhaps they're merely pricing at the maximum level they feel the local public will tolerate.
Palace's cheapest adult ticket was £420, but only if booked by 28th February. Basic walk-up ST price in May will be £500. £550 for the Lower Holmesdale, and another £70 on top of that for the privilege of sitting upstairs, away from the Always Ultras. Six hundred quid (from May) to sit in the Arthur Wait Shack with pillars in your eyeline & toilets that would shame a third world country. Though you do get to watch Damien Delaney & Princess Wilfried nineteen times a season, so you may view it as priceless if you're of that persuasion.