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[Football] North Stand Scudmore Protest
- Thread starter BNthree
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Because it doesn’t sell newspapers?
The Large One
Who's Next?
Is that what constitutes an 'average fan'?
drew
Drew
It's not just about the ticket price though, the club want fans to spend money at the ground as well so even if you lower ticket prices, the less well off will spend less at the concessions. I'm not sure what it is now but I believe there was a stat somewhere when we were in the championship that our fans spent more per head at the ground than any other club (stand to be corrected).
It does feel a bit as if this forum is turning into a tabloid/talksport load of shite. Lots of nonsense & shouting and no interest in facts.
The most recent research showed the average age of someone attending a Premier League match is 41.
Whitechapel
Famous Last Words
This. It’s sadly the going rate nowadays.
I was looking at going to a rap battle event in London earlier this month. It was being held by arguably the biggest battle rap league in the world, and it was the first time they’d been in England so I was expecting to be paying a fair whack. However at £85 a ticket I decided not to go. Still sold out though... and a live PPV at £50 a pop sold thousands of copies too.
clapham_gull
Legacy Fan
- Aug 20, 2003
- 25,297
Easy to turn on the owners and leaders but you really need to turn your attention to the wages paid to those on the pitch.
It creates a culture of greed where everyone else wants a piece.
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It creates a culture of greed where everyone else wants a piece.
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drew
Drew
I think you actually need to look at the people that fund those wages.
clapham_gull
Legacy Fan
- Aug 20, 2003
- 25,297
We are going round in circles then. That's the Robbie Savage defence.
erkan
Well-known member
Good idea but the money for Barber's pay rise has to come from somewhere...
Whereas the average (median) age of the UK population in Nov 2018 is 40.2. The average age of a PL game attendee is 9 months older than the average age of the population as a whole.
pastafarian
Well-known member
Yep thats twitter shite for you, its infecting multiple users like a cancer
At least you’d get some entertainment at a gig.
It’s certainly not the man on the street like myself.
At least that spending can be curtailed by the individual, whilst they still get to see their Albion.
Polite question - are you in 1901?
Charlies Shinpad
New member
Just seen this on Twitter
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If you assumed that then you're an idiot.
But the fact is, after the novelty wears off, seasons of seeing your side making up the numbers, with the club eventually behaving like it's terrified of relegation is going to grate after a while. We're in a situation where the Premier league riches are so far ahead of the Championship that a) high ticket prices are justified by the club because of the quality of football on offer and b) we are all paying millionaires with multi-million pound transfer fees to sit on the bench because to play them is deemed too risky. You could also argue that it also serves the utterly crap usual suspects (Pardew, Hughes etc) on the oh so tedious managerial merry go round because they presumably turn up at interviews and preach that they know what it takes to stay in the league, as if the experience of being mediocre is somehow a good thing.
As for the cost, it is now eye-watering unless you are a STH (I had to give mine up a few years ago). Even if you don't need Bronze membership, tickets are still very expensive as [MENTION=600]Bry Nylon[/MENTION] makes clear. The flippant comparisons to see Steps reunion tours are absurd, IMO, unless we've got to the point that for non-STH we feel it is right only to expect a working person to be able to watch their team as a special treat, once or twice a season.
Meanwhile I'll be taking my son to Twickenham for a Premiership rugby game on 29th Dec for £25 for both of us. Some will sneer at this I'm sure as it's "only rugby", but if Premier League football does the same, it'll end up disappearing up it's own arse.