*Official* English Football Season 2015-16

[GIMH]

I know it is nothing compared so some Premier League prices but I was thinking of going to Sheffield Wednesday away next weekend, they were going to charge me £36 to watch Championship football. When you factor in a train ticket of about £40 it was just not worth it.

Yeah. We market ourselves as 'Affordable Live Football', aimed in direct contrast to the prices across the water. But it's still £17 in the cheap seats, which in all honesty seems a lot for non league football. My season ticket was £306, again decent in the grand scheme of things but relatively I'm not sure it's all that good when you compare proportionately with the quality higher up. But tunnel rats who are having to shell out £50 are tempted, week after week, so maybe the relative factor does work.

It's a lot more important for us to make money on the gate though, and I think that's what pisses a lot of Prem fans off, but one club alone can't change that.

The Liverpool thing is of course excarberated by the whole 'customer' thing Uppercut mentioned. Really bad PR from the club but like most big clubs they don't care for the 'local' fanbase as the day trippers are worth more money to them on the day anyway.

 

[Pothas]

Yeah I can understand charging that sort of money in non-league, the gate is just so vital.

The thing I find strange about Wednesday is that have not been a Premier League club in years and yet the charge the sort of money you might expect from a recently relegated side, other games I have done this year such as Birmingham and Derby were much nearer £20.

 

[GIMH]

Yeah I can understand charging that sort of money in non-league, the gate is just so vital.

The thing I find strange about Wednesday is that have not been a Premier League club in years and yet the charge the sort of money you might expect from a recently relegated side, other games I have done this year such as Birmingham and Derby were much nearer £20.

Got to be honest, don't remember Wednesday being horrendously overpriced when I went there, must have hiked the prices in recent years.

Forest was always a bad one, Oldham & Swindon too. I remember Swindon charging £23 in 2005, when the average for League One was around £15-18. Felt like robbery, like paying over £3 for a pint which incidentally I only did once that season, in one of the pubs on the corner of Griffin Park

 

[Cabinet96]

It's a lot more important for us to make money on the gate though, and I think that's what pisses a lot of Prem fans off, but one club alone can't change that.

Yeah this is definitely the case. It's still important though. Arsenal get £100m per year in match day revenue, which is more than our annual transfer budget. So if they halved prices it would have a pretty significant effect on transfer spending etc.

But yeah, as I've said though, in the end I don't really think it's up to individual clubs. They either all do it or none do.

 

[Pothas]

Buying a pint for under £3, almost unthinkable now.

 

[GIMH]

Buying a pint for under £3, almost unthinkable now.

Boozer across our ground does it, which is weird as a few years back a Guinness was £3.50, only one that isn't a Birkenhead dive that I know of. Tbh I consider £3.50 to be good these days. Sad times.

 

[Furball]

Yeah this is definitely the case. It's still important though. Arsenal get £100m per year in match day revenue, which is more than our annual transfer budget. So if they halved prices it would have a pretty significant effect on transfer spending etc.

But yeah, as I've said though, in the end I don't really think it's up to individual clubs. They either all do it or none do.

How much of that matchplay revenue is ticket spend vs other spend (eg food and drink, corporate etc)?

 

[Cabinet96]

No idea.

 

[grecian]

Prem supporters deserve to be charged 100s, they don't have to watch Wycombe for instance.

 

[social]

On the one hand, Liverpool supporters are complaining about ticket prices

On the other, not too much credit is being given to the owners for interest free loans, large transfer budgets and their decision not to take a single $ out of the club since they bought it

Money has to come from somewhere plus supply/demand

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Did Leeds have a spell in Division 2 in the mid to late 80s or have I completely imagined that?

They were crap for most of the 80's too. Hardly threatened going up for many of that time. Then Howard Wilkinson and Gordon Strachan arrived and it all changed. My lots last game in that division was at home to them and ended 3-3 but Strachan was brilliant and they went up the season after. The rest as they say is history.

 

[Furball]

On the one hand, Liverpool supporters are complaining about ticket prices

On the other, not too much credit is being given to the owners for interest free loans, large transfer budgets and their decision not to take a single $ out of the club since they bought it

Money has to come from somewhere plus supply/demand

There's the small matter of a TV deal that brings billions into the league.

 

[sledger]

Just read that apparently Arsenal have only conceded 1 goal in any game where Gabriel has played the full 90 minutes this season. Quite interesting.

 

[Cabinet96]

Bit of a heavily asterisked stat though.

 

[sledger]

As is invariably the case with stats, yes.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

I actually hate this team now.

You've gotta be like 15 years old or something.

 

[wpdavid]

Shearer was trying to compare it to Blackburn, but that's obviously rubbish as they just spent more than anyone else.Might as well say Chelsea or Citeh. As much as I hate to say it, but Leeds maybe the closest recently.

Good call actually.

 

[Tom Halsey]

Yeah but I would quibble with defining Leeds as recent tbf. When I was first paying attention to football no-one called the late 60s or early 70s recent.

 

[GIMH]

Yeah but I would quibble with defining Leeds as recent tbf. When I was first paying attention to football no-one called the late 60s or early 70s recent.

Yeah but it's still the most recent.

 

[Burgey]

Boozer across our ground does it, which is weird as a few years back a Guinness was £3.50, only one that isn't a Birkenhead dive that I know of. Tbh I consider £3.50 to be good these days. Sad times.

Is that the pub we went to before and after the Whites-Sheffield United game?