*Official* English Football Season 2015-16

[GIMH]

FA Cup draw for us today. Just hope we get a home tie against someone awful. To not qualify for the FA Cup proper would be devastating. Can only get northern teams and the sides above us in the table are all southern so in theory we have nobody to fear but you just know we'll get drawn away to the goats or something just to make life difficult

Honestly with our cup pedigree this century not being in the hat for either the league cup or the FA Cup proper would be a sickener

 

[Ikki]

FA Cup draw for us today. Just hope we get a home tie against someone awful. To not qualify for the FA Cup proper would be devastating. Can only get northern teams and the sides above us in the table are all southern so in theory we have nobody to fear but you just know we'll get drawn away to the goats or something just to make life difficult

Honestly with our cup pedigree this century not being in the hat for either the league cup or the FA Cup proper would be a sickener

Bro, **** it. Support the Reds already ****. It will make your dad happy. And you might be some cosmic jinx on us that needs solving

 

[GIMH]

Bro, **** it. Support the Reds already ****. It will make your dad happy. And you might be some cosmic jinx on us that needs solving

Heh. I know you're joking but the thought of changing teams sickens me.

Lincoln at home meanwhile. Boring as hell draw. Was hoping for someone three divisions down who we'd never played.

 

[Scaly piscine]

10 out of 10 then. Better for not having to watch Milner gently loft every dead ball into the goalkeeper's hands. The physique of an Olympic gymnast, and the footballing skills of an Olympic gymnast.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Another round of National League matches tonight. I hope GIMH hasn't done anything silly.

 

[GIMH]

Another round of National League matches tonight. I hope GIMH hasn't done anything silly.

The three hours or so I've spent watching football at Prenton Park in the last four days probably counts as silly tbf

 

[GIMH]

Bayern Munich supporters? group calls for protest at £64 Arsenal tickets | Football | The Guardian

 

[Cabinet96]

It's nice they're trying to make an effort but it's really going to do absolutely **** all tbh.

 

[Uppercut]

I kind of appreciate what they're doing but I also find it a little pathetic. Everyone knows the way to lower the prices is to just not go to the games, but instead they keep on buying the tickets whatever the price while finding increasingly elaborate ways to moan about it.

 

[GIMH]

I kind of appreciate what they're doing but I also find it a little pathetic. Everyone knows the way to lower the prices is to just not go to the games, but instead they keep on buying the tickets whatever the price while finding increasingly elaborate ways to moan about it.

Don't see how that would work as surely someone else just buys the ticket up?

 

[Furball]

It would work if every fan took a stand against the prices.

 

[Cabinet96]

Not particularly feasible for games like this though, is it?

 

[Uppercut]

Don't see how that would work as surely someone else just buys the ticket up?

Possibly, but if that's true then they're taking a ticket away from someone who really wants to be there. I'm kind of torn because it's killing the atmosphere at games and once that's gone it won't come back. So the clubs should cut the prices anyway, and when you look at their finances it wouldn't even cost much at all. But I also feel like it's incredibly entitled of fans to think they have the right to go see United or Arsenal for £20. I still remember my Dad jumping through all kinds of hoops trying to find tickets for a big game so we could make a yearly 13-hour boat+bus trip on my birthday. It might not be fair of me to think like this but it still stings a little bit when people are lucky enough to see Arsenal Bayern in the CL and all they can do is complain about the prices.

 

[sledger]

Yeah, agree with Uppercut.

The high ticket pricing is wrong in my opinion. But so many people seem to think it's wrong because they have some sort of entitlement to expect to receive them for cheaper, which, in my view, is ridiculous.

 

[duffer]

Lol at anyone who thinks a KSE team will ever drop their ticket prices.

 

[Cabinet96]

Lol at anyone who thinks any club like Arsenal would drop their ticket prices if no one else was going to.

 

[GIMH]

Lol at anyone who thinks any club like Arsenal would drop their ticket prices if no one else was going to.

There is something to this but Arsenal's are the highest in the country so you can't very well argue they are forced into such a pricing structure

I'm torn overall too. Uppercut makes some good points as usual. And if I look at it selfishly, top clubs pricing out fans can only help clubs like mine and this is basically a marketing strategy we now employ with 'Affordable Live Football' being our tagline.

I mean I don't think ours are particularly cheap (£17 in all stands except Main Stand where it's £20, around £300 for a season ticket or £370 in main stand), though kids are cheap with £2 a game for under 12s and £28 for my daughter's season ticket), we actually had a price rise after going down with the reason given that the low prices last season left us with a derisory budget and relegation, and that TV revenue is pitiful at this level so we need to maximise our advantage as the best supported club in the division by producing a budget to be at the top. In terms of standard of football you can clearly see that if people are paying £17 for Tranmere V Barrow, and it's not a particularly high price then you are asking a lot for prem clubs to charge £20

But there is a high element of greed with the top clubs charging these prices given the other revenue streams. Bottom line is its not about the ticket revenue for them but rather the other revenues that come from such a strategy (people there for one game. Season far more likely to spend £100 each in the club shop before the game etc)

It won't change and protesting will make no difference but it's a huge reason why people are alienated by the game at the top level. I feel bad having Sky Sports and wish I didn't like cricket, I watch the Prem but wouldn't pay for it if I had no interest in other sports.

 

[Cabinet96]

Arsenal's average season ticket price per game is 4th highest in the country. The reason the total cost is higher is because they include seven more games than most clubs.

 

[Cabinet96]

Ftr I'm happily in favour of a reduction in ticket prices. I just think from each individual clubs perspective it's hard for them to do such a thing in such a competitive industry. I'm much more in favour of the FA imposing price limits on a certain amount of seats.

 

[Uppercut]

I just think from each individual clubs perspective it's hard for them to do such a thing in such a competitive industry. I'm much more in favour of the FA imposing price limits on a certain amount of seats.

Cribb/ikki will love this.

I don't think we can expect the FA to be effective at anything. They have no real reason to be. A club that put Greg Dyke in charge would be relegated out of existence.