Matchday Ticket Prices (11 Viewers)

[Tommo1993]

Hows it an irrelevance?
They didn't care about us, so why should we care about them?

So because we were another club who went through the mill = totally fair to charge ridiculous prices to fans it had nothing to do with. K then

 

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[Mucca Mad Boys]

It's not a game that means much to either set of fans really, certainly not a rivalry. Albion's away followings have been below ours for several seasons (a reflection of the trajectories of the club's in recent years more than anything else tbf). They won't sell out for this. Cat A might have made sense, but A+ not justified, less so than Swansea which makes more sense.

Below ours last season by 200 fans. They travel well and they sold out last season with tickets being £37 quid. That extra £10 wouldn’t deter them just as much as it wouldn’t deter me if they charged that, even if I’d grumble about it.

It is a local rivalry, all midlands teams want to get one over one another, I guarantee most people on here work with a Baggies fan or two.

It’s not a fierce rivalry but WBA can’t really claim we mean nothing (and vice versa) when they’d sell 6k in the away end on a Tuesday night.

 

[bigfatronssba]

So because we were another club who went through the mill = totally fair to charge ridiculous prices to fans it had nothing to do with. K then

I'm just saying why I don't particularly care about other fans.

I do find it strange that for some on here its all about the away fans being charged £45, and not our home fans being charged £45

 

[theferret]

Below ours last season by 200 fans. They travel well and they sold out last season with tickets being £37 quid. That extra £10 wouldn’t deter them just as much as it wouldn’t deter me if they charged that, even if I’d grumble about it.

It is a local rivalry, all midlands teams want to get one over one another, I guarantee most people on here work with a Baggies fan or two.

It’s not a fierce rivalry but WBA can’t really claim we mean nothing (and vice versa) when they’d sell 6k in the away end on a Tuesday night.

Last season's game was a bank holiday fixture late in the season with both teams in the play off mix. Just feel this year, in November, early kick off with them not pulling up any trees, at £45, it will be a real struggle. I guess we'll find out soon enough.

 

[mmttww]

F*ck me, £45 for an Xmas game is grim. If the Ipswich game is the same that's the club asking me to hand over £120 for me and my two kids to watch one game of second tier football. Not loving it, Doug.

 

[Mucca Mad Boys]

F*ck me, £45 for a Xmas game is grim. If the Ipswich game is the same that's the club asking me to hand over £120 for me and my two kids to watch one game of second tier football. Not loving it, Doug.

The club has surely got to do a bundle deal for these two games. I don’t think Ipswich will be a Cat A+ game because it’s not a BH, people need to be in work the next day.

 

[Evo1883]

Its not just away fans paying these prices its home fans too , look i dont care how people want to spin it the kids prices are atrocious , you could probably get away with the adult prices if the kids prices werent so poor

 

[mmttww]

dont care how people want to spin it the kids prices are atrocious , you could probably get away with the adult prices if the kids prices werent so poor

Yeah, this is it. Asking £35 for a kid is a pisstake.

 

[Mucca Mad Boys]

Its not just away fans paying these prices its home fans too , look i dont care how people want to spin it the kids prices are atrocious , you could probably get away with the adult prices if the kids prices werent so poor

A FZ in the away end is needed if we’re charging the prices we do.

In the home end, our FZ is great value and there’s a few empty seats in that area so perhaps there’s work to do to ensure it’s 100% filled for all the games.

 

[pusbccfc]

It's not a game that means much to either set of fans really, certainly not a rivalry. Albion's away followings have been below ours for several seasons (a reflection of the trajectories of the club's in recent years more than anything else tbf). They won't sell out for this. Cat A might have made sense, but A+ not justified, less so than Swansea which makes more sense.

Agreed, West Brom won't sell out.

We had tickets still available for Birmingham didn't we?

 

[Irish Sky Blue]

Look anyone could of bought a season ticket for £440 so £19 a game, cheap as chips or kids £125 so £5.40 a game.

What Doug’s done is said look if you want to commit to the club look I’ll after you but if you want to come and cherry pick the best games it’s fine but I’ll charge you for it.

I thinks it’s bang on.

I’m glad I don’t use your chip shop

 

[Irish Sky Blue]

We’re on course to break our attendance record this season, so this doesn’t make a lot of sense.

The big thing the club has got right is the season ticket prices so I’m not going to lose sleep over selling a few thousand tickets at steep rates.

People are not ready for £700 season tickets (or thereabouts) which is the norm in the Prem.

The point being made was that £45 ticket prices were needed to fund a push to the PL. In reality the difference made in profit between £45 tickets and £35 tickets won’t make that much difference to funds but it will put some people off coming to the games. The fact we’ve had only one sold out away end this season probably has something to do with pricing.
The cost of children’s tickets has no justification.

 

[CovRes]

Agreed, West Brom won't sell out.

We had tickets still available for Birmingham didn't we?

If the attendance figures quoted by Andy Turner in the Telegraph are correct we get this (hopefully the formatting is OK)
Att Home Away
Hull City 29,052 27,337 1,715
QPR 29,015 27,168 1,847
Norwich City 30,547 27,854 2,693
Birmingham 30,585 27,841 2,744
Blackburn Rovers 29,606 28,366 1,240
Watford 30,109 28,184 1,925

The biggest home attendance was against Blackburn.
The highest away attendance was Blues.

Bar the Birmingham game, I think they've all been Cat B games at £32 for a standard adult ticket.

 

[Dougin]

Agreed, West Brom won't sell out.

We had tickets still available for Birmingham didn't we?

You just dont want it to sell out, stop hating.

 

[pusbccfc]

You just dont want it to sell out, stop hating.

Hating on who?

 

[Dougin]

Hating on who?

Your negative drone about the ticket prices.

 

[pusbccfc]

Your negative drone about the ticket prices.

So who am I hating on?

 

[Grendel]

We're about to get 31,500 against SU. That's how many we can now get.

If the crowd against Albion is 28K (my estimate), that's 3,500 fewer people buying tickets, 3,500 fewer people spending money at the ground and there is no option to open ST resale (as happened for Blackburn and will for SU) and generate even more revenue.

That's when it becomes a false economy. But of course, this is based on an estimate and I could well be wrong. If over 30K turn up then maybe not. Albion only brought 1800 a couple of seasons ago when they 'boycotted' at £37, so possible at £45 we will see similar if not lower numbers this time.

If you are suggested reducing to £35 the break even crowd is 2,000 less at the higher price to generate the same revenue assuming around 9,000 tickets are available for open sale.

 

[Dougin]

So who am I hating on?

You think you know better than Sir Doug, top of the tabel smashing records but all your bleating on about is ticket prices they wont sell blah blah blah.

 

[pusbccfc]

You think you know better than Sir Doug, top of the tabel smashing records but all your bleating on about is ticket prices they wont sell blah blah blah.

 

[Mucca Mad Boys]

We're about to get 31,500 against SU. That's how many we can now get.

If the crowd against Albion is 28K (my estimate), that's 3,500 fewer people buying tickets, 3,500 fewer people spending money at the ground and there is no option to open ST resale (as happened for Blackburn and will for SU) and generate even more revenue.

That's when it becomes a false economy. But of course, this is based on an estimate and I could well be wrong. If over 30K turn up then maybe not. Albion only brought 1800 a couple of seasons ago when they 'boycotted' at £37, so possible at £45 we will see similar if not lower numbers this time.

We'll sell out v WBA. Spoke to my Baggies colleague earlier this morning and whilst he called it a 'disgrace' said he'll pay the prices with his son.

If we do sell out with £45 tickets (and we probably will), then you get the increased revenue from ticket sales as well as people putting money at the stadium.

Football fans are like smokers, we'll baulk at prices but continue to pay it. How many smokers say they'll quit (but never do) when a pack of cigarettes reaches 'x' price?

 

[oakey]

Supply and demand. It's simple economics.
Pay the asking price or someone else will.

 

[Flying Fokker]

Supply and demand. It's simple economics.
Pay the asking price or someone else will.

It may be but this is one of those occasions where people are being ripped off.

It won’t be long before we have 600 quid season tickets..For 19 games of course.

General Admission away tickets in the Premier League are capped at £31, as part of an effort to preserve the competition’s fan culture. This is the price if you are able to buy tickets directly through the clubs.
This price cap was introduced in 2016/17, and in 2022 the 20 Premier League clubs agreed unanimously to freeze the cap into 2025/26. Affordability is one of a few factors that drive massive demand.
We’re not exaggerating. It is almost impossible to get hold of Premier League away tickets through most clubs, especially if you’re just starting to get into football. In most cases, season ticket holders and members who have a history attending away games are given priority.
This is true for Liverpool tickets and Manchester United tickets for away, which are essentially a closed shop.
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[Londonccfcfan]

Pricing is a disgrace. Shamefull.

West Brom will be smallest attendance of season. It doesn't matter even if we are top. Home and away end WILL NOT SELL out and there will be a rethink I'm sure from Doug.

 

[Flying Fokker]

Pricing is a disgrace. Shamefull.

West Brom will be smallest attendance of season. It doesn't matter even if we are top. Home and away end WILL NOT SELL out and there will be a rethink I'm sure from Doug.

He could drop the price by 13 quid, fill the ground and still benefit from the f and b / merch sales.

 

[Londonccfcfan]

He could drop the price by 13 quid, fill the ground and still benefit from the f and b / merch sales.

100%.
Imo any away ticket over £35 not including fees etc I'd say is very steep.

Fair price should be £30 capped for all of EFL.

Makes for a better product and chance of fuller away ends.

 

[bigfatronssba]

100%.
Imo any away ticket over £35 not including fees etc I'd say is very steep.

Fair price should be £30 capped for all of EFL.

Makes for a better product and chance of fuller away ends.

Why should away fans pay less than home fans?

 

[Dougin]

Is this still going? People keep going on about it should be capped like the premier league. They are capping away prices as they know in reality it means nothing in the grand scheme of things as their turnover as it’s so huge. It’s a red herring.

If we want promotion it has to be paid for, the club needs revenue in every single area it all adds up.

close the thread

 

[wingy]

You keep focusing on King.
Ive said before I don't blame King for maximising his profits even if I think some of it is a bit short sighted. I don't think he's here long term so why should he care about how what he does now affects the club, or football in general in ten years time?

But this is a bigger problem and I think trying to rinse supporters will come back to bite football on the arse.

Unless there's a new wave of comfortably off to be tapped?

 

[pusbccfc]

Supply and demand. It's simple economics.
Pay the asking price or someone else will.

So why is it just us charging these obscene prices for adults and kids?

Our ground isn't even in the top 10 most sold stadiums in the division either.

 

[Terry Gibson's perm]

I don’t care if not a single away fan turns up let them boycott we need the ground to be hostile and horrible to play at. This is our chance and we need to do everything to take it.

 

[Flying Fokker]

So why is it just us charging these obscene prices for adults and kids?

Our ground isn't even in the top 10 most sold stadiums in the division either.

Not sure that bothers the money men. But maybe they’d be better to focus on how to get bums on seats in the areas of the ground currently empty.

 

[Liquid Gold]

I’ll be back over the Christmas period and will be going to games paying £45 a ticket and it doesn’t bother me a jot.

Occasional fans should be paying a lot more than season ticket holders who support the club every week and hand over their money when there is no cash flow during the summer.

Season tickets are great value and that should remain the same.

The issue is definitely kids tickets but we fucked that up ourselves with adults getting the cheap tickets.

 

[torchomatic]

You think you know better than WHAT I DO, top of the tabel smashing records but all your bleating on about is ticket prices they wont sell blah blah blah.

Corrected it for you, Mr King.

 

[bigfatronssba]

Not sure that bothers the money men. But maybe they’d be better to focus on how to get bums on seats in the areas of the ground currently empty.

Their job is to maximise income, not get bums on seats