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The bigger picture has to be looking after STHs and given the amount of money in the Prem, it’s a natural consequence. I’m eyeballing this, so could be wrong, but there seems to be a general trend that the less money a league spends, the cheaper the ST prices. The Prem has the highest ST prices...

It is a problem, but the clubs are also under pressure to raise revenue for FFP and there’s the wider economic issue wi If given the choice, would you accept the single ticket prices being higher if it meant ST prices were kept slightly lower? From my POV, the club has got the pricing spot on...

Boxing Day is always a Cat A game irrespective of opposition, last season was the same for Plymouth… It probably won’t impact the attendance at all really - they travel poorly (lowest in the Championship last season). WBA is a local rivalry, they will sell out and have an away support...

The bigger picture is that our ST prices are cheaper than Blues, Leicester and WBA who will all take a moral high ground on this. Were increased our ST prices by £50 since 2022 despite inflationary pressures so the ‘rip off’ prices is a means of covering that. We have 24k STHs, so at most, the...

No, but from 23/24 he has and made that clear in communications with fans. Hence, the FZ is large and v cheap tickets. Only Man U have actually adopted - single price ticket for kids as well as adults. No doubt other clubs will follow suit.

It’s the historical context that Kind inherited when he took over where 1/3 of STH and ticket sales were concessions. This is why the club has taken the stances it has. It is steep which is why I empathise with away fans. It is expensive following a team in the championship. We’ve been quite...

Most away tickets are £30+ quid. There’s a lot of tickets that are priced closer to £40 now.

What about people rinsing the club by buying and using concession tickets when they weren’t entitled to such? I regularly doled out my brother’s season ticket to friends and my partner in 23/24 and years prior. The club rightfully has clamped down on that. That’s why we have a large family...

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...

We’ll more or less guarantee a top 6 finish this side Xmas at this rate. Sunderland barely won a game after February last season. The goal now has to be automatics. Imagine the party if we get promoted v Wrexham in April?

On the beers, it’s a big push to get fans through the doors pre and post-game… the club will corner the market then increase prices gradually. Not too sure how the buses work on match day but imagine it’s to do with improving customer service and it supports getting fans to the stadium and...

True, but how you actually go about fixing that is complex.

Exactly! This is a traditional trade unionist position. I’m uncomfortable that the political left (Labour, Greens and Lib Dem) have ceded ground to the Tories and Reform. The reason for this is because it’s an issue that risks ending up being a political football and any changes Reform/Tory...

The worry is that if they introduce a price cap, it could end up being more expensive for fans than before. Let’s say the cap is £35, for arguments sake, you could see all the clubs charging that because it’s a new norm. Or for clubs who sell out home allocations, home tickets increases to...

Can they? Their pricing has been announced already. I feel sorry for the away fans because they don’t get a choice in what we charge. In relation to Cov, our ST prices and pricing is generally reasonable so it’s only a small % of Cov fans impacted for this, Blues and so on. At some point, the...

Reuters did a fact check and its caveat is that 2/3rds of the 47% have UK passports. Which you can qualify for after 5 years (3 if married to UK citizen). The reason there’s a conversation to reform indefinite leave to remain because this is the point you get full access to the welfare state...

The welfare state isn’t the economy… The impact of mass migration has, in fact, had an impact on the welfare state. Right now, 1 in 6 people on welfare is foreign born and in relation to social housing, in major cities foreign born people are massively over represented (47% in London alone)...

Gendered language there BSB, v unexpected. Try the following: The example given was 9 dependents (on average).

Is it collapsing now that restrictions are in place? No. On the social care visa route, there’s widespread fraud (fake companies and fake job offers) and many people who gain entry using this route do not go into the social care sector. The amount visas granted far exceeds the vacancies which...

I’ve used this example before, but when the social care visa was introduced, there was an average of 9 dependents per Zimbabwean applicant. Bearing in mind each successful applicant will be in low paid work and therefore, a net drain on the treasury… 9 dependents increases the cost of admitting...