Said it on another thread
Three consecutive fixtures in a row they have come to our stadium and acted like thugs, they are lucky they even get an allocation at all in my books and if I ran the club I would genuinely look at withdrawing the offer of any tickets for any potential meeting next season should there be one - If it means we don't get one at St Andrew's then so be it, a lesson needs to be learned and we would easily shift the tickets to our own fans these days
It's not moral grandstanding at all.
Some of us think kids prices are too high.
If others follow suit then we'll think their prices are too high.
I've said consistently that
a) I'd be prepared to pay more for my ST to subsidise kids tickets
b) I've no issue with them raising the threshold foe senior tickets even though I was a gnats ball hair away from being eligible.
It's not what other fans think of us, its a few daft cunts on twitter.
A portal where our own support hardly cover themselves in glory.
This is a mantra that gets repeated and is somewhat true.
Going to the football is a habit, and once you break the habit, it can v difficult to get back into it. There's a few lads I went to games with now who had STs when we were mediocre who no longer go and a similar amount of people who picked up following City when the good times started as an adult.
Exactly, pot calling the kettle black. Then again, blues have no self-awareness as a club. £45 for local derby isn't exactly extortionate in the grand scheme of things.
There are specific reasons why our club has clamped down on concessions. The point King made was that 1/3 of STs were concessions and without the checks at turnstiles, fraud was rife. So I understand that commercial decision, the FZ is significant, 3-4 big blocks in a good area to accommodate families. There's not much to complain about here. For fairness, I think there should be an away FZ in the away end to balance things out because I empathise with away supporters, particularly families. Then again, how do you police this? My mate got into the Wrexham end with a U21 ticket on Friday.
Something I'd be interested in, what is the distribution of tickets sold for general sale tickets? We'll really see what the true impact of £35 kids tickets is. @Sky Blue Pete perhaps something to add on the supporters forum?
My first instinct is that it's probably 85-90% adults purchasing tickets (home end) on general sale.
Our own fans are bellends on social media but its not a new thing or just a Twitter thing, we got very very little sympathy from anyone and were largely mocked when it was going tits up. They hate us because we're doing well and they can't look down on us anymore.
Don't forget the American Hedge Fund owner who would happily see domestic English games played in The States is on the side of the working man because he has promised cheap tickets in their new stadium that hasn't been built yet
To be fair the boro fan is probably still suffering PTSD from us ending their season multiple times and why is a villa fan lurking around Championship twitter?
I never had one opposition fan that I spoke to express anything other than sympathy for our situation.
Chants throughout a game are different, but that's all part of it.
I could name another poster from this forum who's politics are so left wing he makes me look like Viktor Orban but in the 80s he was the first one chanting 'there's only 1 Ian McGregor' when we played a team from a mining community!
Personally I have less time for any sky blue who cosied up to wasps and the council than opposition fans who tried to take the piss
Fair play, I thought it was only us over in L&W who did that. My butler usually lets me know what's going on.
You can think both that the prices are too high for a walk up fan and see how it makes business sense for the club. The cold truth of it is that a season ticket represents good value for money and if people buy one they’re then immune from these prices for home games.
Where I have a real issue is the charge to away fans which we could have no complaints for being reciprocated.
Where I have a real issue is the charge to away fans which we could have no complaints for being reciprocated.
Totally agree.
I've said all along I don't blame King for doing what he's doing, I just don't agree with it.
Thankfully, Blues, WBA and co can’t discriminate against us without jacking the prices for their own fans.
Does Doug charge teams that are close to Coventry that wouldn't otherwise spend a fortune on travelling?
& Swansea on Boxing Day with only a skeleton public transport system available.
Isn’t that just a fake account you created where you send yourself that message.?
Should we not go up , be interesting to see what fans say should he put prices up 7 pound further
52 and 42 for kids
52 and 42 for kids
Should we not go up , be interesting to see what fans say should he put prices up 7 pound further
52 and 42 for kids
Will be interesting to see what ST prices are should be go up.
If we go up and hes got his £100m i dont think it will be much up. Only 19 games too. I'd guess at £500 for standard on early bird.
If they go up £150 to £600 base cost on early bird, it would need to be £650 standard price (and that’s not premium zone). At £650 for 19 games you’re over £34 per game and when you can only charge away fans £30 in the Prem, the home tickets to justify a ST would be £40+ minimum and £50+ per game for the big teams. I think there would be pushback on that being home fans only paying it and when we’ve got the Prem money.
fuck that shitty podcast and who cares what the morons on twitter who support other clubs think
you need to get off that cesspit mate
Those who go will only go occasionally as they are one off purchases. We have 22,000 people committed for a whole year. Fanbase anyway builds on success
I'm not that bothered really. I just don't want to be charged those prices next season or in future.
I also don't agree fully with what Doug said this morning.
Agree with him on ‘other events’ being horrendously priced. But he’s using it as a wildly out of touch comparison, and just another pants justification.
we'll be in the PL next season anyway so £30 max anyway
And really, it is likely to be only Blues and Baggies and maybe Wrexham who charge us 45 quid, no one we didn't charge that will do it as we'll just charge their fans more.