West Brom Tickets (4 Viewers)

[clint van damme]

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 for STHs and that’s of primary importance here.

You keep brining this back to our pricing, but I keep trying to say there's a bigger picture.

Regarding our season tickets, I've repeatedly said I'd pay more to reduce kids pricing.

I was lucky enough to to have very reasonable pricing for my kids when they were actual kids.

I think it would be wrong of me to now beat the drum for the current pricing.

 

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[clint van damme]

Agree totally, I can likewise understand why, I just think it’s shafting today’s fans and the future generation isn’t right . It could though be his strategy is get the money in now get promoted and sell. He’ll make quite a bit now the ground and club are together and we do make the next level.

I think thats exactly his strategy, and again, I don't blame him.
It's why the authorities should be looking at implementing protections.
And by that I'm not really referring to King bumping up cat A prices but more some of the stuff that's going on in the EPL (which hopefully we'll be a member of next season).

 

[Mucca Mad Boys]

You keep brining this back to our pricing, but I keep trying to say there's a bigger picture.

Regarding our season tickets, I've repeatedly said I'd pay more to reduce kids pricing.

I was lucky enough to to have very reasonable pricing for my kids when they were actual kids.

I think it would be wrong of me to now beat the drum for the current pricing.

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 (partly because of London) and has the biggest financial clout, La Liga and Serie A STs are more expensive than Ligue Un. The only outlier may be Germany but that league is utterly dominated by Bayern financially.

We can moan about ticket prices but whilst there is a demand for clubs to push the boundaries in the transfer market, something needs to give.

 

[wingy]

But would those people be buying stuff anyway? Concourses were busy before?

A pub in cov wouldn't be able to make more than a few pence on a pint of Budweiser or Mahou at £3.60.

I'm not criticising it btw, it's great he's doing it! Just ironic that he'll have the cheapest pint in the league alongside the most expensive ticket.

Well you have to ask what is fair mark up really ?

 

[clint van damme]

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 (partly because of London) and has the biggest financial clout, La Liga and Serie A STs are more expensive than Ligue Un. The only outlier may be Germany but that league is utterly dominated by Bayern financially.

We can moan about ticket prices but whilst there is a demand for clubs to push the boundaries in the transfer market, something needs to give.

But some clubs in the EPL are now trying to get rid of sections of ST holders.
The irony being that the reason daytrippers want to attend games is to experience the atmosphere the long term ST holders create!

So your last sentence is right, something has to give.

 

[Mucca Mad Boys]

But some clubs in the EPL are now trying to get rid of sections of ST holders.
The irony being that the reason daytrippers want to attend games is to experience the atmosphere the long term ST holders create!

So your last sentence is right, something has to give.

That’s certainly the case for the likes of Man U, Spurs, Arsenal, Liverpool and so on.

I don’t think we’ll ever get to that point so believe we’ll always ‘look after’ STHs. Perhaps that’s naive but time will tell. Our pricing models are generally fair, but away fans is where I feel they’ve drawn a short straws

Creeping Americanisms in football does worry me as a whole. The ticket pricing for the World Cup next year is outrageous. In the club game, the picture is a bit more complicated because fans want their teams to compete in the transfer market and FFP has pressured clubs into maximising revenue. That’s perhaps an underlying factor for this too.

 

[COVKIDSNEVERQUIT]

Will be lucky if 500 turn up from Swansea.

That's ok just stick them in the corner and open up to the home fans beyond the goal.

 

[SonofErnie]

That's ok just stick them in the corner and open up to the home fans beyond the goal.

Doug has 2 months to sort that out. If he’s smart he might be looking at another 3 game package, perhaps to include a home FA cup tie subject to the draw.