#1470

I would expect that to be correct, but even the cheapest season tickets at Man City are going up 3.7%. And they went up last year as well by a similar percentage.

#1471

The city ticket price increases seem entirely at odds with how the owners have done everything so far as well, it’s dead weird. The extra income is absolutely negligible and they’ve so far been good for the community at large around the club. Don’t really get it tbh.

#1472

I like that Idea.

Teams from each division can loan them players but they have to loan them to them for 12 months

1 Like
#1473

I’m agin it, if only because Chelsea got relegated by Charlton last time they tried it.

#1474

OR… an American style All Stars game with the squads selected from each of the bottom half teams. Half time show from Harry Sheeran, Dire Straits or whoever’s in the charts these days.

#1475
1 Like
#1476

It’s because matchday revenue’s the only remaining area where the club clearly trail United and Arsenal. The reason for that is because they’ve historically had fewer prime seats, and in the latter’s case a much smaller capacity. Last time i read about the subject their annual matchday revenue was literally half of those two clubs, who earn over £100m a season. Over a decade half a billion’s huge.

Personally think there are probably much better, more creative ways of getting people to spend more money. More expensive tickets clearly mean lower overall ground spends, overpriced food and drink’s a huge deterrent for supporters. By all means rinse the corporate fans for the very best seats, but they should be reducing goal-end tickets.

Seems a no-brainer to me getting the other end of the ground developed to push capacity towards 65,000, but they’ll only sell those extra seats if they knock the tory pricing on the head.

1 Like
#1477

But it’s not revenue that is remotely needed is it? Is it a prestige thing you reckon?

#1478

Abolish all season tickets, just have a raffle for games. Have the tickets dirt cheap to encourage people to put in for them, then fleece the steady stream of newcomers in the club shop.

#1479

This is not really a new approach for PL clubs, is it?

1 Like
#1480

The revenue price rises generate are minimal, even pointless given people just shelve the European Cup scheme (normally £99 for all three group stage games), so the club end up worse off in terms of ticket spend, ground spend, and have more European tickets to shift to the point that they, like United, give thousands away to schools and colleges if they draw, say, Oletu Galati or Villarreal over Barcelona or Dortmund.

In strictly business terms, though, i guess it makes sense to try to want to maximise any stalling revenue streams…i just think they’re doing it in a bit of a one-sighted way. I was going to go to the Huddersfield game, but it was £58. I didn’t go. If it was, say, £35 i’d have gone. Last time i did go i didn’t have any pints because they’re watery piss and £4.40 and the queues are thirty deep. A mile up the road i can have pint of nice cask ale for a quid less without waiting. No brainer.

1 Like
#1482

Thistle was pretty frustrating AGAIN last night btw, can see them getting done by Dundee United in the playoff (or even fucking it up and just going down outright on Saturday)

#1484

:joy:

3 Likes
#1485

All eyes on Stamford Bridge at quarter to eight this evening as Chelsea go in search of the three points they need to keep their slim hopes of a top four finish alive against a Huddersfield side just a point away from a miraculous survival in the Premier League following last night’s result.

2 Likes
#1486

Not gonna lie, completely forgot we were playing tonight. Season might as well have finished a few weeks ago

#1487

Toure’s last game tonight. Carrick’s last game on Sunday. Both captaining their respective sides. Slight irony in that City’s arrival so to speak involved a Toure goal after a Carrick mistake. The money would have told at some point, but it could have been a lot different. The first two seasons after the takeover didn’t exactly go to plan and had they not won the Cup that year who knows whether Mancini would have stayed. Twenty years service between them. Some going that.

1 Like
#1488

Am I completely crazy in thinking Wagner at arsenal could be a good fit? (Obvious name continuity too)

#1489

Glad I’ll be there for Carrick’s send off. Great player for us who managed to be both underrated and overrated quite often. Seems like a really top bloke as well, glad he’s sticking around at the club.

Toure seems to think he’ll be staying in England, reckon he’s still got the legs to do a job for someone?

#1490

Will you be dining at booths this time?

#1491

Nah, there was a sale on first class seats on the trains but at times that will make it extremely tight getting to and from the ground in time. Still, first class though eh?

1 Like