by ferrarilover » 29 Nov 2013, 21:46
It's a difficult conundrum. Clubs need to make money, that's the bottom line of it and the bulk of that money needs to come from you and I heading through the doors. This is especially true at our level. If I told you how much running our club costs and how little we are able to attract through sponsorship and other, non ticket related items, you simply would not believe that we can run our club without charging £100/man.
I object much less to paying to get in to Accrington and Torquay than I do to paying to get into Northampton and Rovers because I know that those latter clubs are simply taking my money and paying it to vastly over-rated, under skilled players on three grand a week.
What really grinds my gears is the likes of Manchester City, who charge their fans well over £100 a time, only to give it to Samir Nasri at the rate of a quarter of a million pounds a week for the sake of his sitting on the bench looking like a transvestite Thunderbird. All the while, the club's owners swan about the Gulf in their gold-plated Lamborghinis.
Comparing clubs in the same division is a bit like asking why a chicken in Tesco is 49p and in Marks and Spencer it's £375. That's just how capitalism works.
For the legals of the situation, you'd have to check the FA rules. From my view, to offer an equivalent product (same match in the same quality of seating, however they determine such a quality) would need to be priced exactly similarly for both home and away fans. Sticking away fans into the most expensive areas is perfectly acceptable (legally, if not morally), provided these areas are also offered to home fans. Attending the match is a choice, you're free not to wish to pay the quoted entry price. The price you are quoted for a ticket or entry is an invitation to treat, your handing over the money is an offer and their taking your money and allowing you into the match is their acceptance of that offer. Interestingly* this differs from unmanned car parks, where the price on the sign constitutes an offer and your entry into the car park constitutes an acceptance of that offer.
Are prices too high? Depends what you consider to be too high, of course. For 90 minutes entertainment, £20 or so is pretty steep. It's nothing like as unreasonable as something like ten-pin bowling or going to the funfair. Nor is it as expensive, per hour, as hookers, crack, booze or driving really, really fast. Each of these things is about as much fun as watching a really good football match, so, perhaps, in that way, football is reasonably priced.
Matt.
*not interesting at all.
It's a difficult conundrum. Clubs need to make money, that's the bottom line of it and the bulk of that money needs to come from you and I heading through the doors. This is especially true at our level. If I told you how much running our club costs and how little we are able to attract through sponsorship and other, non ticket related items, you simply would not believe that we can run our club without charging £100/man.
I object much less to paying to get in to Accrington and Torquay than I do to paying to get into Northampton and Rovers because I know that those latter clubs are simply taking my money and paying it to vastly over-rated, under skilled players on three grand a week.
What really grinds my gears is the likes of Manchester City, who charge their fans well over £100 a time, only to give it to Samir Nasri at the rate of a quarter of a million pounds a week for the sake of his sitting on the bench looking like a transvestite Thunderbird. All the while, the club's owners swan about the Gulf in their gold-plated Lamborghinis.
Comparing clubs in the same division is a bit like asking why a chicken in Tesco is 49p and in Marks and Spencer it's £375. That's just how capitalism works.
For the legals of the situation, you'd have to check the FA rules. From my view, to offer an equivalent product (same match in the same quality of seating, however they determine such a quality) would need to be priced exactly similarly for both home and away fans. Sticking away fans into the most expensive areas is perfectly acceptable (legally, if not morally), provided these areas are also offered to home fans. Attending the match is a choice, you're free not to wish to pay the quoted entry price. The price you are quoted for a ticket or entry is an invitation to treat, your handing over the money is an offer and their taking your money and allowing you into the match is their acceptance of that offer. Interestingly* this differs from unmanned car parks, where the price on the sign constitutes an offer and your entry into the car park constitutes an acceptance of that offer.
Are prices too high? Depends what you consider to be too high, of course. For 90 minutes entertainment, £20 or so is pretty steep. It's nothing like as unreasonable as something like ten-pin bowling or going to the funfair. Nor is it as expensive, per hour, as hookers, crack, booze or driving really, really fast. Each of these things is about as much fun as watching a really good football match, so, perhaps, in that way, football is reasonably priced.
Matt.
*not interesting at all.
