Match Ticket Prices

[TimTheVillain]

If I didn't have a season ticket, I almost certainly wouldn't bother going at all.

36-45 quid a game where I sit.

That's a lot of money to fork out to watch a match of football, especially if the entertainment value was what it was last season and the season before - given that, the pain of shelling out so much in one lump from week to week would put me off bothering at all.

Me too, that's the main reason I buy my season ticket.

[SpenJC]

Tony Cascarino was the last Hollywood signing.

[Californian Villain]

Merson?

The fact you're even suggesting Merson show's we've never had any such thing.

[SoccerHQ]

The reason why attendances will continue to hover below 40k.

West Ham for example is a category B game. I know it's the first one but are you really going to want to pay 38 quid to sit in the Upper Trinity for example?

I'm missing the first two games, go to the ones I want to before Xmas and get a half season ticket thereafter I think.

[march]

if people want to pay much lower prices then should expect that much lower salaries to be paid and thus lower quality players

Our prices are reasonable when compared to those in and around us, the whole football ticket price is a problem for all teams.

[SoccerHQ]

if people want to pay much lower prices then should expect that much lower salaries to be paid and thus lower quality players

Our prices are reasonable when compared to those in and around us, the whole football ticket price is a problem for all teams.

Our season ticket prices by and large remain good.

But our matchday prices are not far off now what I imagine you'd pay at Manure for example.

Given the vast majority of the VP home support is season ticket based nowadays, that's what people forget when threads get made as to why we can only gety 36k for a home game v Wolves on a saturday lunchtime.

If you haven't got a season ticket, then how motivated are you going to be to spend 35 quid or whatever to sit in the Holte?

Prices rising are tolerable as long as we improve on the pitch and make some good progressive signings. So little margin for error this season then especially if we sell Milner and he isn't replaced adequately enough.

[peter w]

We all clamour for hollywood signings but expect to pay low ST and entrance fees

Cant have one without the other

The television money and the resulting added on sponsorship pays in large for players, not how many of us attend. We contribute but only the same way that if I wanted to buy a mars bar and you gave me 5p, would see you contributing.

why do clubs like Liverpool say they cant compete with Man Utd then, when they say they bring in over 1 mill per game, because of there ground capacity,

Arsenal said thats one of the reasons for why they had to move to increase ground revenues to compete.

if it was all down to TV money, they wouldnt have bothered

If you think about it your point backs mine up. Liverpool cannot compete not because of the extra 20 000 or so fans that Man U have, but because of the additional advertising and sponsorship revenue from having a bigger, and yes, full, ground. The associated corporate packages also tot up. The 1m per game is deeper than bums on seats although, yes, it is contributory.

[march]

But our matchday prices are not far off now what I imagine you'd pay at Manure for example.

correct they are not but their season ticket prices are massively more and they seem to have introduced a £10 ticket in any stand for kids

of course they have a 75000 capacity, 50000 season and corporate ticket holders, how many they have now maybe a different story though but they generate so much more than us in match revenue

[RunRickyRun]

Noth Stand Upper cat A has gone up 50% in 2 years (£20 to £30).

It looks like we'll be charging away fans up to £45 for tickets which is again too much.

There's enough money in the game that we should be able to charge the fans reasonable admission prices across the board (I would say in the region of 20 quid). The extra revenue generated is only going to disappear down the trouser pockets of the players and agents rather than contribute to any greater good.

That said, I'm lucky enough to have enough disposable income to afford a season ticket. There's many who don't.

[AlanWrightsBaldyHead]

Went to Leeds MK Dons with some mates last season - took my 7 year old lad. My ticket was £35 (a decent seat, but still...) and incredibly because the family area was sold out the price for my son was also £35. An expensive day that will not be repeated. Mug? Me?

[Chico Hamilton III]

Noth Stand Upper cat A has gone up 50% in 2 years (£20 to £30).

It looks like we'll be charging away fans up to £45 for tickets which is again too much.

There's enough money in the game that we should be able to charge the fans reasonable admission prices across the board (I would say in the region of 20 quid). The extra revenue generated is only going to disappear down the trouser pockets of the players and agents rather than contribute to any greater good.

That said, I'm lucky enough to have enough disposable income to afford a season ticket. There's many who don't.

I think this is the first time I've ever agreed with absolutely every word somebody has posted on here.

[Chris Jameson]

I think this is the first time I've ever agreed with absolutely every word somebody has posted on here.

Does that mean you don't think Bono is a c**t?

[mshurst]

I think this is the first time I've ever agreed with absolutely every word somebody has posted on here.

Does that mean you don't think Bono is a c**t?

Doesn't everyone?

[VillaZogmariner]

I think this is the first time I've ever agreed with absolutely every word somebody has posted on here.

Does that mean you don't think Bono is a c**t?

Doesn't everyone?

Everyone except Bonio.

[Dazvillain]

The whole thread issue is really about any product for sale....supply and demand and competitiveness in its rivals market place.
With this in mind we are probably very well positioned against others for value for money ST, probably about only 2 or 3 clubs have cheaper prices available.
As for just AVFC product, against last year i would say it is reasonable against a very good season with progress in a couple of competitions that many others didnt have.
But for this season, we do not yet know what or who will be paraded in front of us, so to a degree its a bit of a gamble at the moment