mid table obscurity!

Post by **bixieupnorth** » 12 Sep 2013, 09:09

the bbcs latest survey of match day prices is out, we sit comfortably in the middle of the league for once!!

accrington cheapest, they should really be giving tickets away for that hole!! northampton works out the most expensive ticket pie pint programme and tea deal at £29

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23723537

Alpine Joe · Post by **Alpine Joe** » 12 Sep 2013, 09:37

Could that comfortable mid league position be due to the BBC getting the impression that our most expensive match day ticket is £19 ?
Wasn't the Bench £20 last season and the price put up still further for 2013/14 to reflect the greater entertainment value likely to be experienced from watching Knill's flying wingers and Benyon's mesmerising close control ?

Bear in mind that this table has been put together with the BBC's usual level of accuracy before you read too much into it.

ferrarilover · Post by **ferrarilover** » 12 Sep 2013, 11:08

Oh Christ, we're not going to start all this again, are we? Thing is, TUFC is a pretty cheap place to watch football. Relatively speaking, it's just shy of being the best value in the Football League. You can forget the Premier League, because that's not football, that's some millionaires keeping themselves out of trouble. You can forget Accrington and Exeter because, joking aside, neither of those grounds are Football League standard. You can forget Hartlepool, because what is played by the home side there isn't football (not as I understand it). Oxford, nope, tea is about £8 and they've only got 3 sides. Similarly, NTFC who, despite their fan's rather silly insistences, are a dreadful side in a dreadful location with dreadfully high prices. You can forget AFCW if you're not the same size as Mini Me and you can forget Newport because their supporters are animals and they have a fecking running track round the pitch
There are some places where the value is better, but not many. I haven't seen the list, but I imagine that, all told, Plainmoor fares pretty well.
As a ST holder, I pay something like £14 a game which strikes me as pretty good value.

Matt.

AustrianAndyGull · Post by **AustrianAndyGull** » 12 Sep 2013, 11:54

The thing that p*ssed me off about Northampton was that they charged £22. This is getting serious now and in a few seasons it will be £24 and then £25 and we will then be paying standard prices of £25 to watch league 2 football in grounds who are all seater or choose to close off the terracing in order to chuck us all in the seats. I admit that we won't be paying this amount every away game as the Accrington's and Exeter's of this world don't have the space or facilities to close their terracing to away fans but it still makes it unacceptable and we either charge Cobblers (or other clubs that rip us off) the same to sit in the bench when they come down and close off our terrace or we boycott certain away games.

Maybe we have to hope that teams like Chesterfield, Northampton, Rochdale, Mansfield etc who have all seater stadiums get promoted asap and then we'll be left with the Yorks, Burtons and the like who charge a reasonable amount to stand. Maybe I've been too harsh on Accrington in the past, maybe clubs with dilapidated grounds are the way forward in terms of getting cheaper tickets? MORE DEATH TRAP GROUNDS PLEASE!!

I'm happy to pay the likes of Chesterfield for the superior facilities even though these entail two bogs which don't lock as they've shunted us all into two blocks of seating instead of giving us the away end but I think anything over £20 at this level is a rip off. Sure you can have the debate about comparing the price of a day out at footy to other days out but at the end of the day we are paying £20 to watch pretty poor and largely unknown footballers to play football where drop down a couple of divisions and you'd be paying well less than half that in non league for the same thing. Unknown average footballers playing football.

wivelgull · Post by **wivelgull** » 12 Sep 2013, 14:37

I went to the old Newport County ground (Somerton Park) in 1963 and 1964 to watch United. To some extent you could move around the ground and you needed to, because in some places the ash and dirt upon which you were standing was lower than the pitch. If I recall correctly, there was a 'covered stand' (ha ha) whose pillars blocked any reasonable view.

ferrarilover · Post by **ferrarilover** » 12 Sep 2013, 15:05

Just like going to Hereford, then.

Also, stands aren't sentient.

Matt.

jonnyfive · Post by **jonnyfive** » 12 Sep 2013, 16:16

Well done, smug lad.

If only everyone else posted perfectly, like yourself.

According to your post above, NTFC have just one supporter...

jonnyfive · Post by **jonnyfive** » 12 Sep 2013, 17:04

Or perhaps there is just one of them that does a lot of insisting?

ferrarilover · Post by **ferrarilover** » 12 Sep 2013, 17:45

Dear Lord Almighty, you really are a cock, aren't you? Your only "contribution" to this board these days is to pick at me when you are too intellectually limited to join in with the grown ups conversation. Have you **** all better to do with your time?

So, back to my conversation with Wivel: bloody Hereford!

Matt.

Sunnysideup · Post by **Sunnysideup** » 13 Sep 2013, 11:13

ferrarilover wrote:Dear Lord Almighty, you really are a cock, aren't you? Your only "contribution" to this board these days is to pick at me when you are too intellectually limited to join in with the grown ups conversation. Have you f**k all better to do with your time?

Pot & Kettle springs to mind...

ferrarilover · Post by **ferrarilover** » 13 Sep 2013, 11:21

Can't believe that took 18 hours.

Matt.

jonnyfive · Post by **jonnyfive** » 13 Sep 2013, 14:51

Settle down, PLG. It just grates slightly when you attempt to patronise people, and have no idea what you are talking about.

FYI and by the by, it is perfectly acceptable to use 'whose' in reference to an inanimate antecedent. Shakespeare, Milton and Wordsworth did so. I imagine you have heard of them?

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