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Man City's cheapest season ticket only £4-00 dearer than ours! Conference comparisons don't make good reading either-though our facilities ie Bristows Bench, will generally be better than many of those clubs with cheap seats.

Whilst I agree it doesn't make good reading, we need to consider the problems Torquay face in dropping prices.

Firstly, we have a brand new stand which needs to be paid for.

Secondly, if we were to drop our prices, we probably wouldn't get enough extra fans in to make up the difference, which would leave us even worse off financially. If more people in the bay would be willing to watch us then it might be a different matter, unfortunately too many people aren't interested. I have a number off friends who like football, but support Premier League teams with absolutely no connection, but choose to watch them on TV rather than supporting a local team who they can watch live. They would never even consider coming to watch us. Even if tickets prices were £5 per game, I would struggle to get them to come regularly over the course of a season.

If we were given £100m a year in TV revenue and prize money, even for finishing bottom, we could charge next to nothing to get in. Until then, as gate receipts count for a massive chunk of our total revenue, we have to maximise them if we want to be competitive in whichever league we're in.

.....and the fact that city are owned by a family with a few quid.............

The price is extortionate especially when you factor in refreshments. I follow Torquay but don't believe I should subsidize it's ambitions, that is the job of the board at the end of the day they own the club!

Gulliball wrote:If we were given £100m a year in TV revenue and prize money, even for finishing bottom, we could charge next to nothing to get in. Until then, as gate receipts count for a massive chunk of our total revenue, we have to maximise them if we want to be competitive in whichever league we're in.

I can't believe more people don't ever think of this. I thought it was just me.

yellowmonkey wrote:The price is extortionate especially when you factor in refreshments. I follow Torquay but don't believe I should subsidize it's ambitions, that is the job of the board at the end of the day they own the club!

This is crazy - of course we have to help subsidise at our level. It's almost impossible to make a profit otherwise (and we probably don't do that anyway!!)

yellowmonkey wrote:The price is extortionate especially when you factor in refreshments. I follow Torquay but don't believe I should subsidize it's ambitions, that is the job of the board at the end of the day they own the club!

Are You or are you not a Gulls fan. You say you follow United then say you shouldn't see why you should subsidise the clubs ambitions. I have heard some rubbish in my time but you have managed to top the iceberg by some considerable margin.
Boards ambitions indeed. So your saying you don't have any ambition to see us back in the football League then. You don't have ambitions of seeing if we can get into league one.ever! It's not the boards or clubs ambitions It all of ours. Not just the board not just the players and not just me or Matt or Dave, SG or Trojan assuming he has gotten over his beloved Doris leaving. Or even you.
How you can sit there and claim to be a supporter and yet have absolutely no ambition is beyond me.
The board actually subsidise your hobby. You have no right to tell them that you are not willing to pay your way if you want to watch the club and even less right to claim that they have to subsidise your hobby which i assume watching United is. as it is for all of us. It certainly confirms for me the selfish attitude that people like you have when it come to watching your team. I for one am now glad I didn't put in my sum to sit on the board to hear people like you moan and slag others off for not putting enough into the club so you can watch it for next to nothing. If you really feel like that then bog off and watch that plastic bunch of whingers at Man City. Your an insult to our intelligence
We don't want the likes of you around. You only bring our name dowm.

As usual, Gloster throws a hissy. :}

I'll tell you what I had last night for the Popside entrance fee of £17 : a Wetherspoons 14oz steak with all the trimmings washed down with 4 pints of real ale.

You works for yer money and gets the choice how you spends it.

So what Trojan. I can do that too. but then I won't go around telling everyone that The club is ripping us off. One might even go as far to suggest that the premier league clubs are ripping us off. They are sucking the life out of the very lifeblood of the game. But I won't stand there self rightously claiminng the your or the directors or anyone else should subsidise watching my club.
And as for "AS USUAL I THROW A HISSY FIT. You show me how many posts i have thrown a hissy git out of the several hundred I have written. If I have told you a million times stop exageration. you old hissy fit. go and worship at your shrine to Doris.

Same old droning boring Gloster

I havn't got a problem paying £21 for entry fee providing we are paying good football and up there and challenging. Mind you its more like £60 when you factor in the price of fuel to get there.
I attended all the home games up to Woking, missed the Dover game (due to finance). I didn't go to the Wrexham game because of the way we lost at Telford with Rice playing like a Western League keeper.
I won't be going to the Grimsby game either because of the latest pathetic effort against Alfreton.
So basically I am happy to pay the money but won't be stumping up when we keep conceding four against part time useless opposition.

Glostergull wrote: Are You or are you not a Gulls fan. You say you follow United then say you shouldn't see why you should subsidise the clubs ambitions. I have heard some rubbish in my time but you have managed to top the iceberg by some considerable margin.
Boards ambitions indeed. So your saying you don't have any ambition to see us back in the football League then. You don't have ambitions of seeing if we can get into league one.ever! It's not the boards or clubs ambitions It all of ours. Not just the board not just the players and not just me or Matt or Dave, SG or Trojan assuming he has gotten over his beloved Doris leaving. Or even you.
How you can sit there and claim to be a supporter and yet have absolutely no ambition is beyond me.
The board actually subsidise your hobby. You have no right to tell them that you are not willing to pay your way if you want to watch the club and even less right to claim that they have to subsidise your hobby which i assume watching United is. as it is for all of us. It certainly confirms for me the selfish attitude that people like you have when it come to watching your team. I for one am now glad I didn't put in my sum to sit on the board to hear people like you moan and slag others off for not putting enough into the club so you can watch it for next to nothing. If you really feel like that then bog off and watch that plastic bunch of whingers at Man City. Your an insult to our intelligence
We don't want the likes of you around. You only bring our name dowm.

I am also a big fan of movies but not going to pay extortinate prices to watch a film just so my local cinema can stay open!! Its called cutting your cloth accordingly and if the board dont want to stump up extra cash to get the club back into the league then why should the fans. At the end of the day they made the decision to invest in what is a buisness but want other people to pay for it, i dont think we would see any profit given back to the fans if the club was later sold at a profit. It's like Thatcher with her council house debunkle, we'll give you a house and give you housing benefit to pay for it then when you want to buy it we'll give you a massive discount for all the rent you paid.
This isn't a hobby to me, maybe to you and feel free to set up a direct debit to Mrs Bristow and Co. I would rather spend my hard earned cash on something more positive than overpaid footballers.

yellowmonkey wrote:. I would rather spend my hard earned cash on something more positive than overpaid footballers.

And that is absolutely your decision ! However, don't think we've got too many of those at TUFC at the moment...even those left over from last season had to take a hefty cut in wages following relegation; several of the current team are (reportedly) earning 25% of the amount one of our top earners took home in 13/14.
Not supporting your local cinema is an interesting analogy on a 'use it or lose it' basis; let's hope it doesn't ever come to that at LWS Plainmoor !
Being a taxi driver, I can moan all I like about the price of fuel;but if I choose not to pay the price, I can't actually trade ! If I want to watch my team play ( & I do, it's an addiction ...otherwise why would I still be going, particularly after the last two seasons ?!) I have to pay the price ! Interesting that the BBC survey took no account of the 'early-bird' prices or the offers that the Club still has on offer, but I suppose that would be the case for all the other clubs as well !

I agree with Glostergull..

By the way, Bristol Rovers' cheapest adult admission price is £18, £1 more than us, yet their attendances are two or three times as big and we're only two points behind them near the top of the table.

Either they must be doing something right, or we are..