07 Feb 2016 10:31:58
Fair play to Liverpool fans yesterday, I don't like em but uve gota give em credit for making a stand £77 for a ticket is a scandal I've just got myself and my son tickets to Utd vs villa +a Childs membership for £66!
07 Feb 2016 11:16:41
Absolutely disgraceful price increase, and I hope the club takes notice. Unfortunately, I think it would take a mass refusal to renew season tickets for the club to think about reversing their strategy.
07 Feb 2016 11:50:45
Wouldn't be amazing if a club with such strong Commercial Revenues like Utd used that to reduce ticket costs and created a City style fan park?
Watching the Sunday Supplement comments on Dortmund selling tickets at £15 and having 80,000 fans going nuts supporting the team makes you think about what's wrong with EPL football.
United could have 80,000 to 100,000 capacity sell half the tickets to 'local or long term' fans at subsidised rate and the others to football tourists and corperate entertainment.
The seating could by in mixed clusters so the atmosphere isn't lost. The local fans would actually drive sales to tourist and corperate as they'd want to be part of like I want to watch Dortmund.
I hate the fact I can only afford a few games a season and live 10 miles away and I am sure there are others in similar positions.
Also I'm not taking anything away from overseas or long distance fans I know people who fly in every week and stop in Manchester hotels to catch the game and they love the club as much as anyone.
I think a lot of clubs are forgetting the difference between customers and fans.
I work for a €70b company and our sales strategy is to create fans not customers. Fans support, fans stand by you, fans give you time, fans promote.
{Ed001's Note - Leicester are leading the way. 15k a home game for the clappers, drinks vouchers with tickets, bottle of beer for new year etc etc, there have been home games they have made a loss on ticket sales! How much has the increased atmosphere gained them? It was a big part of their survival and now their climb to the top. The prize money is far more than they are spending.}
07 Feb 2016 12:02:20
I completely agree as was mentioned on the Sunday supplement fsi referred them to customers not fans! I think Utd tickets aren't too bad don't get me wrong they could do with coming down so all fans including those who aren't comfortable financially can see their hero's, having said that its still cheaper for me to watch Utd than going to the halliwell jones to watch the Warrington wolves.
07 Feb 2016 12:52:48
Didn't Roy Keane see this one coming, the prawn sandwich brigade, and now United players will be asking us to watch Hollywood films, Leicester are doing a lot right at the moment, and if I'm right in thinking their first team cost something like 22 million,
I think a sit in would be a better protest than a walkout.