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Loxfordfella 12:24 Fri Jun 14
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West Ham United Nil, Norwich City One!
My first post, I’ll pre-apologies as it’s not an introduction as I’m writing out of frustration. Let me explain.
One of the selling points for galvanising fans to support the move to the London Stadium was affordable football, but what do they consider affordable football and what are you getting for your money?
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In my opinion a poor view, miles from the pitch and zero connection with the players, which was never the case at Upton Park. No matter where you were in the ground, including the very last row of the west-upper, you still felt included and I say that out of experience.
If West Ham really cared for affordable football, our most expensive season tickets would be well below the £1000 mark and there’s plenty of justification for the club to live up to their word. In actual fact, when they say affordable football they meant for a very small group of people who couldn’t feel any more disconnected from the game if they were on the Moon!
You’re probably thinking I’m a bit bitter and twisted having a ticket in the cheap seats, but honestly that’s not the case. At Upton Park I was in Chav Corner, my seat cost £560. When me and my mates moved we went to the upper-tier to accommodate my mates Dad who’s in his 60s and needs quick access in and out. We’re in block 215, front-row, next to the stairs. The view isn’t bad, but it’s not marvellous either and having sat elsewhere in the ground both upper and lower tiers, being in the ‘cheap seats’ is definitely not value for money.
So why mention Norwich? Well it’s big news in the football world that they have implemented an initiative for all home Premier League tickets to be capped at £30 pounds, which is affordable football.
A quote from Ben Kensell, Norwich City COO:
“We believe as a football club that we have phenomenal support and we shouldn’t price people out of football, so we decided that if £30 is fair for away supporters, then £30 is also fair for home supporters considering the price of a home ticket the last time we were in the Premier League."
You can read the full article here: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/jun/12/norwich-city-cap-carrow-road-tickets-30-premier-league-return
Even Norwich City’s season tickets are reasonably priced no matter where you are in the ground, which you can view here: https://files.canaries.co.uk/canaries/ST1920Prices.pdf
They’re a newly promoted club, so you may be thinking that of course they shouldn’t have season ticket prices that match ours as they’re not established in our league, but let’s use another example - Manchester City, Premier League, FA Cup and League Cup Champions; the first ever team to do the domestic treble.
For the 2019/20 season, Man City’s dearest season ticket is £940 and their cheapest is £310. In both cases they’re cheaper than our most expensive and our cheapest.
Article from the MEN: https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/man-city-season-ticket-prices-14595337
One last example are some of the European giants. Bayern Munich cheapest season ticket was €140 or £127 and their most expensive €667. A season ticket in Borussia Dortmund’s famous yellow wall will set you back €215 or £191. You can read the full article here: https://www.espn.co.uk/football/bayern-munich/story/3533652/bayern-munich-freeze-season-ticket-prices-for-fifth-campaign-in-succession
Other giant European clubs sell their cheapest and most expensive season tickets at:
Team
Most expensive season ticket, £
Cheapest season ticket, £
Barcelona
634.81
172.23
Athletico Madrid
963.96
257.61
Real Madrid
1460.07
177
Real Betis
721.31
239.33
Article here: https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/jan/17/football-ticket-prices-premier-league-europe
So how can the club talk about affordable football when some of Europe’s elite are cheaper to watch then our club? The revenue the club makes from season ticket sales is dwarfed by that of the TV money, so why can they not be a leader and really offer cheap season tickets?
By gentrifying the club they’ll eventually kill off what makes it special - The supporters who have sang the club anthems with passion, who follow the club far and wide and who have stood by the club through thin and thinner.
Make football really affordable before the soul of the game is taken forever.
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Replies - In Chronological Order ( Show Newest Messages First)
mallard
1:09 Fri Jun 14
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I’m chuckling to myself as to how this is going to end up
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Takashi Miike
1:10 Fri Jun 14
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loxford, totally agree and after watching that kieran maguire video, this is as good as it's going to get while they still own the club, and it will/can only get more expensive
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Pub Bigot
1:18 Fri Jun 14
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Good read, that.
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Alfs
1:24 Fri Jun 14
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Odd. No one else on here has expressed dissatisfaction about the move to the OS.
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Jaan Kenbrovin
1:44 Fri Jun 14
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Unfortunately everything is more expensive in London.
Our most expensive ST's were only just above newly promoted Fulham's last season.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/328654/premier-league-teams-ranked-by-most-expensive-season-ticket-price/
Our cheapest were just above the lowest in the PL, which Huddersfield offered.
Considering the renewel rate and potential waiting list, I can't see it changing even if we got mega rich ARABS as owners.
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El Scorchio
2:30 Fri Jun 14
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There is no point at all in comparing our ticket prices to those of Spanish clubs. Apples and oranges.
The only real comparison is other premier league clubs.
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Hammer Oz
5:42 Fri Jun 14
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You dull, dull cunt. This shouldn't be labelled your first post it should be labelled you last....
Dull, long winded shit
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fraser
8:49 Fri Jun 14
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Maybe our season tickets are too cheap if they were more we can generate more income to pay more wages and get better players.
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RM10
9:53 Fri Jun 14
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I will say it again, it’s great to see so many kids going to our games, they will be the future and the overall cheap tickets are a great help keeping the families going
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JLAP
9:56 Fri Jun 14
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TOSH!!
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Pub Bigot
10:09 Fri Jun 14
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RM10, what do you consider cheap? Junior claret members tickets are still paying up to £75 for Cat. A tickets. All Cat. A tickets are uniformed across each band from 1966 seats to Band C e.g. Adults pay £70, so do under 16s.
https://www.whufc.com/tickets/tickets-information/plan-prices
Band 4 and 5 are reasonably priced, but Band 5 seats are hardly fucking worth it.
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AKA ERNIE
10:33 Fri Jun 14
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for a 0l club based in london selling out 60k every week I think our prices are fine
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Alwaysaniron
10:36 Fri Jun 14
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What a fucking boring post! Sorry mate but for an initial post you need to be cunting off Chill...
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Vexed
10:39 Fri Jun 14
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Nobody wants to watch Norwich. Simples.
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Mr Kenzo
10:41 Fri Jun 14
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Bore Off
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Pub Bigot
10:47 Fri Jun 14
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It's my post by the way. Loxford like me thought it was worth raising.
Considering it's cheaper to watch the champions of England and considering the bollocks the board spout and considering the lies to get us into the stadium in the first place I'd have thought it would have struck a cord.
Fair enough.
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Fivetide
10:50 Fri Jun 14
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I liked going to Carrow Road during our run to the cup final. Designated pubs before the game, and excellent pies and in the ground, with a good choice of beers at the bars and even optics. Had such a good day and the win seemed so inevitable that we even sang along to the music they play for their goal. Feck, was that 13 years ago?
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bill green
11:19 Fri Jun 14
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My season ticket was about £650.. in my working class mind if I put £30 in a jar every game next year I'll have enough for my renewal
Given my rail ticket to the game is £25 i dont think its expensive.
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simon.s
11:32 Fri Jun 14
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I think it’s swings and roundabouts.
Bloke at work, who you know PB has a season ticket that probably works out less per game than it is to go and watch a game at orient.
I think the prices are relatively cheap. My gripe is that they’ve done the stadium on the cheap.
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