Football is no different to anything else.
We can bemoan the rising ticket prices making it harder for the traditional working man to afford to attend games, particularly with his family, but it's no different to him being unable to afford a better car or holiday when someone else can afford to pay for that car or holiday.
Most of the costs for a football club are fixed (eg maintenance, admin) so the one that is most dependent on income is the playing budget. Higher prices may mean some of us can't afford to go as often as we would like but as long as the ticket sales hold up then the club will make more money to spend on a better playing squad for us to watch.
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23-03-2019 10:30 AM #31Mature, sensible signature required for responsible position. Good prospects for the right candidate. Apply within.
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23-03-2019 11:02 AM #32
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23-03-2019 11:08 AM #33
Celtic are charging £49 for a ticket for the Sevco game next week, horrendous. I thought £32 for the PBS was bad.
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23-03-2019 11:21 AM #34This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
These derbies aside (simple case of supply and demand and knowing it’ll sell out regardless) think majority of Scottish fans need to remember that we receive a very small fraction of the tv money and prize money that England, Spain, Germany etc get.
Nothing frustrates me more than seeing part time Scottish fans saying ‘Scottish football is a joke, can get a ticket for Newcastle Chelsea for a tenner but costs over £20 to watch hibs’. Hibs have the same outlays as anyone else, we want us competing at the top, we need to pay the same police, stewards, lighting etc.
The club is hardly making a huge profit, meaning the money we are bringing in we are spending again. As an entertainment business I don’t find £20-£30 19 times a season that much for nearly 2 hours entertainment.
The top top clubs that, even if they sold tickets for £0 to every game, would still churn out huge profits then that is slightly different, but if fans buy them then it’s hardly surprising that the clubs carry on doing it.
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23-03-2019 11:26 AM #35This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Absolutely scandalous for any Scottish league match, even if it is the Old Firm.HIBERNIAN FC - ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY SINCE 1875
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23-03-2019 11:53 AM #36
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The lower part of Section N and G should've been closed down and the offending supporters in that section banned.
It hasn't happened, because she has failed to deal with them.
She's done the worst of all worlds, which is to come out and condemn them for things like standing while watching the game. This gives them, much like their alt right heroes, a chance to look like they're being victimised without actually being punished.
If her stance against sectarianism is a strong one, could you care to explain how, in 2014, Hearts had a tiny sectarian issue, and now they are the second most sectarian fanbase in Scotland after Rangers, who regularly sing the Gorgie Boys? Doesn't make sense to me, personally.
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It's supply and demand, I suppose.
I'd imagine they could get a six figure crowd for matches between those two, if they had a stadium large enough.
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I think the truth is somewhere in between. She has come out and criticised behaviour, I think also restricting access to a couple of sections, but there's probably a lot more that could be done, both at Hearts and certain other clubs.
I don't think the rise in sectarianism can be attributed to Budge. It may have happened under her watch but she's the only owner of Hearts I've ever heard criticising Fans' behaviour.
If she's trying to gentrify football, as you suggest, she seems to have a long way to go.
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23-03-2019 04:31 PM #40
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Percentage wise ticket money makes up far more of a team like hibs income compared to large teams in the German, Spanish or English leagues.
Bayer Munich said once they could put their ticket prices up but it would only generate an extra 2m a year and what is 2m to them. They would rather the football was affordable for the fans. On the other hand 2m for hibs is massive
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23-03-2019 05:09 PM #41
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People pay.......and there is the problem!
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24-03-2019 01:20 AM #42
There are two sides of football in the UK though.
You have a league in Scotland where the proportion of a club's annual income which comes from the supporters is extremely high, the fans are the clubs major source of income. In that scenario its understandable that clubs struggle a bit to make substantial cuts to the price of matchday tickets …. I know folk will come up with examples like Hamilton for example who I understand charge little or nothing for kids and youths, but the amount of income that would lose them compared to the likes of Hibs or Aberdeen is minimal.
In England, especially in the EPL, you have exactly the opposite scenario where TV and sponsorship money dwarves income through the turnstiles for most clubs. In that scenario you would sort of hope that the clubs would make tickets affordable for fans who are on a limited income, instead of that they seem determined to squeeze the fans until their financial pips squeak.
But as has been said, the wage demands of players and agents seem to be the main problem. You have players earning over a quarter of a million quid a week in some cases … what would the average EPL player be on … 40K, 50K, 60K, 70K a week? …. its mental. Just how long will it be until a wage cap is introduced? For all their riches the EPL's overall debt is gigantic and that might seem manageable on the face of it, but look at the trouble clubs are getting into trying to join the party … Aston Villa and Birmingham City spring to mind.
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24-03-2019 05:35 PM #43
It’d be interesting to see a list of entry prices for Easter road since since around the seventies.Remember it was 30p for an under 16 in the early eighties.
Prices have gone through the roof.
Football used to be for the common person. The greedy decided to change that.
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24-03-2019 06:32 PM #44
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They didn't invent football. They didn't make it successful or popular. They really have no right to charge us anything to watch it, let alone hundreds of pounds in some cases.
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Carnage.
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24-03-2019 07:56 PM #46This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
(only kidding in case you're daft enough)
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But where is football heading?
If prices keep rising like this then only the well off will be able to afford a day out at the football.
Only 150 year ago our club was formed by Edinburghs poorest community living in Edinburghs worst slums in the Cowgate.
We were supported by the same people who lived there.
We need to keep a balance so football isn’t out of reach for low income families.Greedy cunning business people have stolen our game.
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24-03-2019 09:19 PM #48
1999/00
East Stand season ticket - £240
Hearts away ticket - £18
St Johnstone away ticket - £15
In today's money - £412.48, £30.94 & £25.78
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24-03-2019 09:22 PM #49This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteHIBERNIAN FC - ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY SINCE 1875
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25-03-2019 08:10 AM #52
Prices are becoming a joke but there are 2 issues...
-People pay it so clubs so no reason for clubs to freeze or reduce costs
-Our league is a joke and some clubs would probably go out the box if they couldn't gurantee maximum income from Old Firm fans a few times a season
Biggest problem with Scottish football is being in the UK and its proximity to England meaning a smaller share of TV revenue and inflated wages.
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25-03-2019 09:06 AM #53
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paying say £2,000 for a st?
or be happy paying a walk up of say £50/60?
sadly its a choice a lot of people make,sadly for me, i cannot afford a st, i do wonder how many people are in the same boat?
as other posters have said its supply and demand, as a poster above mentoined above about a special game played in 2016,i think these sorta *one off games* i think alot of people would go for that sorta type of thing if the prices were out the box,though i think those sorta games are just that *one off games*
I am not sure what the answer is,sadly i think alot of people in time ,unless things change will be forced to make a choice of buying st's/ walk up tickets to go support hibs or they get to a point of cant afford it wont go
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