Football Ticket Prices - What is going on?.....

[adhibs]

Football is expensive but it's not the only thing. Compare it to going to a club with a decent line up on and you can easily pay 20 to get in. Same with bands your reguarly paying 20-30 and even double that at times. It seems a bit better when looking at it that way

[Thecat23]

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Roughly speaking to generate the same income as we currently do but charge a tenner our crowds would have to more than double and our stadium isn't big enough for that.

Tenner isn't a realistic price for football if.we are to try and attract decent players, twenty quid is a more realistic target.

£20 isn't over the top but that's still to pricey if you ask me. I don't believe in this "better" standard of player either mate. If all clubs reduced the pricing to £10 in Scotland we would all be in the same boat. It would defo bring in loads more walk up fans. Even £15 max. The players we are attracting aren't great anyway so I fail to see what dropping the price will do. Bigger crowds, better atmosphere! Football is dying all over the UK because of it being to dear. Something has to change and soon.

[Steve-O]

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Football is expensive but it's not the only thing. Compare it to going to a club with a decent line up on and you can easily pay 20 to get in. Same with bands your reguarly paying 20-30 and even double that at times. It seems a bit better when looking at it that way

Yeah but if you went to the same club every week and didn't know what kind of show was going to be put on (i.e. utter guff half the time), what would you do then?

Football cannot be compared to concerts / clubs etc. The chances of you not getting your money's worth is FAR less at a concert or club IMO.

[Thecat23]

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Exactly - where are the dross in the SPL now going to go exactly if wages drop?? League 2 or something? Good luck to them if that's the case.

The public need to get engaged again and high ticket prices for watching pish is not the way to do it. Everything is the wrong way round. Keeping prices high so we can pay 'quality players'? Give me a break.

100% agree, it's time clubs involved fans in what they think is a reasonable pricing structure. Then try work from there. I know many Hibs fans with a couple of kids who just can't afford it. Yet they would defo come if the price was dropped. Lets be honest here football is a game to be enjoyed, to go and watch your team on a sat! Ridiculous prices and poor players are driving the fans away. Sooner clubs see this and address it in the proper manner the better off we all will be.

[adhibs]

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Yeah but if you went to the same club every week and didn't know what kind of show was going to be put on (i.e. utter guff half the time), what would you do then?.

Thats a fair point I suppose. Only time hibs have been that bad ive stopped going was under calderwood. Iv still paid in plenty times knowing my chances of being entertained are slim and will continue to do so. Lile signing up for a season ticket again next year

[Hermit Crab]

Season 03/04 it was £17 for an adult ticket in the east for a derby. Ten years later its an astonishing £11 more. £28 is shocking for cat A games most of which are live on tv. Hibs are not the only team guilty of high overpriced tickets. We need a cap of say £20 for an adult ticket. £10 for kids/oap.

[marinello59]

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£20 isn't over the top but that's still to pricey if you ask me. I don't believe in this "better" standard of player either mate. If all clubs reduced the pricing to £10 in Scotland we would all be in the same boat. It would defo bring in loads more walk up fans. Even £15 max. The players we are attracting aren't great anyway so I fail to see what dropping the price will do. Bigger crowds, better atmosphere! Football is dying all over the UK because of it being to dear. Something has to change and soon.

If all clubs in Scotland dropped their prices to £10 at the same time then we will all have a poorer standard of player at our clubs. Currently we are competing against the second and third tiers of English football for players. We'd be looking at 4th tier players if we cut income to that extent. How on earth would lowering standards attract fans back even at a tenner a head? And keeping the best young Scottish players in our league will become even harder.
You can't look at pricing in isolation as a cure for all of Scottish footballs problems. It is only a part of what is wrong. Much more radical surgery is required, Summer Football giving us our own niche TV market for instance.

[degenerated]

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How often do we see fans demanding that the board pay players what they want? We can't have it all ways. Cheaper ticket prices will mean an even poorer product on the park than we have now.

You would have to be able to understand the profile of our floating support and how sensitive they are to price before either argument carries any gravitas.
Guys like yourself are the core support and as such you are insensitive to price, in economic terms. It's outside that core group that elasticity of price in relation to demand comes into play and currently we have no idea what reducing prices would mean in relation to attendances. Perhaps hibs would do well to have an economist on the board rather than just accountants

[bingo70]

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If all clubs in Scotland dropped their prices to £10 at the same time then we will all have a poorer standard of player at our clubs. Currently we are competing against the second and third tiers of English football for players. We'd be looking at 4th tier players if we cut income to that extent. How on earth would lowering standards attract fans back even at a tenner a head? And keeping the best young Scottish players in our league will become even harder.
You can't look at pricing in isolation as a cure for all of Scottish footballs problems. It is only a part of what is wrong. Much more radical surgery is required, Summer Football giving us our own niche TV market for instance.

Clubs would also have no chance of paying back existing debts with prices at that figure so clubs would be going to the wall left, right and centre.

I think a more realistic target is for a dramatic reduction in st prices so there's a clear financial benefit to getting one, if they were around 250 quid o think significantly more people would sign up

[DH1875]

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Imo walk up prices are what they need to be to cover costs but there should be a far bigger saving for getting a season ticket