' Free or cheaper away travel? '

Talk is that the Premier league will discuss the possibility of subsidised away travel for fans in the Premier league...possibly £14 per person per trip off the costs for every away fan.

Hopefully this will be passed and then they will turn to price capping the ticket prices.....the whole point is that TV deals are massive and if away fans start boycotting games then the atmosphere becomes poor and the TV companies won't be happy, so there is merit in looking at these ticket prices.

Not sure if any of this will impact on the lower divisions but it makes sense.

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Yes most def corky it would make sense

Surely the less people travelling means the more people watching it on tele tho... More people seeing the adverts at HT etc... Seem to me like it would work either way to the money men throwing the cash at the premier league for tv rights.
Still, good news for all if it does go through!

About time.

It is really becoming a windup subject when all this TV money is going to the 22 people on the pitch and none to the thousands in the stand. Perhaps I'm getting old and bitter but I don't have time much for these players on substanial wages and when they have a shit game I would demand they hand their weeks wages back.

Take note, this is a once only, seeing Swansea in the top half of the premier and knowing their wage cap being a lot ower than some of the other teams a lot lower than them well it does please me, shame it had to be the Jacks proving these overpaid prima donnas are not worth their wages.

Its desperatley needed. Man City are not selling their allocation to Arsenal at £62 per head. Its the thin end of the wedge when the PL champions cant sell allocation for a match like that.

I don't attend away matches due to some of our new breed fans so unless the league enforce rules on what type of characters and raise the age of those who can travel away then this won't affect me. To think even 15 years ago that a Cardiff City away fan under the age of 40 would wear chinos is madness. I still attend all the old fashioned grounds and less fancied teams though as the plastics don't attend those games.

How would this work? I always travel by train. Is it ALL away fans? i.e Train, coach, car, speedboat?

Safe standing is the answer. It increases capacity which therefore means more people through the stadium and you can then drop the prices of each ticket by a few quid.

20,000 * £30 = 600,000
30,000 * £20 = 600,000

Really is a no brainer. Safe standing can increase capacities by a considerable amount. The only seated areas in any stadium should be the grandstands for the business types. Then you should have a small section at the end of that stand for families who want to sit and the disabled. The other three stands should all be safe standing so then those sitting have the atmosphere of the other three stands all around them.

The day safe standing is allowed is the day the fans have won the battle.

Swans are charging a fiver to get to Arsenal next week

Swans are charging a fiver to get to Arsenal next week

Thats because they need to get the egg chasers to go on away trips too.

Its desperatley needed. Man City are not selling their allocation to Arsenal at £62 per head. Its the thin end of the wedge when the PL champions cant sell allocation for a match like that.

£62??? That's f*cking awful.

Its desperatley needed. Man City are not selling their allocation to Arsenal at £62 per head. Its the thin end of the wedge when the PL champions cant sell allocation for a match like that.

£62??? That's f*cking awful.

yep

there was a man city fan rep on talkshite on weds saying they sent half their allocation back but Arsenal werent bothered as they could move the tickets to home 'fans'. not sure how true that bit was.