Exploiting fans.

I've said it before and it enrages me that sub standard players can command such wages whereas us the fans have to work 40 - 60 hour weeks and 60 years of hard graff and get a measly £100 a week state pension while these overrated uneducated players retire at 30 - 35. Only going to London games for a day out and obviously Cardiff away again as my Dad enjoyed the adventure last time and is looking for to it. Fans are being taken for complete idiots.

 http://www.football365.com/f365-says/9919055/F365-Focus


(selected paragraphs) Last week Sheffield Wednesday released details about the price structure of their home match tickets.

There was no accompanying information to explain the news that, for the highest category games, adult tickets in the club's South Stand would be priced at £52. Under-11s would be allowed in for £21."The matchday ticket price structure came as a big shock to Wednesday fans mainly because it wasn't communicated by the club," said supporter and Sheffield Star columnist Laura Jones. "The prices appeared on the club website without explanation. It took two days for the club to address the issue in the form of a chairman's statement."Chansiri also mentioned that supporters could save £5 on each ticket by purchasing a club membership for £30 per season.

Securing money up front is clearly key.The most worrying message was yet to come. "If we are to achieve our ultimate aim of promotion, we must embark on this journey together," was Chansiri's concluding message. If in doubt, resort to emotional blackmail. The limits of FFFP were supposed to force clubs to do things the 'right' way. Instead, the message is this: Signings will be made, but only if you fund them. Fail to do so, and fans only have themselves to blame.Not every game at Hillsborough this season will set home supporters back £52, of course. The opening day fixture against Bristol City (promoted from League One) will cost only £36-£43 for adults.

Prices are putting the fans off at Cardiff too.
Cardiff had a chance this season to bridge the gap between fans and club and failed miserable.
We have a 33000 stadium to fill.
When players get paid xxxx amount it annoys fans that prices don't seem to come down even when the clubs get more income from the league.

The state doesn't want you to go to games. It wants the rich and middle class families who 'behave' to go. The working class are easier to police when they're at home watching the games on Sky. Less working class people causing a problem at games leads to less policing and less of a dent in police revenue. It also means the police can spend more time out bothering motorists with fines and hitting their targets. The problem is, a lot of the rich and middle class just aren't interested in football to the point they'll watch smaller clubs in the Championship. They're far happier watching other sports and only taking an interest in football when it suits them.

The state doesn't want you to go to games. It wants the rich and middle class families who 'behave' to go. The working class are easier to police when they're at home watching the games on Sky. Less working class people causing a problem at games leads to less policing and less of a dent in police revenue. It also means the police can spend more time out bothering motorists with fines and hitting their targets. The problem is, a lot of the rich and middle class just aren't interested in football to the point they'll watch smaller clubs in the Championship. They're far happier watching other sports and only taking an interest in football when it suits them.

WTF was that

The state doesn't want you to go to games. It wants the rich and middle class families who 'behave' to go. The working class are easier to police when they're at home watching the games on Sky. Less working class people causing a problem at games leads to less policing and less of a dent in police revenue. It also means the police can spend more time out bothering motorists with fines and hitting their targets. The problem is, a lot of the rich and middle class just aren't interested in football to the point they'll watch smaller clubs in the Championship. They're far happier watching other sports and only taking an interest in football when it suits them.

WTF was that

£21 for under 11s cost 50p maybe even less when i started going in the late 70s, admittedly terracing . Wonder what 50p back in the 70s would be worth now. Anybody know?

Prices are putting the fans off at Cardiff too.
Cardiff had a chance this season to bridge the gap between fans and club and failed miserable.
We have a 33000 stadium to fill.
When players get paid xxxx amount it annoys fans that prices don't seem to come down even when the clubs get more income from the league.

People who run clubs like ours/yours are absolutely clueless. They think hiking ticket prices will make the club a profit but it has the reverse effect whereas by having less fans (Customers by Paul Barber) in the ground and around the ground then less money is generated though fans spending on merchandise and not least forgetting the pies and beers and programmes etc etc.

I'm no rocket scientist by any stretch of the imagination but even my pea brain can work out that if you lower prices then more people will turn up (Future fans) and more new fans meaning they'll spend more on merchandise and will create a better atmosphere as stadiums will be fuller instead of sitting in the library.

CEO's think about profit and are detached from reality.

The state doesn't want you to go to games. It wants the rich and middle class families who 'behave' to go. The working class are easier to police when they're at home watching the games on Sky. Less working class people causing a problem at games leads to less policing and less of a dent in police revenue. It also means the police can spend more time out bothering motorists with fines and hitting their targets. The problem is, a lot of the rich and middle class just aren't interested in football to the point they'll watch smaller clubs in the Championship. They're far happier watching other sports and only taking an interest in football when it suits them.

WTF was that

The truth of living in an oppressive police state. George Orwell and Aldous Huxley were both correct in their own ways on how governments will manipulate policies to suit their own ends and control a population. Sadly, the general public in both America and the UK are too apathetic to do anything about it and are dumbed down and kept entertained by nonsensical crap like reality television and soda drinks killing off their brain cells full of chemicals. Why do you also think America is so keen on taking away the American peoples guns? So it can do what it wants more swiftly without risk of an arms based revolt and civil war.