17/18 ticket prices released

[Rusty view]

I think they are pretty fair.

The club will know how many season tickets they've sold and may well have taken this into consideration. I would imagine they have reached a point in the sales by which they have set these prices. If season ticket uptake had been low then I'd guess they may have kept prices at last seasons prices.

With season tickets still on sale this pricing may prompt a few to purchase season tickets.

 

[Maidenhead]

Fuck me, calm down everyone, United have no track record of ripping off their fans. It's what sets us apart. Me, I paid next to fuck all for a senior's ST, even comparable with these much vaunted European prices people are so fond of quoting. The moaners on here should be delighted to stump up an extra few quid on match day tickets to subsidise us oldies and keep us going anyway. Excellent display of socialist thinking by the club, wouldn't you agree TD?

I can't disagree with a word of that.

What's more at most other clubs (inc S6) you have to be 65 to get the concession so at a mere 61 I wouldn't yet qualify

 

[Jon P]

In my opinion, when I buy a ticket I invest some of my hard earned cash in the club I love. I couldn't give a toss how much the ticket cost, is anyone seriously not going to go after seeing the new prices? No. Stop finding things to moan about.

 

[snootyfenooty]

Quite a leap of imagination there...well done.

The point I'm making is that not many football clubs appear to make much a profit, no matter how successful, so to state 'but we've not made a profit for the last 8 years' (I'm guessing it's a lot more than 8 years btw) for levels of investment is a bit daft.

It's all down to the owner's chucking in...I mean I'm guessing we made a loss the year McCabe spunked a wad of cash over Robson, right?

You're quoting the wrong club to base this argument upon. Man U are absolutely fucking rolling in it. When the Glaziers bought the club it was a leveraged buyout which meant that the cost of buying the club came out of the club's current account and future profits. The loan was mostly secured against MUFC. It also meant that the cost of buying the club has shown as a debit for the past 10 years or more on the clubs accounts and that the Glaziers will end up with a billion plus pound asset that cost them nowt.

 

[seanbeenstattoo]

Bitty ? Titty ? Udders? Being milked by Sir Kevin McCabe transcends all contextual references and is one of lifes rare delights

Reassuringly expensive.

 

[coolhandluke]

I think they are pretty fair.

The club will know how many season tickets they've sold and may well have taken this into consideration. I would imagine they have reached a point in the sales by which they have set these prices. If season ticket uptake had been low then I'd guess they may have kept prices at last seasons prices.

With season tickets still on sale this pricing may prompt a few to purchase season tickets.

Be careful mate ...... McCabe dunt half leave your titties sore . I've told him to use lypsil but the beast within him rules the roost !

 

[Rodders]

Wow. Makes a season ticket brilliant value

 

[Esablade]

This is quite a leap of imagination..

If pretending that we don't really make a 'loss' justifies you putting the boot into McCabe

I 'pretended' no such thing...that where the 'imagination' comes from.

I'm really struggling to understand that.

It's really simple. How many football clubs make a profit?

No, I guess we made a profit that year with the parachute payment and CheatinAmmers money but I can't be sure. If you'd made a more convincing argument, I might have been arsed to actually check it out.

Yes, of course we made a small profit for the Prem season (£0.4 million), perhaps if we'd spent a bit more and made a loss (like most other years) we'd still be there...but hey-ho as they say...

We received the Tevez money a few years later in 2009 which helped us 'record a profit' of £5.8 million...if not for the Tevez money we'd have recorded a loss of £12 million that year.

 

[Tunstall Fred]

You're quoting the wrong club to base this argument upon. Man U are absolutely fucking rolling in it. When the Glaziers bought the club it was a leveraged buyout which meant that the cost of buying the club came out of the club's current account and future profits. The loan was mostly secured against MUFC. It also meant that the cost of buying the club has shown as a debit for the past 10 years or more on the clubs accounts and that the Glaziers will end up with a billion plus pound asset that cost them nowt.

Wasting your time Snoots,he thinks he has found another way to have a dig at Kevin McCabe,he should stick to general chat with his boring posts about politics

 

[seanbeenstattoo]

Can't see much of an increase on last season. £26 ish for BLUT advance and £6 for the youngest is bloody good IMO.

 

[Ldn_Rd_Blades]

I think they should be higher so the real fans with season tickets see the benefit

 

[seanbeenstattoo]

I think they should be higher so the real fans with season tickets see the benefit

Outstanding description on your Ava.
Most apt.

 

[Tyler Durden]

I think they should be higher so the real fans with season tickets see the benefit

I have a season ticket, and I'll potentially be paying just under 3 times less for Cat A matches. Doesn't mean I think it's right.

 

[Esablade]

You're quoting the wrong club to base this argument upon. Man U are absolutely fucking rolling in it. When the Glaziers bought the club it was a leveraged buyout which meant that the cost of buying the club came out of the club's current account and future profits. The loan was mostly secured against MUFC. It also meant that the cost of buying the club has shown as a debit for the past 10 years or more on the clubs accounts and that the Glaziers will end up with a billion plus pound asset that cost them nowt.

Yep..I read somewhere that Manure have spent something like £500 million since 2005 'servicing debt'!

 

[snootyfenooty]

Wasting your time Snoots,he thinks he has found another way to have a dig at Kevin McCabe,he should stick to general chat with his boring posts about politics

I stay off that section of the forum now, you disagree with the usual clique on there and all of a sudden you're in the middle of Custer's last stand

 

[Ldn_Rd_Blades]

I have a season ticket, and I'll potentially be paying just under 3 times less for Cat A matches. Doesn't mean I think it's right.

As a season ticket holder I respect your opinion

 

[Tunstall Fred]

I stay off that section of the forum now, you disagree with the usual clique on there and all of a sudden you're in the middle of Custer's last stand

Speaking as a David Milliband Labour man,if you see what I mean,I agree

 

[Maidenhead]

This was last season

With supporters eagerly looking forward to the new campaign following a spate of new signings, to watch the Owls against Bristol City on the opening day, August 8, fans will be forking out £39 on the Kop, £42 on the North Stand and Grandstand and £46 on the South Stand. Again there is a £5 discount for members.

Read more at: http://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/foot...-owls-reveal-matchday-ticket-prices-1-7360809

Still think we're expensive? bearing in mind this was Bristol City.

Ok, opening day but hardly a top draw.

 

[Maidenhead]

This was last season

With supporters eagerly looking forward to the new campaign following a spate of new signings, to watch the Owls against Bristol City on the opening day, August 8, fans will be forking out £39 on the Kop, £42 on the North Stand and Grandstand and £46 on the South Stand. Again there is a £5 discount for members.

Read more at: http://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/foot...-owls-reveal-matchday-ticket-prices-1-7360809

Still think we're expensive, bearing in mind this was Bristol City.

Ok, opening day but hardly a top draw.

Got me thinking so I had to look.

Memberships cost £50 so you need 10 X £5 discounts to get that back and you can't have a discount on the lowest priced category.

 

[TJB.]

Something which has just caught my eye as I wandered over to the website of the dark side...

They break youth down into categories and charge a flat rate for each age bracket;

Under 17 = £15
Under 11 = £10
Under 5 = £5

You can discuss the pros and cons of that system all you like (I personally think anyone under 6 or 7 shouldn't be charged), but looking at ours, we appear to have U18 pricing, and that's it.

Going by Cat A prices, is it really £15 in advance to take your 11 year-old to the Lane? If so, I really cannot get on board with that in the slightest.

Also had it in my head that kids under a certain age got in free. Is this not the case?

 

[CopenhagenBlade]

Not that I can be bothered to check, but I bet the same people criticizing the prices are also expecting us to compete on salaries and transfer fees with the other big clubs in this division.
Unless we get into the Premier league and start receiving the ludicrous amounts of tv money a lot of our income is derived from ticket sales, so I expect and accept a price rise this season. What I don't get are the high prices in the Premier league as this source of income is almost irrelevant compared to the money received from tv

 

[snootyfenooty]

Speaking as a David Milliband Labour man,if you see what I mean,I agree

Well that makes you at a minimum a Tory. I harked on about old-style Labour so that made me a Blairite, which is even worse than a Tory and apparently the most insulting thing you can call anyone....

 

[Sean Thornton]

The football club made a profit of £2.4m to June 2007 ( after losing £9m thecseason before). To June 2008 it lost £2.7m but the operating loss was actually £10m. Profits on sale of player registrations and fixed assets reduced that.

 

[snootyfenooty]

Something which has just caught my eye as I wandered over to the website of the dark side...

They break youth down into categories and charge a flat rate for each age bracket;

Under 17 = £15
Under 11 = £10
Under 5 = £5

You can discuss the pros and cons of that system all you like (I personally think anyone under 6 or 7 shouldn't be charged), but looking at ours, we appear to have U18 pricing, and that's it.

Going by Cat A prices, is it really £15 in advance to take your 11 year-old to the Lane? If so, I really cannot get on board with that in the slightest.

Also had it in my head that kids under a certain age got in free. Is this not the case?

But balance that against a "young adult" at the Lane being someone who is under 22 at the start of the season who is going to be paying £12-15 for most of the matches. Also the 11 yr old is likely to be paying £10 or £12 for most of the matches. Agree about the under 5 yr old though, that needs looking at.

 

[Norderner]

36 sheets to watch 2nd rate football? Jesus fuckin wept! I've got a season ticket, but what about Blades, who due to the economic crisis, can't afford a season ticket? Absolute piss take.

 

[Sean Thornton]

But balance that against a "young adult" at the Lane being someone who is under 22 at the start of the season who is going to be paying £12-15 for most of the matches. Also the 11 yr old is likely to be paying £10 or £12 for most of the matches. Agree about the under 5 yr old though, that needs looking at.

South stand kids ticket £60 I think.

 

[IdLiketoRogerMoore]

Sadly this was inevitable... To a certain extent (re: ticket prices) we've been spoiled in League One, but people who didn't anticipate that with promotion would come an increase in prices, weren't really thinking. Criticism of the club is a little deluded and very marxist. It would be nice if we could pay £20 but the harsh reality is, that was never going to happen.

I'll break rank and come straight out and say it - if and when we get promoted to the PL ticket prices will increase even further.

 

[snootyfenooty]

36 sheets to watch 2nd rate football? Jesus fuckin wept! I've got a season ticket, but what about Blades, who due to the economic crisis, can't afford a season ticket? Absolute piss take.

C'mon, you could have quoted £20-25 because that's all an adult will have to pay for 80% of the games.

 

[snootyfenooty]

South stand kids ticket £60 I think.

Shit. That's all they cost. Definitely a missed opportunity of getting rid of the kids for the day in years gone by.

 

[Maidenhead]

£36 to watch a championship football match is a joke... disappointed with the club

Wow, the Wednesdayfication of United begins...

£30 to sit on our kop crosses the line for me, no matter how many A's or stars you give the match. If, as it obviously will, include the Pigs match it will hurt but I won't be there.

36 sheets to watch 2nd rate football? Jesus fuckin wept! I've got a season ticket, but what about Blades, who due to the economic crisis, can't afford a season ticket? Absolute piss take.

I blame all those bastards that bought season tickets leaving only a very limited number of match by match tickets available.

Without those twats we could have had match day prices at about £15 to boost demand but they don't think about anyone but themselves.

One thing is for sure, they won't sell many at £36, if only because there will be non left by match day.