Barnsley Tickets

[Minty]

It won't be until there's notable stay aways and protests that anything will change, and that will unlikely happen because there will always be a few hundred who will pay stupid money to prove how bigger fans they are.

To be fair I think it's just simply that if people can afford it they will go.

Not many would be moaning if the tickets were £30 (or £32 which we charged them) and when you take into account how much people spend on booze and grub on match days, £6 won't make a huge difference to many. Just have a pint or 2 less!

For the record, it's too much for me and I won't be going. However, if I could afford it I would go - because I love away days and watching The Blades, not to prove I'm a bigger fan.

 

[loyalblade95]

Correct. But many would like to go but cannot afford to pay that much money so will miss out.

Myself included.

same and its one of my favourite away days

 

[alcoblade]

For as long as people are willing to pay these prices, clubs will continue to charge them.

If it is true that these are daft prices for the fare on offer, then logically it stands to reason that football clubs would only be daft not to charge them if fans weren't daft enough to buy them.

Sorry if this sounds harsh but presumably we all recall the brave stand that was made against the Man Utd 3rd round prices a couple of years ago, where the "boycott" resulted in all tickets being sold really quickly and probably resulted in a footnote at the end of the next Man Utd meeting suggesting they can probably afford to go 10% higher next time.

I don't know exactly where the line in the sand is, but I am fairly certain that £36 to watch Barnsley is on the wrong side of it. If you don't like it, withhold your custom, or you can have no grounds at all for complaint.

I think this will be my first Barnsley away miss for some years, unless I wilt nearer the time.

 

[alcoblade]

To be fair I think it's just simply that if people can afford it they will go.

Not many would be moaning if the tickets were £30 (or £32 which we charged them) and when you take into account how much people spend on booze and grub on match days, £6 won't make a huge difference to many. Just have a pint or 2 less!

For the record, it's too much for me and I won't be going. However, if I could afford it I would go - because I love away days and watching The Blades, not to prove I'm a bigger fan.

There’s has to be a line though. “£6 won’t make a huge difference”, so neither will the next £6, or the next...

I drew the line at The Sty this year for a more important derby. £36 for the Dingles is also over my line.

 

[Minty]

There’s has to be a line though. “£6 won’t make a huge difference”, so neither will the next £6, or the next...

I drew the line at The Sty this year for a more important derby. £36 for the Dingles is also over my line.

I don't disagree with you. It is far too much but if folk can afford it they will go.

 

[Large Mendonca]

Wouldn’t have minded going to this, but they can fuck off for £36

 

[Pedro Verde]

same and its one of my favourite away days

Really I hate going to that shithole cant get a drink near the ground as you have to show your six fingers to get into the local boozers

 

[Muttley]

Tha c'n gerra row o' terraces for that in Baaaaarnsley tha knoowas.

 

[cahill]

I’ve been looking forward to this one. Normally as an over 60s Senior I pay £13 at the Lane, at Jokewell I’d have to pay the full £36, a bit of a difference. Not sure I can afford to go now. If my mates keen and hopefully Brooks is available may change my mind.

 

[alcoblade]

I don't disagree with you. It is far too much but if folk can afford it they will go.

Not entirely (but mostly) true.

I can easily afford it, but I’m not paying it.

 

[raul]

A quick review of our WhatsApp group reveals a further £180 worth of tickets will be available for purchase by someone else .

 

[Deadbat]

I wont be there or reporting on this one from the sofa or anywhere else....in Germany...may do a report when I get back from Hamburg v Schalke - a Bundelsiga game. I got tickets for £26 to put it into context.

 

[alcoblade]

I work with a Barnsley fan and he says he paid £36 to come to BDTBL earlier in the season

Tell him to not let the facts get in the way of a good story.

 

[jt64]

I wont be there or reporting on this one from the sofa or anywhere else....in Germany...may do a report when I get back from Hamburg v Schalke - a Bundelsiga game. I got tickets for £26 to put it into context.

To also put it into context, I'm in Germany as well that weekend, and the two Bundesliga games I'm watching cost less combined than Barnsley would cost...

PM me if you want any HSV tips, end of hijack

 

[awblade]

I can easily afford it, but I’m not paying it.

Exactly this. And i didn't go to wednesday, Bolton or Manchester reds for the same reason

 

[SUFC Handsworth]

£36 robbing twats

We have been allocated 4,224 tickets, priced £36 Adults, £24 Seniors 65+ and Under 22, £10 Under 17, and £5 Under 12
* Under 12 must be registered on our system and MUST have sufficient points.

F***ing disgusting, I was going to go but no chance at those prices.

The price of football is a joke, with all the money being ploughed into the game at the top end that should be filtered down through the leagues and non-league pyramid. It'd wipe out all club debts and fans shouldn't have to pay more than a tenner to watch a game. The players at the very top don't need that much money, take a nought off their earnings and they still don't need that much money.

 

[Davalon]

To be fair I think it's just simply that if people can afford it they will go.

Not many would be moaning if the tickets were £30 (or £32 which we charged them) and when you take into account how much people spend on booze and grub on match days, £6 won't make a huge difference to many. Just have a pint or 2 less!

For the record, it's too much for me and I won't be going. However, if I could afford it I would go - because I love away days and watching The Blades, not to prove I'm a bigger fan.

I know where you're coming from but how do you decipher affordability?

If Barnsley tickets were £100 I could afford it as a one off but wouldn't pay it out of sheer principle. Some fans would still pay it even if it was a struggle.

If the tickets were £50 or £60 say, and some tried to organise a protest to have an empty away end, there would still be several hundred go, some who arent remotely wealthy, because they'd rather show what big Blades they are than support the cause.

That's not a dig, it's just how it is with some fans of all clubs.

 

[Minty]

I know where you're coming from but how do you decipher affordability?

If Barnsley tickets were £100 I could afford it as a one off but wouldn't pay it out of sheer principle. Some fans would still pay it even if it was a struggle.

If the tickets were £50 or £60 say, and some tried to organise a protest to have an empty away end, there would still be several hundred go, some who arent remotely wealthy, because they'd rather show what big Blades they are than support the cause.

That's not a dig, it's just how it is with some fans of all clubs.

Yep, some fair points there.

Not really possible to define affordable as that's purely down to the individual. I imagine that if ticket prices for this match were £40 plus, many more wouldn't go out of principle even if they could afford it but because prices start with a 3, most will swallow it and go as an occasional price hike for a local derby..

At the end of the day, I don't believe that boycotting is the right way to go. The team will play the match with or without us supporters but they do need us. Not sure what the PL fans groups did for their "20 is plenty" campaign but it seemed to work, so surely something similar could work in the Champ or EFL in general?

 

[jt64]

The huge difference is that we don't have a TV deal where every club gets nine figures regardless of how shit you are. If, say, Arsenal, would be charging 50 quid a game as opposed to thirty with an away section of 4k, they'd only make an extra million and a half over the course of a season, which pays Özil's wages for a month. It just needs much more aggressive reciprocal deals, but when we were charging 30 for the Kop for the same game at BL, we can't expect them to suddenly charge cheaper. Especially when they know it will sell out.

 

[robert simons]

£ 36 is a total rip off.
To hand that amount of wedge over to our six fingered friends will hurt.

£ 42 at the sty that was handed over to our feathered porkers at the time
seemed absurd. After full time it felt like paying a fiver for a bottle of
Dom Perignon.

 

[rompodebailey]

I work with a Barnsley fan and he says he paid £36 to come to BDTBL earlier in the season

Yes, but one is BTDBL, and the other, well it's fucking Oakwell.

 

[YES Blade]

Watching football isn’t a basic human right. Whatever hobby you have is generally expensive, if you want to go then you need to make sacrifices elsewhere. Whether that’s not going to the pub, shopping at Aldi instead of Tesco, it’s all about budgeting and life choices.

 

[Canterbury Blade]

An extra few quid pales into not a lot when pitched against the train fare to get there and the beer bill for the day...

I agree it’s pricey but if you want to go you’re over a barrel.

Days out are pricey.

Mind you it will set a great Saturday sesh when the early kick off sees a good Blades win and a whole day off the leash and on the lash to celebrate.

UTB

 

[Liverpool blade]

An extra few quid pales into not a lot when pitched against the train fare to get there and the beer bill for the day...

I agree it’s pricey but if you want to go you’re over a barrel.

Days out are pricey.

Mind you it will set a great Saturday sesh when the early kick off sees a good Blades win and a whole day off the leash and on the lash to celebrate.

UTB

Not sure I'm willing to pay £36 to sit in that land fill site!!.
It'll be another early start as it's an early kickoff. UTB

 

[Cerberus Blade]

Low allocation and stupidly expensive. Wankers.

That’s a years wages in Barnsley!

 

[Cerberus Blade]

Robbing cunts

“Tribbing” it’s called.


Oops! No. Sorry - misread what you’d put!

 

[Cerberus Blade]

Tell him to not let the facts get in the way of a good story.

Yes but that was including the stagecoach from Worsborough Dale and the fee paid to the Highwayman for safe passage.

 

[Lawrence]

Get ready... it’ll be £38 to £98 when we go to Wembley in May for the play off final

 

[Ainsley Harriott]

Get ready... it’ll be £38 to £98 when we go to Wembley in May for the play off final

£38 is still cheaper than the death trap at S6.

Just for a comparison.

Edit: regards Yelsnrab, I can “afford it”, but it means not going elsewhere the weekend after. I’ve got a holiday to pay for on top of everything else. An away day costs in excess of £100 for me (Norwich cost me £120) because I drink like a fish from the moment I finish mi cornflakes basically until my eyes shut

 

[Whiston Blade]

I wont be there or reporting on this one from the sofa or anywhere else....in Germany...may do a report when I get back from Hamburg v Schalke - a Bundelsiga game. I got tickets for £26 to put it into context.

My mate was at the Mainz - Schalke game last Friday, forgot how much he paid but said it still wasn't worth it, terrible quality on display.