Should we boycott the Man U game?

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What to do?

  • Boycott

    Votes: 53 47.3%

  • Turn up 10 minutes late

    Votes: 6 5.4%

  • Shut up and pay up

    Votes: 53 47.3%
  • Total voters
    112
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I'll be going, even if its their second team/reserves, which it will be due to their ever increasing injury list, when we win no-one will remember who played for them just that we knocked Man Utd out of the cup at Old Trafford. However I do agree that football is pricing out normal fans with everyday jobs........therefore do we really want premiership football where the price is sky-high....or will some contributors to this website boycott matches at the lane due to the price?
 
The tickets are around £45, turn up after 45 minutes. smuggle enough Glenns vodka into the ground to stay merry for an hour until the 2nd half kicks off
 
IOM Blade said:
Pay up chaps. The more revenue we get from the match, the more chance the board might treat us with a couple of free transfer signings in Jan.
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I'd like to develop this further and ask the club to guarantee that ALL the revenue from this game (are we talking over £million?) will be spent on recruiting new players in January. Turn this negative into a positive. Let's use it to achieve our main objective of getting promotion in May 2016.

If the club offers this guarantee then maybe more Blades will put their hands in their pocket and back the team on the day.
 
S12 Blade said:
Bayern Munich did that at the Emirates this season, made a whole lot of difference didn't it...
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What exactly did you think would happen? an immediate reduction of all ticket prices to £20?

It got loads of media attention and even the TV commentators made a comment about it when the Bayern fans eventually entered the ground - greeted to applause by the Arsenal fans. It made a hell of a lot of people aware of what they were protesting at. But for a club like Bayern it's totally pointless trying to boycott a match because there will be thousands waiting to buy the unsold tickets.

I quite like what Liverpool did at Hull last season - they bought up half the allocation as U16 tickets and didn't go to the match. A visibly half-empty stadium to watch Liverpool is exactly what the suits in charge don't want to see.

No solution is perfect, but it's a bit defeatist of some on here to moan it will make no difference. Something has to be done. Something has to change - this is our taster of what it would be like paying these prices every week!
 
Patrick Suffaux said:
I'm not paying that to watch us get humped. I'm becoming priced out of football. I draw the line at £30 for a ticket unless it's for a big final. It's more a matter of principle than affordability.
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My thoughts exactly, apart from the humped bit!

Real shame this as I and three others were really looking forward to it but we're all not going on the basis it is simply way way overpriced. Obviously you don't buy anything if you think the piss is royally being taken; unfortunately this is one of those moments.

I'd dearly love to see Utd send the allocation back, at a time when it would be too late for Man Utd to sell them though, make a statement about it. Can't see any club ever doing that though, mores the pity!
 
Do we want premier ship football well they are premiership prices so when we do get back just remember ticket prices are way higher than we are used to "just thought I'd say:If we sold none man utd would still sell there near 70000 so why would they cut the price just for us.
Every club in the football league would love to be in our position (going to old trafford) it's a big pay day and that is what they would be envious of.So if we want to go we have to pay the going rate.The money will come in handy in the JTW a replay at the lane would be great too.
 
penthouseblade said:
My thoughts exactly, apart from the humped bit!

Real shame this as I and three others were really looking forward to it but we're all not going on the basis it is simply way way overpriced. Obviously you don't buy anything if you think the piss is royally being taken; unfortunately this is one of those moments.

I'd dearly love to see Utd send the allocation back, at a time when it would be too late for Man Utd to sell them though, make a statement about it. Can't see any club ever doing that though, mores the pity!
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The thing is....and maybe this is the fact that I'm now in my 30's, living further away and with more responsibility....it really doesn't hurt me to not go. I'm a passionate Blade and I love going to watch them although my loyalty has been massively tested recently.

I personally think that being prepared to spend up to £30 to watch them is a huge gesture of love and loyalty. I think anything over that would frankly make me over indulgent and totally immoral.

Not going actually gives me more pride as I'm not lining the pocket of the greediest industry I know of.
 
penthouseblade said:
My thoughts exactly, apart from the humped bit!

Real shame this as I and three others were really looking forward to it but we're all not going on the basis it is simply way way overpriced. Obviously you don't buy anything if you think the piss is royally being taken; unfortunately this is one of those moments.

I'd dearly love to see Utd send the allocation back, at a time when it would be too late for Man Utd to sell them though, make a statement about it. Can't see any club ever doing that though, mores the pity!
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No penthouse rooms available that weekend?
 
Of course no one will boycott. All the glory hunting fans will go. All these fans that say there not going to another game till were in the championship. Just see all the tickets will sell out. Even RS Brian the thickle blade will go
 
My guess is that United will sell out the full allocation having gone to general sale,so there will be no "protest" as such. I certainly know people asking if I can get them tickets via my season ticket. I'll be non-attending this one for several reasons including cost, the fact it's on telly and it clashes with a work commitment. However,I went to Old Trafford in the prem season, but if I'd not been before I'd probably be trying a bit harder to make this one.
 
Grey Blade said:
We should spend the first 10 minutes with our backs to the pitch and if it could be organised have rows of fans wearing T shirts spelling out "20's plenty"..
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T-shirts? In January? Wouldnt be doable at such short notice to provide every ticket holder with a tee shirt and would cost probably £3-4 each per shirt, thereby increasing any ticket buyers expense by the amount and them having to awkwardly turn around in a confined space.
 
Leonardo Green said:
As someone has said, with the tv money they get, it wouldn't make any difference to them if we were there or not, so that being said, why charge so much to begin with?
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Because football, unlike any other business, rewards customer loyalty by taking the piss. Far from subsidising tickets for a one-off 'glamour' game, they should be issuing refunds for all the shite we've had to watch this season. But hey! That player has just kissed his badge! Must mean he loves the club, eh?
 



The answer is no. Why? Because it's not the time or the place. It's not our club, we can't arrive on the doorstep and start dictating to them what they can and can't do. It's their fight - a one off away support holds no weight. If they fill their stadium at those prices, if there's a waiting list for seats that become vacant, then they (the fans) have a problem doing anything. If there isn't the mass will to protest then anything the Blades do is going to be brushed aside. The time for boycotts and protests will be when our club takes the piss (more than it already does).
 
Said it before and I'll say it again. People moan about the prices and threaten boycotts, yet the grounds are nearly always full, especially in the Premiership. Until people actually go through with it then chairmen and the powers that be couldn't care less.
 
All category 1 tickets sold. Not much sign of a boycott so far!
 
SwissBlade said:
As a gesture of good will, United will be running a free bar for the next home game for 30 mins before the game and for all of half time. To reduce waiting time we'll have 10,000 pints pre poured on the kop and south stands at half time, come have a drink on us. It may not make up for the shit you lot have had to put up with over the past century or so, but everyone loves free beer. #unitedonthepiss
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Oil pipelines? You're wasted. You should be in marketing
 
Got my Cat 1 Tickets, not gloating and not happy about having to pay over the odds, this will subside when I present my young son with his later and see his face, we'll make a full day out of it as a few others have suggested.

It's not cheap and it's a stretch to come the same week as paying for presents. But realistically when will we next play at Old Trafford and would I be able to get a ticket for a league game there?
 
Im afraid that I fall in the 'ill buy category' as this may sound very expensive to us but for the clubs higher up the tree than us it aint dear. there get away with it cos they are watching world class stars week in week out so the fans will pay. Look at pigs now they moaning but they've never played so well or spent so much cash in recent years and thats what we have to do.
Id pay £50 a match to watch the blades if i was watching a team like Barcelona.
on this game i still think it is dear but as someone said earlier i noticed the most expensive tickets always go first and its same at wembley every time.
 
This is what is wrong with football. People just sitting back and accepting these ridiculous prices.

Football in league 1 is expensive enough, for what most of premier league should charge. While people continue to pay, the prices will keep getting hiked up.
 



Let's see if the man u fans don't want to pay the prices for playing a 3rd division team.

Stop bleedin mourning.

Someone else will pay it if you don't.
 
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