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Given the grumbles of late about match day pricing, with regards to both us and other clubs, perhaps this table compiled by the BBC and dated 1st August might be of interest.
United are not the cheapest, but we're by far from the most expensive club to watch. The prices covered are ticket, programme, pie and tea. There's no mention of ale or other food. We're certainly a lot cheaper than Huddersfield, for an example picked totally at random. I'm not exactly sure how the cheapest prices were arrived at for each club - season ticket breakdown, or concession prices?
In the Premier League it's even more interesting. Liverpool's cheapest "day out" is £46.95. The thick end of fifty quid before a drop of booze passes your lips.
The cheapest in League One is Rochdale at £16.20, but we're only two quid more expensive than that for the cheapest day. And the pigs? £7.20 more than our cheapest. It's also been mentioned that Charlton had a five quid ticket day yesterday, yet no mention of how expensive they normally are.
Incidentally, the crowd was 22,151 and The Valley's capacity is 27,111, so almost 5,000 short of a sell-out. So, not a sell-out despite being only five quid a pop would have been more accurate. When they had The Massive at home on a Monday night they got 14,014, and the home match after that 14,290. So although they didn't get a sell-out crowd they got well over six thousand more than their season average to date. And that's six thousand more people with money to spend on pies and programmes.
However it is worked out the main conclusion that cane be arrived at is that every single professional league club in the country could chop prices, even by a bit, say 10 - 20 % to try and boost crowd figures. Watching football on the telly yesterday and the main thing that could be seen at the grounds was empty seats.
Five quid for a ticket is unsustainable in the long term, but chopping a few quid off for every match may help to bring in higher crowds. The question is will McCabe do it? The only ways to bring in bigger crowds as to make the football better, which is a work in progress, and to make the tickets cheaper. Five quid off the prices and a partial refund to season ticket holders might just be one of the ways to get bigger crowds. And bigger crowds means more customers spending money on pies, tea, beer and those horrible hot-dogs, and potentially a better atmosphere.
Will McCabe do it? Will any other clubs do it? Don't hold your breath.
United are not the cheapest, but we're by far from the most expensive club to watch. The prices covered are ticket, programme, pie and tea. There's no mention of ale or other food. We're certainly a lot cheaper than Huddersfield, for an example picked totally at random. I'm not exactly sure how the cheapest prices were arrived at for each club - season ticket breakdown, or concession prices?
In the Premier League it's even more interesting. Liverpool's cheapest "day out" is £46.95. The thick end of fifty quid before a drop of booze passes your lips.
The cheapest in League One is Rochdale at £16.20, but we're only two quid more expensive than that for the cheapest day. And the pigs? £7.20 more than our cheapest. It's also been mentioned that Charlton had a five quid ticket day yesterday, yet no mention of how expensive they normally are.
Do they get a sell-out when prices are not discounted? Not by a country mile, they don't.
Incidentally, the crowd was 22,151 and The Valley's capacity is 27,111, so almost 5,000 short of a sell-out. So, not a sell-out despite being only five quid a pop would have been more accurate. When they had The Massive at home on a Monday night they got 14,014, and the home match after that 14,290. So although they didn't get a sell-out crowd they got well over six thousand more than their season average to date. And that's six thousand more people with money to spend on pies and programmes.
However it is worked out the main conclusion that cane be arrived at is that every single professional league club in the country could chop prices, even by a bit, say 10 - 20 % to try and boost crowd figures. Watching football on the telly yesterday and the main thing that could be seen at the grounds was empty seats.
Five quid for a ticket is unsustainable in the long term, but chopping a few quid off for every match may help to bring in higher crowds. The question is will McCabe do it? The only ways to bring in bigger crowds as to make the football better, which is a work in progress, and to make the tickets cheaper. Five quid off the prices and a partial refund to season ticket holders might just be one of the ways to get bigger crowds. And bigger crowds means more customers spending money on pies, tea, beer and those horrible hot-dogs, and potentially a better atmosphere.
Will McCabe do it? Will any other clubs do it? Don't hold your breath.
