Huddersfield fans complaining about the away ticket prices and boycotting

[Tuns]

Fantastic if they only bring 300 fans. It's a great message to send out. It may not seem like it but football fans actually have far more power than they realise.

Football authorites only speak one language and that is the language of dosh.

Fall in gate revenues and even worse (for them) half empty grounds for some of the so called big televised games will worry Sky and the football chiefs.

We are a long way from getting some common sense and half decent values back into football but boycotts can help in the long run.

And let's not kid ourselves that thousands of our fans aren't also going to be boycotting games on the basis of cost this season. It may not be an official boycott but its motivations and results are the same.

And for what it's worth I am not going to the Hudds match purely on the basis of cost though I am going to the Bury match purely on the basis of there being an offer on. Three of my Blades mates who all used to have STs for over 20 years are doing the same thing.

 

[mattbianco1]

I think we should boycot going to tin pot sh*thloes like that one at Yeovil!

Portaloos ?
1 snack bar that only had 1 flavour of pie ?
same said snack bar informed me the "sausage rolls aren't ready yet" ? (it was 2 mins to half f*cking time) When are they ready?

I'd sooner pay £28.50 to visit proper football stadia to be quite honest!

 

[Rodders]

Fantastic if they only bring 300 fans. It's a great message to send out. It may not seem like it but football fans actually have far more power than they realise.

Football authorites only speak one language and that is the language of dosh.

Fall in gate revenues and even worse (for them) half empty grounds for some of the so called big televised games will worry Sky and the football chiefs.

We are a long way from getting some common sense and half decent values back into football but boycotts can help in the long run.

And let's not kid ourselves that thousands of our fans aren't also going to be boycotting games on the basis of cost this season. It may not be an official boycott but its motivations and results are the same.

And for what it's worth I am not going to the Hudds match purely on the basis of cost though I am going to the Bury match purely on the basis of there being an offer on. Three of my Blades mates who all used to have STs for over 20 years are doing the same thing.

Me too - Cat C's only for me probably. £30 quid for a Div 3 game is scandalous.

 

[Bert]

I say let them have there boycott. It wont be helping there team's cause. This season our travelling support has been fantastic and helps motivate our team.

If they dont want to support their team. All the better for us. BDTBL will be rocking with our supporters drowning out their minority.

Bring it on!!

The joke is that somebody decided that the Huddersfield match is a local derby and that it's category "A" so that we can rip our own fans off as well as theirs. It will reduce the crowd on all sides of the ground.

Perhaps the commercial bloke who has just got the boot from the Lane dreamt all the "True Blade/Season Ticket or sod off/Category A" shit up. Good riddance if he did.

 

[JohnDenver]

The joke is that somebody decided that the Huddersfield match is a local derby and that it's category "A" so that we can rip our own fans off as well as theirs. It will reduce the crowd on all sides of the ground.

Perhaps the commercial bloke who has just got the boot from the Lane dreamt all the "True Blade/Season Ticket or sod off/Category A" shit up. Good riddance if he did.

Should have bought a season ticket, fella.

 

[Wards]

You know what? Fair play to them if they are boycotting. More people should make a stand about the prices of football in this country, rather than shrugging their shoulders and going "well down the road they're charging the same so that's the way it is".
A seat in the South Stand for the Hudders game is £31 - a total disgrace for Division 3 football, regardless of how many other offers are put on for other matches such as tomorrow's.

Abso-feckin-lutely.

£31 is a complete joke.

 

[dingledog]

Living in Huddersfield I get some good banter with town fans, but this week six have all told me they aren't coming to the lane. Reason price of tickets but also general recession and a bit of annoyance at it being on a Tuesday night. First culprit is football league for scheduling it on a Tuesday night, then blades for non sensical pricing policy and lastly the economy. My view, which I have shared with them is they don't want to see their team out played and out classed.. Well that's a kiss of death on the result then!!!

 

[Ollessendro]

£28.50 I believe for them to get in for the game on September 13th, I have to agree somewhat they should be lowered to League One prices, its a killer for the smaller clubs i.e Huddersfield/Wendy.

Agree/Disagree?

Yep I think it is too much. £28.50 is an absoolute rip off for third tier football!

Saw this mentioned in the weekly update I get from the Football Supporters Federation: http://www.fsf.org.uk/news/Terriers-plan-Blades-boycott-over-ticket-prices.php

 

[Jonboy60]

No complaint from them about hartlepool game, but creating a huge fuss over this one.
Price of a ticket £28.50 our game £25 Hartlepool game
Train fare £7.45 our game £31.75 Hartlepool game
Plus i would imagine petrol costs would be a lot more to Hartlepool compared to Sheffield.
Added to the fact they are complaining about £28.50 if they did get promoted they would have most likely faced more expensive away tickets! True, but the point being they are quite willing to pay the extra for the hartlepool game,because having paid and come away with a result they'll be happy. But paying extra and coming away from bdtbl with f@@k all is completely different.
Price of a ticket and train fare to Hartlepool: £56.75
Price of a ticket and train fare to Sheffield: £39.95
Also take a look at some of there season ticket prices, over £500 some of them!
Thanks for reading,
I will be coming over from huddersfield for this one why cant they???

true,but paying the extra for the hartlepool game and coming away with a result, is completely different to going to bdtbl and being f@@ked over.UTB.

 

[SwissBlade]

Fcuk em, it's more likely they don't want to see their heroes get hammered.

Just think how angry they'll be to know that someone is sitting in my seat for free

 

[Rodders]

Fcuk em, it's more likely they don't want to see their heroes get hammered.

Sadly this is the attitude that sees clubs raising the price year on year on year and getting away with it....

 

[SwissBlade]

Sadly this is the attitude that sees clubs raising the price year on year on year and getting away with it....

Perhaps, but it sounds like they're whinging and just making a fuss to me. They pay £25 a ticket at their ground for a cat A game.

 

[torridon]

Are we going to sing 'You couldn't sell all your tickets' to them.

 

[axel smeets]

Their website said last night they had sold 1089 tickets. I agree with them completely about the ticket prices, but when you look at their own prices at their plastic shithole, people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

United have ballsed up totally these CAT A ticket prices. If you want a Kop ticket tonight, £26.50! It should have been £20. Huddersfield would then have brought 3500-4500, and we might have shifted a couple of thousand or so more.

 

[ghandi]

Their website said last night they had sold 1089 tickets. I agree with them completely about the ticket prices, but when you look at their own prices at their plastic shithole, people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

United have ballsed up totally these CAT A ticket prices. If you want a Kop ticket tonight, £26.50! It should have been £20. Huddersfield would then have brought 3500-4500, and we might have shifted a couple of thousand or so more.

There's no way even at £20 Huddersfield would have brought 3500-4500.

 

[JimJones]

I was in Huddersfield on Saturday with a few of my Town supporting mates after their game. They may aswel have been given a script to roll off regarding all this. "Bury only paid £xx last week..." "We only paid £xx at Hartlepool..."

If it wasn't for all this social network-led boycott bollocks I don't think many would have thought twice about coming. I know many mates who have long been awaiting a United v Hudders tie at The Lane.

I'm not for one minute suggesting that the price of a match ticket in this division isn't expensive but for an extra £6/7 on top of what it costs them to get in to Hartlepool, (not even taking into consideration the extra travel costs etc.) I don't see how they can grumble at a chance to see their team play in a Yorkshire derby which is guaranteed to have one of the biggest crowds and best atmospheres of their season.

Personally, I think they realise that there is a big chance that their unbeaten run will come to an end tonight and can't stand to see it happen.

I don't mind Huddersfield but all of this has really made me want United to batter them tonight.

COYRAWW!

 

[Patrick Suffaux]

£26 is too dear for this standard of football.

It might be the going rate, but it dont make it right.

Think about the cost of taking a family of four and then try to justify it.

I find it difficult to blame SUFC as like any club, they have to keep in line with competitors.

The out-pricing of the average fan has been gradual and I lay the blame firmly at the door of the Premier League.

 

[JimJones]

I suppose it's subjective. A regular working man would not be able to afford to take his family of 4 to a game where the average ticket cost is say £17/£18.

The thing that has really bugged me over this issue is how most of the Town fans I have heard moaning about the prices are lads who are independant with not ties who will gladly blow £80 on a night out drinking in town yet decide to kick up a fuss over paying an extra 6 or seven quid that would otheriwse be spent on a couple of bottles of Frost Jack.

There's very little actual substance as to the reason why they are boycotting other than seemingly jumping on the bandwagon and/or fearing witnessing their team lose their impressive unbeaten run.

 

[Kenilworth]

So Hartlepool and Bury are equivalent to BDTBL are they?
It's not as though any game vs Hartlepool or Bury could be classed as a Cat A match anyway.

It's their biggest away game of the season so if they don't want to support their team and that gives us an advantage I am all for it.
They have spent years travelling to poxy grounds where there is a low ticket price so now they come to a stadium worthy of the Prem and they moan about an extra couple of quid?
Get real Town fans - you just dont want to see your team finally lose a game in a league fixture.

That said the price of football is a shocker

Third division bobbar for £28.50 - think I'll boycott that one me sen and listen to it on Blades Player instead.

Bring back affordable standing areas!

 

[raul]

Sadly this is the attitude that sees clubs raising the price year on year on year and getting away with it....

Whooooshhhhhhhh

 

[Houso]

Fair play to those making a stand... but only if they boycotted other matches such as Hartlepool as others have stated. And our Bury match isn't in the slightest relevant.

Yes, it's too expensive for this level of football, but we've been among the cheapest up and down the country for years now, and it's one of the many reasons we're in a financial hole now.

 

[Peezablade]

I am not aware that any of my non-season ticket holding mates are going tonight - they are saving their cash for Saturday. UTD really have dropped a clanger with tonight's prices.

 

[stannyblade]

I am not aware that any of my non-season ticket holding mates are going tonight - they are saving their cash for Saturday. UTD really have dropped a clanger with tonight's prices.

Agreed but we pay more when we go away, I know that doesnt make it right. The League should make clubs charge no more than £20 for all fans. Its roughly £13 per game to season ticket holders so make it £18 to pay on day

 

[Muttley]

Can't say I'm impressed. I can only get to night matches due to work commitments. All the discounted games seem to be on a saturday. I did think "fork it" but I've got my ticket.

 

[Tray]

Well if they did boycott this game, I'd love to see what they take to other away games.
Must have 10,000 solid every week away.

 

[FlyingFjortoft]

bet those Huddersfield fans that did boycott are regretting it...