Matchday Ticket Prices - Comparison

[Sothall_Blade]

Blades





Pigs



Adult Highest :- Blades £29 Pigs £52
Adult Lowest:- Blades £18 Pigs £20

Concession Highest:- Blades £17 Pigs £42
Concession Lowest:- Blades £14 Pigs £15

It looks to me that they have their category G matches priced about right at £1 to £2 more for a higher division.

Their category A prices would look a bit steep for a top Premiership club!

Well done Blades.

 

[Eyeball]

Blades

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Pigs

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Massive prices

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Eight match pricing categories for Wendys??? What?!

 

[Sothall_Blade]

Eight match pricing categories for Wendys??? What?!

What I think they will do is give it a whirl with the higher category prices first (e.g. Bristol City is category B).
See how many of the gullible mugs are willing to turn up at those prices and gradually start announcing every game is a category F or G by the end of the season when they are fighting relegation in front of 18,000 diehards/idiots.

 

[Linz]

I still maintain that £29 is far too expensive for L1 football. Their prices are ridiculous.

 

[him behind you]

Don't know what they are moaning about. Someone has to pay for the expensive foreign players no one has heard of

 

[DI36O]

Massive prices

Massive delusion. First up: Bristol City, Category B. Cheapest ticket for non-members is £39.

I'm pretty sure that on the day there will be Leicester fans watching premiership football that paid around two thirds of that price.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Isn't it better to have lower prices to get bums on seats, rather than put people off coming in the first place with higher prices?
Personally I think anything over £25 for L1 is too expensive.

 

[S64 Blade]

Well done to the club for keeping ours 'competitive'.

Obviously, these along with ticket prices in general are still grossly over-inflated. Ideally there would be a cap per league on ticket pricing - £35 PL - £30 Champ - £25 L1 and £20 L2 would be more than reasonable.

 

[Sothall_Blade]

I still maintain that £29 is far too expensive for L1 football. Their prices are ridiculous.

True. But to pay £29 at United you have to not be a member, leave it until the last minute for one of the bigger games and choose the most expensive stands. I can't see there being many day-trippers who that price will apply to anyway.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

I'm pretty sure that on the day there will be Leicester fans watching premiership football that paid around two thirds of that price.

Dunno about that. Last season I watched Leicester v Liverpool. Tickets bought in advance, £45 for me, £20 for my lad (under16), oh and you can't buy tickets unless you've got a club membership card price £100.
Maybe it's me being a tightwad Yorkshireman, but that's steep or maybe that's the going rate in The Promised Land of the Prem.

 

[sheepbridge]

The prices for them are ridiculous, and I have always opposed high prices for fans for many reasons.
Many fans, especially now in the Premiership, are middle-aged higher income earners. Many kids can't afford to go and I do wonder where the next generation of fans are going to be from for some clubs.

I have had a season ticket at BDTBL for over 30 years now, I started attending when I was 5, but when it wasn't until I was about 12 and started going with a group of mates paying a couple of quid that I got seriously in to it, and still go with most of them, dragging our kids along now as well.

Some Premiership teams can maybe justify some of the prices on caliber of players and having full stadiums, but Wednesday have neither.
What they do have though is a new owner who might have been sold the belief that they are a massive club with a massive and loyal fan base, so maybe he's looked at the prices and decided they should be higher if they are such a massive club.
Perhaps you do reap what you sow after all.

United have it right in my opinion. Could be cheaper maybe, but have a good attendance for a 3rd tier club and can still get near sellouts for big cup games.

 

[raul]

True. But to pay £29 at United you have to not be a member, leave it until the last minute for one of the bigger games and choose the most expensive stands. I can't see there being many day-trippers who that price will apply to anyway.

I'd probably put myself in that bracket these days. Last season, in my mind, I paid "about" £20 to get in. Some weeks it'd be £20, some £22, some £24 but you get the idea - it's about £20 to go to football.

At £29 - it's "about" £30 to go. If we're playing well and stuff, no problem. If we're crap, different discussion at £30 instead of £20.

 

[Darthblade]

I still maintain that £29 is far too expensive for L1 football. Their prices are ridiculous.

Indeed ...... but they are MASSIVE aren't they ?
UTB & FTP

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Excuse my ignorance, what's this thing about "massive"? Do the wendys claim to be massive? I keep hearing about 'massive'.

 

[BushBlade]

The prices for them are ridiculous, and I have always opposed high prices for fans for many reasons.
Many fans, especially now in the Premiership, are middle-aged higher income earners. Many kids can't afford to go and I do wonder where the next generation of fans are going to be from for some clubs.

I have had a season ticket at BDTBL for over 30 years now, I started attending when I was 5, but when it wasn't until I was about 12 and started going with a group of mates paying a couple of quid that I got seriously in to it, and still go with most of them, dragging our kids along now as well.

Some Premiership teams can maybe justify some of the prices on caliber of players and having full stadiums, but Wednesday have neither.
What they do have though is a new owner who might have been sold the belief that they are a massive club with a massive and loyal fan base, so maybe he's looked at the prices and decided they should be higher if they are such a massive club.
Perhaps you do reap what you sow after all.

United have it right in my opinion. Could be cheaper maybe, but have a good attendance for a 3rd tier club and can still get near sellouts for big cup games.

I think most clubs want a predominantly middle class fan base to attract a better quality of sponsorship. If your fans are mainly working class you get stuck with Wonga instead of Allianz. Or Sondico instead of Adidas.

 

[WestEd]

I have to say it is very civilized of the Blades to have reduced rates for over 60's rather than 65+. As a (very) occasional visitor to the Lane, due to living 5000 miles away, I appreciate it.

 

[Worksop II]

occasional visitor to the Lane, due to living 5000 miles away

pfffft lightweight

 

[metalblade]

It is a simple case of supply and demand for the pigs, the sty only holds around 38,000 so something like higher prices has to be done to deter the 600,000 fans who want to go to every home game. And that is not counting the 50,000 fans in south Barnsley

 

[Darthblade]

Excuse my ignorance, what's this thing about "massive"? Do the wendys claim to be massive? I keep hearing about 'massive'.

Well ..... its a well known thing really. Ask any lady-boy and they will tell you what a MASSIVE club they are ...... I think it may have been the piggy smegson who started it.

They are just .... well ..... massive aren't they ?
UTB & FTP

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Well ..... its a well known thing really. Ask any lady-boy and they will tell you what a MASSIVE club they are ...... I think it may have been the piggy smegson who started it.

They are just .... well ..... massive aren't they ?
UTB & FTP

Thanks for the reply.
Their pricing structure is more like a missive.

 

[brownie4583]

And they were crying last season when L***s charged them £36

 

[essex blade]

 

[metalblade]

Old Mandaric thinking in the clubs best interest certainly found them a good owner , all they need now is a change of strip to all red and a change of name to Sheffield Swine.

 

[Elsecar_Blade]

Well done to the club for keeping ours 'competitive'.

Obviously, these along with ticket prices in general are still grossly over-inflated. Ideally there would be a cap per league on ticket pricing - £35 PL - £30 Champ - £25 L1 and £20 L2 would be more than reasonable.

Minus another £5!

 

[DI36O]

Dunno about that. Last season I watched Leicester v Liverpool. Tickets bought in advance, £45 for me, £20 for my lad (under16), oh and you can't buy tickets unless you've got a club membership card price £100.
Maybe it's me being a tightwad Yorkshireman, but that's steep or maybe that's the going rate in The Promised Land of the Prem.

So you had to buy a £100 membership card just for that match? Wow.

I guess Liverpool would be that price but they have Sunderland to look forward to first game.

 

[Punk Blade]

Well ..... its a well known thing really. Ask any lady-boy and they will tell you what a MASSIVE club they are ...... I think it may have been the piggy smegson who started it.

They are just .... well ..... massive aren't they ?
UTB & FTP

I thought they actually started calling themselves The Massive.

I'm not really sure how they have any fans left at all, I'd have died of embarrassment years ago. One day they will look back at this period of 'massive' and WAWAW and really cringe.

 

[stringjunior]

One day they will look back at this period of 'massive' and WAWAW and really cringe.

A bit like COYRAWW

 

[BeatleBlade]

A bit like COYRAWW

What does WAWAW mean? I'd heard 'We are Wednesday, we are Wednesday' but surely that would be WAWWAW wouldn't it?

This price hike at Hillsborough can only be good news for Rotherham and Barnsley. I know a few casuals who affiliate with two teams and this price hike will push them towards going to Barnsley and Rotherham games over watching the pigs. Possibly good news for us as well but not so much for obvious reasons.

 

[Sothall_Blade]

What does WAWAW mean? I'd heard 'We are Wednesday, we are Wednesday' but surely that would be WAWWAW wouldn't it?

We are all Wednesday aren't we? (Should be WAAWAW really)

No. No we are not!