The Football.....

[Archie_tect]

If Liverpool can't be bothered to try to beat Hull, I think Sunderland would be better off in the Championship... at least you can rely on Leeds and Notts Forest to turn up.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I always feel sorry for the third placed team in the Championship.... they slog all season and then some team miles behind them all season has a couple of good games and gets promoted. Still if the Smoggies are worth their place they'll get through.

Most idiotic idea ever - play-offs need dumping. Can be so unfair.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Well done Bournemouth - we have been hoping they would come up all season.

Our friends live in Poole and can expect a visit from us when Bournemouth play CFC next season.

No idea how big the away section is - need to check it out.

 

[Piemaster]

If Liverpool can't be bothered to try to beat Hull, I think Sunderland would be better off in the Championship... at least you can rely on Leeds and Notts Forest to turn up.

For a team trying for a Champions League spot they were poor. looked like their fans couldn't be bothered to turn up either. I know there was a boycott but Liverpool sold all their allocation, so whats the point in buying a ticket if you're not going to turn up? Especially at £50 each.
Not a great game to watch, but at least our effort and organisation paid off.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Still all to play for in the Scottish League 1, and I'll be making the trip to Station Park next Saturday to hopefully see Forfar win the league - but that will require either loads of goals or Morton to get beaten by Peterhead.

And it all went horribly wrong
Play-offs semi games against Stranraer on Wednesday and Saturday

 

[Archie_tect]

If Sunderland win their game in hand they'll move above Newcastle..... [now there's a turn up I didn't expect] 8 games without a win and tumbling out of control with a frustrated and passionate caretaker who thinks the players are a bunch of lazy, overpaid wasters! The next four weeks are going to be a roller-coaster!

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Champione!

 

[PaulB]

For a team trying for a Champions League spot they were poor. looked like their fans couldn't be bothered to turn up either. I know there was a boycott but Liverpool sold all their allocation, so whats the point in buying a ticket if you're not going to turn up? Especially at £50 each.
Not a great game to watch, but at least our effort and organisation paid off.

Someone didn't bother to read the facts before jumping in with his big feet on this one!

The tickets most bought and didn't use were £10 children's tickets; that way, we maintained our loyalty (for future tickets) while maximising the numbers of empty seats and drawing attention to the situation. Burnley and Stoke City were charged £16 per ticket, to sit in the same seats, so why was it that Liverpool fans were charged £48 (not £50 as you erroneously claim) to sit in the same seats?

Ball's in your court now, Piemaster.

 

[Piemaster]

Someone didn't bother to read the facts before jumping in with his big feet on this one!

The tickets most bought and didn't use were £10 children's tickets; that way, we maintained our loyalty (for future tickets) while maximising the numbers of empty seats and drawing attention to the situation. Burnley and Stoke City were charged £16 per ticket, to sit in the same seats, so why was it that Liverpool fans were charged £48 (not £50 as you erroneously claim) to sit in the same seats?

Ball's in your court now, Piemaster.

I'm on a very slow net connection on a ship (amounts to a 256k line shared with 15 other blokes) and have better things to do (work) than spend loading more than the first article that comes up on the boycott (I'm not spending any time searching for it again) - it didn't give your version. I'm better informed now thanks, may have been different with a broadband connection at home.

Hull has a variable pricing policy for tickets, Liverpool, Arsenal, Man U etc =£50, Burnley, Stoke=£16. The pricing isn't any different for home fans either for a single match but looks less averaged over all home games over the season. Someone didn't bother to read the facts before jumping in with his big feet on this one!
Chelsea (admirably) subsidised their fans tickets by £10 when they came to Hull. Of course, they were worth watching

£48/£50 I was 4% out, or 1/2 a stadium pie. You're right, I'm wrong - hope you're happy now.

 

[craigwend]

Great game to be at, Liverpool look like they couldn't be ar***d ... perhaps don't want a (interupting )Europa League Place?

But one of the few teams with a leading goal scorer with less goals than our top (injured) goal scorer ...

To be fair the £2 difference was LFC use of ASI fund which our 'owner' have used 'creatively' http://www.allamout.co.uk/

 

[PaulB]

I'm on a very slow net connection on a ship (amounts to a 256k line shared with 15 other blokes) and have better things to do (work) than spend loading more than the first article that comes up on the boycott (I'm not spending any time searching for it again) - it didn't give your version. I'm better informed now thanks, may have been different with a broadband connection at home.

Hull has a variable pricing policy for tickets, Liverpool, Arsenal, Man U etc =£50, Burnley, Stoke=£16. The pricing isn't any different for home fans either for a single match but looks less averaged over all home games over the season. Someone didn't bother to read the facts before jumping in with his big feet on this one!
Chelsea (admirably) subsidised their fans tickets by £10 when they came to Hull. Of course, they were worth watching

£48/£50 I was 4% out, or 1/2 a stadium pie. You're right, I'm wrong - hope you're happy now.

But that doesn't make sense as it ignores the reasons for the warranted boycott and doesn't address the justified cause behind it. Are we supposed to believe that fans of certain clubs have more disposable income than fans of other clubs based on their comparative league positions?

 

[Piemaster]

But that doesn't make sense as it ignores the reasons for the warranted boycott and doesn't address the justified cause behind it. Are we supposed to believe that fans of certain clubs have more disposable income than fans of other clubs based on their comparative league positions?

I didn't say I liked the policy or agreed with it. I don't. I don't run the Club either. I suspect it's aimed more at 'home fans' the ones who will turn up for the Liverpool game, because it's Liverpool, wearing half-and-half scarves, but won't be there the following week because "it's only Burnley" if the tickets were all the same price. Even though there is probably a better chance of a result against the cheaper ticket clubs.
The disposable income / league position is an interesting question. PL isn't cheap to watch. I suspect there is some general correlation between the two, I may have a look and see if there is any evidence if I get a chance. Even though gate income seems to be a relatively low % of club income compared to TV money would it not follow that the more the ticket prices are, the more income the club has and better players they can buy so (hopefully) a higher league position.
Although it may be a PL thing. I've read that get the right flights and you can and watch a Bundesligue game for less than a game at Stamford Bridge.

I didn't renew the season pass this season for a few reasons. Mostly as I'm not at home to see many games anyway, there was a period when I would have been able to go to 1 in a month, poor value for around a 10% price increase. Son is now at Uni so out of the scene and Brother-in-law was priced out of a pass completely.

 

[craigwend]

But that doesn't make sense as it ignores the reasons for the warranted boycott and doesn't address the justified cause behind it. Are we supposed to believe that fans of certain clubs have more disposable income than fans of other clubs based on their comparative league positions?

http://www.not606.com/threads/credi...s-are-pxxxxd-off-at-our-ticket-prices.297636/
Long thread - but our fans charged £43 at theirs -
as a principle the whole pricing has priced the 'horidinary' fan out of the game ,
for me 36% increase in 2 years, owner 'trying' to change the name of the club / ongoing spat with the council - fans who oppose the owner gerrymandered out of their seats ...
with the new SkyPL deal - actual fans / gate receipts accounting only to 6/7% before the last deal so now ?,
the new deal makes real fans more 'irrelevant' -
rant over
& yet another not renewing a season pass after 35+ years support - SkyPL bigger than any club ?

 

[AndyRM]

Anfield is a crumbling shambles of a stadium. Some of the views and prices charged for away fans are insulting. I was in the away end recently with my brother in law (a Liverpool fan. From Crawley...) and we couldn't see the whole pitch. He nobly accepted the pelters I gave him.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Preston cocked it up yesterday! They'd announced that their ground Deepdale was to be open to the public today to celebrate promotion. How stupid and premature was that?! Now they face their 10th play offs attempt,without winning any of them in the past!http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32471093