Our Gate Receipts

[New York Red]

In comparison to the other top four teams. We really do need that stadium...

 

Man Utd 92.5 million

Arsenal 90.6 million

Chelsea 74.5 million

Us 38.4 million

[josemisuncle]

In comparison to the other top four teams. We really do need that stadium...

 

Man Utd 92.5 million

Arsenal 90.6 million

Chelsea 74.5 million

Us 38.4 million

So before the season starts we are between 35 and 55m behind the rest of the top 4. How the hell have we kept up?

[R A Softlad]

Quality managers?

[Guest Scot]

So before the season starts we are between 35 and 55m behind the rest of the top 4. How the hell have we kept up?

Kept up?

[Guest LB]

The Chelsea figures only look so good because the robbing b*stards charge £50 a ticket and that's even if you're a young kid.

 

Imagine taking your Son to a match and it costing £100 for the pair of you just for the tickets!!

[Maldini]

It was £60 for our game.

[New York Red]

Ownership is under no obligation to subsidize tickets. It is all down to supply and demand. It's OK to have some tickets set aside at a cheaper, artificial price, but other than that we need to generate as much cash as possible to make us successful.

[Maldini]

Ownership is under no obligation to subsidize tickets. It is all down to supply and demand. It's OK to have some tickets set aside at a cheaper, artificial price, but other than that we need to generate as much cash as possible to make us successful.

There's a balance, what's the point in being successful if the people who really care can't afford to go to the game.

[madaboutlfc]

Ownership is under no obligation to subsidize tickets. It is all down to supply and demand. It's OK to have some tickets set aside at a cheaper, artificial price, but other than that we need to generate as much cash as possible to make us successful.

proper clubs came into existence for the fans.. seeing youre not affected by the increased prices to suggest we should price real fans out is disgraceful

[Armin_Tamzarian]

Ownership is under no obligation to subsidize tickets. It is all down to supply and demand. It's OK to have some tickets set aside at a cheaper, artificial price, but other than that we need to generate as much cash as possible to make us successful.

 

Week by week, season by season, this sort of thinking is destroying my love for the game. It's always been a business but it wasn't necessarily one where the most money always won, or where clubs were seen simply as revenue generators. There was a genuine link between supporter and club, not customer and service provider.

 

If the Premier League had a goose that laid golden eggs who would wager any money on it's lifespan being measured in hours rather than minutes?

[Stevie H]

Week by week, season by season, this sort of thinking is destroying my love for the game. It's always been a business but it wasn't necessarily one where the most money always won, or where clubs were seen simply as revenue generators. There was a genuine link between supporter and club, not customer and service provider.

 

If the Premier League had a goose that laid golden eggs who would wager any money on it's lifespan being measured in hours rather than minutes?

:clap:

[Andy Mac]

Ownership is under no obligation to subsidize tickets. It is all down to supply and demand. It's OK to have some tickets set aside at a cheaper, artificial price, but other than that we need to generate as much cash as possible to make us successful.

 

 

 

.... and in a paragraph NYR sums up what football has become. $$$$

[MFletcher]

We need more seats, we don't need increased ticket prices.

 

Arsenal and Chelsea charge more because they're in London and can get away with it. United have a huge stadium and we're limping along behind without a huge stadium or the desire to charge inflated prices.

 

That's one hell of a gap to be making up in revenue every season though.

[Falconhoof]

Ownership is under no obligation to subsidize tickets. It is all down to supply and demand. It's OK to have some tickets set aside at a cheaper, artificial price, but other than that we need to generate as much cash as possible to make us successful.

 

Add this to your enthusiastic response to the '39th overseas game' idea and i'm getting an impression of you as someone who has a very different understanding of football, its roots, and its part in working class culture.

 

Are you from the UK or is your experience of LFC and English football mainly gained from television ?

[Hassony]

Add this to your enthusiastic response to the '39th overseas game' idea and i'm getting an impression of you as someone who has a very different understanding of football, its roots, and its part in working class culture.

 

Are you from the UK or is your experience of LFC and English football mainly gained from television ?

NYR is Donald Trump, I am surprised you don't know that

[Flight]

Ownership is under no obligation to subsidize tickets. It is all down to supply and demand. It's OK to have some tickets set aside at a cheaper, artificial price, but other than that we need to generate as much cash as possible to make us successful.

 

 

 

Add this to your enthusiastic response to the '39th overseas game' idea and i'm getting an impression of you as someone who has a very different understanding of football, its roots, and its part in working class culture.

 

Are you from the UK or is your experience of LFC and English football mainly gained from television ?

 

 

 

NYR was stating a fact. He didn't say he liked it.

 

 

I agree with him, but I certainly don't like it.

[Guest spk]

Ownership is under no obligation to subsidize tickets. It is all down to supply and demand. It's OK to have some tickets set aside at a cheaper, artificial price, but other than that we need to generate as much cash as possible to make us successful.

 

spot on, like it or not

[Magic8Ball]

In comparison to the other top four teams. We really do need that stadium...

 

Man Utd 92.5 million

Arsenal 90.6 million

Chelsea 74.5 million

Us 38.4 million

what are the gate reciepts for Newcastle ?

[matty]

We need to be ripping off our supporters more.

 

I meant utilising our fanbase. Sorry.

[Kvarme Ate My Food]

Ownership is under no obligation to subsidize tickets. It is all down to supply and demand. It's OK to have some tickets set aside at a cheaper, artificial price, but other than that we need to generate as much cash as possible to make us successful.

 

dreadful

[stressederic]

The Chelsea figures only look so good because the robbing b*stards charge £50 a ticket and that's even if you're a young kid.

 

Imagine taking your Son to a match and it costing £100 for the pair of you just for the tickets!!

 

And all you've got waiting at the end of it for you is Frank Lampard.

[New York Red]

There's a balance, what's the point in being successful if the people who really care can't afford to go to the game.

 

Agree 100%. The balance is the art to making it work right. The more you can charge for luxury boxes and club seats, the more other seats you can subsidize. Having a stadium that is deathly silent isn't good either. It is about creating the right balance between revenues, atmosphere and success.

[New York Red]

proper clubs came into existence for the fans.. seeing youre not affected by the increased prices to suggest we should price real fans out is disgraceful

 

I'm not suggesting that. However, to make the whole club subsidized is delusional. There is a balance to be achieved.

 

If you want it affordable for everyone who wants to see them, then why not take it to the extreme and sell tickets for five quid each? And enjoy Championship football while you are at it.

[New York Red]

Add this to your enthusiastic response to the '39th overseas game' idea and i'm getting an impression of you as someone who has a very different understanding of football, its roots, and its part in working class culture.

 

Are you from the UK or is your experience of LFC and English football mainly gained from television ?

 

Yes, I was born and bred in the UK. I think there is a fair bet that I stood on the Kop before you were born or when you were a kid too.

 

I'm very familiar with working class culture too. I was brought up without a bathroom and with coal fires so please don't get on your high horse about that.

Edited February 15, 2008 by New York Red

[Falconhoof]

Yes, I was born and bred in the UK. I think there is a fair bet that I stood on the Kop before you were born or when you were a kid too.

 

I'm very familiar with working class culture too. I was brought up without a bathroom and with coal fires so please don't get on your high horse about that.

 

high horse

 

So we should increase prices more but get the balance right while taking games abroad ?