Should we be doing more ?

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A Swansea City director wants a reduction in ticket prices. Are we doing enough in this regard for the fans who used to be the backbone of Everton, but can no longer afford the expense of attending matches ?
 

summerisle said:
A Swansea City director wants a reduction in ticket prices. Are we doing enough in this regard for the fans who used to be the backbone of Everton, but can no longer afford the expense of attending matches ?
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Sure we should reduce prices.

But let's wait and see what the major clubs do.

It is hard enough trying to compete with the clubs with whom we need to be competing without handicapping ourselves yet further by taking a stand with Swansea City in reducing prices whilst Spurs and the RS look at us like we ain't wise.

I am in total agreement with this notion if all clubs do it.....but I don't think we should be doing it unilaterally or in a confederacy with clubs like Swansea.
 
summerisle said:
A Swansea City director wants a reduction in ticket prices. Are we doing enough in this regard for the fans who used to be the backbone of Everton, but can no longer afford the expense of attending matches ?
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From Everton's point of view, we have 32000 season ticket holders this season, the highest number we've had in 25 years. We've had numerous sellout gates this season. Our lowest league gate was 34,045 vs QPR. In recent years that has been our average gate. Our average gate this season so far is 38,421, pretty much near capacity.

We're already getting near full houses, so a reduction - whilst it would be hugely welcomed and very popular - would only serve to be a goodwill gesture. It wouldn't drastically improve the already pretty good attendance.

Now next season, depending on how many of the 32000 renew, might be a different story.

If we were ever to move into a 50000 capacity stadium, they would almost certainly have to reduce prices to fill it - but then again, would they, given how much money they'd be looking to recoup after building it?
 
Tough one really.

Is paying £30 odd for a football match fair/right/ok? No. Not in my opinion.

But there's clubs charging a lot more than us and Goodison's sold out aside from restricted views for the vast majority of league games.

So why should the club reduce ticket prices? Would it be nice? Of course. Should they? Not sure.
 
TV are paying over £100 for every seat in every game.

With the new deal it really is time to give something back to the fans because they can definitely afford to, if wages were capped or reduced then the losses incurred would be covered. The players would have to accept the reduced wage cos there just aren't enough clubs abroad for them all to move to, certainly not that could pay more than here.
 

When you said 'we' I thought you meant us lot and I was struggling.

But Everton could. But as mentioned we are so far behind the huge clubs already we have to be careful to not fall even further behind.
 
No, we barely have a transfer budget as it is. Why shoot ourselves in the foot. It has to be a universal movement which all clubs agree to or else it's just going to be disastrous for the clubs who do.
 
Taking all passion, bias, and trying to ignore the lack of business sense of reducing prices (for Everton anyway) out of it...

A Premier League match is basically 2 and a half hours of entertainment. It's the equivalent of going to see a blockbuster movie at the cinema.

A Premier League match ticket costs £30+.
A movie ticket costs £14 tops, probably cheaper if you go for lesser options.

25-30 years ago, going to the pictures cost the same as going to the match, a few quid tops.

Why is football now 2 to 3 times the cost of going to the cinema?
 
Or it's the equivalent of going to a concert. In which case, it's much cheaper than going to see has-beens Spandau Ballet at the Arena...

How would this ticket price reduction work? All the people who now have season tickets get some money back? But why should they get to keep their tickets when the people who (theoretically) had been priced out are now priced back in again but can't get a ticket because they are all taken up by people who could afford the current prices? Why, for example, would Mr A get to take his (even cheaper) kids in place of two adults who can afford the current prices. And why should they lose out? Or do current season ticket holders only get to see half the home matches to let the rest of the people have a chance?

I agree that the London match prices are ridiculous and that in general prices have gone up more than inflation. But be fair - Everton have some of the lowest prices around and have had for a number of years now. And, when it was cheap as chips to go to matches, why were the attendances only 24,000? (In the days when a championship wasn't just a faint memory.)
 

BoysInBlue said:
25-30 years ago, going to the pictures cost the same as going to the match, a few quid tops.

Why is football now 2 to 3 times the cost of going to the cinema?
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I'd say football is quite easily 2 or 3 times as popular as it was in the 1980's, the attendance figures would indicate that is the case.

I don't agree with the idea of reducing our ticket prices, it would just further disadvantage us when trying to compete with wealthier clubs. We are selling out as it is, and that's despite every game being available to watch for free on live internet streams or in the pubs on County Road.
 
BoysInBlue said:
Taking all passion, bias, and trying to ignore the lack of business sense of reducing prices (for Everton anyway) out of it...

A Premier League match is basically 2 and a half hours of entertainment. It's the equivalent of going to see a blockbuster movie at the cinema.

A Premier League match ticket costs £30+.
A movie ticket costs £14 tops, probably cheaper if you go for lesser options.

25-30 years ago, going to the pictures cost the same as going to the match, a few quid tops.

Why is football now 2 to 3 times the cost of going to the cinema?
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Yes, but most movies are utter crap. What's it cost to see U2 play live?

What's the season ticket price for a dad and son to see Everton together--£29 per match*?

*ok, I see now it's £30 for Family Enclosure, up to £39 for more expensive seats
 
Dymak said:
I'd say football is quite easily 2 or 3 times as popular as it was in the 1980's, the attendance figures would indicate that is the case.

I don't agree with the idea of reducing our ticket prices, it would just further disadvantage us when trying to compete with wealthier clubs. We are selling out as it is, and that's despite every game being available to watch for free on live internet streams or in the pubs on County Road.
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Movie-going has increased in popularity too. Multiplexes didn't exist in the UK 20/30 years ago.

The ticket price increase is just down to greed.
 

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