£50 to watch QPR in the cahmpionship...

[Sharpys top lip]

This is from their rivals site...

Queens Park Rangers Football Club have unveiled a brand new pricing structure for their fixtures - it's bold, it's radical, but is it the right approach to take? Here at Rangers Return, we want your views...

The times they are a changing. Queens Park Rangers have unveiled a brand new ticket pricing structure at the club that will effectively determine match day prices via the opposition and the date and time the game is played.
The tiered structure introduces Platinum £50, Gold £40, Silver £30 and Bronze £20 ticket price system for the associated areas of the ground on a categorised fixture. As an example the Derby County game will be a 'A' category introducing Platinum price bands above, while Blackpool with be a 'C' category fixture with lower price bands from £35 downwards.

That is a total piss take. An the fans in the forum havn't reacted well to it either. Football really has gone to [Poor language removed] now. £50 for that [Poor language removed]. The fans really are being priced out of the game.

What happens if you used to go as a family.....say, two adults an two kids. just not happening any more.

Thats a [Poor language removed] joke.

 

[SuitsBlue]

the doctor and his two daughters.... prawn sandwiches... etc.

to be fair all prem clubs have a higher price for certain fixtures - specifically the CL few and possibly certain local derbys.

but, there was a hullabaloo last season regards chelsea and them charging 50 rubes a ticket. i believe it was for carling cup games.

QPR, delusions of grandeur, not a prem side, not in the CL, and not chelsea.

 

[TsarDiniyar]

where are their investors from?

sounds like somethin i would have expected the [Poor language removed] to come up with considerin their 'run' by a load of clueless yanks

 

[Sharpys top lip]

the doctor and his two daughters.... prawn sandwiches... etc.

to be fair all prem clubs have a higher price for certain fixtures - specifically the CL few and possibly certain local derbys.

but, there was a hullabaloo last season regards chelsea and them charging 50 rubes a ticket. i believe it was for carling cup games.

QPR, delusions of grandeur, not a prem side, not in the CL, and not chelsea.

Iv been to QPR. The surrounding area is a [Poor language removed] hole mate. Can't see many people from their being doctors. Thou i get your point. What about the real fans....

Shafted again!!

 

[Welton Toffee]

That is outrageous.

Whoever dreamed that idea up clearly didn't see Derby play in the Prem last year if they're under some illusion that they're going to put on some sort of footballing lesson...

 

[Nebbiolo]

Iv been to QPR. The surrounding area is a [Poor language removed] hole mate. Can't see many people from their being doctors. Thou i get your point. What about the real fans....

Shafted again!!

It might look like a [Poor language removed] hole but even an ex-council property in W12 costs an arm and a leg. And just minutes down the road is the snooty Holland Park and Kensington. Not far from that is Notting Hill. If those guys at QPR can assemble a local fanbase, they can charge whatever they want.

 

[SuitsBlue]

the 'doctor' and 'prawn sandwich' comments were in fact loose quotes from a mr R.Keane of current sunderland managerial fame, made whilst in his playing days.

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

a mr mittal i believe may have had a hand in the pricing structure

 

[GrandOldTeam]

Cant be right surely?

 

[Cahill's Metatarsal]

I resent having to pay £38 to watch Everton away at Derby or £40 at WBA & that's only once a season (assuming they're in the Premiership) so I'd absolutely despise having to pay £50 to watch a championship team play another championship team, no matter what the overall average ticket price was (which by the sound of it, wont be that cheap)

 

[Rook]

So in the Championship, it will cost $100US to watch Wolves-QPR???

 

[davids]

I know we "all" seem to want a big money backer, but when they see the club purely as an investment these things will happen.

 

[coyney]

I seem to remember Leeds did it years ago after they resigned Johns from Italy their fans went nuts didnt blame them,Its years since I went to QPR its in Shepherds bush or has it moved?

 

[Rook]

I know we "all" seem to want a big money backer, but when they see the club purely as an investment these things will happen.

In the owners defence a free hand job comes with the price of your ticket.

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

i heard you get a wank-view there, i just thought they meant posts and stuff.