New Everton Stadium - Hill Dickinson Stadium

[marsh]

They should just allow any EFC account access resale and allow people who have put their seat on the resale to reduce the price to whatever they like.

Seats near me in the upper east but people I know won't be paying to be a member then pay £65 for wolves at home on a Wednesday night. There would be loads on there for £20 or less if the seat holder had the choice to pick the price. Does my head in

 

[GrandOldTeam]

They should just allow any EFC account access resale and allow people who have put their seat on the resale to reduce the price to whatever they like.

Seats near me in the upper east but people I know won't be paying to be a member then pay £65 for wolves at home on a Wednesday night. There would be loads on there for £20 or less if the seat holder had the choice to pick the price. Does my head in

Its why I always defended, and advocated StubHub. Most games you could get a ticket below face value, often a lot below.

There's no perfect solution.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Its why I always defended, and advocated StubHub. Most games you could get a ticket below face value, often a lot below.

There's no perfect solution.

would you say the current solution seems the worst of a bad bunch?

 

[Daz1878]

I'm glad I have my season ticket, as I've certainly seen more games this season than I would have otherwise, but the fact that our first Saturday 3pm home game of the year is just a couple of weeks before Easter is both madness and a disgrace. I'm not so naive to think that every game will be on a Saturday (or even a weekend), but this upcoming batch of weekday games are ones I'll be seriously toiling to get to (and back from), and it's pretty clear this isn't just a me problem.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

would you say the current solution seems the worst of a bad bunch?

Without doubt, having to pay a seasonal membership fee, even if in May, for the chance to buy a ticket. No good.

 

[marsh]

Its why I always defended, and advocated StubHub. Most games you could get a ticket below face value, often a lot below.

There's no perfect solution.

I agree. Used to take friends or family member for like £20. It was only the derby where the prices would be stupid.

 

[b-rad]

It's really not. You understand how the tv deal works for Premier League clubs, right?

Yes - and that's the problem. Yet you mockingly suggest sky isn't ruining things?

 

[Rita_Poon]

Without doubt, having to pay a seasonal membership fee, even if in May, for the chance to buy a ticket. No good.

It has been a slow snowballing issue that is starting to turn up a bit more regular. And the sign off to most of the posts addressing it are, "I'm having second thoughts about next seasons ST"... "I might just pick and choose my games".
It's not that I can see a mutiny coming, but I think it's dawning on a lot that the Goodison experience is gone, it's going to take ages for the asbo's make their areas theirs, the hoi polloi (park end old bunch) grumble their way through their corner, kids and families need a more ruthless designated area (so we can finally be rid of the yellow area warning signs - this is my best guess). Then the inbetweens. The concourses don't sound furnished right to make HT easy. It's all teething troubles, I acknowledge that but stack problem on top of problem and be seen not to be sorting it and slowly the support will turn - first on one another, then start up at the owners. The west ham example is a warning.

 

[SJB]

Yes - and that's the problem. Yet you mockingly suggest sky isn't ruining things?

Debatable. Take the Sky money out of the game and what standard of football would you be watching?

 

[MerseySamurai]

3. Well too many late midweek games. The next 5 league games are all Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday night. Nightmare for those travelling in, work, kids.

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Hopefully and rightly so, if they do get rid of the 3pm Saturday ban for tv, the likes of Sky and TNT (or whatever they’ll be called that season) will stop this nonsense of mid-week games. Even as a football fan it’s boring how many nights a week football is on. It’s becoming a daily soap opera

 

[Jacko93]

The night games are the worst. I cant be expected to take my 8 year old child, or even my 13 year old child to a game, where we'll not be getting back until gone midnight on a schoolnight.

 

[b-rad]

Debatable. Take the Sky money out of the game and what standard of football would you be watching?

Impossible to answer, but assuming a 'smaller' amount of money in the game from broadcasters, globally, I think the 'quality' would be similar., and the competitiveness throughout the pyramid much better,. Footballers would still be earning wages well above any kind of national average, so it would still be an 'aspirational' vocation.

Or are you saying that football before 1992 was rubbish because there was no sky money?

 

[Rita_Poon]

The night games are the worst. I cant be expected to take my 8 year old child, or even my 13 year old child to a game, where we'll not be getting back until gone midnight on a schoolnight.

Night games used to be a treat 'cos they were a one off.

Now that's been watered down and the novelty extinguished.

 

[SJB]

Or are you saying that football before 1992 was rubbish because there was no sky money?

If English football hadn't been commercialised and moved with the times in the 1990s then we'd have been left behind. Paul Gascoigne, Des Walker, David Platt etc were all leaving for the better wages abroad in a country that was one step ahead.

 

[Rita_Poon]

If English football hadn't been commercialised and moved with the times in the 1990s then we'd have been left behind. Paul Gascoigne, Des Walker, David Platt etc were all leaving for the better wages abroad in a country that was one step ahead.

The car plant owners in Italy and the media propaganda owner at the time could supplement their clubs with cash from their core business. The rules changed and so did the car market. This in part is why juve had to turn to bribing officials to win a scudetto. As a side thought, if you have the means to buy penalties and bookings, how difficult is it to fix drug testing. Remember, someone had the foresight to be taping maradona ring up the locals* to request a quarter ounce of cocaine and two prostitutes nightly.