Steve 10,227 Posted April 14, 2011 Share Posted April 14, 2011 Been to 2 home games this season, will be going to about the same if not less next season. Terrible. Paying that much for a dead atmosphere where other teams absolutely take the piss; people with stupidly high expectations moaning all game; getting told to sit down all game by stewards and fans. It's an absolute joke. The club aren't going to take notice of fans like me who won't go to home games because they know they will always get someone to fill the gap. I can guarantee they will go up again next season as well.Agreed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
middleoftheshed 388 Posted April 14, 2011 Share Posted April 14, 2011 EDIT: Just seen UCL group stage games are £40. No way i'll be renewing my membership.Didn't see that at first! For the most part group games are crap and should be considered no more important than the FA cup.Theres gonna be a few empty seats at the Bridge next season for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDN Blue 7,903 Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 Long live the forever singing MH Stand! We will come back when we're a bit richer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oxfordblues 299 Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 i just saw this on sky sports news & come straight here.well thats me finished then,being an NHS worker & just had allowances cut & my hrs reduced,who can really afford it nowadays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oxfordblues 299 Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 & the atmosphere has completeley gone aswell.i remember when the west stand would stand & sing.when u watch on TV looks like an oilo painting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liquidator 5,176 Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 The only positive from this is the extension of the concessions prices. Another stupid thing about the new category system is that category A prices are for games against Villa, West Ham, Everton and Fulham I think. What makes those games (apart from West Ham at a push) more important that ones against the likes of Newcastle, West Brom etc Last season before the fixtures were put up Newcastle was Category A. Why? We have no rivalry with them whatsoever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laylabelle 9,535 Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 & the atmosphere has completeley gone aswell.i remember when the west stand would stand & sing.when u watch on TV looks like an oilo painting.At £82 it'll look even more so!! That AA is bollocks..£60 for the Shed..jesus only two years ago it was what £48!I thought the idea of A,B and AA Catagories was that B was meant to be a lot cheaper! Not about £2 diff.The whole thing is madTake it CL knock out be AA..Probably could go to an abroad game for that price! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrismada9 1,948 Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 Been to 2 home games this season, will be going to about the same if not less next season. Terrible. Paying that much for a dead atmosphere where other teams absolutely take the piss; people with stupidly high expectations moaning all game; getting told to sit down all game by stewards and fans. It's an absolute joke. The club aren't going to take notice of fans like me who won't go to home games because they know they will always get someone to fill the gap. I can guarantee they will go up again next season as well.Great post!! To tell you the truth, I feel as though, when I spend £30-odd for a Champions League ticket, which I had to do when I went to the Zilina game this season, our home fans get completely out-sung, and we only really start singing if we score a goal.If we were to sing chants regardless of what the score is, I think the atmosphere would be a lot more entertaining and electric, and the players will perform a lot better if they know the fans are behind them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laylabelle 9,535 Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 Great post!! To tell you the truth, I feel as though, when I spend £30-odd for a Champions League ticket, which I had to do when I went to the Zilina game this season, our home fans get completely out-sung, and we only really start singing if we score a goal.If we were to sing chants regardless of what the score is, I think the atmosphere would be a lot more entertaining and electric, and the players will perform a lot better if they know the fans are behind them!Yeh agree!! I've been going for quite a few years and somehow managed not so see us loose tell City last year and the atmopshere that day weirdly enough best I've felt it been in a long time.Even though we lost 4-2 and played bloody crap,Shed was very ooooooooooooo.And if every game could've been like that all been good.Then the prices go up and its oh out go the other fans and in come the posh people who tell you off for swearing..though that was at Wembley but stll bloody cheek!It did seem to be CL fans that out sing us,being more lalalalalalla jumping around from the start while we sit kinda erm...but it is bad when teams like Wigan out sing when theres hardly any fans there! Prices aint gana help.Still been meaning to go to away games for ages so next season here go lol.And knowing our luck the games that are 'cheap' we'll end up either all away games or knocked out first round so no cheap ticket advanatage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NattyBlue 44 Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 Wel it depends on where you look Steve, there's plenty of area's around that are cheap for renting and stuff. They just may not be the most affluent of area's lol.I'm hoping to get a ST for next season... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve 10,227 Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 Wel it depends on where you look Steve, there's plenty of area's around that are cheap for renting and stuff. They just may not be the most affluent of area's lol.I'm hoping to get a ST for next season...It would be nice in fulham haha but 400 quid a week is killing me ill be honest! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NattyBlue 44 Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 That would kill the best of us! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueLion. 21,491 Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 Ron Gourlay is a cunt, doo-da, doo-da.Gourlay’s 8% ticket increase takes the biscuit 16th Apr 2011, In Articles, by Alex Hinsley You may or may not have heard the latest news surrounding Chelsea. It isn’t to do with a new signing like Fernando Torres – that the spoilt glory supporters will become fed up with after a mere 693 minutes of hard work and faultless effort – and it isn’t to do with Carlo Ancelotti, surprisingly. Whilst the Italian’s time may not be up just yet, one thing that is up – more specifically going up – is the average price of a ticket at Stamford Bridge. That means that in two seasons as Chief Executive, Ron Gourlay has increased the average price of a ticket at our West London home by about £8.50, give or take a few pence either way. For fans like me and you, who unfortunately do not have money trees in our back gardens, or have the luxury of wiping our backsides with tenners, it means we are simply being priced out of Stamford Bridge. In summary, Gourlay’s taking the piss. It means that if you are over the age of 16 and under the age of 65, you will have to pay £61 to sit in the Matthew Harding Lower to watch a game against Arsenal under the new ‘category AA’ game category, as opposed to the mere £52 you’d pay to watch Wigan. Tell me, who the fuck would pay that much to go and watch us play Wigan? And with opposition fans having to pay exactly the same price, why would a Wigan fan spend so much on coming to our home ground? I’ll tell you who – people who can afford it, and unfortunately, most of those people are not real Chelsea fans. The club are concerned about a lack of atmosphere at the Bridge, and yet they are pricing the likes of me and you out. Let me put this into perspective for you – in the 2006/07 season, I went to watch 17 home games. This year, I’ve been to three, because each game is costing me personally about £40 more because of seating prices being raised, on top of the exorbitant amount we have to also pay in fuel. People who find solace in reduced prices for the Carling Cup, FA Cup and UEFA Champions League group stage matches will be disappointed as well. Expect to pay £40 to watch us play in Europe’s ‘premier competition,’ or instead, how about you pay £30 as we struggle to beat a lowly League Two side? It is nothing but an utter piss-take. The club say they have spoken to the Fans’ Forum, who agreed with the new pricing policy. What ‘Fans’ Forum’ was this? The Royal Association of Rich Bastards? Call me a cynic and even call me jealous, but when you see people from working- and lower-middle-class backgrounds being forced to pay extortionate amounts to watch their team play, you can forgive them for voluntarily becoming armchair fans. I might as well just watch us on Sky on a Sunday afternoon. The fact of the matter is you can expect prices to go up and up and up if the club want to milk the fans to pay off the Torres and Luiz transfers, and hope we can scrape through with UEFA’s financial ‘fair play’ regulations (which will mean Arsenal will probably take on Lokomotiv Plovdiv in the final in a couple of years’ time – and more than likely lose as we look on laughing). So call me bitter, but call me disappointed as well. But the club can see quite clearly that they certainly won’t be getting any money from me next season. Overpriced merchandise made for 52 pence in Taiwan and flogged for a tenner because someone stuck a Chelsea sticker on it? Well, that doesn’t take the piss anymore. Paying nearly £1000 for a season ticket – that’s what’s taking the piss. But will the club change anything? No, of course not. Do they even care? Well, quite frankly – no. Football is a business and unfortunately we will always have the casual tourist or ten thousand that will be willing to pay such money to watch eleven overpaid and under-committed men kick a ball around for 90 minutes. I suppose moving to a new stadium isn’t such a bad idea afterall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NattyBlue 44 Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 Really liked that article. Don't the prices highlight the fact that something needs to be done about stadium capacity? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laylabelle 9,535 Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 Really liked that article. Don't the prices highlight the fact that something needs to be done about stadium capacity?Pretty much.Then again Arsenal have a huge staduim and some of their tickets and pricey £90 odd and all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidEU 2,023 Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 When prices were frozen for 6 straight seasons, and every other club increased - what did you all expect? When we were all on here, January 31st, celebrating the signing of Fernando Torres, what did you expect? Was bound to happen, and just accept thats the going rate for this industry now. Football IS a business and like it or not, Ron Gourlay and everyone else has a job to do. A job to ensure the long term stability and income of this club. To generate the wages and funds to make it possible for us to have the best facilities and players to get us the success we're having.Makes me laugh that most the people who complain about it, never go anyway. A big factor in the club doing this, is that they know they can. They have to fill 43,000 seats every week - and if they can do that by charging £80 a ticket, then they are bound too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GodZola 630 Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 I know this is not going to be everyone's cup of tea but I would much rather go & watch half a dozen games a season than let the money men win, & if it means I sacrifice on something else then so darn well be it, I'm not going to give up my passion because the powers that be are making it difficult for the average working class man to go & attend games, granted I shouldn't have to think like that but I do not see a reduction in tickets for the foreseeable future so I have used my nod a little and with a slice of luck I can still attend enough games.For a start I only pay £25 for my membership instead of the all singing & dancing one of £42, whenever possible I get a 'group share ticket' for my train fare that saves me & others I'm with, on average about a tenner. I now go to a pub that's about 5'ish minutes walk from the Bridge that on average is about £2.15p a pint which is far better than paying £3.50 & upwards around the ground - this was my slice of luck as we were waiting an age for a tube to arrive one game & we got talking to a group of fans who told us of this pub.I'm not saying this right for everyone but try & think of ways to help cut you're cost, like is there people in you're area that can car share? Sit in a cheaper area, id even sit in the concession areas if I had too! I now try to attend a couple more cup games than league as its cheaper.The last time we went there was only 3 of us & you need 4 people for a group share ticket so we roped someone else who we didn't know - it saved them cash too! If you know someone with a railcard then ask to borrow it or give em a drink for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave30 728 Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 When prices were frozen for 6 straight seasons, and every other club increased - what did you all expect? When we were all on here, January 31st, celebrating the signing of Fernando Torres, what did you expect? Was bound to happen, and just accept thats the going rate for this industry now. Football IS a business and like it or not, Ron Gourlay and everyone else has a job to do. A job to ensure the long term stability and income of this club. To generate the wages and funds to make it possible for us to have the best facilities and players to get us the success we're having.Makes me laugh that most the people who complain about it, never go anyway. A big factor in the club doing this, is that they know they can. They have to fill 43,000 seats every week - and if they can do that by charging £80 a ticket, then they are bound too.Just because you feel the club has to do it doesn't have to mean we are going to happy about being priced out of football Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
We Hate Scouse 10,326 Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 I now go to a pub that's about 5'ish minutes walk from the Bridge that on average is about £2.15p a pint which is far better than paying £3.50 & upwards around the ground - this was my slice of luck as we were waiting an age for a tube to arrive one game & we got talking to a group of fans who told us of this pub.What pub's that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GodZola 630 Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 What pub's that?Are you old enough to be allowed into a public house for a beverage or 2? It's called The Goose, it's about 5 minutes walk from the tube at West Brompton, have you been there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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