Colin Steins Smile
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Can we nominate this game for the Jimmy Hill charity fund and state that 10 per cent of every ticket price goes to this charity? Just asking for a friend. 
Home v Sunderland 12.30, Sky, £33 a ticket (18 Viewers)
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Covcraig@bury
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Can someone put a Scumberland scarf around Jimmy Hills neck to keep him warm and show them plastic Geordies there’s no hard feelings 
that will wind them up 
that will wind them up Leamington spa sky blue
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Allocation sold out so price was fair!
SkyblueDad
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How many ?
shmmeee
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Arguably not enough
Brighton Sky Blue
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I’d probably guard the Jimmy Hill statue, and I’m only half joking. Wouldn’t be surprise if a rogue idiot tried to vandalise it
pusbccfc
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They tried last time.
Nonsense……what about all the home fans who will skip this one because of cost?
Evo1883
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I don't agree with the pricing , however if clubs like sunderland are willing to pay it , then the club won't care .
shmmeee
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Fact is their loss will be more than made up by the gain from those that do attend.
Evo1883
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Sunderland have been some of the quietest away fans I've ever seen , that being said as a supporter that travels to every away game known to man have yet to hear a home atmosphere as good as ours over the last 2 seasons in this league , including 30k plus at Sunderland.
Not sure what point you're making really , other than a dig at your own club which is weird
It's Sunderland that persistently slag this club off , not so much the other way round
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MAFF
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Just saying I reckon it'll be like the Norwich game except worse because some weirdos on both teams are obsessed with each other.
clint van damme
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Outsing us? You been to many games against Sunderland?
Vocally, their support is dreadful.
Agree about the faux rivalry, utter nonsense.
Nick
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You don't have to buy food and beers though.
Everybody I know who moans about the prices for a game always seem to include beer money which baffles me as they are happy to pay £5.50 for a piss-poor pint but moan about an extra couple of quid for a ticket.
MAFF
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Fair. Although any team beating us will likely out-sing us!
That is arguably a very short term take on things though
. Besides if say 1500 don’t go because of pricing, you need over 4500 paying the extra £8 a ticket to cover that.
More people = better atmosphere, more chance of returning, more chance of buying merchandise, contributions to F & B sales etc, more footfall for advertisers, in fact more benefits to Coventry businesss all round.
You always counter with that argument but for probably 75% of fans having on a pint as part of a match day is sacrosanct .
Nick
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Not really. It's just pointing it out, £5.50 each for a few awful pints but a couple of quid more for a ticket is a deal breaker?
If I wanted to cut costs, I'd just go somewhere cheaper for a beer and food before or bang a can down on the walk to the ground.
I have a mate who factors in money in a fruit machine as well if going in the pub....
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hill83
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That’s actually a really good point and I think I’ll take back my comment about not paying over £25 for a ticket. I’ll happily buy 4 pints and won’t even blink.
Similar to no questions asked in whatever pub about the price of a drink, but I’ll stalk the bread aisle in Sainsbury’s for 15 minutes trying to find bread that’s 5p cheaper.
Nick
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Nothing worse then becoming a millionaire after a couple of pints too. Spend the week trying to find something a couple of quid cheaper but get silly rounds in.
alexccfc99
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We best fucking not
alexccfc99
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Any of their lot who tried anything would get absolutely pasted
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Spent months living on Sainsbury's reduced bread a while back, just because I had time to kill around the time they started to reduce it. The sudden over-use of focaccia wasn't middle class pretension, more I could get it for 15p!
alexccfc99
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Win tomorrow and can see it being a very decent attendance
Nick
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More you liked scrapping the crazed women in supermarkets waiting for the race to reduced stuff?
I don’t think most people drink much of that over priced piss out of plastic glasses, more are doing exactly as you suggested before they get there.
shmmeee
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I don’t disagree, but on a purely financial basis on a per game basis it makes sense. There will be 20k paying that price in all likelihood, if there’s anything like 1,500 not going (which I doubt) then they’re paid for almost five times over.
All studies show football isn’t really price elastic. No one goes to watch Nuneaton because they’re cheaper. If the product is there then the fans will be ultimately. To a certain degree. Being a fan isn’t being a rational economic actor.
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Arguably if you only pick, say eight games a season, then the club probably wants you to pick the cheaper priced ones anyway, against less appealing teams. That'll mean a higher gate potentially against them than otherwise, as everybody would otherwise head to see us v Sunderland and ignore us v Wigan.
It's not like people who pick a set amount of games are going to pick a different team to watch, they'll just pick a different game. But it'll still be eight games worth of cash the club gets, regardless of who they watch, so may as well charge a higher price elsewhere for those who'll go whatever the price (away fans!).
It's not like people who pick a set amount of games are going to pick a different team to watch, they'll just pick a different game. But it'll still be eight games worth of cash the club gets, regardless of who they watch, so may as well charge a higher price elsewhere for those who'll go whatever the price (away fans!).
shmmeee
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The smart answer is tiered pricing, like airlines and theatres do, but you need a better differentiator than seat position IMO. If they had extra wide seats with padding in some areas and rail safe standing in others you could have a real mix of price points and people would self select
alexccfc99
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I can understand categorising games if we were ever to go up! But not in the Championship - their fans would have you think differently but they are Sunderland, not Real Madrid - A flat rate £25 across the board is fair
Have I also missed the club doing a ticket offer since COVID? Can’t recall one off the top of my head and they usually did one a season
Have I also missed the club doing a ticket offer since COVID? Can’t recall one off the top of my head and they usually did one a season
Our Cat A prices are completely out of sync with the rest of the league. Only Sheff Utd get close. The cheapest ticket in the ground is £34 (the £1 booking fee is compulsory). That's insane.
Sky Blue Heaven
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Sunderland have sold out their 3k allocation