Season tickets

[Andy @ Allerton]

Has anyone got one? Thought people were claiming they've renewed - phoned the club today and she said NO Season ticket renewal letters (Except Corporate) have been sent out so far.

 

She said to raise that these 'renewals' might be fraudulant as the club send out the new Season Ticket renewals starting tommorow

 

Anyone else heard anything about this?

[johngibo YPC]

Haven't had anything yet

don't know anyone who says they have renewed

[Mike]

which is funny because fyds said he got his kop one about 2 weeks ago...

[Guest kop270]

i havent had my renewal yet for the Kop.

[Guest 7777]

Not had mine yet

[Mike]

pork pies.

 

who'd have thought it.

[Christine]

I think they?ve said all along that they?ll send them out round the 12th of this month, due back round the 4th of July if you want the early bird thing.

 

Parry was asked about it the other day at the Q&A session and said the decision not freeze the tickets was a difficult one

[johngibo YPC]

I think they?ve said all along that they?ll send them out round the 12th of this month, due back round the 4th of July if you want the early bird thing.

 

Parry was asked about it the other day at the Q&A session and said the decision not freeze the tickets was a difficult one

 

Did he do that Q&A with RTK then

Any link to a write up?

[Christine]

Did he do that Q&A with RTK then

Any link to a write up?

 

He did yeah, not simply an RTK thing (although granted they put it in place) anyone could submit a question or try and attend. I think soneobe from RTK will do a write up and push him for follow ups with regards to the ?I?ll look into it? answers.

 

I really enjoyed it.

 

Couple of little snippets from the meeting?

 

He doesn?t believe the ?25 incident? dossier exists.

He doesn?t believe there is a secret police force thing travelling abroad

Very critical of UEFA and Co

He was in favour of a boy?s pen kinda thing in the new stadium

He can?t say ?we?ll never play in the 15th? but that?s certainly their intention and they will be speaking to the relevant people before the season starts to ensure that?s the case this coming season ? PL are fine and pretty amenable but UEFA are a right pain in the ass, said you wouldn?t believe what a hard time they got of them when trying to put certain ?friendship? initiatives in place pre the Juventus game.

Not a penny from the £2.50 internet booking charge goes to the club (think he?s a mug if that?s the case).

Will look into more tickets being available at the ticket office window and the possibility of opening longer hours so people don't have to take time off work.

Will look into the possibility of people colleting auto ticket scheme tickets up directly from the club if they so wish (someone complained about his going missing)

Will look into cross competition loyalty

The whole concept of stewards travelling to euro away games being reassessed due to them not actually having any authority to do anything when at these stadiums, that?s and the fact that seemingly it?s a thankless job.

Will look into the ticket arrangements for Euro away games with so many people potentially going to try and buy a ticket for that elusive seventh point.

 

He said we?re not soft and we don?t just ?bend over? to the FA and the like...I said that wasn?t how it seemed to an outsider

 

Read what you want in to the ?we?ll look into it? replies

[oakie bob]

season ticket prices here, if people havent seen them yet

[Paul B]

Anyone remember what they were last season? Mine's £650 this time but I remember on Football Focus they named Liverpool as one of the clubs who were freezing prices. Seems they haven't.

 

If that's so, I'd like someone to explain why the prices have gone up at all. With the new TV deal providing many, many millions of pounds, why are the fans being fleeced yet again? I'd like to see something of a large price reduction, say down to £500 for the coming season. What extra are we getting for this increase?

 

Personally, I think £650 is too much. I will pay it but it's not something I'll enjoy doing.

[johngibo YPC]

He said we?re not soft and we don?t just ?bend over? to the FA and the like...I said that wasn?t how it seemed to an outsider

 

Read what you want in to the ?we?ll look into it? replies

 

cheers Christine. Good to see you challenging him.

I think they will look into it personally. But i am one of lives optimists!

[Sion]

I'm pretty sure individual match ticket prices if not this up and coming season, then the next are going to break the £40 a game barrier - with the internet booking fee a lot pay especially. I'll still pay it, but what with other fee's like parking, a programme and any food/drink i might want. I'll be looking at £60-65 a home game on a bad day. Times 60 by the 18-20 times I went last season and that's over a grand spent. Don't want to seem moany but that is an awful lot of money.

 

I hope G&H don't force us to go the way the mancs seems to be going and freeze out the working class fans with extortianate yearly increases and compulsory cup ticket schemes. I fear this might happen at the new ground.

Edited June 12, 2007 by Sion

[Andy @ Allerton]

Got my renewal this morning. Phoned the club up and its renewed

 

Hurrah!

[Paul B]

Got mine this morning too. I'm going to wait till the last day. Make them sweat a bit and think I'm not renewing. Robbing cunce.

[Redkop]

Got mine through today as well. They can wait another 3 weeks before they get my money.

[Paul B]

I'm definitely writing a letter of complaint to go with my season ticket renewals form this time round. Never done it before but FFS, this time it needs saying. A big rise in ticket prices when a massive TV deal has just been announced is, I think, taking the absolute piss. When I read of players on stupid amounts of money a week and think what it costs me to watch our team, I can't help but wonder at the craziness of the situation. Truly, the biblical saying, "To him that hath, more shall be given and from he that hath not, even the little that he hath shall be taken" was never more appropriate.

 

Will all season ticket holders please make your voice heard and tell our club we've had enough and in future, there should not be an automatic and compulsory rise in ticket prices. In fact, I believe there should be a reduction in prices as we are getting nothing in addition to what we got last year.

 

And please, those without season tickets, I'd be extremely grateful if you would reserve your "should-be-grateful-you've-got-them" comments until you are in possession of them yourselves.

[anny road]

I'm definitely writing a letter of complaint to go with my season ticket renewals form this time round. Never done it before but FFS, this time it needs saying. A big rise in ticket prices when a massive TV deal has just been announced is, I think, taking the absolute piss. When I read of players on stupid amounts of money a week and think what it costs me to watch our team, I can't help but wonder at the craziness of the situation. Truly, the biblical saying, "To him that hath, more shall be given and from he that hath not, even the little that he hath shall be taken" was never more appropriate.

 

Will all season ticket holders please make your voice heard and tell our club we've had enough and in future, there should not be an automatic and compulsory rise in ticket prices. In fact, I believe there should be a reduction in prices as we are getting nothing in addition to what we got last year.

 

And please, those without season tickets, I'd be extremely grateful if you would reserve your "should-be-grateful-you've-got-them" comments until you are in possession of them yourselves.

 

 

no you cant now pay your money and shut up

[Cam]

 

Parry's comments that the rise was a difficult decision & took a lot of thinking was bo11ocks. Unless the discussions went something like "Hmmm, should we freeze or lower them? No, we can't - Gerrard wants a new deal. Shall we have a small increase seeing as they're really cheap, we're playing like Brazil in '70 and have just won shedloads of stuff? Nah, feck it - let's have a fecking huge increase of £40".

 

I'll renew this time but I know I'm getting towards the point where I won't want to. £millions more into the game via TV money and greedy fecker players decide £90k a week isn't enough. Eventually there'll be a point where I financially can't do it (ie the upfront cost is too great but already the profit-potential of £650 outlay versus up to £2k per year to loan it out is tempting) but I think the emotional want to renew will disappear first.

 

The game is meaning less and less to me with each year. Partly down to more important personal things in my life but mainly down to how it's all changed since the Sky revolution. I was possibly happier without one, ignorant in my own bliss of how we were the greatest and we'd win the title back next year. Actually going and witnessing first-hand how far away we are takes away some of the hope. Why pay £650 to KNOW we won't win the league? Super-fans and their 2p worth can feck off right now.

 

It's not like we're getting the life-time of memories for the money. Okay, I've missed finals & a couple of Chelsea crackers but my genuine life-long memories since '93 are scarily few: Blackburn winning the league at ours, the two Newcastle 4-3s, the Barcelona goal and Houllier's return versus Roma.

[Mr Makaveli]

Paul I think you've got a valid point. Ticket prices shouldnt keep going up just because the footballing world has gone money mad. It is maybe because of things like this that football can afford to go money mad. It has to stop some time.

[anny road]

 

Parry's comments that the rise was a difficult decision & took a lot of thinking was bo11ocks. Unless the discussions went something like "Hmmm, should we freeze or lower them? No, we can't - Gerrard wants a new deal. Shall we have a small increase seeing as they're really cheap, we're playing like Brazil in '70 and have just won shedloads of stuff? Nah, feck it - let's have a fecking huge increase of £40".

 

I'll renew this time but I know I'm getting towards the point where I won't want to. £millions more into the game via TV money and greedy fecker players decide £90k a week isn't enough. Eventually there'll be a point where I financially can't do it (ie the upfront cost is too great but already the profit-potential of £650 outlay versus up to £2k per year to loan it out is tempting) but I think the emotional want to renew will disappear first.

 

The game is meaning less and less to me with each year. Partly down to more important personal things in my life but mainly down to how it's all changed since the Sky revolution. I was possibly happier without one, ignorant in my own bliss of how we were the greatest and we'd win the title back next year. Actually going and witnessing first-hand how far away we are takes away some of the hope. Why pay £650 to KNOW we won't win the league? Super-fans and their 2p worth can feck off right now.

 

It's not like we're getting the life-time of memories for the money. Okay, I've missed finals & a couple of Chelsea crackers but my genuine life-long memories since '93 are scarily few: Blackburn winning the league at ours, the two Newcastle 4-3s, the Barcelona goal and Houllier's return versus Roma.

 

 

you can tellme to f*** off by all means but some of that is bulls***

 

1, if you are basing buying your season ticket on success then 99% of football clubs would go under...so its ol for you to ask for the game to re-appeal to the common man, but you will f*** off cayse we wont win the league? f*** me

 

2. Life time memories??? We have more than most mate, even recently

[fyds]

Agree with Anny. It's allright for the likes of Blackburn and Wigan to lower prices - they don't get fullhouses anyway, they won't be looking to build a new stadium anytime soon, they won't be looking to buy top players to add to the ones they don't already have on their wage bills and they won't be winning much anythime soon. Winning costs - so does trying to win - and we're still not the most expensive by some way.

[Paul B]

Agree with Anny. It's allright for the likes of Blackburn and Wigan to lower prices - they don't get fullhouses anyway, they won't be looking to build a new stadium anytime soon, they won't be looking to buy top players to add to the ones they don't already have on their wage bills and they won't be winning much anythime soon. Winning costs - so does trying to win - and we're still not the most expensive by some way.

 

 

I take your points but as you well know, there are a majority of fans who actively want the club to remain at Anfield. If the increase, or part of the increase is, as you say, to pay for the new ground, then you've got the ridiculous situation of fans being forced to pay for soething they don't want to happen anyway.

 

And just because we're not the most expensive doesn't give them the right to arbitrarily and without consultation ask us to stump up even more for the right to support the team.

 

Winning costs, you're right but why should the cost should be borne by the poor, hard pressed fans? Why isn't it on those that are massively inconveniencing us by switching KO times and days? I think it's already started to have an adverse effect on the fan-player loyalty situation and it's going to get worse the more this goes on if we just sit there, pay our money, shut up, turn up and go home having not had our say.

Edited June 17, 2007 by Paul B

[suzyv]

As someone who has been on the season ticket list for a long time I would love the chance to pay 600. The price of match day tickets will also rise. If the season tickets go up in line with inflation each year then you should not moan. After all all the things that are used to run a footbal club including wages staff and players rise each year. I know we have the tv money but you all want us to buy players. We cant have it both ways and we are still one of the cheapest clubs around. If you compare us and are memories even just this centuary we are better value for money then most teams.

[Paul B]

As someone who has been on the season ticket list for a long time I would love the chance to pay 600. The price of match day tickets will also rise. If the season tickets go up in line with inflation each year then you should not moan. After all all the things that are used to run a footbal club including wages staff and players rise each year. I know we have the tv money but you all want us to buy players. We cant have it both ways and we are still one of the cheapest clubs around. If you compare us and are memories even just this centuary we are better value for money then most teams.

 

 

Sorry, Suzyv but that's really not helping. A lot of us are paying £650 (in my case) a year and if it were only going up in line with inflation, I would not be so unhappy. It has gone up well in excess of inflation every year since I've had one and it's getting on my t** ends. The fact is, they know, through loyalty, we are going to pay it and they also use you, the clamouring masses, as ammunition to tell us, "if you don't want it, there's thousands more that do" as some kind of perverse justification of these obscene rises.

 

As for rising with inflation, every year, I stay in a cottage in Glen Coe for a week. The first year I stayed there co-incided with my first payment for my first season ticket. To give you some comparison figures, I paid £310 for the week at the cottage the same week I paid £178 for the season ticket. This year, the same cottage for the same week is £408 and the owner tells me he has carefully only risen costs in line with inflation. This time round, the same seat for the season is, as I say, £650. That's some price differential, isn't it?

 

Also, your perception that "all things that are used to run a football club.....rise each year" lets them off the hook. Why do these things go up? Why should we not question the fact that some players are "earning" 400 times the national average wage?