Ticket Prices
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I obviously meant now that he has retired.
I've been back row in Annie Road lower tier.. when anyone in the 20 rows ahead of you stands up it is game over for seeing the pitch
I'm actually surprised that players generally haven't copped more flak for price rises. They're the greedy buggers going to China or Man City pushing the overall running costs everywhere up. It's a bit weird it's all aimed at owners.
"You greedy bastards, enough is enough" could have well been sung to our players on Saturday.
Exactly.
Players demand more money > Club agrees > Club looks for places to increase revenue > tickets increase > FUCK DA CLUB
Its the clubs responsibility to manage that though, not the players. Everyone wants success but fuckin it up and taking more off the fans so they can have another go is rich. Just because it can be done doesnt mean you should, like borrowing money off your parents or something. The access is there but it's a bad idea to use up the goodwill just to milk it dry
There's a very real limit as to how far this can all go before a good chunk of society is entirely priced out of the thing they helped make so attractive in the first place
There's a very real limit as to how far this can all go before a good chunk of society is entirely priced out of the thing they helped make so attractive in the first place
Which is why the fsf & other supporters groups are trying to arrange similar protests.
There is a chance this could snowball & become something much bigger.
I think the football world was genuinely stunned by that walk-out at, Anfield of all places, and the perception that it affected the results (which I don't subscribe to, by the way but it helps ...). The £30 away cap is suddenly being talked about again but it's just the relentless creeping rise in ticket prices which is beginning to look so unjustified.
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The lad I got the corporate seats from at the weekend has bought three executive club seats in the new main stand.
They wanted payment upfront for a minimum of two seasons. He bought three seasons. He wouldn't say how much but my other mate has just told me they're 11k each per season? Is that figure even remotely correct?!
They wanted payment upfront for a minimum of two seasons. He bought three seasons. He wouldn't say how much but my other mate has just told me they're 11k each per season? Is that figure even remotely correct?!
£11K per season?! I'd want it to be a bed, with a personal butler, Michelin-starred meal and a blow job from a model every game.
It was fucking nuts on Saturday. Five course meal with carvery, free parking next to the ground, little old fashioned souvenir football with the game stencilled on in gold, models greeting you on every door, people rolling up in overfinch range rovers constantly, they gave you food & drink to take in with you (cos you weren't full enough already obv), Roy Evans stood & spoke to the room pre match. Then you go in & can't see the centre of the pitch cos there's a pole holding the main stand up in your way.
He paid extra next season apparently, for a better class of model in the bar & restaurant & a box where they hold any drinks you've bought until half time or full time. According to my mate (second hand info so don't know if true) those things cost an extra 3k a season per seat. To have the club not take off you the alcohol that you've paid for. Mental.
I'm used to having a couple of pints in the harry & then going the game. It was a very different experience.
Do they still have the Legend's Lounge? I did that once or twice and you get a famous player sitting at every table. No little football or free parking though. And the seats were just a bit more padded once you got out into the ground. The problem with all that shit is that you end up spending like four hours in the ground or something. Fuck that. We did each get a Liverpool tie, though. quality.
I gave my wife the full VIP treatment on her first (and so far only) visit to Anfield.
By VIP I mean the King Harry before the game. It was most amusing.
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I think I put on here already that my mate got offered the highest cost new corporate thingy and it was over 40k a seat. I figured that must be for a table of four but he was sure it was for one. Anyways, if it was for four it ties in with what you're on about FFF.
I used to have tickets in the shankly / paisley lounge but they kept jacking the prices up way more than the regular seats and it just wasn't worth it any more. I've been offered them in there for free for a few times this season but haven't taken them, coz like people say, to get the benefit you need to get there 90 mins before and eat all that shite and generally pretend to be normal. I'd much rather just have a ticket in a good spot and turn up five mins before kick off.
I used to have tickets in the shankly / paisley lounge but they kept jacking the prices up way more than the regular seats and it just wasn't worth it any more. I've been offered them in there for free for a few times this season but haven't taken them, coz like people say, to get the benefit you need to get there 90 mins before and eat all that shite and generally pretend to be normal. I'd much rather just have a ticket in a good spot and turn up five mins before kick off.
I have never been upgraded without actually paying for it. I've actually been downgraded.
Oh yeah, I did go in the premier club for the first game of the season for the bournemouth game and got there handy, found myself not enjoying it at all. My mate was saying that he'd got them last minute for a hundred quid or something and when you considered that a normal ticket was fifty quid and you got all this nice food and a better seat that it was well worth it. But I didn't get that. The food is average, certainly not bad... but I defo eat better in the house and I don't order buffet shit in a restaurant so that's not the reason to be there. They do have a much better bar than the normal ground... you can get a gin and tonic if they haven't ran out of ice, and it's only about nine quid. But you can get that in the harry for about 3, so that's not it. Then you're surrounded by couples from Frome and Goole who got themselves an anniversary treat and try to engage you in conversations about the M62 and hip replacements. And I prefer my view in the lower centenary to being in the upper... so the only positive for me is that little bit of extra legroom. Pretty much everything else is better if you have a few pints with your mates and swerve the hospitality.
There are toilets in the slums of Mumbai that are better than the ones in the Harry.
Once, flying from Athens to London, my wife got upgraded to business class and I didn't, even though we checked in together.
It was Olympic air, they upgraded the Greek but not the foreigner. Bastards.
She didn't take it in the end as she's not too keen on flying and wanted to sit beside me. I told her she was a fool.
I love the way you get to stare yourself out while you have a piss, or awkwardly catch your fellow pisser's eyes.
Who the fuck thought that mirror was a good idea?
I'm all for the clubs charging whatever they fucking like up in the bling bling seats. Its like these new bloody 4x4s coming out. Previously if youre a millionaire or a billionaiore you buy a Rangey. Now your average billionaire can spend literally 100s of thousands on a Bentley Belugacaviar and wave their cock about at the masses. Brilliant. Same with the seats; spend 11k or whatever for a shiny bauble and Uncle Roy giving you a cuddle - ace...... just keep the basic seats at 20-30 quid.
As an aside - I have been upgraded too many times to remember - which on the one hand you can get chuffed with, if you don't consider that on the other hand the only reason the fuckers are "rewarding" you is basically for spending far too much time away from your family
As an aside - I have been upgraded too many times to remember - which on the one hand you can get chuffed with, if you don't consider that on the other hand the only reason the fuckers are "rewarding" you is basically for spending far too much time away from your family
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They probably conducted a consumer survey to establish how they could improve the overall King Harry experience, and better grooming and washroom facilities came quite high up on the list. A culture of constant improvement and a customer-centric approach is the key to any service industry success.
It's in a tent at the moment cos the stand is obviously not available.
The marquee they use is very similar to the 'portakabin' things that they use for f1. Look standard from the outside & you can tell it's still just a portable unit, but it's outfitted close to a 5 star hotel standard.
There's very few bogs I've been in worse than the one in the harry. This wasn't even close to that bad, obviously.
Is it worse than the Rose and thingy in town? For some reason we ended up in there a couple of Christmas' ago after hours:
- my local mates didnt let me go to the toilet on my own (!!)
- I remember the roof was semi-collapsed with shrubbery growing in from the outside
In our last house I had an idea to make the tiny bathroom seem bigger & save money on stupidly expensive tiles by having a large mirror on the wall embedded instead of tiles.
I left a large space for the mirror, had it made & fitted it. Worked a treat, made the room feel well bigger & was a great addition to the room.
Then I went for a piss. It was on the right hand side (call it East) just above waist height, about 10 inches or so to the right hand side of where you stood facing the toilet (which was on the north wall). So it gave you a perfect & quite disconcerting view of your cock from an angle you'd almost certainly never seen it from before.
Almost every single fella that came round & used the facilities commented on it. They either hated it or found it oddly mesmerising.
I'm planning on having a similar one here despite the bathroom being well bigger, but thanks to that experience I'm gonna fit it a fair bit higher.
Yep the bogs in the Harry are grim they need sorting and it wouldn't take a lot. The ale has improved under the new owner though and he's trying to make a decent go of things. On the bright side though, he's not charging different prices depending on where you sit or stand in the alehouse
I hope the new development doesn't fuck up their revenues at all. I can't see it doing, if anything I'd guess it may get them a bit more business during the week.
Which development ? Around the ground ? Doubt it. Think it's shut in the week anyway
We probably still would of drawn regardless..
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