...admission prices for next season are slowly appearing here there and everywhere (feel free to check out the "Six Tame Sides" prices for 2011/2012) ...
HOWEVER ... Mossley have upped their general admission from £7 to £8 ... FC Halifax Town from £10 to £12-50 ... Chester FC will be charging home fans £10 and away fans £12 ... and apparently Alfreton Town will be charging £13 for their Blue Square Premier debut (and this is supposedly the cheapest in the BSP !)
WHEREAS ... Stalybridge Celtic and Droylsden have frozen their prices at £10 - Curzon Ashton have similarly "froze" at £7 - Stafford Rangers have REDUCED their prices from £10 to £9 (OK they got relegated - but a reduction rather than a "freeze" is most unusual - and most welcome these days).
Just a few examples (no I can't be bothered to research too much further !) - and you get the usual guff about competing in a higher league etc etc more travelling etc etc and (probably the most insulting) wage demands from players ...
I believe there's a recession on at the moment - and despite the lies and spin from the ConDem Government - it's gonna get worse - this country is supposedly relying more and more on the leisure industry for employment (thanks in part to Thatcher killing the manufacturing base - God I hate that woman) and the banking and finance industry to balance the books (or on the other hand throw thousands on the dole and wipe out people's hard-earned savings and pensions due to their short-term gambling with other people's money - never mind you'll STILL get your bonus - scum), it'll be the leisure industry where the ordinary people will be cutting their expenditure. Think about it - I took something like a 50% cut in wages purely to keep in work (unlike many I cannot play the benefits game), so I'm having to scrimp and save. Eighteen months ago a camera upgrade would have been no problem - it is now. Look on the bright side though - the Government have found a "contingency" to keep funding the illegal war in Libya !!!
Back to the point - I reckon some clubs are playing a very dangerous game by bumping up their prices. It might only be £1 on the gate - but that might mean people not buying raffle tickets/programmes (those were my first cut-backs last season) at the very least, so what you gain on the gate (e.g. £1) you lose on the programme sales (e.g. £2). At worst it WILL mean even fewer people through the gates (you've only got to look at some of the two-figure attendances towards the end of last season in the Evo-Stik League - and things HAVE got worse since then).
People talk of the Premiership pricing the ordinary people out of football - it seems this mentality is slowly seeping down to "our level" ...
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4 comments:
Mike
What about those weapons of mass destruction we never found in Iraq
Labour's ability to spend money that it didn't have has also left the country in a mess.
Forgot to add thought this was a football site!!!!!!!!!!!!
considering your complaint is that this is supposed to be "just" a football site, that's a very politically loaded comment.
And while we're on the subject, Smiffy's not the only one to loathe Thatcher. The current and thoroughly unelected government, however much damage they are doing, have some way to go to match the long term and very negative impact of her ideologies.
Whatever your politics for many of us money is tight these days and expenditure on leisure, such as non-league footy, may well suffer.
Also hated Thatcher as well but let's us stick to football and the joys of those dark winters days of watching honest lads put in some good honest effort.
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