thanks fellow koptalkers turn is very serious and emotive thread into a joke thanks fellow koptalkers , very nice its ben's birthday but is that really more important that a massive price hike by the club and possibly driving supporters away ?????
Faz, I think whatever could be said has been said really. The club needs money to compete at the top, we have business people as owners who are not going to GIVE money to the club, they want it to be at least self sustained in the short term, to pay dividends in the medium term and probably to sell off in the long term, the only way to do that is to increase revenues.
Two ways of doing that, one increase sponsorship/ advertising which they are doing by looking at all avenues and second, increase match day revenues. They are planning to increase capacity which is going to take some time, right now, they have seen a possibility of increasing the prices of those seats which are the most on demand and reducing i suppose those less, usual marketing strategy. I know it's very emotional to you, but, the only way to show them that this is not going to work is by not buying the season ticket.
However, if demand is high, others will buy your seat and it would mean that it is value for money (which I don't think it is when you compare the Manure and City prices). You'll have to take some pain, let go and watch what happens, no other way. FSG looks to be playing with fire though, again trial and error.
