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Look as much as I understand all teh frustrations regarding ticket prices, the FACT of the matter is that, there are people queing to get tickets to go to LFC atches...there is a waiting list...If you stop buying, someone else will jump in line...

FSG have raised the ticket prices, knowing that they will still have enough fans at the games, this was carefully thought out. They did their calculations and reached a price which provides an optimum value between sales and profit...and again, Anfield will be packed next season.

I understand you are mad, but you have to be realistic...there are thousands waiting to take your place...to FSG, it doesn't matter whether it's you or me attending, or some bloke who has never watched footie before...

The only way to change it is to get a huge number of fans to boycott the games...but by huge I mean 90%....and i fear that is not achievable at this moment...

Look as much as I understand all teh frustrations regarding ticket prices, the FACT of the matter is that, there are people queing to get tickets to go to LFC atches...there is a waiting list...If you stop buying, someone else will jump in line...

FSG have raised the ticket prices, knowing that they will still have enough fans at the games, this was carefully thought out. They did their calculations and reached a price which provides an optimum value between sales and profit...and again, Anfield will be packed next season.

I understand you are mad, but you have to be realistic...there are thousands waiting to take your place...to FSG, it doesn't matter whether it's you or me attending, or some bloke who has never watched footie before...

The only way to change it is to get a huge number of fans to boycott the games...but by huge I mean 90%....and i fear that is not achievable at this moment...

Look as much as I understand all teh frustrations regarding ticket prices, the FACT of the matter is that, there are people queing to get tickets to go to LFC atches...there is a waiting list...If you stop buying, someone else will jump in line...

FSG have raised the ticket prices, knowing that they will still have enough fans at the games, this was carefully thought out. They did their calculations and reached a price which provides an optimum value between sales and profit...and again, Anfield will be packed next season.

I understand you are mad, but you have to be realistic...there are thousands waiting to take your place...to FSG, it doesn't matter whether it's you or me attending, or some bloke who has never watched footie before...

The only way to change it is to get a huge number of fans to boycott the games...but by huge I mean 90%....and i fear that is not achievable at this moment...

also i watch every game via foxtel here in OZ and i was a home and away fan when i lived in uk but fans fortitude is wavering now when i was on the kop and someone didnt hold their scarf up when walk on was sung got proded till they lifted it up but in saying that it was only a very few now the spurs game i estimate about 20% raised their scarf and this is because the ones going now have lost the tradition it saddens me and before you say its cus of the crap we have had to watch i went trough the sixties 70's and eighties and even though we were no where near as dominant in 60's every scarf was up and not just in the kop all stands in that time ? also there was some very quite periods in the spurs game like when we were 1 -2 down thats when we should of been at our loudest but no all that was heard was silence and spurs fans and thats why our ground has lost its invincibility aura (my opinion) having experienced the good and the not so good in my days at anfield

I know we have had a few threads on this but I thought this warranted a seperate thread. FORGET for the minute this is SOS no I dont like them either but on this occassion they have got it just right. This is going to be big and the club have pushed the fans too far on this occassion. I was at Anfield on Sunday and I asked a number of people (total strangers)and I have never seen people so animated. Ian Ayre has misjudged this very badly indeed. If they are not careful this could be the end of Liverpool FC and thousands of fans will desert in droves. They will still support the club but withhold financial support. My own plans are to ticket share and go to half the games next season and many fans are looking to do the same. The club can go to hell with its merchanise as well hell with freeze over before I buy an LFC shirt or anything and if I do it will be from a street seller NEVER from a LFC club shop.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-21747116

What I am going to say is controversial but I think it's worth giving it a thought. We all want LFC to be on top challenging for the league and Champions league, we all know that to get there we need to buy the best players and pay top wages. As we do not have a Sheik or Russian crony as owner, we need to massively increase our revenues. I assume that FSG is looking at all available advertising/sponsorship avenues including advertising on the pitch, ie, everything possible.

Now if there is a long waiting list to buy a season ticket, it means to me that the demand is high. The economic logic would say that you can increase the price (it's not as simple but you need to do marketing research around this to confirm, which I am sure LFC did). I totally understand Faz's and Stan's anger, but, if you cannot afford the top ticket, why don't you go for a cheaper one?

Would you prefer a much cheaper ticket for your seat as Everton for example but LFC becomes a club like them where the biggest ambition is 6th? What would you like to see? I am assuming in all this that FSG is not taking money out of LFC as the Glazers are doing. My post may seem insulting to some, but I would like to understand, honestly.

I agree, we're not performing on the pitch to the standard they're expecting us to pay for.

However, they'll have crunched the numbers, a decision like this wouldn't have been made without having thoroughly researched all angles of possible outcome and they must be very sure that they'll fill Anfield even at these prices. It wont be the end of Liverpool as you've predicted Stan, but a hell of a lot of regular, local fans will be priced out of going to the match and that's a real shame.

Sorry to change the subject slightly, though I guess it's kind of related. On talksport tonight, they were discussing an Everton/Liverpool ground share. Apparently Everton and the Liverpool city council are more than happy to entertain the idea but Liverpool are dead against it. Liverpool's reluctance to even discuss the possibility apparently springs from the belief that Liverpool can do it alone, without Everton's input. However, we can't do it alone.. if we could, we would have done it years ago. FSG have been here for 3-4(?) years now and there is still absolutely 0% progress on the matter.

I know this comes up now and again, and I get the feeling that the majority of the Liverpools fans aren't interested but I can't help but feel that it'd be the answer to our (and Everton's) prayers. Just think about it objectively for a moment, we'd have more than enough money to fund a top of the range 90,000 capacity stadium, ticket prices wouldn't have to be so high (in theory) and we'd be able to compete financially, which we haven't been able to do it donkeys years. It seems a no brainer to me.

Allow me to give my 2 cents:

I can understand the anger at the price increase but to me, the locals like stan and faz are one fortunate bunch (even with price increase).

For people like me, we have to spend about 800 quid just to buy an air ticket to the UK. Spend another 100-200 quid on tickets + accommodation costs etc. So it probably costs us more than 1000 quid just to watch a game at anfield. Yes we are fans from the other side of the globe and no, we're not loaded. We are just average joes who love the team as much, but have to spend fortunes just to catch a game.

I would love to spend 1000 quid for a season ticket. You guys are really a fortunate bunch.