KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum FANS MOANING about price hike

This not locals vs OOTers or match going v non match goers , this is to do with FSG ripping the fans off , its the whole fabric if the club and what the club means , ok £52 ETC to watch a concert or things like that , they are one offs not twice it even three times a week , this is an unfair and wrong price hike , and fleecing one section of the stadium is unfair and unjust and every red should back this and back fellow reds on this , this price hike will not do anything for transfers its just ripping off and testing loyalty of reds everywhere .

I can understand why you're vexed, but I can't undersatnd why you expect anything to be done about it. You must know deep down that the only answer to paying less money for tickets is to not buy them at all. Every time you buy a ticket, regardless of the price, it is YOUR CHOICE. How can you be angry about the price of something that you are CHOOSING to buy?

As i said in my opening post, I agree that ticket prices are too high, but when I mentioned a month ago that many fans don't go because they can't afford it, I was told the following: "the great LFC fans also often can't really afford it, but te sacrifice in other areas to make a plan to go to the games. In other words they prioritize and LFC comes first, even before their families" or something to thy effect.

What I find amazing is that the same people who said those things are now complaining about ticket prices and signing petitions and what not. Why not just prioritize?

I get the feeling that perhaps now you are beginning to understand what I meant when I said some of us just can't afford it. I can't make LFC a priority when I have a 1 year old son to feed and a miserable salary. Does that make me less of a fan? NO, but some on here tried to convince me that it does.

SP I am not referring to you, we had a decent discussion and came to an agreement.

However, Faz my friend, I stated clearly that I have a very low salary and that putting food on the table for my family is a priority, as well as that I saved up for 10 years to be able to go to a match at Anfield, and at the time people weren't even willing to consider what a sacrifice that is. So i don't know where you get this idea that I am rich from and that it means nothing to me.

I am simply amazed at how nonchalant you all were about it and shocked at your lack of understanding until now. Now when you feel it on your own skin, all of a sudden it's a travesty.

Allow me to explain that whilst a season ticket might cost you 850-900£, it costs me about that much to come from Serbia for 1 match!
But then I can told that I am not as big a fan as regular match going fans. Surely you can understand why one would be upset.

As far as fans waiting in line to grab up the tickets, it's true. And whilst some of you might stop going, you will be replaced by others who can afford it. FSG won't bring a price hike in without proper research, they know their market and don't care whether it's Stanley, Faz, myself, Suso, or JonRogue at the game or some Tom, Dick and Harry from the states at the game. All they care about is that the tickets are sold at the highest possible price.

Lads I do not attend the matches as I live in Ireland but our club would be absolutely nothing without the match-going fans.

Our prices are scandalous compared to the Manc clubs and match-goers are absolutely right to complain.

Also saying you can just stop going is far too simplistic and gives no weight to the importance LFC has had in some people's lives.

Finally lads, we are all sitting here on laptops so using the argument about putting bread on the table is hardly viable. I doubt few on here are sruggling to feed their families on a daily basis.

But what if there are other fans on the waiting list who can afford to pay more for the seats which are going to cost more? You always have other seats which will either stay the same or cost less albeit the view will not be as good, but, the atmosphere will be the same.

Well you cannot guarantee the atmosphere will be the same and at what stage do you stop fleecing loyal match-going fans and maybe reward their loyalty?

Lads I do not attend the matches as I live in Ireland but our club would be absolutely nothing without the match-going fans.

Our prices are scandalous compared to the Manc clubs and match-goers are absolutely right to complain.

Also saying you can just stop going is far too simplistic and gives no weight to the importance LFC has had in some people's lives.

Finally lads, we are all sitting here on laptops so using the argument about putting bread on the table is hardly viable. I doubt few on here are struggling to feed their families on a daily basis.