OT ticket price hikes for rest of season

The use of 97% sold at :discounted rates' is also a complete cheek?

They weren't discounted. They were just standard ticket prices they themselves raised 5% at the start of the season.

Whole thing is a complete piss take. Completely ruined my enjoyment of the side for the time being.
 
Rood said:
I'm pretty sure our beer is the cheapest in any ground the PL (maybe the whole country) at £3.60 a pint - I expect that will go up too
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I'm jealous. $12 US-- or 9.48 pounds for beers at my MLS stadium. (I'm in the middle of the USA, not an expensive city like LA or NYC.) I can't even go out to eat at most places and get a beer for 3.60. That 3.60 price blows my mind. Even 20 years ago, I could not get a beer for that cheap at a Cincinnati Bengals (NFL team) or Cincinnati Reds (Baseball) game. I paid $14 for a beer at my College (American) football game last weekend. College Basketball it is $10/$11--- for 12 oz beers, 4 oz less than a pint.

Well, let this be a warning for anyone who goes to the USA for the World Cup--- expect expensive alcohol prices in the stadium.
 
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I'm jealous. $12 US-- or 9.48 pounds for beers at my MLS stadium. (I'm in the middle of the USA, not an expensive city like LA or NYC.) I can't even go out to eat at most places and get a beer for 3.60. That 3.60 price blows my mind. Even 20 years ago, I could not get a beer for that cheap at a Cincinnati Bengals (NFL team) or Cincinnati Reds (Baseball) game. I paid $14 for a beer at my College (American) football game last weekend. College Basketball it is $10/$11--- for 12 oz beers, 4 oz less than a pint.

Well, let this be a warning for anyone who goes to the USA for the World Cup--- expect expensive alcohol prices in the stadium.
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I've got news for you, that pint at OT is 20oz not the short measure American one of 16oz
 
Lu Tze said:
I'm fine with ticket price rises (they were already too expensive for me to bother with anyway) and with INEOS making the club leaner. We are going to have to spend a lot and make difficult choices to get back to winning ways. They could make tickets £150 a head and the place would sell out every week.
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Online poster who never goes to games is happy with ticket increase.
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On the whole "necessary evil" type response. They'd have to sell 100,000 tickets at £100 each game to make a serious dent in the debt and/or helping to fund the new ground.

These price increases won't even make the club that much more money. It's massive for fans though. What this is, essentially, is social cleansing. They dont want working class fans in the ground anymore. They're not arsed about family lineage and a parent taking their child to a match.

They want a ground full of tourists and sponsors.

These increases across the country will kill any remaining fan culture in this Premier League. Anything remotely unique about English football will go.
 
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MancunianAngels said:
On the whole "necessary evil" type response. They'd have to sell 100,000 tickets at £100 each game to make a serious dent in the debt and/or helping to fund the new ground.

These price increases won't even make the club that much more money. It's massive for fans though. What this is, essentially, is social cleansing. They dont want working class fans in the ground anymore. They're not arsed about family lineage and a parent taking their child to a match.

They want a ground full of tourists and sponsors.

These increases across the country will kill any remaining fan culture in this Premier League. Anything remotely unique about English football will go.
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This exactly.

It's an absolute piss take to those who take kids and can't get tickets on the ticket drops (don't get me started on that) and continually browse the ticket site to see what pops up and then take the opportunity.

Generally, I only get tickets for the midweek games where availability is better and demand less, the costs of taking time off work, kid out of school, transport and everything else isn't ideal but worth it to sit with my lad whilst he's roaring on United.

You gotta laugh now at the membership too, which basically gives me now first dibs at a £66 ticket for a 11 year old.

Glazers and Ratcliffe can feck right off. Let's see how they do selling those tickets if United are doing crap?

United for years have pissed all over their support but it wasn't always that way.
 
I wish I'd known about this before I sold my ticket back to the club on Sunday. From now on I'll be forwarding on to members any time I can't go rather than letting the club scalp 25% extra.

Fully expecting increases in ST prices over the next few years to the point where it's going to become too expensive to keep going.
 
MancunianAngels said:
What this is, essentially, is social cleansing. They dont want working class fans in the ground anymore
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Hyperbole.

If they didn't want 'working fan', whatever that is, they'd just increase the ticket prices to your aforementioned £100 and then up and up and up.

Also, 'daytrippers and tourists' usually go to a game, buy local and club merchandise, use the local services appropriately, resist chanting racist, homophobic, sectarian, tragedy and poverty dirge and generally behave themselves.

Why would any business not want such a customer?
 
Mitten shared on the podcast that he had a 36-min interview with Ratcliffe this week about the ticket price rises, amongst other things, for United We Stand this week.
 
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OlsensHummelBoots said:
This exactly.

It's an absolute piss take to those who take kids and can't get tickets on the ticket drops (don't get me started on that) and continually browse the ticket site to see what pops up and then take the opportunity.

Generally, I only get tickets for the midweek games where availability is better and demand less, the costs of taking time off work, kid out of school, transport and everything else isn't ideal but worth it to sit with my lad whilst he's roaring on United.

You gotta laugh now at the membership too, which basically gives me now first dibs at a £66 ticket for a 11 year old.

Glazers and Ratcliffe can feck right off. Let's see how they do selling those tickets if United are doing crap?

United for years have pissed all over their support but it wasn't always that way.
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It's probably been this way since the mid 90s when Edwards decided to put an exec section in the middle of the Stretford End. Even the Glazers realised that was a bad idea.

This was sadly going to be the end game.

I just pray for a significant enough backlash that they might change their minds.
 
Crostien said:
Hyperbole.

If they didn't want 'working fan', whatever that is, they'd just increase the ticket prices to your aforementioned £100 and then up and up and up.

Also, 'daytrippers and tourists' usually go to a game, buy local and club merchandise, use the local services appropriately, resist chanting racist, homophobic, sectarian, tragedy and poverty dirge and generally behave themselves.

Why would any business not want such a customer?
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Because these type of fans won't get in the ground 3 hours before kick off and spend hundreds on hospitality.

In addition, if you're only going to one or two games a season, you can (in some cases anyway) justify these prices. If you want to go to say 10 games, it suddenly becomes more expensive. A season ticket becomes out of reach to even people with higher incomes.

I thought I'd leave the bit in bold to the end. That's genuine one of the worst things I've ever read on here. How fecking dare you insinuate that all of United's core support take part in that staff and almost suggest that the removal of people who travel across the world to watch this club might be a good thing. feck off. You also only have to look at the social media comments of any United post relating to Pride to see that homophobia is something that different types of fans wear as a badge of honour.

I look forward to the ground being full of tourists in a few years and everyone moaning that the atmosphere is shit. Maybe we'll get some of the crazy YouTubers who seemingly attend just to abuse our own players at the end of matches for likes.
 
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Crostien said:
Hyperbole.

If they didn't want 'working fan', whatever that is, they'd just increase the ticket prices to your aforementioned £100 and then up and up and up.

Also, 'daytrippers and tourists' usually go to a game, buy local and club merchandise, use the local services appropriately, resist chanting racist, homophobic, sectarian, tragedy and poverty dirge and generally behave themselves.

Why would any business not want such a customer?
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WUM
 
Crostien said:
Well, come on. Who doesn't?
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Based on your previous post, pizza preference is probably the only opinion I share with you.

Have you ever been to Old Trafford? Basically all of the atmosphere begins and ends with those fans you would be happy to see priced out of attendance. And that atmosphere is massively important, for the enjoyment of fans that attend, as well as the players on the pitch.
 
Bit of good news - when you take the kids to West London later in the season will only cost a tenner for them.



Bad news is it's a tiny allocation so hard to get them a ticket in the first place.

In all seriousness though it does strike me as a bit pathetic that one of the richest clubs in the league with some fantastically wealthy owners feel the need to find a loophole to eliminate kids and concessions tickets where they can - yet one of the "poorest clubs" with a very modestly wealthy owner can cap away U18 prices at £10 for those visiting West London and also subsidize our U18s when we travel away. Going to Villa tomorrow is £25 for an under 18 that's £15 the club would have had to find to subsidize my daughter's ticket - would be a great initiative for the other clubs to adopt I think.

Edit - by the way this is not a dig just posting in support of the average fan, for who, going to football is expense enough as it is. There are other ways to approach things imho and cutting concessions is not one of them.
 
el diablorojo said:
Bit of good news - when you take the kids to West London later in the season will only cost a tenner for them.



Bad news is it's a tiny allocation so hard to get them a ticket in the first place.

In all seriousness though it does strike me as a bit pathetic that one of the richest clubs in the league with some fantastically wealthy owners feel the need to find a loophole to eliminate kids and concessions tickets where they can - yet one of the "poorest clubs" with a very modestly wealthy owner can cap away U18 prices at £10 for those visiting West London and also subsidize our U18s when we travel away. Going to Villa tomorrow is £25 for an under 18 that's £15 the club would have had to find to subsidize my daughter's ticket - would be a great initiative for the other clubs to adopt I think.

Edit - by the way this is not a dig just posting in support of the average fan, for who, going to football is expense enough as it is. There are other ways to approach things imho and cutting concessions is not one of them.
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Apart from anything else, incentivising U18 fans to attend as many games as possible makes good business sense. They're the next generation of customers... sorry, fans... that the club needs to stay afloat in the future. That's the dumbest thing about what United are doing here. Whatever they do with adult pricing, making it harder for kids to attend is so short sighted.
 
lolok said:
I'm jealous. $12 US-- or 9.48 pounds for beers at my MLS stadium. (I'm in the middle of the USA, not an expensive city like LA or NYC.) I can't even go out to eat at most places and get a beer for 3.60. That 3.60 price blows my mind. Even 20 years ago, I could not get a beer for that cheap at a Cincinnati Bengals (NFL team) or Cincinnati Reds (Baseball) game. I paid $14 for a beer at my College (American) football game last weekend. College Basketball it is $10/$11--- for 12 oz beers, 4 oz less than a pint.

Well, let this be a warning for anyone who goes to the USA for the World Cup--- expect expensive alcohol prices in the stadium.
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It's not the norm even in the PL, in fact a beer at Old Trafford was more expensive previously but they cut the cost a couple of years ago in a effort to encourage fans into the ground earlier to spend more money pre-match
 


Sales and demand must be in the toilet for the £66 tickets if they're resorting to a general sale for a Premier league match...

It doesn’t really work though when season ticket holders can sell back at short notice. You’ve priced out locals and the tourists won’t have the time to arrange a flight & hotel.

It's almost as if they didn’t properly think it through...
 
Rolaholic said:
Sales and demand must be in the toilet for the £66 tickets if they're resorting to a general sale for a Premier league match...

It doesn’t really work though when season ticket holders can sell back at short notice. You’ve priced out locals and the tourists won’t have the time to arrange a flight & hotel.

It's almost as if they didn’t properly think it through...
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Proves my point in my last message.

Usually and given the opportunity, I'd buy tickets for me and my lad.

Although the cost isn't out of reach for me (I can't justify it mind) the principle is. Glazers & Ratcliffe can feck off.

Might as well bin the membership too. If tickets are available on general sale.
 
The first time I went to Old Trafford (1979) it cost about 70p to sit in the seats at the back of the Stretford End, which according to the bank of England inflation calculator, equates to £3.37 in today's prices. It was actually cheaper than to sit at my local club, Chester, who were then in the old 3rd division.
You can get a standing ticket for a league game at Bayern Munich for €15 and a seat for €40.
Premier league prices overall are shocking, which begs the question, do players really need to earn £300K a week, or whatever they get paid?
 
I've seen a few people say that they can't afford the new prices, worth noting that ST transfers are still at the old prices and there are regularly tickets available in the ticket thread here

If you have spares then post in the ticket thread rather than give back to the club (who will resell at inflated prices), there are a few available for Forest on Saturday at the moment for anyone who needs
 
klayton88 said:
[Paddy Power: BREAKING: Manchester United to implement dynamic ticket pricing at Old Trafford..
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If there's one type of organisation definitely in the position to moralise about financial matters, it's got to be a notorious gambling company.

Good indication of how they cultivate their supplicants, though.

NextSeason said:
I'm just furious at how this is being brushed under the carpet. We look weak as a supporter base if we let them get away with behaving like this.
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With respect, we are a weak, fractured supporter base. What proved it is the takeover.

The ticket increase is a bad joke, but something of the ilk was always on. In between PSR, Glazer debt and the demands of CL football, new stadiums et al.

Been handled terribly, there's absolutely no doubt, but one was delusional if they thought ticket prices would remain at their hitherto rate much longer.
 
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