How much is a game of football worth?

[Junction 9]

It would be a strange thread on a Britney Spears forum. Or a tampon forum. This is a football forum. So it's not strange. HTH.

 

Don't suppose you have a link to the tampon forum?

[Junction 9]

Sorry, already posted.

[lloydie]

I think we are looking at this from a slightly wrong perspective. Most say around 20quid is fair to watch 90mins entertainment and to me that seems a pretty honest rationale.

 

The problem comes during the summer and in Jan. The majority I guess want quality players coming into the club and that costs. If we want to carry on competing in the 5-15m transfer bracket, 20 quid is not going to do it. Yes the majority comes from TV but the punter also needs to play their part in that 12m we spent on Gaston. 20 quid is to watch 22 players kick a ball round a park in a nice stadium, the extra 15-20 is to watch Gaston et al. kick that ball around.

 

Look at the transfer threads, full of demands we buy quality x, y & z

20 quid a ticket would buy us a L1 club if we were to remain solvent.

 

Following on from that, some fag packet maths shows that (and im taking for granted here we are getting 32,000 for every 19 home games, and theres no discount for season tickets) if we were looking to pay £20 which most people say is fair, that works out at £960k per game, and would give the club £12.16m per season, bump the price up by a tenner and it shoots up to £18.24m and £35 quid (an optimistic average prem ticket price) will take us to the £21m mark.

 

If it means paying an extra tenner per game that would enable us to have an extra 6 million quid in the club than when paying £20 per game... i'd say it's worth it for the premier league and signing better players, etc.

[sotonjoe]

Three sherbet dib dabs and a refresher lolly, but only if Guly comes on after 70mins.