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Restark19

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Southampton vs. Real Sociedad – Saturday 10th August, Kick-off 3pm.

 

Tickets will go on sale at 9am on Monday 22nd July, priced as follows:

 

Adults - £18

Concessions* - £14

Under 17s - £10

Under 11s - £0 (1 Under 11 per Full paying Adult)

 

*Seniors aged 65 and over, Young Adults aged 17-21

 

 

Seems expensive for a friendly

Stepgar

Stepgar

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Very expensive. £10 max for an adult. IT'S ONLY A FRIENDLY!! My guess there will be under 10k for this. Although IF we did bring in a couple of TOP TOP players, then maybe extend to another couple of thousand.

ant

ant

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Quite a chunk to pay for a friendly, especially if you've got kids over the age of 11. I'm always up for watching Saints play but am wavering on this one - the money would probably be better used towards an away day. I suppose the standard should be reasonable since this match is only a week before the new season starts.

SaintRichmond

SaintRichmond

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Southampton vs. Real Sociedad – Saturday 10th August, Kick-off 3pm.

 

Tickets will go on sale at 9am on Monday 22nd July, priced as follows:

 

Adults - £18

Concessions* - £14

Under 17s - £10

Under 11s - £0 (1 Under 11 per Full paying Adult)

 

*Seniors aged 65 and over, Young Adults aged 17-21

 

 

Seems expensive for a friendly

 

 

I don't agree

 

WE are an emerging Premier League Team

 

THEY are an established Top level Spanish Team, with loads of European experience

 

What do you expect ?? A couple of pints at the Royal Oak, the match, and change from a tenner

 

Friendly or not, they are a good team, and worthy of OUR support IMHO

hutch

hutch

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Why do so many people on here spend so much time moaning & whingeing about frigging ticket prices. If you want cheap football get yourself down to Fratton Park for gawd's sake.

 

I can remember paying a tenner for a pre-season friendly at QPR in '09. That's four years and two divisions ago. Move with the times. FWIW I paid £30 a head last weekend to watch Man. City in Pretoria.

ant

ant

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I don't think it's a case of whinging - more that most people have a finite supply of money and have to carefully choose how to distribute it.

dronskisaint

dronskisaint

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Why do so many people on here spend so much time moaning & whingeing about frigging ticket prices. If you want cheap football get yourself down to Fratton Park for gawd's sake.

 

I can remember paying a tenner for a pre-season friendly at QPR in '09. That's four years and two divisions ago. Move with the times. FWIW I paid £30 a head last weekend to watch Man. City in Pretoria.

 

This

 

It's less than half than it costs to see a top PL game and it's a top Spanish side.

egg

egg

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I don't think it's a case of whinging - more that most people have a finite supply of money and have to carefully choose how to distribute it.

 

No it's whinging. Not one person has mentioned affordability.

 

Fwiw I think £18 plus reduced and some free concessions is fine given the opposition and where we are now.

Dig Dig

Dig Dig

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I don't think it's a case of whinging - more that most people have a finite supply of money and have to carefully choose how to distribute it.

 

As many people are saying £10 is the limit in terms of affordibility, if you can't budget for an addition £8, I would question why you are going to football in the first place. It's an expensive past time.

hutch

hutch

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You can keep adding £8 all day then using that logic. If people think £18 is too much for a friendly match that's up to them, we'll see if it was misjudged in the attendance.

How will we do that?

View From The Top

View From The Top

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Why do so many people on here spend so much time moaning & whingeing about frigging ticket prices. If you want cheap football get yourself down to Fratton Park for gawd's sake.

 

What a cretinous thing to say. It's not you having to spend it or justify the expense of modern football.

 

I know people who went week in & week out all through the dark days who have now had to give up their STs as they are now too expensive.

Sour Mash

Sour Mash

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Why do so many people on here spend so much time moaning & whingeing about frigging ticket prices. If you want cheap football get yourself down to Fratton Park for gawd's sake.

 

I can remember paying a tenner for a pre-season friendly at QPR in '09. That's four years and two divisions ago. Move with the times. FWIW I paid £30 a head last weekend to watch Man. City in Pretoria.

So if you think ticket prices might be too high you should go and support the Skates? Nice attitude that.
ericb

ericb

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Why do so many people on here spend so much time moaning & whingeing about frigging ticket prices. If you want cheap football get yourself down to Fratton Park for gawd's sake.

 

I can remember paying a tenner for a pre-season friendly at QPR in '09. That's four years and two divisions ago. Move with the times. FWIW I paid £30 a head last weekend to watch Man. City in Pretoria.

 

Brilliant someone who doesn't even live in this country tell people that we should accept expensive ticket prices because you paid them to see a team play abroad.

 

You're a bit of a **** really aren't you.

hutch

hutch

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Aah sorry, I didn't realise that all I needed was a good dose of personal abuse to make me see that I don't really find the serial moaning tiresome at all. Particularly as it's aimed at comments I didn't actually make.

 

And I'm sure that where I live now is very relevant, because if I still lived in Swaythling, or Portswood, or Bitterne or Eastleigh the whingeing would be very acceptable.

The Cat

The Cat

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I find it's easier to just not bother with first team friendlies. That way it saves me really having to care about the price being charged.

The9

The9

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Given that the prices for the Austria friendlies against well known European sides are both under £15 I think this is pretty steep, and was surprised to see people saying otherwise. It's a friendly, nothing of consequence will happen, and it's by definition not competitive and the team isn't ready for the season.

 

I paid €45 to watch Granada v Villarreal in La Liga about 18 months ago, but £18 to watch a Saints v Real Sociedad friendly ? Nah. And I will be considering going to a cheaper match on the same day (even if it costs more for transport to get there instead, which suggests to me that it's not JUST the price, it's a lack of interest too).

The9

The9

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I find it's easier to just not bother with first team friendlies. That way it saves me really having to care about the price being charged.

 

I also feel like this about most League Cup and FA Cup games nowadays. Stevenage away was the last Saints Cup game I went to, purely because it was a new ground. Don't think I've been to any of the home cup games since we were in League One.

The Cat

The Cat

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I also feel like this about most League Cup and FA Cup games nowadays. Stevenage away was the last Saints Cup game I went to, purely because it was a new ground. Don't think I've been to any of the home cup games since we were in League One.

 

I don't mind the cup games because at least they have an element of competition involved, but yes I prefer away to home games in the early rounds.

The9

The9

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I don't mind the cup games because at least they have an element of competition involved, but yes I prefer away to home games in the early rounds.

 

I've come to the conclusion based on recent selections that if I'm happy to watch our reserves I can do that for nothing. That may change this season, but it'll take me thinking I'm missing something first.

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Scummer

Scummer

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So is anyone going to this match?

 

Anyone know what they are charging for a second under 11 (first one is free with an adult but no mention on the site of what happens if you have more than one child......)?

S-Clarke

S-Clarke

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So is anyone going to this match?

 

Anyone know what they are charging for a second under 11 (first one is free with an adult but no mention on the site of what happens if you have more than one child......)?

 

I'm going, couldn't help myself. A summer without football, snapped up the first tickets I could get..

Golden Balls

Golden Balls

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Too much for a friendly IMO. I won't be going. Would be amazed if they got over 9k there. If it had been £10 then I'm sure there'd be closer to 20k there.

 

Out of interest, how much was that Bayern Munich friendly mid season where there was about 34,000 there? (This will probably s**t all over my theory)

redkeith

redkeith

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To put it into perspective, I have just bought tickets for Bordeaux v Monaco for €14 with a €2 booking fee per ticket on top, albeit in the cheapest part of the ground. That's good value for the first league game of the season.

 

On the other hand a friendly between conference new boys Salisbury and the Skates development squad would have cost £10.00, so £18.00 for Real Sociedad is good value by UK standards.

 

Wish it was at their place, as it's only 4 hours drive from my house.

S-Clarke

S-Clarke

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what Hooper didn't score a shedload then

 

Just been reading through their forums. Lots are impressed with Redmond (who I like a lot, think he was a snip at £3m). Although they seem to attributing ''lazy'' to Lory Fer (after 1 game, quite funny). and RWV didn't do a great deal, other than score a tap in.

 

Their description of Hooper was a more mobile version of Holt.

The9

The9

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I paid £18 to watch Newport County's first match in the FL for 25 years last weekend, which I thought was excellent value, and I am paying £12 for this due to some cost-spreading shenanigans by a mate, which is just about acceptable for a non-competitive game.

 

The wife is going corporate for that Ladies' Day at £75 a chuck FFS, I'm pretty sure neither of us would be going if it wasn't for that. Hopefully she'll be able to smuggle out 2 dinners and two armfuls of wine to get her money's worth. :D

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