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I wonder if OUR Club will subsidise the ticket price like Reading did. All fans paid £30 and the Reading Board/Club paid the rest.
Tickets for this FA Cup fixture away at Manchester United will go on sale to Season Ticket holders on Monday 19th December.
A pricing structure was set for the cup tie at Manchester United which will see adults pay between £37-£45 to watch our Emirates FA Cup clash at Old Trafford – due to be broadcast live on BT Sport.
However, Reading Football Club remains committed to making football more affordable for fans – so we will subsidise the cost of adult and 18-20s tickets for the tie, promising that no registered Royals fan will pay more than £30 for a ticket!
Surely the attraction of a big game against United is that we get half the gate. If we then have to give back to subsidise our fans then that cuts back what we make.
And from a pure business point of view (which I’m not saying is necessarily right, but football is a business), if our fans won’t go at £45, we get a lower allocation and the space is made up by plenty of United fans who will pay that – and we get a cut of that.
Numbers of fans going and supporting the team? Not an issue. The ones who are willing to pay £45 will be the ones who give wholehearted support to the team on the pitch.
If it’s cheap, particularly if it’s cheaper than United fans are paying, then you’ll suddenly find an awful lot of people going who happen to take photos only of the United team, and watch them warming up rather than Latics. You all know what I mean.
That situation isn’t so much the case with Reading – we have a lot more reds under the bed in Wigan.We only attracted 3,500 at home at a tenner a ticket!
Plus the fact its only £30 to watch a Prem game.£45 mugs game!
Fuck the EFL
We only attracted 3,500 at home at a tenner a ticket!
Plus the fact its only £30 to watch a Prem game.£45 mugs game!
Yeah. 30 and Im there.
Although its only 4 years since we played Man Utd every season, I get the feeling that this is the only way we’ll get a fixture against them for many years to come.
We have some right tight bastards as fans. 180 quid for season tickets and third biggest club away in cup and folk are complaining if it’s 15 quid more than I paid to watch at Derby a few weeks ago.
At £40 a ticket Cambridge Utd made £1.2 million from their share of the gate receipts last season. We’d have to sell over 6500 ST at £180 to raise that type of dough.
Perhaps Sharpie can persuade Man Utd to charge £100 a ticket!
The price of a ticket really does peeve me especially with the size of their crowds. Circa 3m in gate receipts is obscene but it doesn’t seem to put off their fans.
Bonanza day for our club which i’m made up for them as we will need this money. But as a fan i’m miffed we drew them as that will probably be the end of our cup run… I’ll still be there though, begrudgingly!
If its £40, its £40, who really cares. Its not going to cripple anyone is it?
If you want to go, go, f not then don’t. Just stop bleedin whinging about it and bleating on about the Chairman sudsidising it, I think he subsidises enough already with the cost of season tickets etc.
This pay day is one to get a few well deserved quid into the kitty so he doesn’t have to dig into his pockets quite as often.£45 is abit steep and it’s the principle of putting money into a greedy club! I hope somebody takes a banner with “£45! GREEDY MANC TW*TS” on it.
Saying that I might go, probably never play them again.
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