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  • #16
    Just looked at the original and read the latest comment from MACCYD excellent

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    • #17
      Good summering up nobby....Everton Moaners take note !!

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      • #18
        Originally posted by nobby View Post
        The point about the allocation of 1,700 and the additional 1,300 is quite simple and is practised from what I understand this season by most if not all premiership clubs. Each club offers a 'minimum' allocation to the opposing side, with an option to increase this minimum allocation to a maximum % of the ground (ManUre excluded because of the size of OT). However, this second tranche of tickets, if required by the opposing side is on a 'sale and no return basis', that is to say, if Everton wanted the lower tier then they would have to stump up the cost of 1,300 tickets, which if they don't sell all of them then they are out of pocket. This practice has meant that on our travels we have been allocated 1,300 tickets at Norwich, Wolves and Stoke, which were sell outs for the travelling support, but the additional allocation, in the view of QPR would not have sold out, hence costing the club a reasonable sum of money each time. At Fulham the initial allocation was 1,900, but then extended, at Liverpool the same, but extended to 3,000 and on both occasions the additional allocation was sold. It is not sharp practice it is good business and basically it is Everton stating that they did not think that 3,000 of their supporters would make the trip to W12. I also believe that Everton themselves only open the lower Bullens Road stand to away supporters initially and only offer the top tier on demand. As far as prices go, well, it is supply and demand, there will always be a 'premium' for the additional costs of being a London club, and of course the lack of spaces means that QPR, even under the new owners will try and squeeze as much out of the support. Now when we went to Old Trafford a few years back the cost of my ticket was in excess of £40, for a League Cup game, I know that it was agreed between T&C and Manure at the time, but these are the types of prices that we will be paying when we go there in April, yet OT holds 76,000. So the excuse is that we are paying to see top quality football (Manure), but in reality what supporters are paying a premium for at OT is the interest payments that the Glaziers have saddled the club with as a result of taking out huge loans to fund their purchase. Now this is the type of thing this guy should be moaning about. And finally, with regards to legroom, well as somebody a tad under 6' 3", LR is not the most comfortable of venues, I would grant you, but it is old, it is tired and it needs replacing. But saying this I have been to a few more modern grounds on my travels this season, either new stadia altogether or new stands built in the last 10 years or so, the Anfield Road stand is awful for legroom and for viewing, Blackburn's new stands are cramped for legroom, Fulham's is made from MDF and then there is the Bullens Road stand at Goodison Park. For £31 this season I got to sit(?) new the back of a stand that was built near the turn of the last century, with wooden floors, wooden seats that I just could not lower myself into unless my knees were above my head level, with a low roof, which meant that once the ball left the turf you could not see where it went, and lots of supporting stanctions running along the length of the pitch meaning that your view was interrupted every five yards or so. Without doubt the worst away section I have ever been in, (yep worse than Palace's Arthur Waite stand). The comfort and viewing of the upper School End in comparison is worth the additional £9 without doubt. So which team is reality is ripping off the away support?
        that post looks like a really long blow orf.
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