Championship 15/16

[jd1981]

According to there fans there league 1 title campaign was far more impressive than ours the season before.

 

[Nando]

It is farcical.

You've got 400k+ people, two massive universities and there really is no competition for support anywhere in the south west. Yet both clubs seem to do very, very little to engage with the city's population or the wider population.

I've lived here for nearly 5 years now - there is absolutely no advertisement of either football club or the rugby club anywhere in the city. Rovers new stadium was going to be in conjunction with UWE - you'd think that would be a prime opportunity to target the student masses who are predominantly based in northern Bristol with discounted/free tickets etc. Not a jot of engagement in the four years I was a student.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I used to get tickets to Man City games for a fiver when I was up there, not like they were short of fans either.

 

[Nando]

£18 is the cheapest ticket for a Rovers league game. You have to pay £26 for the privilege of sitting down. Absolutely ridiculous pricing for a League Two cub.

Incidentally, I'm going along to the Blues game there tonight!

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Ludicrous. Walsall's pricing is similarly all over the shop, no cheaper than Wolves on matchday price. You get average gates of under 5,000, you planks.

 

[Nando]

I lived 30 seconds from the Memorial Stadium for two years of my uni life. £5 a match on the odd occasion and I'd have been a regular along with my housemates for a live football fix.

They've got no hope of enticing students in with those sums. I'm taking a wild guess here, but I'd be surprised if there are many grounds in the country that are surrounded by such a vast student population as the Memorial Ground.

 

[The Bear]

Burton Albion are similar with their 6900 capacity stadium. Obviously they are a League 1 side now so not as bad as Bristol in League 2 but still expensive.


Walk-up:

Seated: £22
Terrace: £19


Booked:

Seated: £20
Terrace: £17

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I'd go to a few Walsall games at £10 or less. Maybe Telford or Shrewsbury too as I am right on the train line, but when I last looked their prices were insane as well.

 

[Tony Towner]

Hednesford (Conf North) is £12 standing or sitting behind the goal for an adult. Kids with an adult are £1 each.

 

[Alan]

Bristol is the $#@!test sporting city in the world per capita. None of their teams have done anything for 100 years.

Bristol vs. Cleveland in the ultimate shitty showdown.

 

[leedswolf]

Bristol is the shittest sporting city in the world per capita. None of their teams have done anything for 100 years.

I have to disagree. City did win the Welsh Cup and the Anglo Scottish Cup.

 

[Derby Wolf]

I'm at uni in Lincoln and it never really occurred to me to have a look at them but, for Vanarama North it's £16-18 for adults in all areas of the ground. I'm going to the Lincolnshire Derby vs Grimsby on the 29th, it's £6 for students and they often come round the uni trying to flog tickets to their credit.

 

[YoungWolf]

I was at Barnet training ground (where the stadium is as well) the other day. had a little look and it was 20+ quid!

 

[Freddeno]

Insane prices i must say for some smaller clubs

 

[east-coast-wolves]

Exeter do £6 tickets for uni students. It's great! Go there most weekends when I'm at uni.

 

[darlowolf64]

7 Championship teams go out of the League Cup at the first hurdle

 

[Parkins left foot]

Insane prices i must say for some smaller clubs

Last time I watched a Conference match I paid £15 (would have been £10 as an OAP)

My ticket in the SB for the QPR game is £11 now I'm old - non league will price themselves out of existence & its not as if they fill more than a third of the ground

 

[jd1981]

Brentford call off there game against blues due to state of pitch.

 

[ROVERT47]

Brentford call off there game against blues due to state of pitch.

See post 112.

 

[Langers]