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 Post subject: Away ticket prices next season
PostPosted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 3:17 pm 
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Adult away "matchday" tickets prices in league One 2011/12

£25 - Charlton Athletic
£25 - Hartlepool United

£23 - Notts County
£23 - Stevenage

£22 - (Seating) / £18 (Standing) Carlisle United
£22 - Wycombe Wanderers

£21 - Huddersfield Town
£21 - Scunthorpe United
£21 - (Seating) / £20 (Standing) Brentford
£21 - (Seating) / £17 (Standing) Exeter City

£20 - AFC Bournemouth
£20 - Colchester United
£20 - Leyton Orient
£20 - Rochdale
£20 - Sheffield Wednesday

£19 - Tranmere Rovers

£18 - Bury
£18 - Chesterfield
TBA (£18 in 2010/11) - Walsall
£18 - (Both Seating and Standing) Yeovil Town

£17 - Preston North End

£15 - Oldham Athletic

£13 - Sheffield United


Seems to be a bit steep what we are charging if you ask me


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What is the price at MK Dons..?


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The higher the charge the better, the away end should be full a few fair times this season, so lets get as much money off away fans as we can.

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I couldnt give two f-ucks what we charge away fans, as long as its as much as possible. And that ladies and gentlemen is a FACTUAL FACT

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Thing I find strange about those prices is Charlton have put there's down ????? they charged us £25:50 last season.

I can't remember the last time we were given standing area at Carlisle so the standing price there is irrelevant to Pools fans.

Stevenage two seasons in the league £23 they caught on quick.

Two of the three cheapest have just been relegated so they probably lowered the price for their own fans making a reduction on away fans the only solution.

And I concur with Mr Creosote,Pools fans have been "seen off" for many a season at away games, time we did the same.

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 3:44 pm 
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Thing I find strange about those prices is Charlton have put there's down ????? they charged us £25:50 last season.

I can't remember the last time we were given standing area at Carlisle so the standing price there is irrelevant to Pools fans.

Stevenage two seasons in the league £23 they caught on quick.

Two of the three cheapest have just been relegated so they probably lowered the price for their own fans making a reduction on away fans the only solution.

And I concur with Mr Creosote,Pools fans have been "seen off" for many a season at away games, time we did the same.


You can stick £2 onto a lot of those for the pay on the day price I'd bet.


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I think £25 is too much for a League 1 match and just because other clubs have done it doesn't make it right. IOR have given a other lower division clubs a lesson on how to treat your fans if you want them to back the club and fleecing away fans doesn't sit well next to that. If everybody does that, especially when petrol prices are high, people will be priced out of going away and that will kill the atmosphere at a lot of grounds.

And before you say anything Mr Creosote bear in mind that I have run this by the ghost of Joe Strummer and he agrees with me. Obviously, anybody else can accuse me of not being a proper Poolie if they like.


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You can stick £2 onto a lot of those for the pay on the day price I'd bet.


that's probably spot on.....

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I think £25 is too much for a League 1 match and just because other clubs have done it doesn't make it right. IOR have given a other lower division clubs a lesson on how to treat your fans if you want them to back the club and fleecing away fans doesn't sit well next to that. If everybody does that, especially when petrol prices are high, people will be priced out of going away and that will kill the atmosphere at a lot of grounds.

And before you say anything Mr Creosote bear in mind that I have run this by the ghost of Joe Strummer and he agrees with me. Obviously, anybody else can accuse me of not being a proper Poolie if they like.


Pools are not treating away fans any different to their own fans. price on match day in home end to sit £25 price for away fans to sit £25.

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if no away fans show it'll be a great noise of just pools fans so hopefully that will motivate our players.

Either way its win win.

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It's just a shame that we haven't got darlow to play in a league game eh? We could've made up to £7,500 out of their fans at those prices.

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But the season ticket offer was introduced, at least partly, because the club accepted that fans struggle to pay that much so they pick and choose. The same is true for away fans, particularly from other northern clubs and I really think a good away following adds a massive amount to the atmosphere at any match. I'm certainly not suggesting that they should only pay £4.38 but it does seem very steep for League 1 football. Everybody except Ken Bates agreed that Leeds were a bunch of robbers so I don't think other clubs, including us, should copy them.


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born toulouse wrote:
I think £25 is too much for a League 1 match and just because other clubs have done it doesn't make it right. IOR have given a other lower division clubs a lesson on how to treat your fans if you want them to back the club and fleecing away fans doesn't sit well next to that. If everybody does that, especially when petrol prices are high, people will be priced out of going away and that will kill the atmosphere at a lot of grounds.

And before you say anything Mr Creosote bear in mind that I have run this by the ghost of Joe Strummer and he agrees with me. Obviously, anybody else can accuse me of not being a proper Poolie if they like.


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They get a seat and a roof over their head. If they don't like it they can get fked. :coool:

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Think you're being a bit optimistic there!!

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Think you're being a bit optimistic there!!


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let's face facts here... what is the opinion of 99% of other footy fans concerning HUFC in general? Exactly - they look down at us and patronise us, they will never accept that their club could ever be of lower status (even if we finished higher than them and thrashed them home and away, most would still look down at us). Hence I draw these conclusions:

a)They are too thick to see this
b)They are too entrenched in their beliefs that we are inferior to them
c)I don't therefore give a flying one what ANY other fan has to say about us, they are tossers
d)Fuck them and fleece them, up the Pools


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I can't ever really remember any fan complaining as much over the seasons we've been getting ripped off. That goes for other clubs fans as well, Leeds fans weren't saying poor Pools having to pay that much and being categorised as a "A" game. I mean Pools falling in a category "A" W T F that all about. I will answer that question, Bates saw us just down the road, saw the fact that a lot of fans would travel as it was Elland Road and thought I know what I'll do I'll get as much money as I can. he didn't think O it's only Pools I'll make it category "C" and charge the least amount. Your right two wrongs don't make a right but without the increase in the admission prices on the day(both seating and terraces [home fans only there of course]), for BOTH home and away fans do you think Pools could have offered season tickets for £100.

But I do prefer the Parmo way of putting it......

d)F*** them and fleece them, up the Pools

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and another thing... KH has repeatedly (and correctly) complained at other clubs living outside of their means year in year out, going into admin, doing it again - the fans of these clubs are quite happy to witness this form of cheating and are happy with loading the dice in their favour at such times - again, why should we care about them?
This is what creates bad feeling amongst fans when honest clubs such as Rochdale get shafted by dishonest ones such as Huddersfield.
If we can load the dice in our favour for once, then fu-cking great. It's exactly what we should do. Pools have done this cock on for me.

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Fuck them all, good move by Pools imo

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I think plenty of Leeds fans have been embarrassed by the various crooks that have run their club in recent years. I know at least two personally who thought that their category A scam was a disgrace. Most fans of most clubs in the lower divisions think they are over charged and watching football is too expensive- that's why so many are so impressed by our offer. I don't really accept that all fans are totally one-eyed about their own clubs, we have a lot in common with supporters at most non-big clubs, and a lot of common interests too.
I don't like being the most expensive for away fans when we're the cheapest for home by a long chalk.


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I agree with ripper.

You make more sense when you say less.

Think about that for next time.

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I like the fact that Lawrence will have to pay 25 quid to park his skirt :laugh:


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Put them in that corner between the Millhouse & the Rink End & still charge them £25!
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I think £25 is too much for a League 1 match and just because other clubs have done it doesn't make it right. IOR have given a other lower division clubs a lesson on how to treat your fans if you want them to back the club and fleecing away fans doesn't sit well next to that. If everybody does that, especially when petrol prices are high, people will be priced out of going away and that will kill the atmosphere at a lot of grounds.

And before you say anything Mr Creosote bear in mind that I have run this by the ghost of Joe Strummer and he agrees with me. Obviously, anybody else can accuse me of not being a proper Poolie if they like.


Did errrrrrr, Joe errrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, mention me by any chance?

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Jonny wrote:
What is the price at MK Dons..?


According to their website we are a catogory B team, which is £20
But if you're going you have to buy a ticket from their shop before the game as they dont have turnstile operators, its all automated


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Am sure it was super cheap to get in MK Dons last season but it might be because it was on the tele. Could have been 7 quid or something.

The price for Notts County is also wrong as they let every fcker in for next to nothing. Except me who did the honourable thing and admitted to being an adult banghead banghead :laugh:

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your telling me you've stopped trying to get in for child prices?

I'm certain we were still getting in for kids prices at sheff wes age 22

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At the end of the day away fans aren't going to give a trip to Pools a miss because it's £25. Those who will turn up will do so regardless of the price, just as we do at away games. That's not to say they won't patronise us with complaints about the price like.

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It did make me giggle that Leeds think they are so big, yet we were their catagory A opponents recently.

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The price for Notts County is also wrong as they let every fcker in for next to nothing. Except me who did the honourable thing and admitted to being an adult banghead banghead :laugh:


That was a bad day for you mate wasn't it, something 400 people and probably only you who paid full price one way or the other. The away end was full of oap's and 40yr old students.

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Am sure it was super cheap to get in MK Dons last season but it might be because it was on the tele. Could have been 7 quid or something.

The price for Notts County is also wrong as they let every fcker in for next to nothing. Except me who did the honourable thing and admitted to being an adult banghead banghead :laugh:



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I like the fact that Lawrence will have to pay 25 quid to park his skirt :laugh:


another bonus!!! But I'd charge him a special price of £50 a game, the attention seeking gimp

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Just to clarify a few points, the figures are all 'on the day' prices (so no don't add on £2). There may be advance discounts. A couple of clubshave different categories (eg. Sheff U and Oldham's price is based on being cat C - maybe around £20 if cat B).

As a supporter of another club I do hope the majority of people on this thread aren't representive of Pools supporters, or are just on a wind up (notable exception 'born toulouse'). Attitutes like 'f--- em and fleece em' are so ignorant and misguided. If you have this attitude, that is exactly what clubs will do to you, and will be reciprocated by other clubs. It is our responsibility as football supporters to fight this sort of thing not encourage it. Do you even go to away games?


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They have been doing it to us....for years!!!! confised confised :evil:

I remember going to Swindon about 8/9 years ago and that was 20 odd quid then!!!! :evil:


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Just to clarify a few points, the figures are all 'on the day' prices (so no don't add on £2). There may be advance discounts. A couple of clubshave different categories (eg. Sheff U and Oldham's price is based on being cat C - maybe around £20 if cat B).

As a supporter of another club I do hope the majority of people on this thread aren't representive of Pools supporters, or are just on a wind up (notable exception 'born toulouse'). Attitutes like 'f--- em and fleece em' are so ignorant and misguided. If you have this attitude, that is exactly what clubs will do to you, and will be reciprocated by other clubs. It is our responsibility as football supporters to fight this sort of thing not encourage it. Do you even go to away games?


We've been getting fked and fleeced at away games for many many years, extortionate pricing and pokey allocations or poked into a corner of a stand are commonplace.

So fk em all and fk you too.

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At the end of the day away fans aren't going to give a trip to Pools a miss because it's £25. Those who will turn up will do so regardless of the price, just as we do at away games. That's not to say they won't patronise us with complaints about the price like.



I disagree, the distance a lot of fans need to travel to us added to the £25 to get it will I believe put a fair few fans off coming to Hartlepool.

However, there's a couple of ways of looking at it. The away end only holds a 1000, so any of the 'bigger' clubs will probably still have a 1000 fans willing to travel and pay. The smaller clubs who bring a 100 or so, we'll if they only bring 60 it's not going to make a blind bit of difference to us is it?

I don't like the idea of £25 personally. Two wrongs don't make a right, just because we've paid a lot at away grounds doesn't mean we should drop to the same level and do that same. But I completely understand why it's been done.

As for away fans creating atmosphere, all they do is increase the chance of us not winning a game, so I'm quite happily see no atmosphere in the away end.

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As my mate said if people want to watch the league one champions aswell as there own team then £25 is not a lot to pay!



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I think people are missing a point here, we have paid over the odds over the years but as ptbap says two wrongs dont make a right. However what would people want either large prices for away fans or low prices for us the home fans?

IOR have done a great deal for us and putting £2-5 on each away customer I think warrents this. Pools need to look after us the home fans as we will be the ones who are there for the long term and majority of games. You cant have it both ways and reducing the number of away fans of the smaller clubs by about 20-30 people is fine by me as the advantages of the money made from larger clubs will be more.

£100 season ticket or £200+ season ticket I know which I choose.

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Remember going to Scarbrough to a game and they put a piece of paper over the usual entry price and charged us the extra.

Interesting to see that supportersunited does not say who he/she supports and how much they charge. violin

So what we now charge £25 and yes it's a lot of money especially if you and your family go to away games,but the fact is bigger crowds need extra stewards and no doubt extra police and they cost money. A Charlton fan who I know tells me that our last game was the most expensive police/steward bill they had all season. :roll:

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[I disagree, the distance a lot of fans need to travel to us added to the £25 to get it will I believe put a fair few fans off coming to Hartlepool.

However, there's a couple of ways of looking at it. The away end only holds a 1000, so any of the 'bigger' clubs will probably still have a 1000 fans willing to travel and pay. The smaller clubs who bring a 100 or so, we'll if they only bring 60 it's not going to make a blind bit of difference to us is it?

I don't like the idea of £25 personally. Two wrongs don't make a right, just because we've paid a lot at away grounds doesn't mean we should drop to the same level and do that same. But I completely understand why it's been done.

As for away fans creating atmosphere, all they do is increase the chance of us not winning a game, so I'm quite happily see no atmosphere in the away end.[/quote]
I can only speak for myself and the price of entry to a game has never influenced my decision to go or not. The cost of travel would be the biggest factor for me as I've got used to being fleeced by a number of clubs for sub-standard accommodation over the years. Orient springs to mind for some reason - probably the pigeon cr*p on the seats.
Surely if you want to go and see your team you do it and accept that it will cost you £X? Do you really think a few pounds on the price of a ticket makes such a difference to people? Where do think the line would be? £20 and under? Which would only be a fiver less than Pools are charging. I do agree that it looks steep but the club will need to look at the impact on numbers of away fans compared to previous seasons.

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Just to clarify a few points, the figures are all 'on the day' prices (so no don't add on £2). There may be advance discounts. A couple of clubshave different categories (eg. Sheff U and Oldham's price is based on being cat C - maybe around £20 if cat B).

As a supporter of another club I do hope the majority of people on this thread aren't representive of Pools supporters, or are just on a wind up (notable exception 'born toulouse'). Attitutes like 'f--- em and fleece em' are so ignorant and misguided. If you have this attitude, that is exactly what clubs will do to you, and will be reciprocated by other clubs. It is our responsibility as football supporters to fight this sort of thing not encourage it. Do you even go to away games?


yep - been going for years, and guess what - we get fu-ck all from officials and lose through them because they favour the big club at home - because we're little Hartlepool, so I end up feeling cheated. As will be the case again this year. We have to do something back to the clubs we are the victims of when we play at their grounds.
We don't just have to win fairly, it's like climbing the north face of the Eiger to get a win at places like Elland Road - and not because of the difference between the two sets of players.
Despite matching opponents regularly, we never seem to win. Now why do you suppose that is?
Like I said, anything to poke them back in the eye with - after 35 years of seeing such victimisation, I'm hardly likely to agree with you am I?
And please don't tell me I'm wrong, cos you'd be proving my point even more that you don't know what you're talking about with regards to Hartlepool fans

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Some people on here seem to have this massive chip on their shoulders against every other foooking team in the football league and that it's justified charging £25 because we are little ole Hartlepool.

Get a foooking grip. We've probably had no more of our share of hard luck than any other team, people still whimpering on at how much we have been hard done by. Honestly!!!!
We are that foooking hard done by that we were voted back into the league on numerous occasions and without some of these clubs we'd be plying our trade with Workington.
£25 is a high price to charge any fans for league one football, I can understand if other fans are aggrieved and hopefully it won't put too many off.
It's great to see the rink end full and the banter with away fans always adds to the occasion.

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Remember going to Scarbrough to a game and they put a piece of paper over the usual entry price and charged us the extra.


September 1997 Sunday game, moved to the Sunday to avoid Princess Diana's funeral. Your right paper put over our turnstiles for the game.

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Some people on here seem to have this massive chip on their shoulders against every other foooking team in the football league and that it's justified charging £25 because we are little ole Hartlepool.



Agreed, even if we have been hard done to, it's not opposing fans fault, yet they are the people we are punishing. Leeds fans don't set the categories of their games, in fact it wouldn't surprise me if the Yorkshire Police sent the category of Leeds home games, not the club itself.

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Does anyone actually believe that two wrongs dont make a right?

Dont people who hold that very laudible just end up getting screwed throughout life?

If you let people screw you over and dont do it back you will continue to keep getting screwed.

Yes yes you may go to heaven, but who's to say you wont keep getting screwed over when you get there eh?

Pools have done us proud this year, and I will not let charging visiting fans £25 to sit (and its the same in the home end to dont get all arsey about that) upset my very happy clappy mood at the moment.

If any of really feel the need to start having a go at IOR and Pools over this, please f-uck off and support someone else. We dont any negativity around our club now. F=uck me there will be some lunatics having a go at the club over some none league shite like Billingham town next.

I love Pools, I love IOR, and that is FACT. End of.

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