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Professor Wolfgang Schnell BSc. PhD.

Professor Wolfgang Schnell BSc. PhD.

Fulchester United
It's odd, because when they first took over they made large cuts to the match day ticket prices from the Fawaz days.

They also introduced different pricing boundaries for kids/youths - in the Fawaz days it was adult prices at 16.

Cheaper season ticket prices for kids etc...

All aimed at filling the ground and attracting families.

But then once we reached the promised land that all changed completely.

Can't wait to see the bargain prices for match day tickets next season ...
 
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EmmersonForest4

Steve Chettle
Lefkasman said:
There are times when the working man should stick together and make a stand.
But they won't. They never do.

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The working man should have kicked off ages ago at player wages and transfer fees which is the reason for all of this. But no people view footballers as working class kids done good so any cap on their earnings is seen as a violation. Never mind most people still think they should be paid a good wedge.

If we want to compete in the premier league we have to generate more revenue. Yes I agree ticket prices are a minutia of that but it’s the 1% gains the club is looking to get.

In an ideal world the cost of football in terms of agents players and transfer fees are capped and reduced to clubs actually make profits! Heaven forbid anyone is allowed to make a profit than the cost of football can come down for everyone. I agree it’s absurd prices are going up but in this current system where footy players give themselves to the highest bidder you are only ever gonna get this.
 
Captain Sinister

Captain Sinister

Senior doom Monger
I wonder if the EPL PSR Regulator will call Forest to Account for causing financial instability among its loyal fan base?
Or, with my Black Sinister hat on, did the EPL tell Forest (You have to raise the ticket prices so as to be recognised as a serious club".
We should be told!
 
shearstone

shearstone

Misses the champ
congo_red_49 said:
I can see Marinakis and his advisors now...

EM: Why is nobody singing MOK?
A: They are sending us a message, sir.
EM: A message? I hope it is not one that will make me angry. <Flashes death stare at advisor>
A: Erm, yes...sir, errr... they are falling silent to avoid praising the City Ground and to tell us they don't actually desire to ALWAYS be here.
EM: Excellent.
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It's depressing how plausible this post is.
 
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Dynamo71

A. Trialist
Taking next seasons pricing and estimating a high ish average at £700 per season card. That would be £21million for 30,000 per game.
If we hadn’t bothered signing Emmanuel Dennis, the club could afford to give everyone a FREE season next year!
That’s how little ticket sales contribute in financial terms.
Holding a gun to people’s head by saying if you don’t want to pay there are 10,000 that will and you have two weeks to decide is just abysmal management.


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alabamared

alabamared

Stuart Pearce
Notcher said:
We can still give them massive support when the game kicks off. The club are going full MGW and sticking their fingers in their ears at the moment. A real message needs to sent out
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Not to be pedantic but you were advocating No MOK, fans turn backon pitch and five minutes of shouting robing bastards or similar surely by the time that lot is over the game is well under way and on current form we will already be a goal down!
I think there is a time for protest but not in that way.
 
alabamared

alabamared

Stuart Pearce
IvorThirst said:
Nice to see Forza showing some teeth, anything for the Trust yet ?
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Hi
NFST notes the announcement by the club yesterday of very substantial price increases in season card prices for all sections of the City Ground. We bitterly regret both the scale of these increases and the fact that the fan groups making up the new Fan Advisory Board (FAB) have not been properly consulted in advance. We have the following observations:
o The Trust conducted an extensive exercise to gather opinion from members and other fans about potential price rises. These views were submitted to the club at the most recent FAB meeting with the overwhelming consensus from being only modest increases in line with inflation would be acceptable

o The average price increases actually imposed are totally disproportionate to the current inflation rate

o It is accepted that season card pricing at Forest had been at the lower end of that at other Premier League clubs, however such extreme increases over a single season, during the ongoing cost of living crisis, will massively impact a large number of loyal fans and undoubtedly mean that many will now be priced out of renewing – a concern shared with the Trust by many supporters

o There is little consistency to the percentage increases for different sections of the ground with no apparent logic or rationale explained for this seemingly arbitrary decision

o The significant restriction of youth pricing concessions will impose massive increases on that section of our support who should be being nurtured as the future fanbase of our club

o We are concerned that the change for senior concessions from age 65 to 66 could herald future further restrictions, potentially pricing out a group of long standing loyal fans

o There is no provision for reduced price increases should the club suffer relegation to the Championship. The club have stated that the intention is to keep the season card pricing amongst the most affordable in the league, this claimed ambition would not be met in the Championship, quite the opposite

o The club’s justification for these rises as preparation for the new sustainability rules based around Squad Cost Ratio (scheduled for the 2025/26 season) is noted, but the relatively modest impact of this single rise (calculated at being in the region of £2m) gives rise to concern that more rises on this scale might be imposed in the future

o We strongly disapprove of the implication of the message that over 10,000 fans are waiting in the wings to buy season cards, this is likely to cause anger and offence to those who now can’t afford to renew

o The timing of what would in normal circumstances be the very welcome announcement of the introduction of safe-standing is being interpreted as an attempt at a deflection strategy by many supporters

NFST strongly opposes these price increases which will have a negative impact on all match-going fans. We believe that our fans’ incredible support has been a key factor in the remarkable success over recent season. This is no way to reward that contribution. We will be expanding on the views expressed in this statement at the next FAB meeting via our board member who chairs that body. We will continue to work with the Football Supporters’ Association to campaign for affordable pricing across the game.
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Lefkasman

Lefkasman

Steve Chettle
EmmersonForest4 said:
The working man should have kicked off ages ago at player wages and transfer fees which is the reason for all of this. But no people view footballers as working class kids done good so any cap on their earnings is seen as a violation. Never mind most people still think they should be paid a good wedge.

If we want to compete in the premier league we have to generate more revenue. Yes I agree ticket prices are a minutia of that but it’s the 1% gains the club is looking to get.

In an ideal world the cost of football in terms of agents players and transfer fees are capped and reduced to clubs actually make profits! Heaven forbid anyone is allowed to make a profit than the cost of football can come down for everyone. I agree it’s absurd prices are going up but in this current system where footy players give themselves to the highest bidder you are only ever gonna get this.
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I've never been in the habit of subsidising someone else's poorly run business.
I won't be starting now.

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alabamared

alabamared

Stuart Pearce
Lefkasman said:
I've never been in the habit of subsidising someone else's poorly run business.
I won't be starting now.

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Surely you paid your tax in Greece?
 
Notcher

Notcher

Stuart Pearce
alabamared said:
Not to be pedantic but you were advocating No MOK, fans turn backon pitch and five minutes of shouting robing bastards or similar surely by the time that lot is over the game is well under way and on current form we will already be a goal down!
I think there is a time for protest but not in that way.
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No I was wasn't advocating the 5 minutes of shouting robbing bastards, simply the silence and turning of our backs at MOK. Maybe I wasn't clear as I didn't mention it but I do also think that as soon as the whistle blows for kick off we get behind the team.
 
Flaggers

Flaggers

May not be the best moderator on LTLF, but he's...
LTLF Minion
Alf-engelos Mindminackers

Alf-engelos Mindminackers

The Artiste formally known as "Wanksy"
Flaggers said:
That's a good, strong statement.

The club needs to deal with the backlash, before they have to deal with a PROPER backlash.
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This is spot on.

Honestly, this season I'd put some posters down as "enablers" with the amount that they've simped for the club's clearly ill-motivated actions. And they'll likely be the ones bemoaning the fact that a "Marinakis Out" drive has started in a few months if things carry on.

It needed nipping in the bud this whole season, but it definitely needs nipping in the bud now.
 
Captain Sinister

Captain Sinister

Senior doom Monger
When I was a child of 8, and my Dad took me to see Forest for the fist time in September 1962, Forest was a Club.
It wasn't a business.
If it was a business it was run in a most shambolic and amatuerish way.
But it was a Club.
Then, as a teenager during the years that led to increasing football hooliganism, the Club became less of a Club and more of a violent tribal faction.
The old Committee was ousted over time, and the Club started to transition into being a business.
It was still badly run, and still amatuerish, but less so with each yea4r.
It was still sufficiently amatuer to allow asset strippers to acquire it, and rob the club blind.
It managed to sneak into the first season of the Premier League, when football transitioned fro sporting entertainment for the fans attending the ground, but the amateurism meant that the Club didn't survive in the top-flight for long.
Over the years since the first Premier League iteration, football has totally given up on being a sporting entertainment to become a massive business and with every passing year the audience of the paying spectator is further alienated.
Now it is the armchair spectator - all becoming masters of the intricacies of football strategies and tactics.
Relatively few of those armchair supporters could be really described as Supporters of a club: the fickle follow the successful businesses.
Once again Forest have been amateurish in adopting a modern business approach to being in the football business, with the nadir of amateurism being Fawaz.
Marinakis is the first proper businessman who isn't a fan first and he is eliminating the past amateurism and with that he is eliminating the notion of a Club in the sporting entertainment business.
 
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EmmersonForest4

Steve Chettle
Lefkasman said:
I've never been in the habit of subsidising someone else's poorly run business.
I won't be starting now.

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You say that but if Maranakis tried to run Forest so it makes a profit do you think fans would be sympathetic? I think he would have been pilloried. However I understand your point but that would mean you are upset that Maranakis has bought the players he has than?

You see its a rock and a hard place. To compete you have to go into debt and pay ridicolous wages. So that means costs have to go up and in this system to not maximise funds from all parts of the business is quite frankly daft. If the club was making profits Id be far more upset about this.

The system is crap and clubs need to make proifits so costs can come down.
 
congo_red_49

congo_red_49

Ale Ape
Really, what the Chairman and the Club should be doing, in the interests of forward thinking AND revenue generation - is both the planned increase and also allowing those purchasing a Season Ticket to add an additional contribution on top of the price to show how real of a supporter you are. You wouldn't get anything tangible for your contribution, but when arguments start up on the internet, you would be able to end any argument by bringing up the size of your additional contribution. For example: "You're not a real fan - I paid an extra £200 on top of my ticket price, anything under £200 means you're not a real fan"
 
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stantonred

First Team Squad
I think my anger on this probably started with the ManU cup game when they wanted £50 a seat in Upper BC. At the same time we were being gouged, the away end was £30

So now, every league game, if I renew at over £45 a game, the away end will be sat there watching the same game for £30. Surely no home fan should be paying more than away fans?
 
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