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How much would you pay for a Spurs 'TV season ticket'?

How much would you pay for a Spurs TV Season Ticket?

  • Wouldn't Have one - £0

    Votes: 54 14.0%
  • £3 per game (assuming a 50 game season) - £150

    Votes: 135 34.9%
  • £5 per game (assuming a 50 game season) - £250

    Votes: 147 38.0%
  • £7.50 per game (assuming a 50 game season) - £375

    Votes: 26 6.7%
  • £10 per game (assuming a 50 game season) - £500

    Votes: 25 6.5%

  • Total voters
    387

chrissivad

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May 20, 2005
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The games even at £15 a throw will lead to half empty stadiums because people like me who struggle to pay for my season ticket will go down the road of £300 and watch all home and away matches . I hope it never happens because the overriding thing for me is the atmosphere of the stadiums . It will not be the same with people rattling around with half or more empty stadiums .
The wanting to make the game is enough for me to find a way to go to matches and experience match days . for some the overriding thing will be pricing = £1000 plus for 19 home games verses £300 and watch all home and away matches .
Trust me this is just to test the water if its successful you can expect it to be the norm half empty stadiums .
With the tv companies laughing all the way to the bank . Only my opinion of course .

That's if they carry on streaming games when fans are able to get back into stadiums.
 

Rob

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Jun 8, 2003
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The games even at £15 a throw will lead to half empty stadiums because people like me who struggle to pay for my season ticket will go down the road of £300 and watch all home and away matches .

You can watch every match now for £50 a year if you wanted to...?
 

Neon_Knight_

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Jul 20, 2011
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Without 3pm KOs being available on PPV, everyone wanting to watch the game would have to resort to streaming. With PPV, some people will pay and others will resort to streaming (i.e. fewer people streaming).
@nailsy
Which part do you disagree with? I thought my post was stating the obvious / common sense, but perhaps I'm missing something?!?!? ?
 

Neon_Knight_

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Jul 20, 2011
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Added to that United and Liverpool would have people paying from all over the world and financially would move further away from all the other clubs . Tossers and also short sighted money grabbing tossers .
International broadcasting rights are sold separately and most countries can already access all PL games (inc. 3pm KOs) for cheaper than UK fans.
 

bubble07

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Dec 27, 2004
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I'd have an away season ticket at £4 a game. So around 25 games for 100 quid
 

Don_Felipe

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Feb 8, 2004
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Still not sure what I think about this - the only thing I want to watch on sky is Spurs, so I much prefer PPV to subscription - but £15 seems a bit steep.

I've been paying a tenner to watch games on Now TV, so I suppose it's not a load of extra cash... One thing that's sure, is this will be looked at to see what happens in future.

Devil is always in the detail, but would people prefer an expensive subscription, or paying just to watch Spurs games (relatively expensively, but still cheaper than a subscription over a season?)

I hate the fact that football has become a way to hoover money out of fans - but that's not changing any time soon.
 

LeSoupeKitchen

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Aug 18, 2011
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Those sort of discussions aren’t allowed on here. Sorry!

Same here! I've never explored options other than BT or Sky and I subscribe to both. The second something like the NLD goes to PPV my ethics are going straight out the window.
 

vegassd

The ghost of Johnny Cash
Aug 5, 2006
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The games even at £15 a throw will lead to half empty stadiums because people like me who struggle to pay for my season ticket will go down the road of £300 and watch all home and away matches ....
The wanting to make the game is enough for me to find a way to go to matches and experience match days .
You're kind of contradicting yourself. Like you say, the match day experience is way better than watching from home for lots of people, so much so that they do it despite the cost. I would imagine a lot of season ticket holders have some sort of Sky/BT subscription, but they aren't paying just to watch the games from their front room - they are paying to be a part of the game in the stadium.

Everybody is free to decide what to do with their own money. If you decide to spend yours attending the games that's excellent and I applaud you for it. But not everybody can do that, so why would you want to shut off those fans from watching the game?

I would say that there are already plenty of options for Spurs fans who attend the matches to watch those same games in a much cheaper way. But those fans would be missing out on the whole experience so they choose to attend.
West Brom's next 3 games

Monday night 5.30pm kick-off £ 14.95
Monday night 5.30pm kick off £ 14.95
Monday night 5.30pm kick off £ 14.95

Plus of course all the normal costs involved to get the channels. That is beyond a disgrace, and would like anybody to attempt to try and defend the indefensible for that.
I'm going to get you a jumper for Christmas with "defend the indefensible" on it!

What about my mate who's a West Brom fans but lives in Harrogate? I think he'll be pretty chuffed with being able to see his team play three times for £45. I doubt West Brom matches are shown that often and there's no way he would be able to make those games without taking a day off and forking out whatever for the travel during normal circumstances.

How about fans with new children who can't justify leaving for 2+ hours, or any single parents who have a real struggle to find childcare. What about the family members for whom this now provides an excuse to get together to watch a game that simply wasn't available before? What about the person isolating or in a lockdown zone who has no means to watch that game apart from PPV?

Of course it seems like a ridiculous price to most of us to watch West Brom vs. Burnely on a Monday evening, but that's probably because we aren't West Brom fans and we don't give a shit about the fixture. I personally think Sky Sports itself is over-priced but I know there are plenty of people on here who would firmly disagree with that.

Can't we accept that there are lots of other people in this world who don't share our own (sometimes privileged) positions and will therefore have a different view to us. I'm sure there are lots of people around the country who are pleased that PPV is becoming available. You know well enough that the market will level itself and the true price/viability of a PPV system will be based on demand. If it's a bag of shit that everybody hates then it won't last very long anyway.

This is a new thing so of course loads of people will get in a flap about it, then it will come to fruition and the sky won't fall down, so people will go and find the next thing to get in a flap about.
 

Rob

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Jun 8, 2003
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What about my mate who's a West Brom fans but lives in Harrogate?

What about my (imaginary) friend in Dubai who can watch all the games regularly as part of his TV sports subscription? He's probably seen WBA play more times than most of Dudley.
 

Flashp

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Aug 31, 2012
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As a Norwegian, I would love to. The only way to watch PL legally here, is a £70 a month subscription, and you aren’t guaranteed to see Spurs. If we play at the same time as Liverpool or Man United, they always get picked.
And that’s not counting for the cups and EL/CL, which are on different distribitors.

I’d probably pay £5 a game.
Just out of curiosity, is Viaplay not available in Norway? It's available here in Denmark, and streams EVERY PL match live, so you're guaranteed to be able to watch Spurs. I think NENT (Nordic Entertainment Group) owns the PL rights in all of Scandinavia, so I'd be surprised if it wasn't an option?
 

Steffen

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Aug 31, 2012
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Just out of curiosity, is Viaplay not available in Norway? It's available here in Denmark, and streams EVERY PL match live, so you're guaranteed to be able to watch Spurs. I think NENT (Nordic Entertainment Group) owns the PL rights in all of Scandinavia, so I'd be surprised if it wasn't an option?

It’s TV2 who have the rights to PL now, but NENT won the rights in Norway for the next period. So hopefully I can watch via Viaplay then:)
 

Flashp

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Aug 31, 2012
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It’s TV2 who have the rights to PL now, but NENT won the rights in Norway for the next period. So hopefully I can watch via Viaplay then:)
Okay :) Here NENT have subcontracted some of the rights to other channels, so unless you fork out for Viaplay, you have to have multiple channels in your TV-package as well...

The EL rights belong to another broadcaster altogether, so I had to invest in their streaming service as well.

One can understand why the TV-money to PL-clubs just keep on rising with every new contract period :shifty:
 

vegassd

The ghost of Johnny Cash
Aug 5, 2006
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What about my (imaginary) friend in Dubai who can watch all the games regularly as part of his TV sports subscription? He's probably seen WBA play more times than most of Dudley.
If he's an imaginary West Brom fan then he probably has!

I couldn't quite judge the level of humour/sarcasm in your post but there is something interesting to be said about how broadcast rights gets split across territories. This thread has already shown a few people located around the world who can seemingly watch all PL games across the whole season for about the price of a single matchday for us over here!

The current system means that most UK-based football fans can't watch their team play live (without using dodgy streaming services). We are fairly well off as Spurs fans because a lot of our games get televised, but for the likes of West Brom or Burnley or Fulham their fans around the country get less access to their live games than somebody living on the other side of the world.

Now maybe those mid-level clubs would struggle to fill their stadium if PPV becomes widespread. One would hope that money earnt from PPV sales could be used to directly offset ticket prices for those clubs who struggle to fill the stands. But that will be up to clubs to decide.

I'm just surprised at how much bad feeling their is towards the idea of opening up the viewership like this. I know it's very easy to see the money men finding new ways to make money and hating that, but there are benefits too.
 

scat1620

L'espion mal fait
May 11, 2008
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I'm just surprised at how much bad feeling their is towards the idea of opening up the viewership like this. I know it's very easy to see the money men finding new ways to make money and hating that, but there are benefits too.
My guess is that a lot of people feel that football is unfairly expensive to watch as a hobby overall. I'd agree with that.
 

vegassd

The ghost of Johnny Cash
Aug 5, 2006
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My guess is that a lot of people feel that football is unfairly expensive to watch as a hobby overall. I'd agree with that.
Yep, I think it's ridiculously expensive as well. But I don't think that PPV games is making that worse.

From my own perspective, I live very close to my brother (who is also a Spurs fan) but far enough from WHL that the overall cost of a matchday is heading up towards £100. So my brother and I could go to a match together for £200, or spend that same amount between us and watch 13 games from my front room if they are charged at £15 each. And given family commitments etc. it's far more likely we would spend that money to watch from home than make the trip up, so as long as a fair chunk goes to the club I'm actually pretty happy.
 

buckley

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Sep 15, 2012
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All I am saying if this £15 a match becomes the norm then there is going to be a lot of half empty stadiums on a match day .
Those that are saying it will not happen are deluded because if it transpires the Tv companies and the clubs can make more money from it they will go down the road that pays the most money as they have no real care for the fans .
You only have to look at the evidence in the plan by Man Unt and Liverpool to transform the present structure .
The present structure is fine from what I can see it is just a tweek when to play International matches for me mid season international matches are a blot on the landscape . if there was no mid season internationals that puts back a month extra to get a congested season completed .Thus the season finishes a month early and give the different countries a month to concentrate on matches .
But nothing in the football world is set up to help the fans .
I wonder if there is many football fans that think this Man Unt / Liverpool idea is good for football in the long term .
For me its all about money and will make the gap between premier league clubs and EFL clubs even wider .
My own intention is that they are not going to get a penny from me even at £14.99 a crack and thats even if its spurs playing the greedy buggers .
 

buckley

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Sep 15, 2012
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I pay for my season ticket I pay for sky; I pay for BT ;I pay for amazon; for me personally this is the thin end of the wedge and enough is enough . I will not part with another penny of my hard earned to the greedy buggers .I understand that those who are not as fortunate as me to be able to access most Tv matches . This may be the only way to be able to watch game and what I have said is only from my own personal perspective .
 
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