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23/7/2017

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This summer Uncle Radrizzani has dug deep into his companies coffers to acquire Elland Road and ten football players but are we the fans the ones to pay it forward?

On the whole the announcement of Match day prices for Leeds United FC left most fans aghast as there was a increase.

The first time in two years but it puts the price of watching Leeds United up to £49 in the West Stand if you purchase the ticket on the day of the game. Yes £49!

A new category of A+ has also come into being, probably used if Leeds achieve a top six place come April and May.

I'm 57-years old and have followed the mighty whites around forty three years and when I started my journey as a fan, if I'm remembering well it was 50p to get as a junior. I set off from Bradford with around £5 in my pocket and it was enough to watch my favourite team.

In the years that have followed the cost of football has gone through the roof and me as a grandad would need around £100 to take two of my grandchildren to Elland Road if on the day of the game I decided to take them. That does include travel but it's still a sizeable amount of my weekly wage.

The argument that a full Elland Road with fans charged £30 is worth considering, although 18,000 season tickets have been sold it means that if you want to go you better have planned it to get your ticket a few days before.

It looks like the days of deciding on the day will become a thing of the past. That to me is a shame because surprising a young fan can be such a joy and a generation of fans could again be lost with the likes of Bradford City and Huddersfield Town offering cheap deals.

The LUFC Trust have said that they will ask the club for the reasons why football in Leeds is cost in some cases more than Premiership clubs and to seek a meeting with new club owner Andrea Radrizzani. It is hoped that the owner takes on board what the Trust has to say.

I ask the owner to look again at the pricing structure and remind him that the great work he has done in the summer is in some eyes being undone by what most fans see as a 'kick where it hurts' when it comes to watching their favourite football team.

Mr Radrizzani, the fans are this club's life blood and they travel from far and wide to see them, surely they deserve a better deal.

MOT

By Keith Ingham

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Tim
24/7/2017 05:29:06 am

You can't compare what happened forty years ago. It's gone up by a pound or two and the answer is either don't buy a ticket on the day or better still get a Season Ticket . Do you buy a holiday abroad on the day of travel - no! Everybody plans ahead these days.
Gate receipts aren't so important for Premiership clubs with all the Sky money and please don't compare Leeds United with Bradford City or Huddersfield Town.

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Stuart
24/7/2017 05:40:01 am

Not every fan can commit to a season ticket, some want to pick and choose their games, particularly if they live a distance away.
I'm also not really sure you can compare going to a match with booking a holiday
To add a £5 walk-up fee is short sighted to say the least, will put off a lot of people. Make no mistake these are Premiership prices for what, at the moment, is Championship fare. Radz looks to have gone down the Bates route, ie fewer people paying more is preferred to full houses paying less.
I too hope he looks at this again.

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Alan
24/7/2017 08:47:48 am

Bradford City and Huddersfield have shown over the years a positive response to the rising cost of football. Maybe Leeds should try it

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FRED
24/7/2017 05:58:28 am

£49 to watch Subbuteo sized players, from the back of the half empty East Stand Upper is totally outrageous.
No seat at Elland Road is worth anymore than £35, no matter where it is.
It should be a very cheap to sit behind the goals and in the corner stands because seeing what's going on down the other end of the ground, can be very difficult at times.

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JoeNamath
24/7/2017 09:53:55 am

Worst case scenario is £49.
Take £5 off for planning ahead.
Take more off for category B etc
And you end up with a very small increase on last year for most games, and to be fair the prices have stayed roughly the same since Bates.
Radrizzani has put his money where his mouth is. We should too.
Admission prices are a big deal ti the Championship, we don't get the TV money like the Premiership.
If anyone seriously wants to watch Bradford...go...its your loss.
In Grayson's last year my season ticket cost more than this years.
Cant complain about that.
A concert ticket for a well known band would cost maybe £75?
I pay just over £20 per game to watch Leeds...no contest.

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Gaz Regan
25/7/2017 03:13:39 am

STOP MOANING...
Non-Season ticket holders just buy your tickets in advance SIMPLE, West Stand has all ways been expensive buying on match days, East stand North stand and the Cheese Wedge are for the rest

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Neil Newby
26/7/2017 01:57:59 am

Everyone should look at the bigger picture, uncle radz has put his hand into his pocket, and done the impossible and bought back elland road, not only that he has bought 10 new players, we have to expect a slight price increase. If this team gel together and when we get back to playing at the likes of old Trafford and white hart lane etc, no one will moan. Onwards and upwards I say... MOT

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