Villarreal Away Â£72 tickets!!

Post by **Chippy** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 8:54 am

On the Villarreal website they are offering a "season" ticket for the rest of the season which includes our game and games against Malaga, Real, Recreativo, Seville and Valencia for â‚¬110. This will also include the semi if they get there.

lincs123 · Post by **lincs123** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 9:03 am

Slightly off topic......If arsenal were to get to the final. how would arsenal sell the tickets? Interested to know if they would do travel club first i.e to 30+ credits etc?
was a bit gutted they did the fa cup semi final to season ticket holders.
anyone know? what happened when we played barcelona in the final?
cheers

Post by **gooner.ed** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 10:03 am

lincs123 wrote:Slightly off topic......If arsenal were to get to the final. how would arsenal sell the tickets? Interested to know if they would do travel club first i.e to 30+ credits etc?
was a bit gutted they did the fa cup semi final to season ticket holders.
anyone know? what happened when we played barcelona in the final?
cheers

will be exactly the same as fa cup semi - and indeed paris in 2006. away scheme season ticket holders first. then gold members, gradually descending in numbers of away credits. anyone currently holding more than 7 credits should get a ticket no problem, and then they will drop according to how many tickets they have left.

fa cup final will have a smaller allocation than the semi, should we make it. again, i reckon 7 credits should get you in though.

if you are silver or red member, the only way you are attending either final, should arsenal make either, is by getting a ticket from someone else, unless you are on the away season ticket scheme.

pretty certain travel club membership won't help you at all, but i stand to be corrected. are they being given any priority for fa cup semi for example?

Nice_Guy · Post by **Nice_Guy** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 10:06 am

This is unbelievable. Anything over Â£35 is too much for that stadium but Â£72? Thats just wrong

jamjc64 · Post by **jamjc64** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 10:08 am

just spoke to a friend, he said he was charged Â£58 when he went to mau u game over there

hatchy · Post by **hatchy** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 11:55 am

Â£72 is this their final then bloody joke hope sky or itv say something about it if the arsenal end isnt full but wont hold my breath

xDAVEYx · Post by **xDAVEYx** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 12:01 pm

gooner.ed wrote:fa cup final will have a smaller allocation than the semi, should we make it. again, i reckon 7 credits should get you in though

i think that's outrageous for a 90,000 seat stadium. for the fa to deny proper fans 1/3 of capacity is so wrong

Post by **gooner.ed** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 12:43 pm

Chippy wrote:On the Villarreal website they are offering a "season" ticket for the rest of the season which includes our game and games against Malaga, Real, Recreativo, Seville and Valencia for â‚¬110. This will also include the semi if they get there.

do you have a link to this. chippy? have been in contact with arseblogger and he says he can't find it on the site.

jamjc64 · Post by **jamjc64** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 1:22 pm

just taken this from Barcelona web
The lesser price on each line = 20% member discount.
I guess spanish football got more expensive

FC Barcelona - FC Bayern MÃ¼nchen

You can purchase tickets for this game from here.

MEMBER PUBLIC
GRANDSTAND
1st and 2nd tier 136 â‚¬ 170 â‚¬
3rd tier 122 â‚¬ 153 â‚¬
LATERAL
1st and 2nd tier 107 â‚¬ 134 â‚¬
3rd tier 94 â‚¬ 117 â‚¬
GOAL
1st and 2nd tier 75 â‚¬ 94 â‚¬
3rd tier 67 â‚¬ 84 â‚¬
GENERAL
Lateral 3rd tier 58 â‚¬ 73 â‚¬
Member discount : 20%

Post by **gooner.ed** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 1:44 pm

rolypoly has contacted the club - here's what he wrote -

For the Attention of: Mr Ivan Gazidis

Dear Mr Gazidis
Re: Villareal - Away Ticket Prices

I thank you for your communication dated 13th March 2009 in reply to my earlier letter regarding the Spurs Away Ticket situation. While I appreciate the detailed explanation therein, the most contentious comment you make is found within your penultimate paragraph in which you defend the Box Officeâ€™s reputation.

I believe that the announcement on the website of the prices for the Villarreal away tickets backs up my previous comments regarding the attitude of the Box Office towards the club supporters.

You will be aware that it was announced on the official website yesterday that Arsenal supporters are having to pay Â£72.00 for tickets for the away game at Villarreal. I am sure that part of the justification will be based upon the current exchange rate situation and that had the exchange rate of a year or so ago applied then we would be paying about Â£50.00, which more or less equates to the price that Villareal fans have to pay to attend a game at the Emirates.

While I appreciate that, quite probably Arsenal FC have little influence upon the price structures for away games nevertheless, most supporters are very upset at such a high price being charged. This is another situation in which the club falls down in terms of communication with its own supporters. The bald announcement of ticket prices of Â£72.00 was bound to come as a shock to supporters so why did the club not apply some common sense and explain why the price is so high and why the club cannot do anything about it. It would be helpful if the club explained whether or not Villarreal supporters are paying EU72.00 to attend the game in Villarreal or if its only Arsenal supporters that are having to pay such a high price.

Given that most supporters who intend to go are already committed in the sense of having booked up flights and hotels I would have thought it would have been a nice gesture on the part of the club to have limited its charges to Â£50.00 or EU50.00 only with the club agreeing to pick up the rest of the bill but I guess that is simply not going to happen.

It would be helpful if the club would explain whether or not it intends to make any representations to UEFA regarding ticket pricing in particular when, as in this instance, I would imagine that Villarreal are charging at least three times the price they would charge for a normal home game. Obviously if Arsenal adopted such a policy everybody would be paying at least Â£100.00 a ticket for the home game which would cause an uproar.

I plainly cannot expect a personal reply from you to each and every letter of mine but I would hope that someone can use the official website to explain clearly what is Arsenalâ€™s point of view on this subject matter.

Kindest Regards

(me again)
he's agreed to this being posted here by way of encouragement to all other gooners to write in. he also states -

another thing would be to encourage those going to boycott purchase of official merchandise and anything within ground. a small gesture perhaps but one way of peacefully expressing resentment.

go to it.

mrgnu1958 · Post by **mrgnu1958** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 1:49 pm

thieving barstewards

youngw · Post by **youngw** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 1:54 pm

What makes it worse is that its the first leg as well!

If we win the Â£72 would have been worth it!

Radford149 · Post by **Radford149** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 1:59 pm

Radford cannot understand why the other tickets for porto, fenerbache and rome were around the Â£35 mark. the Â£ has been shit for months so that cannot be used as an explination

Post by **Chippy** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 2:16 pm

gooner.ed wrote:
Chippy wrote:On the Villarreal website they are offering a "season" ticket for the rest of the season which includes our game and games against Malaga, Real, Recreativo, Seville and Valencia for â‚¬110. This will also include the semi if they get there.

do you have a link to this. chippy? have been in contact with arseblogger and he says he can't find it on the site.

Its just below the story about free tickets for the unemployed

Por ello, el club lanza una nueva campaÃ±a de abonados para lo que resta de temporada y asÃ seguir ampliando al apoyo de la aficiÃ³n, que incluirÃ¡ los partidos de Liga ante el MÃ¡laga, Recreativo, Sevilla, Real Madrid y Valencia; y tambiÃ©n estarÃ¡n cubiertos todos los partidos de Liga de Campeones en El Madrigal (eventualmente hasta las semifinales).
En total, se pondrÃ¡n a la venta 200 pases en el Fondo Norte a un Ãºnico precio de 110 euros â€“la tercera parte del coste inicial- para los que quieran estar presentes en la recta final de este aÃ±o tan importante. Estos podrÃ¡n adquirirse a partir de maÃ±ana en las dos tiendas oficiales del club: Tienda El Madrigal y Tienda Centro Comercial Salera.

Sorry the link just goes to the home page. It is the story starting "Roig......"

http://www.villarrealcf.es/

Post by **gooner.ed** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 2:23 pm

appreciated chippy.

so no spaniard with half a brain is going to pay the price we will for this match! although the club can argue that they are charging the same price for this game in isolation.

clever. exploitative.

as roly has said, the very least travelling gooners can do is refuse to buy anything inside the stadium.