Hull away - protest/boycott: make a stand against ticket pricing

Honestly, I don't think lowering ticket prices would make any difference to the atmosphere. High prices will price out a section of fans from being able to go regularly, but I completely don't subscribe to this notion that the only people capable of being vocal in the stands are the young working class who can't afford £800 a year for a ticket. People from more privileged backgrounds or who are over 30 can be noisy as well.

If there was a huge drop in demand for season tickets, and very few people were able to afford to go to games more than four or five times a season, then I'd agree with it on the principle that most of the chants are started by regulars. But that's not the case. The waiting list for season tickets is still ridiculously oversubscribed, and I'd bet half the people with one now had one ten or twenty years ago.

Lower prices and you're only going to make things even more appealing for tourists and touts who want to go to a game. The reason the atmosphere is shit isn't just the pricing, it's the fact that actually getting a ticket to more than two or three games a season is incredibly difficult. And, crucially, it's difficult whether you can afford it or not.

With the dumb system that's currently in place of "if you went to over 12 games last season you can buy tickets, if you didn't then good luck getting any before they sell out" that makes it basically impossible for anyone to get regular tickets if they're not already getting regular tickets, the price is irrelevant. The club could lower them to £15 a game and it would still make almost no difference, because right now the barrier for a lot of fans isn't being able to afford a ticket, it's being in a position to even buy one in the first place.

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