Capping away ticket prices at £30

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Interesting story in the Mail today about the Premier League clubs rejecting the proposal at their latest meeting. Needed a majority of 14 in favour in a vote, and 7 or 8 voted against it. Mentions Everton were vocal and strongly voted in favour of introducing the cap but were outvoted by the richer clubs.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sp...g-boys-vote-proposal-cap-away-tickets-30.html

Funny how times change, considering we led the breakaway of 5 clubs to form the Premier League in the first place in 1991 and Philip Carter as our chairman at the time was the 'main man' that everyone listened to and followed.
 
BoysInBlue said:
Interesting story in the Mail today about the Premier League clubs rejecting the proposal at their latest meeting. Needed a majority of 14 in favour in a vote, and 7 or 8 voted against it. Mentions Everton were vocal and strongly voted in favour of introducing the cap but were outvoted by the richer clubs.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sp...g-boys-vote-proposal-cap-away-tickets-30.html
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How can one "strongly" vote in favour?

If you cast a vote, surely you vote "yes" or "no"?

Was it done by a show of hands and Elstone jumped up and down in his seat, thrusting his perma-tanned digits as high as they would go? Or was it a verbal vote, causing Elstone get up and shout "By God, YES" or was it done by ballot paper and we used a big black marker to write "YES" on it, underlining it three times?
 
toffeeblue9 said:
How can one "strongly" vote in favour?

If you cast a vote, surely you vote "yes" or "no"?

Was it done by a show of hands and Elstone jumped up and down in his seat, thrusting his perma-tanned digits as high as they would go? Or was it a verbal vote, causing Elstone get up and shout "By God, YES" or was it done by ballot paper and we used a big black marker to write "YES" on it, underlining it three times?
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I suspect the article means that Everton argued the case for introducing the cap. Others disagreed.

They debated the issue for hours before a blind/secret vote, so we obviously led one side of the argument/debate.

I think the club should be lauded for this, if true.
 

To think that fans are pushing for twenties plenty, and here clubs are asking for £30 and it getting knocked back.

It's simple, clubs should charge other clubs the same as they get charged, so if Arsenal want to charge Everton £63 a ticket (for example), then Everton should charge Arsenal £63, the idea behind that would hopefully mean the bigger clubs realise their wrong doing and stop, but in hindsight the reality would mean the fans miss out more.
 
Boxcar Ira said:
Wonder how the RS voted, considering their fans are so (quire rightly) behind the idea
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If they'd voted for the cap the mail would have ran it on their front page 'magnificent traditional Liverpool looking out for true working class fans' etc. etc. As usual with media coverage of that lot, if they're not mentioned specifically it's probably because they're doing something that can't be gushed over. In this case, arguing against the cap. Would also align with them raising their season ticket prices.
 
barneygumble said:
To think that fans are pushing for twenties plenty, and here clubs are asking for £30 and it getting knocked back.

It's simple, clubs should charge other clubs the same as they get charged, so if Arsenal want to charge Everton £63 a ticket (for example), then Everton should charge Arsenal £63, the idea behind that would hopefully mean the bigger clubs realise their wrong doing and stop, but in hindsight the reality would mean the fans miss out more.
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Match day income (especially the portion of this generated by away fans). Is decreasing in importance every year the tv deal goes up. You would think with a bit of vision clubs would think they could reduce away ticket prices at a minimal cost to themselves and have nearly full away sections every week with fans creating atmosphere and buying things. Would look far better on TV as well rather than the current sky trick of putting microphones by the away fans at Goodison and showing their empty seats to try and make out that we have poor home support.

Of course if you were super cynical I could easily buy that some clubs want to dissuade away fans to give their own team an edge and sell off more of their own capacity to their own fans.
 

"In a secret ballot, seven or eight clubs are understood to have opposed the capping — those led by greedy Arsenal."

Basically, we have no idea who voted what, we don't even know how many voted against it, but it's all Arsenals fault.
 
Saint Domingo said:
Of course if you were super cynical I could easily buy that some clubs want to dissuade away fans to give their own team an edge and sell off more of their own capacity to their own fans.
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Aberdeen did that last season. Traditionally a large allocation was given to the Old Firm but this was cut so that they were given the same small allocation as everyone else in the hope that those seats could now be occupied by season ticket holders / home fans. I think it worked as we've beaten them twice at home this season and in both cases you could barely hear the away section.

Still think with all the money in the EPL £30 cap was reasonable, especially when you consider travel
 
We were the only club to vote in favour:

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/everton-buck-trend-mega-rich-10845383

Everton were the solitary Premier League club to vote for a cap on ticket prices for away fans at a meeting of top flight clubs.

The Blues bucked the trend of the division's 19 other sides, who ignored the pleas of supporter groups to help make attending games more affordable.

Despite only recently having their £8billion-plus forthcoming TV deal confirmed, the meeting of Premier League chief executives voted down a motion to cap away tickets at £30.
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