Albion to freeze matchday prices
Thursday 30th June 2011, 11:02AM BST.
Albion today confirmed matchday prices for next season’s Premier League campaign will be frozen at previous levels.
The Baggies, with 17,500 season tickets sold but mindful of a recession hitting their supporters in the pocket, will be charging the same as in the club’s two previous top-flight campaigns under Tony Mowbray and last season’s dual Roberto Di Matteo-Roy Hodgson effort.
But Albion have given the category of games a tweak by introducing a new ‘C’ listing for the club’s lowest-demand games.
Once again, however, Albion have ear-marked the visits of Manchester United, Liverpool and Villa as the top-ranking fixtures on their home schedule.
These are followed by a second group of matches featuring the Black Country derby with Wolves and games against Tottenham, Manchester City, Everton, Chelsea, Newcastle, and Arsenal.
But the price range from the most expensive to the least expensive seats for adults, seniors and juniors remains the same as in the club’s previous two top-flight seasons.
And it means nine of Albion’s Premier League games are priced at £29 or less for adults. Admission prices for each category will be the same in all four stands, apart from in the West Stand, where no concessionary prices are available.
The club are still keen to plug season-ticket sales, however, and are reminding supporters that they present the best value to watch Hodgson’s first full season.
Adult supporters who buy a season ticket can make a saving of up to 34 per cent on matchday prices citing adult season tickets in the Birmingham Road End which cost £439 – a save of £204 on matchday prices.
That amounts to the equivalent of approximately six free games, according to Albion.
The club will be hoping season ticket sales will benefit from further signings and growing anticipation of a successful follow-up to last season’s best-ever performance in the Premier League.
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Just to let you all know, according to sky sports news, we will know in the next 24 hours if we have signed david vaughan and zoltan gera!
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why aint dingles catergry C its there cup final not ours,infact it should be free entry with the dross they serve up aye boing boing
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Hope we get Vaughan but not Gera. Would also like to see an offer made for Shane Long and not for any more African players. With the ACN we don’t need the disruptions.
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Well according to our ticket category Listing, it proves which is the main local derby, I arrest my case. Also at this time, there’s no such thing as a Black-Country derby in the Premiership.
BOING~~~~BOING~~~~JtH.
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Nice to see Simon Cox being positive. Well done George Thorne, on your advancement.
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JtH
Thorne’s been called up to the U20′s but he’s not joining up with the squad on the back of ‘club advice’, which implies they either think an U19 tournament & U20 is too much, or they see him as a more permanent fixture in the squad next season.
George Thorne disclosed the withdrawal himself at 9am yesterday on his Twitter, come 2pm there was a story on here saying he’d been called up and still now there’s nothing about the withdrawal on here.
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Oops, there’s a story there now!! Sorry E&S……
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110 degres up here in scunnie.
Ive been watching folks have rides on the donkeys on the beach.
Dont know what it is, but seeing 11 donkeys run up and down in no assembalance of order seems to remind me of somthing.
Cant think what though ?
Have we signed anybody yet ?
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8 The ‘not very real’ Billy-
funny that you’ve gone to Scunnie,because while the Baggies are on the U.S. West Coast having parties with the Beckhams,it appears that Mick has taken the wolves lads to Scunthorpe to do some pre-season training.
He said that the Brazilians learnt to play their football on Rio beach,so he plans to do the same thing with the wolves squad-
that is,take them to a beach where they can learn how to play.
p.s.-it just happens that part of wolves beach stamina training is to run up and down with a team-mate on their back.
Are you sure you took your proper glasses with you? Clean them and have another look………..
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8 The ‘still not very real’ Billy-
we were thinking of going in for Mills-
but it’s starting to get too heavy.
There’s this Reading player,who’s locked in a two-way ‘battle of the Giants’ confrontation for his services.
The whole of Europe are glued to their tellys-
who will it be?
wolves or Leicester?
He can’t decide-there’s nothing to seperate them……..
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Just announced a hose pipe ban up here in Scunnie.
This old delapidated/corrugated caravan that they have put us in on the camp site is well past its sell-by-date and needs scrapping.
But me and the missus are making the best of it by turning the old rust bucket into familiar things we know and love.
We sleep in what we call the brummie road end and have brekie in the smethwick end.
Have we signed anyone yet ?
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This Mills player that Wolves are looking to sign? is it Heather Mills cause im sure she would get straight into the team, even with 1 leg its an improvement on what they have.
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11 The ‘nowhere near real’ Billy-
I’m just very surprised the owners have put you in a caravan on a Scunnie camping site,shouldn’t everybody normally be under canvas there?
Anyway,I’ve just been fishing in the worcestershire countryside,and there was a field full of wolves fans in tents next to me.
I asked some of them if they’d prefer a caravan instead of a tent,and they said they’d be uncomfortable with the idea,as they’re not used to 5 Star holiday breaks,they always thought that vans were only for the wealthy.
So I suggested maybe taking a break to another country,and a few said they’d already been to a foreign land.
Apparently,they’d left molineux after a game,accidently took the wrong direction,and ten minutes later realised they’d walked across the welsh border.
And it looks like we’re on the brink of signing Vaughan.
Wolves wanted him,but as soon as the Baggies came in with an offer,they were written out the picture.
And now that Leicester have come in for Mills,I guess wolves will have to drop out that one as well.
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2) Surely Sir Terry, you wouldn’t begrudge paying just a couple of quid just to see the 2nd half hammerings you gave us in both games last season.
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i see uefa have ranked ingland higher than brazil in the world rankings,its abit like ranking wulfies higher than us in the prem aint it aye boing boing
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Thank God the sun’s gone down up here in Scunnie.
Ive got tan marks where socks have been.
Going to the camp clubhouse tonight. Karaoke night;
Unfortuanately there are some Wolves fans here too spoiling it for everybody.
Im gona sing “Down down” by the Quo
and the Dings are gona sing “I will survive” by Gloria gayner.
More holiday adventures to come if Mr C the mod ever has a day off.
Have we signed anyone yet ?
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Stop Press.
Mick Mcarthy spotted in Tesco’s nearly out of date and at Asda’s Woopsy shelves looking for bargins!
Adéu
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Warren,
I am referring to George Thorne’s advancement to being a regular in ALBION’s squad, not England’s. Sorry if my words misled you.
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Billy,
No, wolves haven’t signed anybody yet. So carry on watching your squad, on the beach in Scunthorpe.
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Billy,
Get up to pace, the one end of the caravan as already been got rid of. The one nearest AZDA.
You Dingles should have a add-on name!, try SLO-MO. See you’ve got rid of another one of Mick’s Expensive failures, some club in France as took him off your hands for a season, unless he gets injured. £2.5m flop.
BOING~~~~BOING~~~~JtH.
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Phew what a scorcher up here in scunnie.
Went to the campsite club last night, Karaoke night;
Unfortunately there are some Wolves fans here too, spoiling it for everybody.
I sang, “Down down” by the Quo.
The dings sang, ” I will survive” by Gloria gaynor.
Hope Lone wolf ist giving you all any trouble why im away.
Have we signed anyone yet ?
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19 no not yet,but signings are iminent,but wolfies have extended Jodie craduks contract so thats good news for us, aye boing boing
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I’ve just heard that that Gera’s signed subject to a medical, a 2-year deal with 1 year option in club’s favour.
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Billy,
Hi-ya Odd Fellow, Gotcha.
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lonely (‘not really Billy’ unmasked)-
and you were doing such a great job in that disguise until Jack twigged you.
I had absolutely no idea who it was,you certainly fooled me there.
(And if you believe that,you’ll believe wolves will win the prem. with at least 90 points next season).
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