Hi guys

As already mentioned on another thread we are showing Saturdays game live in New Clarence.

Kick off time is 5pm, not 6pm as advertised on fc's website ( this is European time)

We still have plenty of tickets left priced at £5 each - £1 of this is donated to charity

Come and cheer on the boys

Bet you have got plenty left if you're charging people £4 (plus a pound to charity) to get in.

A fiver's a bargain, you pay more to get into a ty nightclub.

A fiver to get into a pub to watch a TV? I'd have to disagree. I wouldn't go on principle (if I still lived in Hull). FWIW, I don't pay to go into nightclubs, either!

It's a bit different as it's the only pub showing it, people go to the cinema to watch origin here.

Exactly. If other places were showing it for free, there'd be no one there!

Probably going to get told to butt out here as a Rovers fan, but I can't believe the people complaining at the price Ian is charging for the game. To me its a perfectly fine price for a service no other venue in Hull will be offering tommorow. I paid £4 for a ticket there in Feb 08 vs Catalans, and it was a fantastic night. Brilliant atmosphere, plenty of screens so no-one missed anything and for me its the best place in Hull for live sport.
To have only increased his prices by £1 (with that quid going to charity) in more than 4 yrs says how honest a guy he is, and to have so much dedication to RL while other pubs wouldn't dream of paying the supposedly insane pub Sky prices is something I personally respect and appreciate.
Seriously guys its well worth a fiver, if I was a Hull fan I'd be there without a doubt. If you play well I guarantee the atmosphere for a pub will be outstanding, and surely 100x better than watching at home.
Can't imagine the messing about he's had to make it possible, so again I personally feel a fiver is nothing when you consider its something nowhere else would have the dedication or love of the game to do.

The only problem I have with charging punters to come in is that it discriminates against regular punters, when we're in Hull, we often go in for something to eat at New Clarance and usually on a Saturday, obviously we're Hull fans but to be told we would have to pay £4 to get in when we go in most Saturdays is poor imo. For me having the game on is sure to bring in more custom and get the tills ticking over, the need to try to rake in more is a bit of a scam, if you can give £1 to charity why not give the full £5 to charity, say dove house hospice, give the mail a ring, get a piece in the local rag and everyone wins.

Well said Roofs, even though you are a KR fan

haha

Wouldn't they have to put on more bar and door staff?

Isn't the fact they're selling tickets partly to do with them been able to prepare for numbers and to tell everyone without a ticket not to bother queuing/turning up?

And i don't see how it discriminates, everyone can pay to get in.

Tickets are needed in order to limit the number of people that can enter the pub.

True. They don't need to cost £5 for this, though.

Hasn't the guy paid for some satellite equipment?

Surely the fact they are doing tickets means they are having to pay someone to work on both the doors, therefore an extra unnecessary cost. If it was my local boozer and all of a sudden I was being asked to pay to get in, because non regulars were coming to watch rugby, then yes it discriminates against regulars, I'm assuming they didn't charge for the England v Italy Euro semi and again I'd assume it would have been busy even though it was on terrestrial TV. If they are doing tickets to avoid queues and over crowding, then why not just advertise that if you want to come in to the pub for the game, then you have to come and pick up a ticket/voucher before the day. I think most landlords would be happy if they had to put on more staff, because it was busy, rather than make a cheap buck and justify it by giving £1 to charity.

To be honest I couldn't give a .

It's 5 quid to watch a game you otherwise wouldn't be able to see, trust me I'd pay a tenner to watch any Hull game live on tv.

He's running a business, he has over heads and has to make a profit (there's not many in the pub game) it's supply and demand.

Which he now owns. And can use again. People invest in equipment for their businesses all the time, and they recoup that cost over the lifetime of the equipment, not in one day.

Besides, if he's having to sell tickets to limit numbers, one assumes his pub is going to be packed at a time it would otherwise be not quite so packed. He'll make a lot more money than if he hadn't bought the gear and will still have the gear for future use.

Why try to justify it, if you don't give a to$$. Obviously there's demand, but there's ways to justify it. If you do it for one game, then you should do it for every high profile sports event you expect to be busy for. HTH.

Have to 2 live matches before in Clarence and didnt hesitate to pay Ian a £5 to get in and watch it...he has gone to the trouble to get the gear in and if he wants to boost his takings then i havent got a problem with it at all.

All i'm seeing is people and moan for no reason.

It's the only pub showing the game in Hull, Hull are a club which get's an average of over 11,000 every game.

It's not at every pub or on your tv at home, the demand would easily out way the supply.

He's saying if you can't get a ticket don't bother queuing.

Sure he's making a few quid but he's a business!!!!!

I like a moan but ffs.

It's £5 ffs! If it really bothers you that much just have 2 fewer pints while you there. If he sells all the tickets he's obviously priced it right. Nobody is being exploited or discriminated against. I'll assume most of the moaners won't be applying for a spot on the apprentice in the near future as the point of a business is to make money. He has gone out of his way to provide a service that no other pub in Hull is doing and apparently he should be doing this for free? Get a grip.

Well, quite, but potential customers (or regular customers in FC Guvnor's case), have the right to say whether they think that business is profiteering.

Damn. Had a look at this thread hoping it was a bit cheaper.

He eats they're because the food, service and value is the best he's found.

He can still still eat there on saturday, maybe a hour or 2 earlier and he can by a ticket to watch his favorite club play live in the only pub showing it.

For an extra 5 quid. Fucking bargain.

Isn't all business profiteering at the end of the day? You also have the added bonus of not having to listen to Eddie/Stevo and co during the game, a bargain.

Of course it is. And part of being a customer is to express an opinion about the services a business offers, and the cost/value for money thereof.



He's gone out of his way to do it because he'll make a shed load of cash from it, not out of some sense of altruism. The point the 'moaners' are making is that he'll make plenty of money from booze at a time when he would otherwise have been a lot quieter, and he'll still have the satellite equipment to use for future events. He probably will shift all the tickets - finding a couple of hundred people willing to pay a fiver out of a fanbase of 11,000 shouldn't be that difficult, but that doesn't mean it's reasonable to charge people a fiver to get into a pub.