Hello Reds, thanks to the mods who have agreed to a AMA about SOS and the ticket price protests, which are continuing at the game against Palace at Anfield this Saturday.
Get your questions in this afternoon and I’ll aim to jump on about 6pm and get stuck in with some answers.
UTR ✊🏼
by robbohuyton
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Do you think the historical left leaning politics of the clubs are still there in the fan base considering how global football is these days?
Not a question but keep up the fucking good work dude
As a foreign fan, I’ve felt priced out just by the kits. Absolute insanity the prices they’re trying to charge for those. I can’t imagine how you all feel with the ticket prices going up all the time, that’s a recurring thing and there’s only getting to be more and more match days. I guess I don’t really have a question other than “how are these prices fair?” Cause I sure don’t feel they are
I’m going to give you a piece of advice. I would focus on the corporate greed angle more than anything else.
LFC could easily find another 2m in revenue somewhere. Grabbing another corporate sponsor would do it pretty easily. They don’t need to reach into the fans’ pockets. They’re choosing to so they can have a better looking financial statement.
I love how behind dad’s left shoulder, “walk alone” in the crest are the only words you can see. Nice touch.
Is there a plan to try and appeal to ‘first time’/non English-speaking visitors to Anfield to get them to join in with/understand any action that’s ongoing?
i.e. printing collateral in a number of languages to try and serve the message as best we can (tactics that’s served some left-leaning politicians well recently like Zohran Mamdani and Hannah Spencer), or reaching out to various OLSCs who are visiting to ask them to join in with the action
Do you think the “no flags on the Kop” protest is actually impacting the owners, or are Spirit of Shankly considering stronger measures to protest the ticket price increases? And Is the club actually engaging with SOS about the issue, and have there been any positive talks?
The commitment demonstrated by the Spirit of Shankly in addressing ticket pricing issues is commendable.
Thanks for always fighting on behalf of the life blood of the club, Robbo!!
Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t they’re a ticket price freeze for like 5 years?
Do you think this will have to be escalated further or are you getting any sense of movement from the club?
Keep up the good work!
At what point does it get to not showing up for the games and having an empty kop?
I imagine it won’t happen this season as there’s only 3 home games left and one of them is against our rivals Chelsea and another where it’s Salah and Robbo’s final game for us, so is the first home game of next season an option especially if FSG continues to dig their heels in or would that be too late?
I’ve managed to get tickets to friendlies only
I find it impossible to get prem or even cup tickets unless hospitality.
That needs to change
Is the SOS plan to freeze the seasons tickets at this price permanently, or is there an acceptable increase after a certain period of time?
Bosses want their money. My biggest issue is that in saying three years in a row is that no matter how much money they make they WILL increase the damn prices the next year.
That is some BS.
What I really want to know is WHY do the club feel that simply re-justifying the decision would make it any easier for people to accept? The tone-deafness of those communications absolutely reek. “We hear you, but we are choosing to do fuck all about it”.
Football is drifting further away from its roots every single season. And, IMHO, it’s not just purely about money, it’s who the game appears to increasingly being shaped for.
This isn’t accidental, it’s deliberate, and it’s structural. It’s being optimised for global consumption – and local connection is being lost. If the very people who have carried the game, the club, for over a century can no longer afford to be a part of it… that’s not evolution, that’s displacement.
My worry is that once that connection is gone, it’s not something you can simply buy back. We’re losing culture and we’re losing the very soul of what this club was built on. A buyer’s market with increasing corporate greed will still fill seats, sure, but that’ll hollow the soul of the club along the way and the very thing that makes the club unique – the fans – are an afterthought.
We’re quickly moving in a direction that will displace GENUINE fans and replace them with the elite who have the money to pick and choose their game days without even a second thought. In the wider economic context, the changes being made are very literally asking supporters to choose between basic human rights (food, heating, housing) and for many I imagine their season tickets etc will need to be the limb that’s cut off to accommodate the rest.
Have you noticed the extremely obvious astroturfing in spaces like this sub whenever this issue is raised? If so, where do you truly think that comes from?
(Yesterday’s thread being the most obvious recent example)
Reckon the club are hoping to just weather the storm and get through the next few weeks and hope everyone forgets over the summer?
You’ve probably thought of this already, but towards the end of the season if they still won’t budge, start announcing what the plans will be for the start of next season and even maybe preseason. Preseason stuff would be hard but I’m sure they’d shit themselves.
Although I’m all for opposing billionaire greed, I don’t think there can be such a discrepancy between the big clubs when it comes to pricing. How should the board/owners handle that? Meaning if Chelsea, manU etc charge ___ amount, shouldn’t we be charging similarly?
As fans we then expect them to spend huge sums of money on things like transfers, but especially for an ownership like ours that only spend what they earn without going into their personal pockets, that is then less possible.
What do you think about the comments from Billy and the relatively low ticket price increases we have seen from FSG across the board?
Isn’t this just a natural progression after the club has tried and succeeded in banning hundreds of regular match going fans for things as simple as using their work Internet connections when buying tickets as they thought they were VPNs.
Clearly the club is trying to use any methods possible to increase the number of ‘hospitality’ tickets they can sell.
Why haven’t you stood up against that behaviour from thy club before now?
Power to you for making a stand on this, there’s clearly revenue available that the prices don’t NEED to go up, however I hope you don’t mind me playing devils advocate a little bit…
In your eyes, what would a reasonable price increase look like? If not now but in the short-medium term as I think we can all agree they’re not going to freeze the ticket price indefinitely.
On the face of it, an extra £1-2 per game doesn’t sound entirely unreasonable to me? Yes you can rightly argue that the club could easily find savings elsewhere but with the price of everything going up, for both businesses and consumers, I’m not surprised that they’ve gone down this route.
Keen to get your thoughts on this mate! As I said, respect what you’re doing so asking only in good faith and to better understand yours/SOS perspective!