Programme prices 2011/2012

[tommy]

BBC Sport Price of Football Survey (1st August 2011)

All Premier League, Championship, League One, League Two and Scottish Premier League clubs (104) were surveyed.

The standard cost of programmes for 2011/2012 was found to be:-

£4 Leeds
£3.50 Tottenham, Fulham and West Ham.
£2.50 Rotherham, Macclesfield, Hereford, Dundee Utd, Kilmarnock, Dunfermline and Celtic.
£2 Carlisle and Inverness CT.
£1 St Johnstone.
£3 The remaining 90 clubs.

[WileBrownAstle]

Intresting stats, I wonder what is so special about the Leeds prog, been at four quid.
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[tommy]

WileBrownAstle wrote:

what is so special about the Leeds prog, been at four quid.

Ken Bates

[Bremner4]

In all respect the Leeds programme is worth £4. I was mortified back in the early years of the new millenium when they put it up to £3 but having got and read the Newcastle programme I have no prob paying £4.

100 pages, plenty to read about and not too many adverts.

When you consider that around 1990 the programme was still priced at £1, to be paying treble that ten years later in 2000, the increase to £4 in 2011 is hardly a surprise.

Not defending Ken Bates (I don't particularly like the bloke being in charge of Leeds) but I expect that the cost of the printers producing the programmes go up over the years hence the face value.
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[WileBrownAstle]

Sounds like the Albion programme.
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[Bremner4]

I will look forward to the journey to Elland Rd on Tuesday for the Bradford game, I will also look forward to paying for a programme which is worth the money.

I bought one yesterday down at Southampton, £3....not worth 3p.

Saying that, I was impressed by Southampton on the field (although we were abysmal) I think the Saints are in for a good season.

As for Leeds? who knows!
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[paulo]

Norwich have this week confirmed our programme will be £3.50 for a hundred pages, so how accurate that survey is, I am not sure.

[Auchinleckian]

All you're basically doing with current season programmes nowadays is buying the club brand, and their own advertising. It's another mild form of mugging of fans, and I find you can get far better news and views about most clubs on the various fans forums nowadays.

[Bremner4]

paulo wrote:

Norwich have this week confirmed our programme will be £3.50 for a hundred pages, so how accurate that survey is, I am not sure.

It came from the BBC so I wouldn't give it much credit.
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[ToffeeDan]

Man City's is quite good I must say.

[Pagiemcfc]

ToffeeDan wrote:

Man City's is quite good I must say.

I thought 2 seasons ago 09/10 City's was the best programme in the Premier League however i thought last seasons 10/11 was good but didn't reach the heights of the season before.
Hopefully this seasons will get back up to that level and i would not be at all surprised if ours were £3.50 this season as we have been £3 since 06/07

[Bremner4]

I will buy every programme from every Leeds game this season. already, I find it hard to imagine one which is worse than Southampton's.

The sad thing is, they must think it is good - they have an on-line version
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http://www.lufootballprogrammes.com

[Tynie Topics]

Auchinleckian wrote:

All you're basically doing with current season programmes nowadays is buying the club brand, and their own advertising.

Surely that is nothing new though, and hardly surprising? as long as there is good readable content makign the programe worth the money, I couldn't care less how many adverts there are trying to sell be seaso tickets/merchandise/club credit cards etc.
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