This comment from Pete Bland on VT is well worth further discussion on what people think

“One last comment – ticket prices – this is starting to really hack me off now. £35 quid for this one, £38 for Wolves, £48 for small heath and so on. Even tickets at Villa are expensive, now, for much of the ground. It’s too much, too many games are moved for TV and clubs are stretching loyalty to breaking point.

I know they “have” to do it, because of players’ wages, because fans demand signings and all the rest, but dear me, I just can’t square up what we get with what we pay.”

for season ticket holders at VP we get a very good deal and likely to be one of the best in the league but for match prices we can now longer complain given how much match by match on three sides of the ground it does cost.

As Pete said we know why the prices are this high, we are in a free market in football and we all have to compete on wages but in a recession and especially in an area like the West Midlands where we have sufferred so much you wonder if prices have now reached a critical breaking point.

Some teams like Blackburn reduced prices for the home fans but then for us this season we had to pay £15 more and I wonder how people like myself on average earnings and a family can afford it now (especially away games) and how much the loyalty is reaching a breaking point ?

People have said is football going to implode for a while now, it has not but a few clubs are tottering, Pompey, West Ham but someone always rescues them ?

Can it continue as the economy looks like picking up