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Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale
FYP.
It is truly disgusting that it seems like everything as far as sports and entertainment goes in this city is catered to only the wealthiest of people. Hockey is for rich people, I get that. Football also requires a lot of gear and infrastructure to play. But soccer needs a field, two nets and a freaking ball. It's supposed to be the people's game, the international, beautiful game. Entire villages in the poorest parts of the world can still manage to come together for soccer matches.
Maybe they're trying to pay for the cost of building the ground/pitch in one fell swoop? That would be disgusting. The working class are the fans they want if they want a true soccer atmosphere. Instead if its only the rich who get seats good enough to properly enjoy the match then it will be like the Dome. A library of polite, over-privileged, condescending @$$holes.
I was already working on getting my drums together for opening day. Brand new team in a brand new stadium in a brand new league doesn't happen too often, and legends should be born that day. With prices like that, they'll be lucky to have people actually watching the match instead of looking at their phones. Hell, I'd probably get kicked out for bringing the drum because it was disturbing someone's precious sensibilities.
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I'll think I'll stick to calling it incompetence. Greed implies some strategy.
I think they provided affordable seating options (not enough), but the issue is the middle and top tiers are completely out of whack with the reality of CPL.
This is first division in name only. This is a pitch 20+km from downtown, built on a show jumping field (that will apparently continue to be a show jumping field), with likely temporary "modular" grandstands (bleachers) and players making less than the fans with an initial quality that may not be a whole lot better than Foothills PDL (which was much cheaper). There's charm to that though, and some fun in being there as it grows into something that hopefully resembles an actual Div 1, but the value proposition isn't high right now at $70-200 per game, let alone $45.
I'm not sure why the "prawn sandwich" crowd would even want to come... its not close to downtown for networking, its not prestigious (yet) and its not going to be as "posh" as other options. Total whiff there too.
If they were building an actual soccer
only stadium in the city for a proven commodity like MLS, sure, you charge these prices, and maybe even a little more. If they had been in the community for 5-10 years and built up respect and commitment in the community, sure, you might try to maximize revenue, but they have proven nothing, and shown little to demonstrate they won't follow the Storm and Mustangs as failed teams.