Thought it might be interesting to gauge how many of us will actually take the option to buy tickets to the RM game. I for one will not fork out this ridiculous amount of money to see the game.
Yes I will buy my tickets and go to the game
I will but the tickets for family or friends but not attend personally
I will buy the tickets but then try to scalp them
I will not buy the tickets period
Are you going to the Real Madrid Friendly ?
Thought it might be interesting to gauge how many of us will actually take the option to buy tickets to the RM game. I for one will not fork out this ridiculous amount of money to see the game.
Is this a poll? Missing something?
$125 minimum is insane. What a complete rip-off. You call $15 off 'loyalty' pricing? I call it lemming pricing.
Not boycotting, just too expensive. I'm 75% sure not going to get tickets.
Despite the ridiculously poor way this has been rolled out by the FO, I do like that a top team will be in our house. We could have shown them that we can create atmosphere in North America too, if the FO hadn't of priced out most of the supporters.
edit: I'm sure they'll get a taste of atmosphere at DC too but not like we can bring it.
I'd rather spend two hours of quality time with a really hot prostitute
“Years have gone by and I’ve finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good football.
I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: ‘A pretty move, for the love of God.’
And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.”
-Eduardo Galeano
................wuh di ass i find myself agreeing with Yohan...Originally Posted by Yohan
M.U.F.C.U.M GAMBA OSAKA Toronto FC
could affored it no problem . but boycotting this game
Come on....
everyone has to vote yes...so the market research types get the wrong message.
hell no will i be buying tickets
not even to see kaka play would i pay those prices
out of this WORLD
the ac milan v chelsea game in america is like 100 dollars less then any of those prices for this friendly..... unfuckinbelievable
Like I mentioned elsewhere...I got to see Manchester United vs AC Milan for much less.
Granted, it was at Giant Stadium...but to me it's irrelevant. I saw TWO big clubs for much, much less. The fact that I am asked to pay more because our stadium is too small just means I will let someone else (who more than likely is not a TFC fan) get hosed for these tickets.
This will be more like a Real home game than a TFC home game. Our own boys will not have support in their own stadium. That's just disgusting.
I will not support this venture... It's a slap in the face and is biting the hand that feeds you. Brutal, I'm dismayed with the club.
Apparently you *can* put a price on loyalty.
Hah!
Aside from any football related objections to the context of the game, the tickets are just way too much. What am I? Made of money?
I will buy tickets for this friendly... as soon as MLSE announces that it is laying down permanent grass.
If the guys who did these prices up had considered more than how much they could milk out of Torontonians, they would have seen exactly what you're saying Roogsy, but that's just it, they don't care about anything aside from how much they can make from whomever ends up buying the tickets, whether they're Toronto fans or not. Seeing 112 and 113 fill up with soccer moms and glory hunting 20-somethings in all-white shirts is not going to be a pretty sight...
Agree with you Roogsy. I went to the Milan v Man Utd game too and also got to see both teams practise the day before and still paid less than what I would have to see to watch this game.
I'll need a bailout if I buy these tickets!
Same. I'm not boycotting really, but those prices are just a slap in the face. Ugh.
No, I will not be attending nor will my two brothers and father, who were loyal enough to purchase tickets before the stadium was even built. To ask us to purchase additional tickets for a friendly at a "loyality" price of $700 dollars is obscene.
I also find it laughable to have the Club tell me:
"In three short years, Toronto FC has brought new meaning to fan support and venue atmosphere."
The supporters are the ones who have made "TFC" special. Not the poor product or tin stadium. MLSE have obviously missed the entire concept of football support and how its created. This franchise would be the "Marlies of the MLS" without the "loyal" support.
Am I surprised…NO. Disappointed…YES.
“We changed the entire league’s opinion of the viability of soccer in North America. And then we blew it because we chickened out." —Tim Leiweke
QFT...
ya i cant afford these slap in the face prices.
You could bet its gonna be a Leaf type atmosphere vs Madrid since it seems like 95% of supporters cant even afford the prices..
More like.....In three long years, Toronto FC has brought new meaning to fan exploitation and player oppression.
Only suckers are going to Real in T Oh no.
I'm going but only to get my shirt sign but I'm not buying any tickets
I'm not sure if I should laugh, cry or throw something when I read that.
I wouldn't be caught dead at this farce of a game. I won't be watching it on television either.
Buying tickets makes you part of the problem.
I'm surprised that anyone would say they are going to try an scalp the tickets. I can't see this game being anywhere near capacity. Buying tickets and trying to sell them at a profit, even at the "loyalty" price seems like an expensive risk.
I seriously doubt 20,000 Real Madrid fans are going to attend and if you want to see TFC play, buying a ticket for a regular season game, even from a scalper, would be a lot more cost effective.
As for me I'll be exercising my right of first refusal.
^ I agree, I don't think that people will have any chance of scalping the tickets...I'd predict a flood of tickets being available at face.
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Ya beat me to it!
Seriously though, I wasn't going to go once the whole scheme was announced, regardless of cost. I agree that I could buy tickets at a discount and sell them with a respectable mark-up, but I don't think I could ever bring myself to do it.
Did the USA , of all countries, just fix soccer? - C. Ronaldo, May 27th commenting on the FBI-led investigations into fraud and corruption throughout FIFA.
fcuk that, however will watch on the teevee
I even doubt that
Last edited by TheRenter; 06-09-2009 at 01:29 AM. Reason: finally a good creative poll to contribute to,...sorry, carry on
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