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Season's Gate Receipts at The Hawthorns are about £7m
Revenue via The Premier League for TV money etc is £70m to £100m:-

   50% divided equally (Thats around £38 million each for all 20 clubs)
   25% Merit based: divided according to final league position in 2016-17 season (Thats around £2 million for 20th place team rising higher by £2m for every position all the way to £40 million for the champions)
   25% is divided as facility fee: to all clubs depending on how many times teams' matches were shown live. (thats around £1 million for every live game or guaranteed £10m if a team only had 10 or less live matches)


So, if we let in fans for free, we'd lose £7m pa, but the place could be rocking every fortnight, and the encouragement transferred to the players (as we've seen over the years) can turn defeats into victories, and thus push the Club up The League. (4 League placings worth £8m > the Season's Gate Receipts £7m, not to mention the extra revenue from Merchandise, and the day's experience turns young lads into fans for life.)

A bit extreme and silly, but you can't argue with the logic! Or can you? - over to you.

How about the guy/woman who has sat in the same seat every game for 50 years never missing a home game, who turns up for the first game of the season only to find out they not only do not have there usual seat, but can not get into the ground because it is full of people (not supporters) looking for something to do on a Saturday afternoon?    Also it would be free for fans from all around the area to just come a cause trouble.

Which is why free admission will, of course, be contingent on your ability to score 400+ on a 500-question entrance exam about Albion on the gate