[spireitematt]

Just seen the match day prices for your season. Wow your club is out pricing the fans. I don't think that many away fans will be visiting you this season.

I'd say it's split 50/50 throughout the fan base. Half saying we should be paying if we want to challenge and the other half saying it's ridiculous (you don't have to do much reading of this site to see which side of the fence I currently occupy).

I like the red part of your signature (well, not the colour ). Football is not all about the premier league/the money/how many fans you have etc. The vast majority of news outlets seem to forget we have 4 professional divisions in this country and that it is still the game of the low paid working class when you get to L1 and L2, and frankly, half of the wednesday fan base seem to be ignorant to that also.

Football to me is not just turning up to see us play, it is much more of a social outing lasting the entire day. Unfortunately, some of my friends will be priced out of attending when we have high category games.

We've got to a point where teams are going out of business for the amount of money Wayne Rooney earns in a day, which also hapens to be higher than the cost of living for a family of 4 for a whole year.
Money has ruined the game and I only hope that the Premier League and sky/BT implode on themselves.

There is more to football than the Premier League, when you speak to 'so called fans' of Premier League clubs a lot have no affiliation with that team or area and only support that team because there uncles friends hamster came from a pet shop near Stamford Bridge. When you speak to Manchester United fans they just respond with '20 times'. Liverpool fans are living off there history because they haven't won the league in donkeys years and the only recent big trophy they've won was the Champions League back in 2005 (probably best final ever) and you get people who live up North who support Arsenal and Chelsea but have never ever been to London but buy the shirts and sit in there armchairs. I don't understand it myself yes everyone likes to watch football on the TV but you get a different feeling when you actually go to a game and watch a match in real live time and you can chat to fans around you and have a laugh and have banter with the opposition fans before a game and chant and shout and the atmosphere would be extremely different.

I sometimes go watch some non-league games and that is enjoyable as well even if the standard isn't World Class. I know people who support City, United etc and they never go because they can't afford to but ridicule people who support teams like Derby, Forest, Chesterfield, Wednesday and Sheffield United (Well you can actually ridicule them because 8 playoffs and lost 4 finals not much to shout about)

Football and the Premier League has become a big business and you need hundreds of thousands of pounds just to be able to go watch these top flight clubs and the money Rooney is on and other players is ridiculous and obscene, Rooney's wages would be a wage budget for a L1/L2 club for the whole season. Sooner or later the money in the Premier League will run out its got to. Sky have ruined English football and they go on like they invented the sport like it didn't exist before 1992.

People need to go watch other football and experience what its like with the highs and lows, people who support United and Chelsea will have never experienced what its like for there team to win promotion. There's nothing wrong with supporting a Premier League team if they also went to watch there local team and put money into there local club etc.