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Where do you want to go? Anton Stack's social media output. Well, I'd like, Sam, delighted I'll be paying more next year. Really good news. Is there anything genuinely, Rob, to say besides, it's gone up. We expected it to go up because they're continuing this, this, what's been

built as a levelling out process whereby everyone's prices effectively go up till they're all the same level to cancel out the disparity between it was the, the older ones and the newer ones. And I don't quite fully follow it, but it's going up. That's the upshot. I think when people wanted them to cancel out the disparity, they didn't want them to get increased.

I think people want

to them to level them

out a bit more fairly.

But yeah,

looks like an awful lot. I don't have a season ticket. I'm glad I don't have one in the West End because that's what, the best part of 900 quid? Something. It's very expensive. But then when you're buying them game by game, you realize they're actually quite good value relative to that. That's true. It's just very expensive going to football, isn't it? Especially in the Premier League. Yeah, shit. 30's plenty across the board would be my policy. But, you know. When your 25-year season ticket ended, what price span did you get put in? Were you sort of classed as like a new season season? No, no.

They put me in as in a long term.

Oh, okay. So I was on the cheaper renewal. So mine this year has gone up by a lot. Is it 12 or 13% I think mine's going up next year. So it's a big, it's a pretty big jump. The depressing thing really is that it's gone up a lot and you're annoyed by it. But it's absolutely in line with other prices.

But elsewhere, it just is really expensive to watch Premier League football. It's shit. I've seen a lot of people online being like, I might be getting priced out here. Don't really want to do it, but I know I come the deadline. I will be doing it. I'll be very sneaky with the deadline, out there it's before the West Ham game. so you don't necessarily know what division we're going to be in.

It's before the West Ham game. So you don't necessarily know what division we're going to be in.

It's always been the way though, wasn't it? It's two days before the West Ham game, I think the deadline to renew. In the Bates here, we used to get the renewal through like January, didn't we? Because he was always trying to pay someone. There was always bills due and he wanted to get that money locked in as soon as possible.

The renewal deadlines the 28th of January. trying to pay someone. There was always bills due and he wanted to get that money locked in as soon as possible.

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