Our government just loves throwing out those fictional numbers, and they particularly love trumpeting people's gross salaries, although the net salaries that people actually receive are dramatically lower (taxation and hidden taxation masked as "insurance" in Slovakia are on quite brutal levels). I also love that "average" statistical trick, the oldest in the book: you know, the one with one person being overfed and the other person starving, so on average, they're both doing just fine. 
Average is something absolutely different than median.
If you spell Milan poorly enough it will look something like Bratislava.
I'm a true Austrian aswell. Have always been a big Hockey fan and when i moved from Graz to Vienna during my studies I was lucky to find Slovan while watching some streams on laola1.tv. Didn't want to support the Vienna Capitals and so Slovan was the perfect fit to fill my hockey needsas it's only a 1 hour drive away from my current apartment and they have a car park right under the stadium.
Have watched atleast 20 games in the arena in the last 2 1/2 years and really got to love the club. Also dragged my friends and family to alot of games aswell and every single one enjoyed the experience.
There is not a single hockey arena in Austria that comes close to Slovans, the quality of hockey is way higher and also the prices for Austrians are really cheap. You can't find a beer in Austria anywhere for anything close to 2€, was on ski vacation in Tirol last week and they charged 6,30€ for a beer.
Also enjoyed to party with my friends after the games in the city a couple of times and also spend new years eve there. Lovely City, great food and beer.
So let's go Slovan, put up a good fight vs CSKA. I want to atleast see a game 6 in Bratislava
how about one day after a game, hfboards Slovan fans get together for a beer at one of the pubs below the arena?!?
I was going to have fun with this one but the conversation moved on so I'll just say go back, read what I wrote slowly and carefully. I know reading comprehension in english is very hard, and you'll see I never said anything was or wasn't affordable, but rather went after the idea that mean pre-tax income levels could be compared to single unit purchase prices to determine affordability. My point was regardless of context so to validate his general argument you would have to prove it in all contexts. That debate isn't interesting, where to have beer is, all refocus.
When Lev Prague were playing in the Gagarin Cup finals a couple of years ago, the tickets in Prague were like €12, I hear. Yeah, Lev had few real fans, but the surcharge of €40 for being "real fans" seems a bit steep. I understand Slovan wishes to be like the Toronto Maple Leafs in this regard, but... Judging a country by the ostentatious display of wealth of its upper classes is a fundamentally flawed method. I'm sure there are many luxury cars in Rio de Janeiro, too, besides all the slums. When you stand in Zochova Street for 1 hour and count the crammed public-transport buses passing by, I wonder if the number of people in those buses won't greatly exceed the number of people in the limousines? Or are hockey ticket prices now supposed to be adjusted based on what the folks in limousines can afford?
Of course you can, if you also compare people's income in those years. I believe that a decent income in Communist Slovakia may have been around €100, and hockey tickets back then may have cost around 66 cents (20 crowns). Let's say a decent income for Slovakia today is around €1000. So the ticket to a hockey game might reasonably cost around €6.60. OK, so it's the KHL, let's double that – I'll give you €13 as an acceptable price. But €40+ is out-of-bounds for regular people.
It's your opinion that it's a business. Many would say that it should be sports first, business second. See that Liverpool FC fan holding up the sign, "I'm not a customer, I'm a fan."
I'm not sure it's going to be "loyal fans" who will fill the arena. Loyal fans are likely to stay at home if they can't afford to buy a ticket. The KHL play-offs will likely be seen as a social event for the well-to-do to show off, to "be there". You know, the kind of folks who wouldn't dream of attending a Slovan game at home versus Amur Khabarovsk in early September, with Slovan tumbling at the bottom of the KHL standings, because that just wouldn't be a prestigious enough event for them to attend.
It's not his opinion, it is a pure fact. I don't really know what you are trying to say here. Sports on the level of the KHL is about business in the first instance. Of course, without fans there can be no business, but club is not a social service.
Only if you post a report with pictures after the party.how about one day after a game, hfboards Slovan fans get together for a beer at one of the pubs below the arena?!?
The entire play-offs are extra income, so you can't really talk about any "losses". Yes, there are also extra costs incurred by playing in the play-offs, but those would have been amply covered by more modest ticket prices, too. So it's all about what's considered to be a reasonable profit margin.
I don't recall anyone saying so here.
Nor do I recall anyone arguing that everything should be free, that musicians shouldn't get paid for their efforts, etc. etc. Take it easy with those strawmen, guys. The discussion is about what ticket prices might be considered reasonable and fair towards the Slovan fanbase at large for whom, I fear, spending €40+ for a hockey ticket may not be an easy thing to do.
