Any season ticket holders thinking of wrapping in yet

I can understand people saying I will just pick and choose matches and save money and time. Especially after yesterday which sounds like a new recent low.

But please don't complain about priority points and walk up prices compared with season tickets and we have many posters that do. If you give up your season ticket you give up your points and have to pay £33? per ticket and no free pint etc.

Supporting the Boro always has up and downs and always will have.
 
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Redwurzel said:
I can understand people saying I will just pick and choose matches and save money and time. Especially after yesterday we sounds like a new recent low.

But please don't complain about priority points and walk up prices compared with season tickets and we have many posters that do. If you give up your season ticket you give up your points and have to pay £33? per ticket and no free pint etc.

Supporting the Boro always has up and downs and always will have.
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That's the spirit. Let's bum anyone who isn't a super fan
 
Redwurzel said:
But please don't complain about priority points and walk up prices compared with season tickets and we have many posters that do. If you give up your season ticket you give up your points and have to pay £33? per ticket and no free pint etc.
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Am I allowed to complain about walk up tickets compared to other clubs and how getting a season ticket is more expensive than it is at any other club?
 
Quicksilvera said:
No, if it didn’t happen during 2008-2013 it’s never going to happen.
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We often look at that period is being the darkest in recent history. We are potentially going to finish lower in the league this season than we did in all those seasons. That's how bad it has been

2008 - 13th Prem
2009 - 19th Prem
2010 - 11th Champ
2011 - 12th Champ
2012 - 7th Champ
2013 - 16th Champ
 
B_G said:
Am I allowed to complain about walk up tickets compared to other clubs and how getting a season ticket is more expensive than it is at any other club?
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Clearly not. The way this club treats non-ST holders is an absolute disgrace, but we know that. This may well be my last season renewing, and I’m a gold card holder. The days when the match being the centre of the weekend have long gone, but maybe that’s just a product if getting older and having more feee time.
 
Redwurzel said:
I can understand people saying I will just pick and choose matches and save money and time. Especially after yesterday we sounds like a new recent low.

But please don't complain about priority points and walk up prices compared with season tickets and we have many posters that do. If you give up your season ticket you give up your points and have to pay £33? per ticket and no free pint etc.

Supporting the Boro always has up and downs and always will have.
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If you are East or West upper you are already going to pay £31 to £33 per game next season. Only 2000 to 3000 do away games so priority points are not important for most and we will have them from this season. Drive so might have to pay £2 for my Bovril but 10 games might cost me £400 compared to £620 for a season ticket. Makes you think
 
My first game was in 1974 aged 11 with my Dad, I've been a season ticket holder since 1981, and then at the Riverside stadium East Stand Upper from 95 to present day.
I have seen good/exciting teams, players and managers come and go, and a lot of poor/average players and managers come and go, I've questioned my sanity many times over the years, more so when we moved in 2001 to the lake district, and driving a 240 mile round trip for every home game.

I have decided and promised the Mrs, that this will be my last season, I won't be renewing my season ticket for 24/25.
 
Redwurzel said:
I can understand people saying I will just pick and choose matches and save money and time. Especially after yesterday we sounds like a new recent low.

But please don't complain about priority points and walk up prices compared with season tickets and we have many posters that do. If you give up your season ticket you give up your points and have to pay £33? per ticket and no free pint etc.

Supporting the Boro always has up and downs and always will have.
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I won’t, don’t worry. I know the score and have weighed it all up.
 
Alwaysaborolad said:
My first game was in 1974 aged 11 with my Dad, I've been a season ticket holder since 1981, and then at the Riverside stadium East Stand Upper from 95 to present day.
I have seen good/exciting teams, players and managers come and go, and a lot of poor/average players and managers come and go, I've questioned my sanity many times over the years, more so when we moved in 2001 to the lake district, and driving a 240 mile round trip for every home game.

I have decided and promised the Mrs, that this will be my last season, I won't be renewing my season ticket for 24/25.
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A fantastic supporter, hell of a drive to do. well done. I hope you manage to relax during the season, but somehow feel you might struggle to begin with.
 
I'm unsure really as effectively the remaining home games left are pointless. And it's all down to the club not going for it in January. The club should refund us or knock the price of next seasons ticket but they won't despite them taking the decision to write the season off showing no ambition to give us a chance at promotion
 
Usually around half of our away games need Priority Points. This season all the League cup games away did except Bradford and of course is the more attractive away games that tend to need them say Sunderland away opposed to Swansea away.

Unlike last season the renewal time has come at a bad time i.e. maximum pessimism.

I would advise for a ST holder to think about the last 10 years 2014-2024 and over that period have they made the right decision to have a season ticket.
 
Redwurzel said:
Usually around half of our away games need Priority Points. This season all the League cup games away did except Bradford and of course is the more attractive away games that tend to need them say Sunderland away opposed to Swansea away.

Unlike last season the renewal time has come at a bad time i.e. maximum pessimism.

I would advise for a ST holder to think about the last 10 years 2014-2024 and over that period have they made the right decision to have a season ticket.
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Based on allocation only 10 to 15% of our fan base can go to away games anyway and those that are the die hard and already travel away are always going to renew their season ticket . It’s the 85% who only go to home games the club need to worry about and nothing in your post sounds like a big loss for most of them. The club have got a big 4 weeks to show the fans we have something to look forward to or get excited about next season. Some passion and leadership on and off the pitch for a start. At the moment it looks like we are heading for regular mid table obscurity in a league where we could easily become the poor relations to other clubs with parachute payments and rich foreign owners willing to invest big. Come on Mr Carrick - get us excited and alive and n home match days
 
I think we do very well for support considering how long we have been in this division. Its a way of keeping the club going, its how it used to be in the late 70s.
He has to find a balance of flogging good players for good profit and find replacements with prospects. Not easy but it was managed straight off, and Brentford seemed to have found the knack of doing it.
I've renewed and so have the people I go with, but I've a feeling there will be a big drop off until there looks like a bandwagon approaching.

He did it when Karanka was hired, Mogga cleared the Strachan mess up, but got bogged down with overthinking the football and Gibson sacked him.

I must admit I prefer Carrick's football in the main to the dross the experienced managers like Warnock Pulis put out.
 
I've reluctantly renewed. I take my son and his mate so kinda committed in that respect.
I would have preferred not to renew mine and just go on a match by match basis, when I fancied it.
My finger in the air guess, is that we'll shed around 3/4,000 ST holders.
 
morrissey said:
I've reluctantly renewed. I take my son and his mate so kinda committed in that respect.
I would have preferred not to renew mine and just go on a match by match basis, when I fancied it.
My finger in the air guess, is that we'll shed around 3/4,000 ST holders.
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That's my guess as well, probably around 18k ST holder next season.
 
I'll be renewing.

As for the nonsense about "refunding for the remaining games", words fail me. Exactly which club do you think you're supporting? This isn't Man Utd/Arsenal/Liverpool/etc. we're a medium sized provincial club trying to implement a new (to us) model of operating. I think it's likely that attendance will fall off next season, at least in terms of ST renewals regardless of if we had maintained the current price structure. It happens after any disappointing season.

I was a Gold card ST holder from Ayresome but lapsed a few years ago into attending odd matches. Due to personal circumstances but now I'm back to the ST habit. I do agree that walk up prices are excessive almost punitive and should be addressed, there is too much emphasis on the ST holder. I won't judge anyone for re-prioritising their financial commitments, times are hard again, the football has been poor at times, but I'm sure most will come back as their enthusiasm and finances allow.

It is mildly amusing/ironic to recollect the fretting over the allocation of away tickets and the points system now in this context.

UTB
 
"refunding for the remaining games" I like the idea of back dating this sort of thing to "overall bad day in life incorporating the unhappy with the football result rebate scheme"
Claim will be a bit like the Banks PPI charges.

Its just making the list of what life seems to have thrown at me that I really want money back for?




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I think we will probably see a larger than normal amount of empty seats for Norwich. Can't see many walk ups attending after the last two home matches especially with it being a night match. Nothing really to play for.
Plenty of ST holders who can't make midweek games and people deciding they can't be bothered. Getting tough to give tickets away as well.
Can't see Norwich bringing too many either.

Lowest attendance of the season?
 
I'm 99% sure that I WON'T be renewing next season
I have been a season ticket holder since approx 1992, before the riverside even opened

I renewed this season at the very last moment, but to be honest i have hardly been to many games - for various reasons - but the main one is i simply dont find it enjoyable anymore , i cant remember the last time i actually enjoyed a game at the riverside
Its not just an instant thing with me, i have gradually been losing interest since about 2019 - and the appointment with Woodgate, and then Warnock - whom i cannot stand, yes i know i am in the minority here.
Carrick is trying to do a decent job, but the recruitment this season has been appalling, it seems to get worse every year.
I would much rather put the season ticket monies toward a bundesliga or la liga weekend, which i actually enjoy and watch more of on tv than the premier league or the championship
 
People do have short memories nowadays don't they?

Boro 1 Chelsea 0

I do understand as people become older the novelty falls off, but we all leave financial foot prints in our lives, what we spend money on survives, what we don't often dies. Some may say I have given ST money for 35 years and that is quite a commitment. At the other scale there are young Boro fans who never saw Juninho or Gareth Southgate lift a Cup or attended a UEFA Final or European match.

When I was young I was told about Mannion and Hardwick and Clough all played before I was born. Those were the days they said would never come back a team of internationals that 30,000 used to pay and see. I had to believe the older fans but paid my 6 shillings to watch Whigham, Gates, Jones, Spraggon, McMordie, Laidlaw, Downing that is Derrick, Hickton, young Mills ("who couldn't score for toffee"). You are wasting all your pocket money on that lot, why not spend it on a Chopper Bike or something useful.
 
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