Early Bird Season Tickets on sale

Philly-Red said:
Yes but the same can’t be said for Fulham, Brentford, Southampton, etc.
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Fulham's cheapest seats are in their weird corners, where your seat is outside the touchline but isn't angled to the pitch, so you face another stand rather than the action.
 
JM14 said:
Basically it costs less to watch top class premier league football than to watch Middlesbrough in the championship. Not sure how anyone can justify that, or even justify the fact we spend more than fans at almost every other championship club to watch our team

I thought we had the best owner in football?
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because we are the greatest team in football the world has ever seen
 
Sergio said:
Currently £31 now so assuming they apply the 8% that would put them to around £34. I still dont think £34 for a walk up ticket isnt too bad to be completely honest but I am somebody who can make maybe 10 games a season depending on work and other commitments
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Yeah but not as high as £40 I wouldn’t have thought except in the highest parts of the ground.
 
Glover_elbow said:
Exactly the whole argument kids prices are reasonable is completely disingenuous when it's effectively a closed shop thorough a grfz sell out and not obtainable. I don't see why they don't just charge the same prices for kids in most parts of the ground.
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Well it’s not that much of a closed shop. I moved there two years ago and we have 4 seats, it costs £960 now. Which would mean £12.63 per seat per match, with 2 free pints included, in the PL.

That isn’t a bad deal imho, for what I get. But yes the club DO want you to commit early, they do want you to sign up for the season and they do want you to move to a particular part of the ground. I appreciate those conditions are not widely popular but it isn’t some kind of secret society, anyone can move there if you speak to the club after the deadline and see what’s available.
 
indeedido said:
This is one of the points I made earlier.
The ticket money is peanuts if we go up. It is a crucial element of the revenue mix if we don't.

The EB encourages/bullies supporters into committing to a season, without knowing what they are getting.
Because of Carrick and the players' excellence of late, they have a serious chance of promotion this season. The club have chosen to significantly exploit their position.
They may coax more SC holders as a result for next season whatever the status, but if we don't go up then they will have suppressed crowds with ridiculous walk up prices next season.

Players usually have relegation clauses in their contracts, yet fans don't.
How about a partial refund on the EB prices if we don't go up, and then walk ups and new SC's are not so constrained next season by PL level pricing. Alternatively the club could hold such a refund on account to offset a SC when the club is next relegated. They have the capability to do this as shown through Covid.

Additionally I do hope Bausor is being challenged on non ticketing revenues. The revenue generated through Sponsorship, Commercial and Merchandising is pitiful by comparison to other clubs.

atypical is right in saying that Gibson is hardly profiteering given he has only ever twice made a profit in any season since taking control of the club. He is minimising the future loss he is prepared to cover through his Group.
Charging fans high prices will not touch the losses Gibson's mis-management of the club created. Oh and atypical, those losses were much bigger post 2006 than 96-06.
The club lost £73m in the 10.5 years to Dec 2006. They lost £96m in the 10 years thereafter and £60m in the 7 years since 2016.
Having paid to watch utter tripe since 2006, I don't much feel like paying more to watch us now to cover those losses.

I will buy again because I am hooked, not by Gibson, but my club and what the whole ritual means to me.
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Your final sentence sums it up though doesn’t it.
 
breakthewallsdown said:
Aye, waiting list for those who don't renew/move their seats.

Doubt I'm the only one in Teesside as well who is a bit hesitant paying over £200 for a 3 or 4 year old who won't be attending mid week or night games.
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Yes I wouldn’t have two kids tickets if it wasn’t in GRFZ. One of my mine was a month old when he got first one. 😂

But there is availability, you just have to ring up after the deadline. Maybe that availability will start to dwindle soon but the club should expand that area if they want to keep families onside.
 
Pak_Doo_Ik said:
exactly this, going to football is now a luxury that most can’t afford unfortunately
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This has been the case for years already, decades even. But attendances in the English game haven’t really fallen, because people keep paying even when they don’t think they can afford it. There is nothing morally right about it, the game just isn’t like that (I don’t know if it ever was).

We can’t control what the club do, we can only control our own individual actions.
 
atypical_boro said:
One of my mine was a month old when he got first one
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This is exactly the problem MFC has with such a great offer in the GRFZ.

Fans will quite happily pay the extra few kid for a 2nd child seat knowing they'll rarely use it (if ever) but it's available to them for all home games at such a very low cost. And once they have the ticket, then they'll be reluctant to give it up...until they're 16+.

I'm not judging the fans who do this. It's the problem MFC have created.

I have a distant family member who also has 3 tickets in GRFZ (him and his 2 sons) and yet only 2 tickets are used for most games.
 
Marvanelli said:
This is exactly the problem MFC has with such a great offer in the GRFZ.

Fans will quite happily pay the extra few kid for a 2nd child seat knowing they'll rarely use it (if ever) but it's available to them for all home games at such a very low cost. And once they have the ticket, then they'll be reluctant to give it up...until they're 16+.

I'm not judging the fans who do this. It's the problem MFC have created.

I have a distant family member who also has 3 tickets in GRFZ (him and his 2 sons) and yet only 2 tickets are used for most games.
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True but TBF the ticket always get used by my mate’s son, it isn’t empty. He’s two this summer so I expect him to be there come rain or shine next season. 😁
 
Sergio said:
Currently £31 now so assuming they apply the 8% that would put them to around £34. I still dont think £34 for a walk up ticket isnt too bad to be completely honest but I am somebody who can make maybe 10 games a season depending on work and other commitments
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Our cheapest adult tickets are more than just about every club in the country
 
clay said:
Man City's £350 tickets apply to a small number of seats up in the gods at the very back of the third tier of their south stand. Yes they're cheap, but they're cheap for a reason.

Any comparison that looks at cheapest available tickets will never truly be like-for-like.
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They are still getting to watch the team that has won 4 of the last 5 PL titles and have got some of the best players in the world. We're (most likely) paying significantly more than that to watch championship football.
 
Nano said:
They are still getting to watch the team that has won 4 of the last 5 PL titles and have got some of the best players in the world. We're (most likely) paying significantly more than that to watch championship football.
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They’re actually single tickets that aren’t always in the same block, and they are sold out with a huge waiting list as you can imagine given their price.

I mean, given their owners’ wealth, you could argue they shouldn’t be charging their fans anything at all to be honest. But most fans pay £700-900 a season.

Let’s not praise Man City owners too much, they do lots of other stuff that’s way worse than Steve Gibson.
 
Nano said:
The silver is only for 14 games. It doesn't include games against Utd, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea or Spurs.
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True, I'd forgotten about that from when I did the research last summer.
I'll delete that.

But our prices are not competitive compared to other clubs, despite some attempting to pretend they are.

People point to the GRFZ, but almost every club in the Championship also has an offer for family tickets.
 
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Davey_C said:
5% at Old Trafford 1st increase in 11 seasons

www.thesun.co.uk

Utd season ticket prices go UP for 1st time in 11 years as fans slam 'parasites'

MANCHESTER UNITED have increased their season ticket prices for the first time in 11 years. Supporters have slammed the club in a furious backlash to the five per cent rise for adult season tickets…
www.thesun.co.uk www.thesun.co.uk
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They're rightly angry about it too.

At least with Middlesbrough, you could argue that it's necessary to keep us within financial parameters, as distasteful as I find it.

Manchester United are richer than ever, and get hundreds of millions from TV and merchandising.

They have absolutely no need to increase prices.
 
TeaCider said:
They're rightly angry about it too.

At least with Middlesbrough, you could argue that it's necessary to keep us within financial parameters, as distasteful as I find it.

Manchester United are richer than ever, and get hundreds of millions from TV and merchandising.

They have absolutely no need to increase prices.
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we cba with merch
 
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