Season Cards/tickets back on sale

InglebyUTB said:
It’s indefensible Rob, I get revenue is essential but other clubs seem to manage to sign players and compete without ripping off their fanbase.

Let’s not forget they put prices up when we get promoted and we didn’t need the money, so it’s not just because they need it to compete.

The club have wasted relatively big sums of money on the likes of Gestede and Akpom in recent seasons (who any fan with an ounce of footballing knowledge could have told the club were terrible signings) so it’s not like they spend that money they’ve ripped off fans
wisely.

The stadium is never close to being full on a league matchday, so the model isn’t working in that sense. I know plenty of fans who would love to go but simply balk when they see the price, and I don’t blame them.

We have once of the most expensive ticket prices in the league, in an area with the lowest median income in the country.

As for shirt sales, if they’re so important they should listen to fans. I hope fans boycott this season’s, the collar design is awful and the betting sponsor is absolutely hideous both morally and aesthetically.

It demonstrates perfectly the total contempt they have for their fans / customers that they expect us to pay £50 to be a betting company billboard.
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Well said.
 

Boro’s ST Prices

£520-£721 for an Adults ST, Under 18s priced at £214. Shameful prices anywhere in the country, but especially in Teeside. You must be registered for see element. Glad ours are still well priced, don’t think I could justify paying over £500.
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A lot of the Mackems on that forum seem like Beavis and Butthead with constant sniggering posts about my many heads.

For the benefit of Mackems

Our prices are quite high, but if someone is getting a free pint that's worth around £100 a season (many grounds will be charging £5 a pint never mind £4) our £450 is not much different to your £335. Our £450 covers most of stadium. Around 80% of our STs are early bird renewals. STs get discounts on cup tickets and often are needed to buy limited away tickets.

Our concessions are quite generous with around 33% off for over 65s and young adults.

We had average attendance around 22,000 last season - usually very few away fans - about 16,500 home season ticket holders. Probably second highest STs in the Championship last season and largest away following in the Championship last season despite our relative remote location.

Ticket sales in the Championship are important - STs could represent £7.5m to the Boro.

Our wage bill is probably a bit above the average in the Championship. If we reduced our prices by say 20% I would expect crowds to increase by around 10% that leaves the club down on revenue. Our catchment area is around 450k i.e. only middingly.

I am looking forward to seeing some away fans at Riverside this season, from Sunderland. I hope we get a decent allocation for the SOL, 10% would be nice (4,800?). Can I have an extra seat for my second head please, free of course, because your club always puts fans first.
 
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