Supporters Forum Meeting - Agenda Items Request

fmttmadmin said:
Humpty - we have a meeting being arranged in March where we hope to discuss pricing and Family Zone and Memberships.
CtC - the priority scheme only seems elitist to those that don't go to many away games - they imagine it is the same faces every time and imagine that those same faces only go to games to collect points for themselves and their families. In fact the numbers on maximum points are pretty low. But many fans enjoy going to the majority of games away as well as all at home. They are not an elite. Nearly every game goes down to General Sale - so why does that make it elitist - if anything it is fairer to give those people that have devoted so much time, effort and money into supporting their team first pick at the very few games that are high demand.
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Will we get the minutes from this meeting?
 
fmttmadmin said:
You don't know that though.
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To be fair electronic ticketing is the norm nearly everywhere. Even Bishop Auckland had it. Look at trains, planes, theatres, cinemas.

One thing that would be awesome would be to have less prison like turnstiles. Why so narrow and such high metal bars? Never understood that. Makes it very unwelcoming for some with certain disabilities in my experience with my daughter.

There is no excuse to rely on paper tickets any more. I can get into York City using my phone and their scanners are the same as ours I think.
 
edinboro said:
To be fair electronic ticketing is the norm nearly everywhere. Even Bishop Auckland had it. Look at trains, planes, theatres, cinemas.

One thing that would be awesome would be to have less prison like turnstiles. Why so narrow and such high metal bars? Never understood that. Makes it very unwelcoming for some with certain disabilities in my experience with my daughter.

There is no excuse to rely on paper tickets any more. I can get into York City using my phone and their scanners are the same as ours I think.
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Aren’t most turnstiles like that?? If anything ours are generous, you should see the ones at Fulham!

They have to go full height to avoid people being able to sneak in.
 
Something like 13 sections to the wall , I was thinking team sheet format Title - Eufa final 2004 team ( on one section of the wall )
-----------------------Schwarzer
Parnaby ----Riggott----Southgate-----Quedrue
Morrison ----Boateng---Rockemback----Downing
--------------Viduka ------Hasselbaink

Great players of the past wall
Mannion
Peacock
Clough
Hardwick
Etc

Jack Charltons champions wall

Carling Cup final team wall

Bryan Robson promotion team wall

Our history wall

Legends wall

Erimus / Ironopolis wall

Red Faction wall

12th man wall

Slaven on the fence wall

Akpom on the fence wall

Maccarone flying header wall

Simple but classy , Red wall with a White band , even a wall with all of our badges over the years .
 
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Simply red said:
Something like ten sections to the wall , I was thinking team sheet format Title - Eufa final 2004 team ( on one section of the wall )
-----------------------Schwarzer
Parnaby ----Riggott----Southgate-----Quedrue
Morrison ----Boateng---Rockemback----Downing
--------------Viduka ------Hasselbaink

Great players of the past wall
Mannion
Peacock
Clough
Hardwick
Etc

Jack Charltons champions wall

Carling Cup final team wall

Bryan Robson promotion team wall

Our history wall

Legends wall

Erimus / Ironopolis wall

Red Faction wall

12th man wall

Simple but classy , Red wall with a White band , even a wall with all of our badges over the years .
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There’s 27 sections..

We’ve been at the Riverside for 28 years.. take out Strachan’s year and we’re golden!
 
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newyddion said:
There’s 27 sections..

We’ve been at the Riverside for 28 years.. take out Strachan’s year and we’re golden!
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27 ! We can have
Red with white band wall
Blue and black stripes wall
A wall for a single old badge x 4
A Captain Cook wall
A parmo wall
Chubby brown wall
Chris rea wall
Steve Gibson wall
Bob Mortimer wall
A most successful north east club wall
Get onto chemoxy Newy and get the ball rolling !
 
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Simply red said:
27 ! We can have
Red with white band wall
Blue and black stripes wall
A wall for a single old badge x 4
A parmo wall
Chubby brown wall
Chris rea wall
Steve Gibson wall
Bob Mortimer wall
A most successful north east club wall
Get onto chemoxy Newy and get the ball rolling !
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Ravanelli
Emerson
Mendieta
Egiogu
Massimo
Boateng
Friend
Robson
Tuncay
Festa
Akpom
Quadrue
Juninho
Downing
Yakubu
Zenden
Hasslebaink
Boksic
Schwarzer
Leadbitter
Woodgate
Viduka
Mustoe
Ricard
Job
Rochenback
Southgate

Is that our Riverside 27?
 
indeedido said:
The GRFZ is too cheap. They should not extend the offer or the area of the ground where it is available.
Cheaper Kids tickets all over the stadium and lower Match day prices is better than GRFZ.
Gives more choice and is not self constraining like the GRFZ.

The price increase the club has put forward can absolutely be justified. Even as it is it will not cover the elements of the club's cost base that have definitely been impacted by inflation. So take out Players wages and the cost of buying players (amortisation) and the value of the SC increase will not cover inflation on the rest of the cost base.
I would hope the Match day prices do not increase, thus narrowing the gap to SC prices by match especially on EB.
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reducing kids tickets like as you propose instead of offering the family zone limited to certain part of the ground would no doubt mean they are forced to raise the adult prices to cover the lost money,
they are going to need to bring in the same amount or more money next season so by subsidising lots of the existing kids tickets that already sell even more so they are same price as the family zone then its common sense to think then they will need to put other ticket prices up to cover the loss, the discount given spread around all the other kids tickets I would guess won't make that much of an impact on everyone else's kids season tickets as your hoping to be a game changer if to go or not
 
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Corcaigh_the_Cat said:
Not me, I didn't want tickets for the Sunderland game.

Rob bemoans people having to miss the Easter games on the other thread due to work and young kids bring disappointed, which is fair enough, but the ticket scheme discriminates against the same people who have difficulties taking time off to travel long distances through work and family commitments. When it comes to the game they can attend there's no tickets for them, despite having the same club loyalty.

The system is therefore elitist.
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Wherever demand exceeds supply, there needs to be a method of deciding how that good or service is allocated. As a provider, you either:
(1) absolve yourself of all responsibility and allow anarchic distribution. This is where the old, weak and frail lose out, or
(2) attempt to impose an equitable system that rewards those who actively support the producer.
MFC have adopted approach (2), which is laudable. Assuming you don’t approve of (1), what is your alternative solution?
 
muniz said:
reducing kids tickets like as you propose instead of offering the family zone limited to certain part of the ground would no doubt mean they are forced to raise the adult prices to cover the lost money,
they are going to need to bring in the same amount or more money next season so by subsidising lots of the existing kids tickets that already sell even more so they are same price as the family zone then its common sense to think then they will need to put other ticket prices up to cover the loss, the discount given spread around all the other kids tickets I would guess won't make that much of an impact on everyone else's kids season tickets as your hoping to be a game changer if to go or not
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The club need to take a longer term view - it's vital we have youngsters hooked at an early age who will then contribute throughout their lifetime. At the moment if you can't get into the GRFZ it's quite expensive to add an U11 child onto your ST. At Christmas I couldn't get my kid a shirt from the club shop and I can't get the GRFZ deal as it's sold out and has been for a while now.

We have some of the most expensive STs in the Championship in an area of severe deprivation, a cheap ticket for a kid is not going to mean the club cannot compete. If youngsters don't get hooked on the Boro then they'll find another team - the barcodes up the road will gradually look more and more attractive as their dirty Saudi money buys them big name players the kids want to watch.

Raising adult prices any further would be outrageous, unsustainable and self-defeating. We have loads of empty seats every game - get something for them, get some more money through the tills of the concourse and get the next generation hooked.
 
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