If we are the most expensive ticket prices in the Championship - how come I am looking at my Swansea away ticket and it says £32.50 and my Bristol City away ticket says £33!
These tickets were in a cheap area of the stadium i.e behind the goal.
Away fans paid a ticket face value of £31 for an upper tier East Stand seat at the Riverside for a weekend game and £28 for midweek league game.
Please don't say "smoke and mirrors" it sounds like Donald Trump after the US elections.
The prices I quoted are real ones.
We are not cheap and more expensive than the average, but overall not miles higher than other clubs and possibly not higher than at all, against some clubs.
Preston fans in their review of the Riverside said our food and drink was above average value of money compared with other Championship clubs and parking close by was very cheap - most Boro fans I suspect park for free away from the stadium. I often have to pay £5 at away games, I think I paid £7 one season at Reading (2015/16). So as a package it was judged the best away stadiums to visit in the Championship by Preston fans, including best value see link.
To me what you pay at Boro is directly linked to our spend on players - so we could charge £20 adults and £10 kids and a season tickets for around £320 (EB) as some on here want and run a squad on around 70% of the current budget. Play more kids less senior players or sell Akpom and bring in the Teesside lad from Notts County as a replacement.
Having wrote what I have, I do appreciate a minority of fans are priced out, certainly from regular attendance. I read an article today about the new Sky TV deal for 2024/5 onwards and if in the Championship our revenue from Sky could rise about 50%, but live games on Sky will rise too by around 50%. It will be great if MFC could use some of this increased revenue to reduce ticket prices, say by 20% (£1.6m cost). This would be an opportunity to reduce prices without reducing the quality of the squad. (I sure Rob Nichols & co has taken this on board when they sit down with the Club Officials).
Ref "only selling 20k season tickets" (2023/4 early bird) - do posters realise when we were in the Premier League under SMac we only had around 21k season ticket holders in total, with players like Southgate and Boksic on our books!