J_Boro_Clock
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Palace Vs Burnley on the stick rather watch thatYou going?
Palace Vs Burnley on the stick rather watch thatYou going?
Just scattered a few crumbs for now.is it me or has fook all been secured here. great for under 18's don't get me wrong but nothing else has changed or is going to change.
Hopefully more can be secured going forward otherwise back to step 1.is it me or has fook all been secured here. great for under 18's don't get me wrong but nothing else has changed or is going to change.
is it me or has fook all been secured here. great for under 18's don't get me wrong but nothing else has changed or is going to change.
given the history and the man i would be very surprised. but i hope i am surprised. but can't see it.Hopefully more can be secured going forward otherwise back to step 1.
We’d be a loss making club no matter how much we charged for our ticketsWe’re a loss making club, of course we do.
Exactly. My lad's class in Oxfordshire - the only ones who didn't support the big clubs were the ones whose dad's actually took them to games. So my son was inflicted with the Boro, one of his mates Everton and another Wolves.....everyone else Chelsea, Man Utd, Arsenal, Citeh or Liverpool depending on the weather!You're showing your age here.
Out of my 8 year old lads class (not in Teesside) out of the roughly 15 kids who like football. There's roughly 4 Liverpool, 4 Man City and 4 Spurs fans. There's only my lad and another kid who supports Wigan and both because they go to 8-10 games per season.
I know some of those dads and they are Burnley, Norwich, Leicester, Plymouth, QPR fans and their kids are following SPURS or City ffs. If kids aren't going to see a team play then they'll choose the so called glory teams (no idea why they chose spurs) That's how the game is marketed now.
My poor lad came to the Boro with me and loves it. He saw us beat UTD at Old Trafford and then saw us get battered at Chelsea with many inbetween. The bond built by actually attending games is a different level. We have to ensure we're getting those fans in for the future. Can't be complacent
Think the club have thrown the dog a bone, re a concession on U18 prices, an attempt to quash a revolt, they won’t want to see fans protesting at games and for it to pick up any momentum. I’m sure there were lots more points discussed, better tiered concession pricing, 0% finance options, longer EB renewal dates etc. I’m sure MFC gave the reassurance that they would go away and see if they could find any solutions.
I hope fan groups keep the pressure up, it will be too easy for MFC to come back and say given the timescales there’s not much we can do about it now but we promise to engage and have a look at it next season, just kick the can down the road and hope it blows over.
Gibson will silence the local press that’s for sure, be good to see a national pick it up, but with protests nipped in the bud, it’s less likely that will happen, outside pressure will create more pressure for change.
I was born in Middlesbrough and most of my related family lived there, I grew up in Stockton and have lived all my life there. I played football up until I was 50 and ran a couple of successful Sunday teams. I`m a long time Boro fan seldom missed at all since 1968 only one season as a non season ticket holder. I know Stockton like the back of my hand, where I couldnt put a figure on it, Id say theres as many other club fans in the boro (Teesside Whites) is a perfect example.For me, in the mackem stronghold of Stockton in the 90s, it was split 50:50 between Boro fans and "others". Of the other 50% I'd guess it was 30% Utd, 10% Liverpool, 5% Newcastle and then a few others like Arsenal, Leeds and Sunderland.
Of the 50% that were Boro it was still only a small amount of them that went to games regularly but a large majority went to some games even if it was only one a year. Even now if I speak to my friends from back home who are Boro fans they are all still either season ticket holders, occasional attenders or people like me that live away and go when they can. Not many don't go ever but a lot go less than they'd like because it's expensive. None of my other mates that supported other teams ever go to see their team.
Get people going regularly when they are young and it's something that you never really stop doing.
The difference in doing the price price increase and the price freeze is about 400 hundred thousand. It isn't that big of a issue in the grand scheme of thingsWe’d be a loss making club no matter how much we charged for our tickets
Half a million pound a week? Are you just making that up?So from this thread my reading is
The confirmation that the club from a marketability perspective remain convincingly underwhelming (the noise about all other category pricing will not go away) and they have frankly only kicked the can down the road till the next home game after Plymouth for the noise to continue.
That a lot of the fans, if this board is in any way representative, haven’t got a clue how a regional second tier club in the Football industry actually survives to trade next year beyond having a Gibson shaped sugar daddy writing a half a million pound cheque every week
I suppose it’s what happens when football creeps in rather than the usual Politics,Music, Food etc subjects we all prefer.
Yeah but it was a 3 hour meeting with lots of passion and some of the lads didn't get home until 11pmAgreed. Fair play to the Red Faction for getting something but one of the reasons I wasn’t going to be protesting was there wasn’t any clear objective of the protest, it was just making noise about ticket prices. Low and behold they’ve had a random bone thrown at them, that does very little to address many of the issues people had.
A much more effective win would have been the introduction of an Under 12 category. With this concession from the club you still have kids paying the highest ticket prices in the division, it’s just now the joint highest instead of outright. You still have a ridiculous scenario of paying £15 plus booking fee for a 6 year old to see one game.
Fans who weren’t in the meeting are still as in the dark as they were before. No minutes have been released, no summary of each side’s points, no figures to explain the club’s reasoning, just a summary of what concession was made.
This a key point and well made.Fans who weren’t in the meeting are still as in the dark as they were before. No minutes have been released, no summary of each side’s points, no figures to explain the club’s reasoning, just a summary of what concession was made.
...by quite a margin as well.We’d be a loss making club no matter how much we charged for our tickets