£19 for a U12 match day ticket

My 2 little ones ( 6 and 4 ) keep asking me to take them to a game, but unfortunately i cant pay those prices, when realistically they will be bored within half an hour and ask to go home no doubt. Not a dig at boro’s performances, i mean with there attention span in general. Plus as a poster above mentioned, there is also the food and drinks to buy. I took them to a pre season freindly and this is how it went. I wasnt too annoyed as the tickets were cheap. But now they're too expensive, so how are future fans supposed to be introduced to the match day experience? I think kids, or families in general are getting priced out.
 
The comparison for old tickets against new money doesn't work, by the way. Stadium safety, OTT Policing, structured stewarding, "pitch invasion teams", kiosk staffing equipment and technology, sufficient lighting in and around the stadium, groundsmen technology.. a lot of this wasn't around years ago and all will have been hit massively by inflation. These are all costs the club will need to cover these days.

I wholeheartedly agree that a kids ticket should be a fraction of the cost but be mindful of your then v now comparisons.
 
FatFrank said:
The comparison for old tickets against new money doesn't work, by the way. Stadium safety, OTT Policing, structured stewarding, "pitch invasion teams", kiosk staffing equipment and technology, sufficient lighting in and around the stadium, groundsmen technology.. a lot of this wasn't around years ago and all will have been hit massively by inflation. These are all costs the club will need to cover these days.

I wholeheartedly agree that a kids ticket should be a fraction of the cost but be mindful of your then v now comparisons.
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Fair points, but then there is also the now v future comparisons. 3-4 years time, kids tickets at £25...26....27.....you will have lost hundreds if not thousands of future fans.

At over £100+ for a family of 4 to attend a game, it becomes a treat. Shouldn't be the case and is ridiculously short sighted. Kids just see it as another day out as Alton Towers, or Chester Zoo

I can go to my local Cineworld for 4 of us tonight £24 so not sure where the cinema comparison comes in 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️
 
The kids tickets are shameful and anyone trying to justify the price is too.

6 year old child uses £19 in leccy charging an iphone and xbox?
Cinema nowhere near £19 and trying to up the cost by using the cinema prices for sweets and drinks is disingenuous at best, yu can buy bag of sweets and drink from the shop for about £3, thats what I do and suspect most others do who want to keep costs down.

I can take my daughter and I swimming for an hour, that's £10 for both of us. There aren't many leisure activities that cost more, or even on par per hour with the cost of a kids ticket.

Shame on anyone trying to justify it
 
Geoff_B said:
The kids tickets are shameful and anyone trying to justify the price is too.

6 year old child uses £19 in leccy charging an iphone and xbox?
Cinema nowhere near £19 and trying to up the cost by using the cinema prices for sweets and drinks is disingenuous at best, yu can buy bag of sweets and drink from the shop for about £3, thats what I do and suspect most others do who want to keep costs down.

I can take my daughter and I swimming for an hour, that's £10 for both of us. There aren't many leisure activities that cost more, or even on par per hour with the cost of a kids ticket.

Shame on anyone trying to justify it
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nothing like allowing alternate opinion and treating them with respect is there.

So if its purely the price of kids tickets that's an issue, would you prefer to up the adult prices and lower the kids?
 
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BoroMart said:
nothing like allowing alternate opinion and treating them with respect is there.

So if its purely the price of kids tickets that's an issue, would you prefer to up the adult prices and lower the kids?
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Well your the one who came on the thread and first post mocking with “they spend that on charging Xbox and mobile phone”… quite clearly is not the case. It’s under 12’s not 12 year olds which is where your targeting that comment.

No, the structure is pathetic and under 12 ticket should be significantly less without passing the cost on, let’s face it there won’t be many people paying £19 a ticket on walk ups for under 12s so revenue lost is going to be next to nothing. Charge them £10-11 and might actually make more money
 
BoroMart said:
What can you actually spend £19 on for an afternoons entertainment for your kids? You might get a cinema ticket, but by the time you've bought sweets and drinks it'll be more. Inflation has driven the price of everything up. Is there might an element of the club trying to reduce the number of kids, and get full price paying adults in? If we were at capacity then yes, but we aren't. Unless the club is going all in this summer and thinks the demand for tickets will be high, then everything seems a bit conspiratorial around these price rises.
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You're way off the mark with this one Mart.

I was at the cinema last week, it cost £16 for two adults.

Do you think the burgers, chips and drinks at the Riverside are free for kids?
 
Nero80 said:
My 2 little ones ( 6 and 4 ) keep asking me to take them to a game, but unfortunately i cant pay those prices, when realistically they will be bored within half an hour and ask to go home no doubt. Not a dig at boro’s performances, i mean with there attention span in general. Plus as a poster above mentioned, there is also the food and drinks to buy. I took them to a pre season freindly and this is how it went. I wasnt too annoyed as the tickets were cheap. But now they're too expensive, so how are future fans supposed to be introduced to the match day experience? I think kids, or families in general are getting priced out.
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Give them a taster at a Northern League game, at many clubs will let kids in for free with an adult paying £6 or £7. They'll be able to have a wander about if they get bored, in a safe environment.
 
BoroMart said:
What can you actually spend £19 on for an afternoons entertainment for your kids? You might get a cinema ticket, but by the time you've bought sweets and drinks it'll be more. Inflation has driven the price of everything up. Is there might an element of the club trying to reduce the number of kids, and get full price paying adults in? If we were at capacity then yes, but we aren't. Unless the club is going all in this summer and thinks the demand for tickets will be high, then everything seems a bit conspiratorial around these price rises.
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This might be the dumbest argument I've seen on this site and it includes the 8 dart finish. It is like Boris Johnson trying to guess how much a pint of milk costs.

It costs less than £19 to go to Legoland or Alton Towers. Kids at the cinema are about £5, and so are adults. The whole family costs the same as a single kids ticket at the Riverside. You can take sweets with you if you don't want to pay cinema prices.
 
Corcaigh_the_Cat said:
Give them a taster at a Northern League game, at many clubs will let kids in for free with an adult paying £6 or £7. They'll be able to have a wander about if they get bored, in a safe environment.
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Totally agree, cost £7 for me and £4 for my 17 year old son as a student on Saturday at Redcar Athletic. Including food it came to less than the £19 kids ticket at the Boro. Cracking game too.

The kids pricing at Boro is scandalous.
 
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Geoff_B said:
Well your the one who came on the thread and first post mocking with “they spend that on charging Xbox and mobile phone”… quite clearly is not the case. It’s under 12’s not 12 year olds which is where your targeting that comment.

No, the structure is pathetic and under 12 ticket should be significantly less without passing the cost on, let’s face it there won’t be many people paying £19 a ticket on walk ups for under 12s so revenue lost is going to be next to nothing. Charge them £10-11 and might actually make more money
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I didn’t mock anyone, or anything I added some perspective
 
Nano said:
This might be the dumbest argument I've seen on this site and it includes the 8 dart finish. It is like Boris Johnson trying to guess how much a pint of milk costs.

It costs less than £19 to go to Legoland or Alton Towers. Kids at the cinema are about £5, and so are adults. The whole family costs the same as a single kids ticket at the Riverside. You can take sweets with you if you don't want to pay cinema prices.
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I get it nano, you think anyone with a different from you is dumb, well done 👏
 
18MFC76 said:
What so families end up paying exactly the same?? Great solution.
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In other words it’s not actually about the price of the kids ticket but overall price? Make it make sense, if that’s the case the money has to be brought in somehow, how should we split it? Should adults without kids subsidise other peoples kids?
 
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BoroMart said:
nothing like allowing alternate opinion and treating them with respect is there.

So if its purely the price of kids tickets that's an issue, would you prefer to up the adult prices and lower the kids?
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Do you have a season ticket BoroMart ?
 
BoroMart said:
I didn’t mock anyone, or anything I added some perspective
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The perspective you are trying to add is both factually untrue and ridiculously misplaced though.

Comparing football ticket pricing to anything other than other football team's prices is pointless, especially when comparing it to the cost of electricity prices for charging gadgets. It's just bizarre.

Apart from that, you are stating things that just aren't true. It clearly doesn't cost £19 to charge gadgets in the house. The cost of cinema tickets are not £19 even if you shot in a few treats (and by the way, if we are going like for like, make sure you add in the treats at the match on top of £19 and don't forget the £1.50 service charge).

I'm yet to see a reasonable argument as to why it costs our kids twice as much as the other average Championship fan and 4 times as much as the cheapest clubs. Especially when there is nigh on 5 thousand empty seats at most matches this season and far more than that in typical seasons. Its not like by offering a fairer a child's price Boro are going to lose out on a full paying adult. In fact it's going increase the likelihood of more full paying adults into the stadium.
 
BoroMart said:
In other words it’s not actually about the price of the kids ticket but overall price? Make it make sense, if that’s the case the money has to be brought in somehow, how should we split it? Should adults without kids subsidise other peoples kids?
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I doubt this price increase will lead to much more revenue, if any. Given the backlash, there's a good chance that a drop in volume will negate the increase.

All its done is p1ss off the fans. Once you lose fans, it's hard to win them back. The only way to do that is to perform on the pitch.
 
BoroMart said:
What can you actually spend £19 on for an afternoons entertainment for your kids? You might get a cinema ticket, but by the time you've bought sweets and drinks it'll be more. Inflation has driven the price of everything up. Is there might an element of the club trying to reduce the number of kids, and get full price paying adults in? If we were at capacity then yes, but we aren't. Unless the club is going all in this summer and thinks the demand for tickets will be high, then everything seems a bit conspiratorial around these price rises.
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£19 for a kids cinema ticket and snacks? Which cinema are you going to?

Here’s the showcase cinema prices for this Saturday at 3pm

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