Anton_Berg
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Doesn't it also infer that we spend more on other clubs than we get back?
Best away support in the Championship?
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Why is coming to Middlesbrough not an attractive proposition - apart from price? Surely being a tourist destination hardly comes in to it for most awayday football travellers. Distance has a lot to do with it of course but we do that every away game.
(PS Swansea had covid. That was the reason for late ticketing - but it was never going to sell out - it was just that we couldn't say that - just in case).
TeaCider
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Probably not, but we'd have leapfrogged Forest if we'd sold 3/4s of the allocation, rather than 1/3rd.
The tickets only went on sale a week before the matchday.
We travel 3 hours more than sheff utd and 4 hours more than forest every game almost Both ways)
Not bad when you think most of forests games are around or under 4 hours return.
When you factor in early kick offs at Cardiff and reading plus midweek games to qpr Luton and brum then we really have done well. Fantastic support.
It’s not just the numbers either. A lot of fans have commented how vocal we are.
As posted above, and I say it regularly, all north east clubs are very well supported from the barcodes right down to South Shields and lower.
North east fans are the best in the land
Not bad when you think most of forests games are around or under 4 hours return.
When you factor in early kick offs at Cardiff and reading plus midweek games to qpr Luton and brum then we really have done well. Fantastic support.
It’s not just the numbers either. A lot of fans have commented how vocal we are.
As posted above, and I say it regularly, all north east clubs are very well supported from the barcodes right down to South Shields and lower.
North east fans are the best in the land
NorthumberlandBoro
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It's hard for away fans to travel to Boro, but easy for Boro fans doing the reverse trip.
Mostly for the reasons I listed. Expensive, far away, cold etc. As an away fan if you ranked all the grounds to visit in a season then ours must be somewhere near the bottom. For Northern clubs we're probably not too unattractive but for Southern clubs we might as well be on the moon. I'm sure there are many Boro fans that think similarly when they weigh up going to Cardiff, Swansea or Bournemouth especially if it's midweek. I reckon far more people would look at Bournemouth and Cardiff and think about making a weekend out of it. Other places like London clubs, Blackpool, teams near Manchester etc would benefit similarly.
NorthumberlandBoro
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Middlesbrough 'not a tourist destination'.
Have you not been to the the Northern quarter?
Have you not been to the the Northern quarter?
TeaCider
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You try to bring this up every time away support is mentioned and rightly get shot down every time.
Every single club will have fans in other parts of the country.
I know 3 Coventry fans who live on Teesside.
Redwurzel
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Not many @ Fulham because the MSSers mainly buy general sale tickets and very few went on general sale.
It was different at QPR when it could have been 500 South based fans.
Ref Swansea only 12 tickets went on general sale which was a disgrace, I noticed the original Boro tickets were sold to Swansea fans.
TeaCider
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NorthumberlandBoro
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NorthumberlandBoro
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Same for Sheffield utd, Forest, etc etc!
The ratio would be much smaller. Places with poor economies like Teesside will have far more people moving from Teesside to other, particularly metro areas, than vice versa. Other similar sized clubs like Blackburn, Sheffield, WBA etc will have more people living locally because even if their immediate area isn't full of jobs they are close to Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham etc. Teessiders are more likely to have to move away for work/university.
And like you've demonstrated by adding a further factor into the equasion of ticket prices its not a simple subject.
With regards to ticket prices though, if we charged a fiver less do you think that would have much effect on away fan numbers at The Riverside?
BlindBoyGrunt
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Coventry have the shortest distance to travel this season in the Championship, followed by Derby. Middlesbrough have the furthest. Derby have roughly 10 trips which are closer than our closest game this season.
Possibly, but not significantly. It's just another reason not to go when fans will be justifying it to themselves. I'd say mentally £30 seems much more than £25 so it's hard to gauge. I know personally when I hear we've got £20 tickets for Preston it grabs a bit of attention. I know we can't offer £20 tickets to away fans without giving home fans the same but even if the price of the whole day isn't much different just the ticket price makes it feel like a bargain and a worthwhile trip.
Redwurzel
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Away fans sometimes stay @ York and make a weekend of a trip to the Boro. Its basically on the way from the South/Midlands.
Ref Away support for the Boro - it made me a little emotional when I read posts from opposition fans writing about our away support at their ground with such comments as "best away support at Peterboro since 1982". They were talking about quantity and quality.
Ref Away support for the Boro - it made me a little emotional when I read posts from opposition fans writing about our away support at their ground with such comments as "best away support at Peterboro since 1982". They were talking about quantity and quality.