Boro Want Your Help

How about if the outside cafe open at present Thurs to Sat was kept on during home games next season?
What about if concourses were customised like North Stand and behind South Stand, with photos, scarves, memorabilia etc such as in Twe12th Man bar.
What about if there were different food and drink stalls around the outside of the ground like you get at Derby Pride Park.
How about there is a monthly Fanzone with music and a Boro satellite shop.
What about a container with loads of memorabilia - Erimus and others might help. Or a memorabilia swap shop at the ground. Perhaps it would be somewhere to bring your old programmes and fanzines.
- Just a few ideas that come to mind as I am sitting here and typing.
 
I appreciate i am an oldie, but I go to watch Boro play football not to listen to music, pre match entertainment or catch a soundbite from an ex player. I would sooner be in a pleasant ale house for a beer than a stadium pre match. Four things interest me and should likely be central to everyones reason for attending The Riverside (in no particular order of importance):

1. Pricing
2. Standard/Quality of football
3. Results
4. Safety

If the club get those bits right crowds will arrive and atmospheres will be automatically built as sure as night follows day imho. Everything else is a mere bonus. Fans have put up with terrible music, food, beer etc for years and parted with their hard earned money and always will if those 3 things are in place. Concentrate efforts in the right places first, then and only then, look to the fans for some ideas they may like to see.
 
The £335 price is £14.57 per game and thats just for 1 season and I would guess EB renewal price works out @ around £12.20 per game from memory. OK not cheap but for live sport entertainment at quite a high level thats not bad - Try and buy a ticket for decent level theatre production for less than £15. My local smallish theatre its about £22 for OAPs plus booking fees to see second class productions.

Atmosphere at games does enhance the game for me - importance factors to attract me

Winning
Pricing
Safety
Atmosphere during the game
Attractive football
View and comfort

Probably in importance order from top to bottom.
 
The £335 price is £14.57 per game and thats just for 1 season and I would guess EB renewal price works out @ around £12.20 per game from memory. OK not cheap but for live sport entertainment at quite a high level thats not bad - Try and buy a ticket for decent level theatre production for less than £15. My local smallish theatre its about £22 for OAPs plus booking fees to see second class productions.

Atmosphere at games does enhance the game for me - importance factors to attract me

Winning
Pricing
Safety
Atmosphere during the game
Attractive football
View and comfort

Probably in importance order from top to bottom.
Fans rarely buy a season ticket from the off and not all fans can commit to every game It's the ridiculous differential between season ticket prices and walk ups that needs addressing.

Take myself for example, I've followed the Boro since the early 60s, drifted away but go to around 50 live games a season still, just about all are Northern League games.

I've watched most of last season's games and there's not a game I've watched worth paying 30 or so quid for.
 
How about if the outside cafe open at present Thurs to Sat was kept on during home games next season?
What about if concourses were customised like North Stand and behind South Stand, with photos, scarves, memorabilia etc such as in Twe12th Man bar.
What about if there were different food and drink stalls around the outside of the ground like you get at Derby Pride Park.
How about there is a monthly Fanzone with music and a Boro satellite shop.
What about a container with loads of memorabilia - Erimus and others might help. Or a memorabilia swap shop at the ground. Perhaps it would be somewhere to bring your old programmes and fanzines.
- Just a few ideas that come to mind as I am sitting here and typing.
The NW corner concourse has some views near the windows and a few mounted TVs, but it could do with some Boro related stuff like hanging banners/flags, maybe some mounted photos

Ref outside food/drink - The club will be concerned about competition for food and drink with the concourses, although the outside Carlsberg bar in 2019 was an improvement and fans from different parts of the stadium could meet up.

Ref Collectors day I am sure the club could put on occasional collectors days and possibly combine it with a under 23s game at the stadium. There a lot of outside land so offer free parking, outside stalls in good weather, with the option of indoor stalls in one of the bigger rooms in wet/cold weather for collectors. People could book at hospitality box for say £25 to watch a under 23s game. It would also increase people using the clubshop and ticket office. FMTTM could have a stall! I remember one at Ayresome Park in 1981 in the new Sports Hall.
 
Hartlepool season ticket price for next season are £325 , full price adult!
For OAPs @ Pools
£265 National League
£285 if Division 2

Boro's is £335 for 1 more game per season? - facilities and standard of football is 50 to 100%? higher at the Boro.

My ST was free this season or alternatively I got about 25 live games for free this season.

Boro's prices look OK compared with Pools.
 
A team the fans have a connection with, which last happened under Karanka. Success and crowd followed.
Rioch (local), Robson (stars) and McLaren (good teams) did this, each in different ways.

The crowd can pick out the wasters, the no goods and the don't really cares, no matter how much they cost.
Totally agree, effort on the pitch will always lift the Boro crowd. Too many times in the last few years have we trudged away from games and thought 'is that the best we can do', when we know it wasn't or why hasn't he thrown on the kids. I'd rather see a final throw of the dice for 20mins to grab a win or get that win than see games played out. I want to see a big unit going charging in on corners and crosses than the wimps we've had on show. Some pace in midfield and energy wouldn't go amis either.
 
OK so I've said what I think about what I want to see on the pitch. Off it I would like to see, drinks being dispensed not from just behind the bars which are slow but by those mobile dispensers who will re-charge you glass. More varied drinks and food options like you see at food fairs. Tapas, Indian, Tai. Local micro breweries represented. Lower the prices for the youngsters. It is wrong for the club to have empty seats. A fiver spent each on seats for a couple of 10 year olds plus the money on the food etc.
 
Membership cards.. still.

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have weekly payments (renewable annually at xmas)

Endeavour - Home Season Cards £9.99 per week (Endeavour Ultra including away matches £14.99 per week)
Adventure - Away Season Cards £9.99 per week
Discovery - Online Season Cards £3.99 per week
Resolution - Walk up discounts £1.99 per week

Academy Cards - U18s as above, discounted with online training content w/ progress, links to TJFA teams and free entry to Teesside Sporting facilities.

Replica Shirt with custom name and number. (new shirt at xmas)
Letter from the Chairman
Discounts, free gifts, exclusive events
Priority cup tickets
Signed Team Photo
 
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