Early Bird Season Tickets on sale

Emailed the ticket office for advice on tickets for family zone - They replied telling me to ring the ticket office to be placed on a waiting list.

1 hour 35mins in queue to be told that I need to buy 2 tickets elsewhere first to be placed on a moving list - If there is any availability then I would be refunded the difference in price - If no availability then tough sht really.. What a farce of a club
So the Family Zone is sold out for season cards too? So that's the South and GRFZ. Any newbies are going to have to pick their spot carefully. I would expect the North and East Stands to see a chunk of new season card holders. Folk will take the gamble on promotion I think and want to lock in their seats for Premier League football. I can see the logic for the club - mood is good, nearly all home tickets being sold for league games. People will think they might as well go for it.
 
So the Family Zone is sold out for season cards too? So that's the South and GRFZ. Any newbies are going to have to pick their spot carefully. I would expect the North and East Stands to see a chunk of new season card holders. Folk will take the gamble on promotion I think and want to lock in their seats for Premier League football. I can see the logic for the club - mood is good, nearly all home tickets being sold for league games. People will think they might as well go for it.

Aye, waiting list for those who don't renew/move their seats.

Doubt I'm the only one in Teesside as well who is a bit hesitant paying over £200 for a 3 or 4 year old who won't be attending mid week or night games.
 
Aye, waiting list for those who don't renew/move their seats.

Doubt I'm the only one in Teesside as well who is a bit hesitant paying over £200 for a 3 or 4 year old who won't be attending mid week or night games.
I absolutely sympathise.

Agree I’d be wary in your situation too about paying upfront, as I’d be very surprised if any became available because it’s such incredible value.
 
Just looked back at texts i sent my brother last summer after early bird GRFZ went from 491 (eb renewal) to 629 (new supporter) for 1 adult and 1 U18.

North Stand went upto £560 from £513 (new customer early bird price) when season cards went back on sale in June
 
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I really don't understand the club's logic with these early bird new applicant prices. I say it every year but it's almost as if they don't want new Season ticket holders. Just charge the same as someone renewing! There will be a lot of people considering season tickets who see that and just think no I'll not bother.
I’m in this category. I work shifts so 100% can’t make every game, so a season ticket before fixtures announced is already a gamble. To pay an extra £60 on top of that would just be madness.
 
Charging fans more as a PL team sounds sensible but if anything they should charge less. Guaranteed TV income of £100m makes increasing costs to fans nothing more than profiteering.

We have 32k seats, across 19 games that is 608k seats.

Plenty of assumptions but my maths tells me we will make about £8m from season tickets at 18k sales. If we sold 32k we'd make £14m, basically about £450k for every 1k season tickets (based on 63% of our tickets being adults, 19% OAP, 18% U18 and an average ticket price of £23 based on the number of seats in each area of the stadium). We could put our prices up to £30 average and it would only be an extra £5m if every ticket is sold. It's nothing compared to the extra £100m.
This is one of the points I made earlier.
The ticket money is peanuts if we go up. It is a crucial element of the revenue mix if we don't.

The EB encourages/bullies supporters into committing to a season, without knowing what they are getting.
Because of Carrick and the players' excellence of late, they have a serious chance of promotion this season. The club have chosen to significantly exploit their position.
They may coax more SC holders as a result for next season whatever the status, but if we don't go up then they will have suppressed crowds with ridiculous walk up prices next season.

Players usually have relegation clauses in their contracts, yet fans don't.
How about a partial refund on the EB prices if we don't go up, and then walk ups and new SC's are not so constrained next season by PL level pricing. Alternatively the club could hold such a refund on account to offset a SC when the club is next relegated. They have the capability to do this as shown through Covid.

Additionally I do hope Bausor is being challenged on non ticketing revenues. The revenue generated through Sponsorship, Commercial and Merchandising is pitiful by comparison to other clubs.

atypical is right in saying that Gibson is hardly profiteering given he has only ever twice made a profit in any season since taking control of the club. He is minimising the future loss he is prepared to cover through his Group.
Charging fans high prices will not touch the losses Gibson's mis-management of the club created. Oh and atypical, those losses were much bigger post 2006 than 96-06.
The club lost £73m in the 10.5 years to Dec 2006. They lost £96m in the 10 years thereafter and £60m in the 7 years since 2016.
Having paid to watch utter tripe since 2006, I don't much feel like paying more to watch us now to cover those losses.

I will buy again because I am hooked, not by Gibson, but my club and what the whole ritual means to me.
 
We’re coming up to Teesside to visit my parents in March and wanted to take them to a Boro match. Around £120 for four tickets. I couldn’t give a rat’s ponytail what others are going, £120 for four people to watch Boro in the second division is absolutely mental.

Ticket prices across the board are a disgrace. Just because every other club is ripping their fans doesn’t mean you can’t call your own club out on it. It’s disgusting.

And all these early bird season tickets they’re selling, what about the rearranging games at short notice? They want your money five months in advance but are quite happy to inconvenience people whenever Sky TV comes a calling.
 
£150 cheaper for me now im a pensioner
Agreed but pensioners tickets are a lot cheaper at some other clubs and I am sure they were at Boro years ago.

One thing I dont like is the massive hike from U18 to 18-21. Using East stand as example as thats were my neices son sits with us. He has just turned 18. He is at college and was last year but prices have gone up from £186 to £335 a huge hike when he is still at same college with no differing circumstances since last year.
 
Ticket prices across the board are a disgrace. Just because every other club is ripping their fans doesn’t mean you can’t call your own club out on it. It’s disgusting.

And all these early bird season tickets they’re selling, what about the rearranging games at short notice? They want your money five months in advance but are quite happy to inconvenience people whenever Sky TV comes a calling.
exactly this, going to football is now a luxury that most can’t afford unfortunately
 
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But you knew there was a ticket price increase coming and on a thread talking about it, where people were accusing another member of MSF of lying, you played dumb..
Robs already explained why he’s done this… Not sure what benefit anyone gets from posting this.
 
Emailed the ticket office for advice on tickets for family zone - They replied telling me to ring the ticket office to be placed on a waiting list.

1 hour 35mins in queue to be told that I need to buy 2 tickets elsewhere first to be placed on a moving list - If there is any availability then I would be refunded the difference in price - If no availability then tough sht really.. What a farce of a club
I posted at the weekend about managing to get tickets in GRFZ for the Reading game for me and my two boys, which will be their first match as we've just moved up from Berkshire. I had been thinking, if they enjoy it, about trying for season tickets for next season but, if there's nothing available in the family zone then it looks like the cheapest tickets for the three of us would cost £966 (against £625 in GRFZ), which is unfortunately beyond my means.
 
Don’t think MFC safeguarding policy allows unaccompanied 13 year olds, although I’m not sure how they check for it. And our cut off at 14 is lower than some. I’ve seen 16 stated at some of the away grounds we’ve been to recently. Pretty sure Cardiff was.
Fair enough. Yeah, it must be difficult to monitor it. I wonder whether stewards have been told to look out for young fans in groups, and challenge them at the turnstiles if there is no adult with them.

As I said earlier, I wish the club would trial categorising the junior pricing. £187 for u18's, £100 for u16's and £50 for u14's. This way, it would still be affordable for a parent to buy season tickets for themselves and their child, and also affordable for a group of 14/15 year olds to buy season tickets together.

I'd imagine the club probably feels having the family zone makes it easier to ensure u14's aren't attending the games without being accompanied by an adult though.
 
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