New Season Tickets on sale for 2024/25
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Diego
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Negative Nigel, must have been up all night about thinking that.
Thanks for the advice. I will do as I please. Surely you can understand the frustration. The time people have to find the money is obviously going to cause unrest, to not acknowledge that just shows you are the biggest wind up merchant going.
Jedi boro
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Be interesting how much notice people had.
Jedi boro
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Nothing negative about people being squeezed to pay for something they can’t afford in three weeks.
Jedi boro
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There is defintately things that the club can do in terms of customer satisfaction. Most football clubs couldnt do much worse. It has always been the same, unfortunately.
But it wouldnt change the financials.
sambaDTR
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Just buy a legal ticket from MFC to watch it in the comfort of you home. It will cost you £10 per game, £230 to watch all home games and saves you all the cost and hassle of getting and sitting in the ground, sometimes in terrible weather.
The Ruthsayer
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That’s not the point. You do see that don’t you?
atypical_boro
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Not so easy if you live in, errr, Middlesbrough.Just buy a legal ticket from MFC to watch it in the comfort of you home. It will cost you £10 per game, £230 to watch all home games and saves you all the cost and hassle of getting and sitting in the ground, sometimes in terrible weather.
Plus, using VPNs to get round it isn't strictly legal is it?
He knows. They will be fully aware what other clubs charge. They don't care. It's not like we are all gonna go up the road to Sunderland is it. It's not like switching from Tesco to Aldi.
He's comfortable being the most expensive
I can't believe how many arguments I've had over the years with people defending the club's ticket pricing. Everyone is coming round to it now. People think because Gibson is a great businessman he knows what he's doing but a lot of the decisions he makes gives the impression he's a bit thick.
One of his reasons for ever increasing prices are because less than 50% of our tickets sold are to full price paying adults. His solution is to charge more instead of wondering why he's priced out working age adults. People aren't going because it's too expensive. Demand from pensioners doesn't really change, their income is fixed and they've typically paid off mortgages. They aren't as sensitive to price rises. Adult demand goes down as prices go up because adults also have to pay for children. Putting an adult ticket up by £30 can be equivalent to a £120 rise of that adult is paying for a family.
Gibson is so out of touch. Add on the **** take that he calls a club shop with no stock, exorbitant prices, shoddy quality and ridiculous delivery fees. The farce with the club badge, kit designs etc shows he's just a penny pincher. He might know how to move liquid around but his commercial/retail acumen appears to be GCSE level.
One of his reasons for ever increasing prices are because less than 50% of our tickets sold are to full price paying adults. His solution is to charge more instead of wondering why he's priced out working age adults. People aren't going because it's too expensive. Demand from pensioners doesn't really change, their income is fixed and they've typically paid off mortgages. They aren't as sensitive to price rises. Adult demand goes down as prices go up because adults also have to pay for children. Putting an adult ticket up by £30 can be equivalent to a £120 rise of that adult is paying for a family.
Gibson is so out of touch. Add on the **** take that he calls a club shop with no stock, exorbitant prices, shoddy quality and ridiculous delivery fees. The farce with the club badge, kit designs etc shows he's just a penny pincher. He might know how to move liquid around but his commercial/retail acumen appears to be GCSE level.
Diego
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Just buy a legal ticket from MFC to watch it in the comfort of you home. It will cost you £10 per game, £230 to watch all home games and saves you all the cost and hassle of getting and sitting in the ground, sometimes in terrible weather.
I’d rather go but I do watch the away games from home
SilentProf
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Seeing the fact I’ll be paying £90 more than I was 3 years ago is a real eye opener. I know a lot of season tickets are subsidised but that’s probably a reflection of just how unaffordable the full priced ones are to a lot of people.
I think we’ll see a lot of people not bothering and moving from the west stand out to other areas as a result of this. When was the last time we increased prices in 3 consecutive seasons?
Agree 100%
dooderooni
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Wow. No wonder the country is in a state. It's bad enough that we are having to pay higher prices for essentials like food and energy while the rich continue to take more of the wealth, but telling people to just like it or lump it about a game of football is so out of touch it's almost laughable. Good for you if you can afford to renew, crack on, but don't think that gives you the right to judge people who are having to consider if giving even more of their shrinking income to a football club is either worth it or justified.
It's a game of football FFS, not an essential.
You get entertained at a concert
Is there one person in authority at MFC who has ever attended any Marketing training? Regardless of whether the ticket prices have gone up - how can any sane person think: "This is a good time to dump an exceptionally early renew request on our supporters?"
Let's think this through:
#1 We've just cashed in one of our 'many options' with another almost certain to follow in days;
#2 We've spectacularly failed to recruit a desperately needed striker and have little prospect of one we do have appearing for us in the near future;
#3 Our Manager has decided to repeatedly play people out of position resulting in a run of frankly abysmal performances and results;
#4 Whilst we're at it, bump the prices;
#5 Don't bother with the usual Guff about War Chests as no-one buys that anyway and we couldn't spend it for about 4 months.
Oh Sod it - The season is almost finished for us so we might as well remind the supporters too and go for it.
Let's think this through:
#1 We've just cashed in one of our 'many options' with another almost certain to follow in days;
#2 We've spectacularly failed to recruit a desperately needed striker and have little prospect of one we do have appearing for us in the near future;
#3 Our Manager has decided to repeatedly play people out of position resulting in a run of frankly abysmal performances and results;
#4 Whilst we're at it, bump the prices;
#5 Don't bother with the usual Guff about War Chests as no-one buys that anyway and we couldn't spend it for about 4 months.
Oh Sod it - The season is almost finished for us so we might as well remind the supporters too and go for it.
Uncle_Albert
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You are quality you, I think if Gibson drove his car into your living room you’d thank him and offer to pay for the damages to his car
parmoboy
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Our junior pricing is a disgrace. Sunderland charged £48 for an U16 season ticket last season.
As much as the GRFZ was a great initiative initially, it doesn't suit a group of teenagers for example, who are wanting to buy season tickets together, as they have to be accompanied by an adult.
A group of four teenagers would have to pay a total of £824 for their tickets at Boro. In comparison, it would have cost four teenagers £192 at Sunderland.
To make it affordable for a group of teenagers wanting to buy season tickets together, we could either introduce an U16 price, or reduce the U18 price massively and then keep the GRFZ open, so that the youngsters don't end up having to pay more and we could charge these prices below:
- £206 for an U22
- £60 for an U18
- Keep the GRFZ open and make it £510 for an adult and an U14
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Uncle_Albert
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No he didn’t. The actual figure he wrote off will be much lower due to tax write offs and all sorts of other financial moves, don’t get me wrong he’s still out of pocket but not to the tune of anywhere near that figure£107 million
Just to pour fuel on the fire is what Gibson “paid” personally extra for his season ticket this year