Red Faction - Ticket Price Statement

h_m_boro said:
What happens when outgoings exceed incomings? Loyal fans who have been going for years, who through no fault of their own, now can't afford it so can do one. You do realise household bills, mortgages have rocked over the last 12-18 months?
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What does that have to do with the price of boro tickets? Does Steve Gibson subsidise even more because Tel from acklams mortgage has gone up? It’s not a charity.
 
Alexander Supertramp said:
It’s not tosh at all, it’s called living within your means. Prioritising expenditure. Budgeting. Saving.
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But only for walk ups? Season tickets paying £19 and getting a pint is fine? Season ticket holders are clearly supreme budgetters, and obviously better fans so should be jumping at the chance to be funding the club more. £25 per game seems reasonable. Why would anyone complain about that price?
 
£19.56 a game with a free £4.50 pint if youre lucky enough to qualify for one is far more appealing than £31 match by match but thats the price you pay to pick and choose your games (yes everyones circumstances are different)

I understand not everyone can have this offer/afford this option but its even better if you take an U18 with you at £1.78 a game

Youre commiting to 23 visits to the Riverside in all weathers and sometimes when the team is in a right cack run of form, but youre in it for the long haul if 'its in the blood'
 
h_m_boro said:
What happens when outgoings exceed incomings? Loyal fans who have been going for years, who through no fault of their own, now can't afford it so can do one. You do realise household bills, mortgages have rocked over the last 12-18 months?
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Well obviously Sir Steve Gibson should keep subsidising our footballing enjoyment, whilst also throwing tens of millions at players in fees and wages in the hope of promotion.

Because Sir Steve and MFC aren’t affected by such trivial things as interest rate rises etc, obviously.
 
Alexander Supertramp said:
Well obviously Sir Steve Gibson should keep subsidising our footballing enjoyment, whilst also throwing tens of millions at players in fees and wages in the hope of promotion.

Because Sir Steve and MFC aren’t affected by such trivial things as interest rate rises etc, obviously.
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All I can say is, genuinely, I hope you never find yourself in a financial position where you cannot afford a ST or rarely afford to go to a game.

The lack of empathy towards people not being able to afford to go to a game is poor.
 
h_m_boro said:
All I can say is, genuinely, I hope you never find yourself in a financial position where you cannot afford a ST or rarely afford to go to a game.

The lack of empathy towards people not being able to afford to go to a game is poor.
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Nobody is saying they don’t have empathy for those less fortunate because I most definitely do. You just can’t expect to pay less because you can’t afford it that’s not how it works.
 
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Nano said:
But only for walk ups? Season tickets paying £19 and getting a pint is fine? Season ticket holders are clearly supreme budgetters, and obviously better fans so should be jumping at the chance to be funding the club more. £25 per game seems reasonable. Why would anyone complain about that price?
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Think they stopped the free pint a few years back, so it’s only renewals who still get it.


The club have to massively incentivise season tickets, as it’s guaranteed money in the bank.

Imagine if it was only a few quid more to just go game by game compared to STs… they’d have about 5k renewals. Now, we’ve lost 5 on the bounce… attendance next game? 7,895
 
h_m_boro said:
All I can say is, genuinely, I hope you never find yourself in a financial position where you cannot afford a ST or rarely afford to go to a game.

The lack of empathy towards people not being able to afford to go to a game is poor.
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See my previous posts. I went to 3-4 games a season as a kid. It was a massive treat.
 
Alexander Supertramp said:
Well obviously Sir Steve Gibson should keep subsidising our footballing enjoyment, whilst also throwing tens of millions at players in fees and wages in the hope of promotion.

Because Sir Steve and MFC aren’t affected by such trivial things as interest rate rises etc, obviously.
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No one’s claiming it should be charity but some business sense should come into it, charging more for any product than the majority of your competitors in an area with the worst financial issues in the entire country inevitably means the take up will be lower and that’s what’s happening with us. We have thousands of empty seats in the ground which we would likely sell if it was actually affordable. Supporters who would come back year after year, spend money in the ground/shop etc

No one has been able to justify why we already charge more than most clubs in the league
 
AcklamAngel said:
I beg to differ, I only paid £450 for this season in the North Stand.
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£520 for new customers, and that’s the lowest price in the ground as well.

That’s another thing the club have got massively wrong, we should do everything to attract new season ticket holders, not charge them more than existing customers
 
JM14 said:
No one’s claiming it should be charity but some business sense should come into it, charging more for any product than the majority of your competitors in an area with the worst financial issues in the entire country inevitably means the take up will be lower and that’s what’s happening with us. We have thousands of empty seats in the ground which we would likely sell if it was actually affordable. Supporters who would come back year after year, spend money in the ground/shop etc

No one has been able to justify why we already charge more than most clubs in the league
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Absolute tosh, we are having our biggest crowds for years on a regular basis, as for justifying it nobody can because nobody knows why they charge what they charge unless you work for MFC and have input in charging structure.
 
JM14 said:
No one has been able to justify why we already charge more than most clubs in the league
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Because we’re already at 80%, so there’s no business sense to reducing prices. We can’t accommodate any more. I imagine most revenue comes from food and drink on top of the ticket cost, and we’re definitely at capacity from that POV
 
Alexander Supertramp said:
Because we’re already at 80%, so there’s no business sense to reducing prices. We can’t accommodate any more. I imagine most revenue comes from food and drink on top of the ticket cost, and we’re definitely at capacity from that POV
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We’re at 80% and we can’t accommodate any more?
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Sexpom said:
Absolute tosh, we are having our biggest crowds for years on a regular basis, as for justifying it nobody can because nobody knows why they charge what they charge unless you work for MFC and have input in charging structure.
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Yet still playing in front of thousands of empty seats despite being on the best run in years. It’s a real shame that we won’t sell out these last few home games

There’s no justification for it, other clubs compete just fine without ripping off their supporters
 
Alexander Supertramp said:
Think they stopped the free pint a few years back, so it’s only renewals who still get it.


The club have to massively incentivise season tickets, as it’s guaranteed money in the bank.

Imagine if it was only a few quid more to just go game by game compared to STs… they’d have about 5k renewals. Now, we’ve lost 5 on the bounce… attendance next game? 7,895
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Say the club do put up the price £2 per game and 100 people who normally pay £30 per game decide they can't afford to pay £32 and stop going. Instead of the club gaining £200 per home game, they lose £3,000.
 
Sexpom said:
Absolute tosh, we are having our biggest crowds for years on a regular basis, as for justifying it nobody can because nobody knows why they charge what they charge.
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We're having our biggest crowds because we came out of lockdown at the start of last season, many of the season tickets were rolled over and we then had a relatively successful time.

Do not kid yourself and pretend we would have 20,000+ season tickets this year if we'd finished 22nd last season.

People will always scrimp and save for something if they think it's good, even if it's too expensive.

It doesn't mean the price is justified in the first place.
 
Just had a look at twickets

Marti Pellow £78
Dream Theater £101
Rick wakeman £98
Chris Brown £171
The Damned £49
Killing Joke £65
Panic at the disco £65
Michael Bublé £79
Lizzo £86
Arctic Monkeys £118
Beyonce £433
Courteeners £63
The Strokes £91

Two things immediately occur to me.
1. What am I doing sitting here typing this **** when I could be buying tickets to see Marti Pellow.
2. The rest of life is so expensive now going to a football match actually seems like decent value.
 
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