you talk like going to the football is a god given right or an essential expense in a household, it isn’t. You have my sympathies and empathy you really do but to say some of the comments are straight from 30p Lee isn’t true at all. MFC is a business at the end of the day.Zero empathy and a proper FU to real supporters who can't afford a ST or even walk up prices.
Cardiff last week was £19 for an adult, £10 for U21, and £8 for U16. Seemed very reasonable.
No my point is genuine working class fans are being priced out of seeing the club they love, their club, the club they have followed through good and bad times for years.
It is, and basically always has been.
Seems open to abuse/fraud.
This is the stock response on this board whenever there is a debate about ticket prices and some people try to be pragmatic. I am not defending the club btw, I’m just explaining that football is about generating revenue and if you can’t at least come to terms with that, you’ll never fully enjoy professional sport.
The fans haven’t been priced out, look how many turn up week in week out, most away days sold out. The club needs to maximise its revenue.
This debate has been raging for decades. There will always be a section of society who are priced out. It’s sad, but it’s just the way the world works. People were saying exactly as you’ve written in the 90s, but most people still afford to go, or make sacrifices so that they can. Attendances are broadly similar to the early Robson years.
No, we’re all Boro fans all of the time. I went for years without a ST and paid higher price.
My son has to work some Saturdays and for the Blackburn game I couldn't give his SC away,I even stood outside the ticket office for ten minutes, he's not there tomorrow and I had no problem moving it on .
Was the ground packed ?
Not sure how long it’s been since you’ve been to a game, but the riverside hasn’t had the looking empty problem for quite a lot of years now. Have a look at the season review of the strachen season on YouTube if you want to see a comparison.
It depends on the view point doesn’t it. I’m not a season ticket holder. The club will have increased energy costs over the last year. Are they expected not to pass any of that on?
No, I'm not talking about my own personal circumstances. I chose to move away, gave my ST up in 2003, and an extra £10 or whatever for tickets - in the scheme of things - won't be a massive issue.
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There are, and it is sad. Maybe eventually the working classes will wake up and stop voting for governments who want to screw them over. Maybe then “key workers” will be paid fair salaries etc and can afford to go to football and not eat in food banks etc. I see this as a societal issue not just about football and certainly not just about MFC. MFC are just a football club behaving like a football club, a business behaving like a business.No, I'm not talking about my own personal circumstances. I chose to move away, gave my ST up in 2003, and an extra £10 or whatever for tickets - in the scheme of things - won't be a massive issue.
But there a plenty of people out there who are local, a lot worse off than me who simply can't afford to go.....so increasing prices is not really an incentive to get these people to fill the ground is it?
And yes, this debate has raged for years and agree there is no easy answer - cheap tickets v maximising revenue
It's now around the 32k mark.
But there are 5-6k empty seats, so how does the club maximise revenue by hiking pricing and making fans who can't afford a ST pay a massive amount more than those who can?
£20 last season......£5 for kids!!