Red Faction - Ticket Price Statement

18MFC76 said:
I'll leave the running of the club to the chairman etc. Like anything in life, there becomes a point where you can't charge any more before it becomes ridiculous. We're already at that stage with our walk up prices. The club are in a very good place at the minute. Some excellent recruitment of late. Forss, Archer, Lenihan etc. Sadly that hasn't always been the case and that's one of the reasons our finances aren't in a good place. Assombalonga 15million and a huge 40k a week for example. It's not fair to expect the fans to pick up the pieces for these mistakes.
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It’s not expensive if you get a seasons ticket, I know people live away and that but I think I pay £19 a match or something like that.
 
Sexpom said:
It’s not expensive if you get a seasons ticket, I know people live away and that but I think I pay £19 a match or something like that.
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Fair enough putting your money up front and getting a ST, but £19 for a ST and £31 for a walk-up is a pretty decent hike.
 
Sexpom said:
Who’s this minority? What’s the walk up price currently? If they are paying £30-£35 I doubt a £1-2 increase is going to hit them that much harder and will benefit MFC.
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Not everyone can afford the outlay for a season ticket and have to pay walk up prices.

Edit: At this moment in time with price increases on everything, £1 or £2 could be what stops them from going.
 
Norman_Conquest said:
So you are happy that the club price a minority from attending? :oops:
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When people are using food banks, the club will always price a minority out of attending unless they give tickets away for free.

Even if they give tickets away for free, the worst off will sell them to any exploitative*****" who offers them a fiver for it.

I'm not happy about that, but its frivolous to look to a football club to solve society's inequalities. Look to your MP for that, not your football team.
 
Norman_Conquest said:
Not everyone can afford the outlay for a season ticket and have to pay walk up prices.
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That’s why I said above save up for a season with what you would have paid walk up prices for and get into a cycle so you can have a season ticket. There are also finance options.
 
18MFC76 said:
I'll leave the running of the club to the chairman etc. Like anything in life, there becomes a point where you can't charge any more before it becomes ridiculous. We're already at that stage with our walk up prices. The club are in a very good place at the minute. Some excellent recruitment of late. Forss, Archer, Lenihan etc. Sadly that hasn't always been the case and that's one of the reasons our finances aren't in a good place. Assombalonga 15million and a huge 40k a week for example. It's not fair to expect the fans to pick up the pieces for these mistakes.
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The chairman in is running of the club and its seems wants to put up prices. All clubs are faced with this conundrum. Without SG underwriting or loaning the club money we wouldn't exists. All purchases, loans are a gamble, people expect new players to arrive and be paid for, loads of people were demanding we spend the 25 million or so we recieved in sales a few moths ago. Every club will have success and failures in the transfer market? How should it be decided who we buy and for how much? If they are a failure should we lower prices as people shouldn't have to contribute to someone's decision? If they are a success should we charge more so people pay their share to watch the success of someone's else's decision.

Whether we like it or not, football is a business, not a charity or public service and we should not expect someone else to pay for it, people will decide what their priorities are. There are numerous posts about our away support, that won't be cheap but people are choosing to go. We should only ever expect to live within the means of the club, if we expect more then what those means can achieve, we have to be prepared to pay more, rather than expects someone else to.
 
It seems we want Gibbo to outspend all our rivals on transfers, whilst at the same time making tickets “affordable for all”


Should we ask the same of cinemas? “A fiver is plenty” campaign?
 
Sexpom said:
That’s why I said above save up for a season with what you would have paid walk up prices for and get into a cycle so you can have a season ticket. There are also finance options.
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I can afford a season ticket and wouldn't be impacted by the increase, it is others with young families and those on tight budgets that I am concerned about.
 
Corco65 said:
The chairman in is running of the club and its seems wants to put up prices. All clubs are faced with this conundrum. Without SG underwriting or loaning the club money we wouldn't exists. All purchases, loans are a gamble, people expect new players to arrive and be paid for, loads of people were demanding we spend the 25 million or so we recieved in sales a few moths ago. Every club will have success and failures in the transfer market? How should it be decided who we buy and for how much? If they are a failure should we lower prices as people shouldn't have to contribute to someone's decision? If they are a success should we charge more so people pay their share to watch the success of someone's else's decision.

Whether we like it or not, football is a business, not a charity or public service and we should not expect someone else to pay for it, people will decide what their priorities are. There are numerous posts about our away support, that won't be cheap but people are choosing to go. We should only ever expect to live within the means of the club, if we expect more then what those means can achieve, we have to be prepared to pay more, rather than expects someone else to.
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Spot on.
 
Jan_Aage_Fjortoft said:
I don’t think that’s a valid argument. We often spent amongst the most in the league. But we don’t need to. The problem is the money is often spent badly. Plenty of other clubs compete on a more limited budget.

Gibson should have been asking for a number of years why it’s wasted. And that often comes down to him with who he employs in roles at the club.

If the club wasn’t so wasteful with its funds then you wouldn’t need to have him dipping into his pockets all the time. Or a justification for such high ticket prices.
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I have to disagree, most clubs run at a loss, there is no magic formula, running a football club is a very complex bussiness, I'm not in favour of people paying high prices by the way, I just believe people can't have it all ways, we need more revenue just to survive never mind progress, who are people expecting to pay for it.
 
Norman_Conquest said:
I can afford a season ticket and wouldn't be impacted by the increase, it is others with young families and those on tight budgets that I am concerned about.
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As stated though MFC is a business and not a charity, if you really want to go then sacrifices need to be made. We have all been there before, I want MFC to be competitive and would gladly pay more if needs be. If you can’t afford it then you don’t go, it really is that simple.
 
Norman_Conquest said:
I can afford a season ticket and wouldn't be impacted by the increase, it is others with young families and those on tight budgets that I am concerned about.
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Well, you go to a couple of matches a season as a treat. Go to however many you can afford or budget for. It’s not a god given right for anyone to go to dozens of championship level football matches a year.


Should holidays be cheaper so everyone can get their annual trip to Barbados every winter?
 
Sexpom said:
The we are the poorest doesn’t wash, people always turn up, you can’t afford it then you don’t go, it’s the sport and entertainment industry and not a life essential even though it may feel like it.
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The clubs pricing structure mainly prices younger people out of attending, long term they are loosing core supporters 20/30 years into the future who likely won’t come back

Lowering prices by £5/10 won’t make much difference to the club but could make the difference between a supporter being able to attend or not
 
Norman_Conquest said:
I can afford a season ticket and wouldn't be impacted by the increase, it is others with young families and those on tight budgets that I am concerned about.
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Unfortunately that's the same with all things in life, houses, cars, types of food, socialising etc. Watching our club needs to be paid for, when the people who want to go, don't want or can't to pay the actual cost of running of the club, who do we think should pay? Perhaps we have a scheme where fans who can afford more should pay more and this will help subsidise those that can't to attend.
 
JM14 said:
The clubs pricing structure mainly prices younger people out of attending, long term they are loosing core supporters 20/30 years into the future who likely won’t come back

Lowering prices by £5/10 won’t make much difference to the club but could make the difference between a supporter being able to attend or not
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I sit in the south stand, it’s full of young supporters, watching boro essentially is a hobby so if you really want to go then you will. People think they have a born right to cheap football.
 
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