Red Faction - Ticket Price Statement

[Jonny_Rondos_Disco_pants]

The club had a plan to reduce energy costs with the wind turbine that never happened. Have they looked at installing solar panels on the Riverside roof to produce our own energy?

 

[CaptainsArmband04]

There was a waiting list for season tickets and queues round the block for the new kit in the early Robbo years.


Were the working class of Boro just particularly minted in the mid 90s

Everyone was minted in the mid 90s

 

[Davey_C]

With regards to season cards I don't think we've been shafted too much over the years (North Stand)

We all know walk-up prices have always been issue for many years

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[Humpty]

Red Faction - whoever they are don’t speak for the club's fans’. They are a self appointed self regulated self serving group with a drum. I will await the club’s statement to its entire fan base before making comment. Getting a bit sick of RF flexing their muscles.

How terrible that a supporters group is standing up for….other supporters. Take the chip off your shoulder.

 

[JM14]

There was a waiting list for season tickets and queues round the block for the new kit in the early Robbo years.


Were the working class of Boro just particularly minted in the mid 90s

Yes nothing has changed economically since the late 90s….

 

[Quicksilvera]

Maybe we should just slash operating costs as much as possible, charge everyone a fiver.

I can’t wait until the big Blythe Spartans game

 

[Chappy112]

Some proper Tory mentalities on this thread.

4th highest attendances and most expensive tickets yet some think we need to up the prices to compete or we will end up in League One

 

[Humpty]

What is RF’s statement in response to? Has there been any sound bites from the club/gazette etc about tickets actually going up, I can’t see anything?

It appears the club discussed it with the MSF a few weeks back. Wasn’t minuted in the latest set of minutes though…

 

[Alexander Supertramp]

But our competitors don’t charge the same price so why do we?

If a restaurant/cinema/flights/hotels had huge numbers of empty seats every time they opened would they not review their pricing to get more people in?

I think we’re generally at about 80% capacity at the riverside these days, so the pricing structure works.


I remember the dark days under Strachan and co with regular 16,000 attendances and much cheaper prices. I couldn’t give my season ticket away when I went on holiday.

We now get around 25,000 every match, so I think the issue is generally the product not the price.

It’s amazing how many “working class fans” can suddenly afford a football match when we get to a final or had a uefa cup run

 

[Facefuzz]

It can happen.
We just choose to support these systems so it doesn’t happen Roman can stick his yacht anyway

He can mate. He can stick it where sheff united can stick Chrissy wilder.
My point was that everybody can’t have everything. I’d say your supporting a society where everybody gets everything.
That’s not how life works unfortunately.
Be great if we all got everything we wanted, but we cant

 

[Quicksilvera]

Some proper Tory mentalities on this thread.

4th highest attendances and most expensive tickets yet some think we need to up the prices to compete or we will end up in League One

I’m the furthest thing from a Tory, football is a nicety not an essential and a multi million pound business to boot, people just expect it to be cheap because the people involved in it are millionaires.

 

[Wiseman_Vaughn]

Everyone was minted in the mid 90s

Hahaha. It felt that way. Thanks Tony B!!!

 

[Davey_C]

I think we’re generally at about 80% capacity at the riverside these days, so the pricing structure works.


I remember the dark days under Strachan and co with regular 16,000 attendances and much cheaper prices. I couldn’t give my season ticket away when I went on holiday.

We now get around 25,000 every match, so I think the issue is generally the product not the price.

It’s amazing how many “working class fans” can suddenly afford a football match when we get to a final or had a uefa cup run

20k of the 25k are season card holders though

 

[Quicksilvera]

20k of the 25k are season card holders though

That’s positive.

 

[Corco65]

Some proper Tory mentalities on this thread.

4th highest attendances and most expensive tickets yet some think we need to up the prices to compete or we will end up in League One

It doesnt matter if he have the highest prices and the 4th highest attendances, My question is, who do people think should be paying for it as it doesn't pay for itself?

 

[Alexander Supertramp]

Without those 20,000 season ticket holders the club wouldn’t be able to budget for the upcoming season.

 

[Quicksilvera]

It doesnt matter if he have the highest prices and the 4th highest attendances, My question is, who do people think should be paying for it as it doesn't pay for itself?

We just need to lower wages, transfer fees, we don’t need a tea lady either.

 

[Air Resistance]

Another point I find interesting/depressing is that FFP rules effectively incentivises higher tickets prices when it could be used to do the opposite.

There’s a reason why even the big clubs in the premier league only really want to build stadia that hold maximum of 60k - because the demand drives up what they can charge (profit) without having to incur the addition costs of construction/maintenance etc… Spurs were averaging nearly 20k more a match at Wembley than their new stadium.

 

[JM14]

I think we’re generally at about 80% capacity at the riverside these days, so the pricing structure works.


I remember the dark days under Strachan and co with regular 16,000 attendances and much cheaper prices. I couldn’t give my season ticket away when I went on holiday.

We now get around 25,000 every match, so I think the issue is generally the product not the price.

It’s amazing how many “working class fans” can suddenly afford a football match when we get to a final or had a uefa cup run

Not sure 8k empty seats every week when the clubs doing the best it has in years suggests the pricing structure works

We haven’t been to a final or had a uefa cup run in almost 20 years so not sure that argument is valid. But of course fans want to go to bigger games, but there is a big difference in paying for a one off game over paying 35 quid to go a few times every year

 

[JM14]

We just need to lower wages, transfer fees, we don’t need a tea lady either.

How do other clubs including some premier league clubs compete with lower ticket prices than ours?

I’ve been to loads of games across Europe and probably 90% of the time paid less for a walk up ticket than at Boro. Amazing how all of these clubs manage to compete with reasonable ticket prices but if we offered the same prices we would suddenly be playing in the same league as Blyth