Middlesbrough Tickets (9 Viewers)

Ashdown · Aug 8, 2023

bigfatronssba said:
If they paid £33 for it last season, why would they not pay £37 this season? Is £4 really that much of a difference?

I think if you’re living on such a tight budget that £4 is a lot then you shouldn’t be wasting money on football tickets at all

It’s not just the £4 though is it, it’s when does this inflationary nonsense stop and about what really represents value for money. Many people will stick yet more unaffordable ticket prices on top of accrued debt on credit cards.
Everyone is very excited about it all, start of the season, lots of new signings, marketing pumping it out…..paying that much however to then find the product is not as expected will leave a terrible taste in people’s mouths if it all went wrong pitchside. Pressures on !!

Ashdown · Aug 8, 2023

hamertime said:
If we want premier league football it has to be paid for, Doug has to squeeze every penny he can out of us. Thats the cold hard truth.

You mean squeeze every penny out of everyone else don’t you….what you paying £20 a game tops ?

hamertime · Aug 8, 2023

Ashdown said:
You mean squeeze every penny out of everyone else don’t you….what you paying £20 a game tops ?

What you paying, you show me yours I’ll show you mine.

SlowerThanPlatt · Aug 8, 2023

hamertime said:
If we want premier league football it has to be paid for, Doug has to squeeze every penny he can out of us. Thats the cold hard truth.

I’m afraid chasing the Premier League dream almost always ends up in tears unless you have a rich owner who wants nothing in return - which isn’t Doug’s idea of owning a football club

Chris1987 · Aug 8, 2023

pusbccfc said:
I will be amazed if the crowd for Sunderland, particularly from the home end, is similar to the Boro match. Are people really going to pay £37 for a ticket?

£37 is a disgrace and I'm shocked how few are criticising it. We'll be hit with the same prices at Wednesday and Leeds.

Sunderland fans will probably sell out but it would be a clear message if they boycotted for once.

Already paid it. I was expecting something like this for Cat A games. Look at Sheff Wed pricing for comparison

Old Warwickshire lad · Aug 8, 2023

Ashdown said:
You mean squeeze every penny out of everyone else don’t you….what you paying £20 a game tops ?

Stop knocking season ticket holders. Put £10 a week away and buy one next season.

CovInEssex · Aug 8, 2023

pusbccfc said:
Won't be easy to say this when we are paying £35+ everywhere away from home.

If Stoke charged us £37, there's no way we'd sell out.

We would lol

rob9872 · Aug 8, 2023

Warwickshire lad said:
Stop knocking season ticket holders. Put £10 a week away and buy one next season.

I do. We have 3 to pay for. If you don't travel away you won't get it, but these increases are a huge commitment. If all teams capped away costs it would still be a level playing field.

Sky Blue Pete · Aug 8, 2023

How’s it selling

Legia Sky Blue · Aug 8, 2023

pusbccfc said:
Won't be easy to say this when we are paying £35+ everywhere away from home.

If Stoke charged us £37, there's no way we'd sell out.

The Stoke thing would depend entirely on how we were playing, same as West Brom at our place last season.

Sky_Blue_Dreamer · Aug 8, 2023

I'm going to the Sunderland game because I'm not working but did think twice about it. Had it been category B or C price I'd be looking at going to another game relatively quickly. Now I probably won't be going until Xmas/New Year. If a match package was available I'd have bought one.

So overall the club have probably ended up losing a bit of income as I'll be attending the one game rather than two.

Sky Blue Pete · Aug 8, 2023

Not many selling today

Old Warwickshire lad · Aug 8, 2023

rob9872 said:
I do. We have 3 to pay for. If you don't travel away you won't get it, but these increases are a huge commitment. If all teams capped away costs it would still be a level playing field.

Because of the cost I now have to pick and choose away days as I have 4 grandkids to take.

Sky_Blue_Dreamer · Aug 8, 2023

Londonccfcfan said:
When do we get these replacement tickets?

BREAKING NEWS:

Due to delays, replacement tickets for ST holders will not now be ready on time and ST holders are being asked to collect their tickets from the ticket office at the stadium on matchday.

*Tickets may not be ready for collection on gameday and ST holders may be asked to use POTG turnstiles.

Just for clarity, I am making this shit up. Don't want some of the people reading the forum getting worked up like they did over having to supposedly print out colour tickets.

Kingokings204 · Aug 8, 2023

Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:
BREAKING NEWS:

Due to delays, replacement tickets for ST holders will not now be ready on time and ST holders are being asked to collect their tickets from the ticket office at the stadium on matchday.

*Tickets may not be ready for collection on gameday and ST holders may be asked to use POTG turnstiles.

Just for clarity, I am making this shit up. Don't want some of the people reading the forum getting worked up like they did over having to supposedly print out colour tickets.

Robbins out

David O'Day · Aug 8, 2023

Kingokings204 said:
Robbins out

someone ring a taxi

hamertime · Aug 8, 2023

SlowerThanPlatt said:
I’m afraid chasing the Premier League dream almost always ends up in tears unless you have a rich owner who wants nothing in return - which isn’t Doug’s idea of owning a football club

That pretty depressing you think like that. Would you prefer plodding on with rows of empty seats in the ground playing mk dons. Brentford took years to get there after loosing 9 play off campaigns they didn’t give in. Gutless.

pusbccfc · Aug 8, 2023

CovInEssex said:
We would lol

You'd be surprised. Already struggling with Swansea.

Grendel · Aug 8, 2023

hamertime said:
That pretty depressing you think like that. Would you prefer plodding on with rows of empty seats in the ground playing mk dons. Brentford took years to get there after loosing 9 play off campaigns they didn’t give in. Gutless.

Yes Brentford - who had a £44 million wage bill and an owner who gave them £100m in interest free loans

hamertime · Aug 8, 2023

Grendel said:
Yes Brentford - who had a £44 million wage bill and an owner who gave them £100m in interest free loans

Ooh my creepy stalker is back. The picture you’re trying to paint of them Isn’t like that. The owner took over in 2007 it took them until 2021 to get there.

Grendel · Aug 8, 2023

hamertime said:
Ooh my creepy stalker is back. The picture you’re trying to paint of them Isn’t like that. The owner took over in 2007 it took them until 2021 to get there.

yeah it’s exactly like that - it’s Moneyball and you need lots of money to start with

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rob9872 · Aug 8, 2023

Warwickshire lad said:
Because of the cost I now have to pick and choose away days as I have 4 grandkids to take.

Exactly. Yet you were advocating to someone else about putting a tenner away for a ST. It's not always that B&W as you too have discovered then. If money was no option, its different.

SlowerThanPlatt · Aug 8, 2023

Grendel said:
Yes Brentford - who had a £44 million wage bill and an owner who gave them £100m in interest free loans

Our wage bill must be over £20m now

hamertime · Aug 8, 2023

Grendel said:
yeah it’s exactly like that - it’s Moneyball and you need lots of money to start with

The Sports Gambler Who Turned $700k Into $300M

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Id get your noggin checked out if you think they bought their way to PL.

theferret · Aug 8, 2023

CovInEssex said:
We would lol

We didn't quite sell Stoke last season and it was nowhere near £37.

Grendel · Aug 8, 2023

hamertime said:
Id get your noggin checked out if you think they bought their way to PL.

No a £100m cash injection and a massive wage bill and a succession of years of operating losses are normal business practice really

pusbccfc · Aug 8, 2023

theferret said:
We didn't quite sell Stoke last season and it was nowhere near £37.

Yep, £25 and we had 200 unsold.

theferret · Aug 8, 2023

Warwickshire lad said:
Stop knocking season ticket holders. Put £10 a week away and buy one next season.

He isn't knocking season holders. He is simply saying that ST holders paying £17 per game (less in family zone) shouldn't be egging the club on to milk non ST holders simply because they are exiled or work weekends and can't make every game.

Anyway, all that will happen is that these people watch fewer games, so it's a false economy.

Fine if you sell out every week, but I'm willing to bet there will be 5000 unsold seats every week on average.

Evo1883 · Aug 8, 2023

theferret said:
He isn't knocking season holders. He is simply saying that ST holders paying £17 per game (less in family zone) shouldn't be egging the club on to milk non ST holders simply because they are exiled or work weekends and can't make every game.

Anyway, all that will happen is that these people watch fewer games, so it's a false economy.

Fine if you sell out every week, but I'm willing to bet there will be 5000 unsold seats every week on average.

In the home end ?

Grendel · Aug 8, 2023

Evo1883 said:
In the home end ?

There is no chance of 5,000 empty home seats

Evo1883 · Aug 8, 2023

Grendel said:
There is no chance of 5,000 empty home seats

Yes thats what I thought, away fans numbers won't fluctuate too much based on banding , home attendances I'm still convinced will be unaffected by 37 quid tickets ..but time will tell .. we are about to sell about 23000 home tickets at 30 quid a pop on sky , probably the biggest opening day crowd for many years

PS : I Think 37 is too much , but I think the crowds will be there

theferret · Aug 8, 2023

Evo1883 said:
In the home end ?

No in general. I'm estimating around 25K average from 30K available. Looking like it might be less than 25K on Saturday.

Evo1883 · Aug 8, 2023

theferret said:
No in general. I'm estimating around 25K average from 30K available. Looking like it might be less than 25K on Saturday.

The club would be over the moon with a 3/4k rise in the attendance average with more expensive pricing across the board

We could have the highest average this year for 40 years

pusbccfc · Aug 8, 2023

Grendel said:
There is no chance of 5,000 empty home seats

You think we'll average 27,000 a week!?

The Stoke home game will have around 21,000 at most.

theferret · Aug 8, 2023

Evo1883 said:
The club would be over the moon with a 3/4k rise in the attendance average with more expensive pricing across the board

We could have the highest average this year for 40 years

No sure they would tbf, I think they were likely banking on more given the ST base. As some of the non season ticket holders on here have stated, the higher pricing will mean they do fewer games.

The £37 is just too much, especially as there is no family option.

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