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Middlesbrough FC - Announce season card price increase, for next season 2024-25.
Middlesbough had a early-bird period price to get season cards for next season, [Ended 30th March]
The club have annouced a 6% price rise on season cards for next season, which has caused anger
& controversy from sections of supporters.
The early bird offer has attracted 17,000 season cards sales for 2024-25 season, this time last year
for the 2023-24 season attracted 19,000 on early bird sales, so 2,000 down in numbers this time.
The club sold another 2,000 season cards 2023-24 later, so had a total of 21,000 for this season.
Boro explained the rise being due to increasing costs of running the Riverside Stadium on a match-day,
certain supporters expressed their dismay at the prices & said they were unable to renew as a result.
4,000 supporters have taken advantage of a easy payment scheme of spreading the costs, into 4
payments for the new season card.
The cheapest Adult season card is £510
The club said, business rate hikes & a rise in minimum wage hitting the club, in which the club calculated
they would make a extra £400,000 if they sold the same number of season cards as for the 2023-24
season, but are down 2,000 on early bird tickets.
Business rate hikes cost the club a extra £110,000 - Match-day service security & cleaning staff, the new
rate of the minimum wage, costing the club £300,000.
Thats before - Increase of energy prices, general cost of maintainence, upkeep, replenishment, & repair
jobs at the Riverside Stadium in order to keep it fit for purpose.
* The club have actually calculated, they would be financially better off if they paid their supporters £10
per-match to stay away, because it would allow the club to remove the match-day costs like staff,
security & stadium upkeep.
I did not put on the season card prices, Adults, Concessions, Different ages for the season 2024-25.
But £510 cheapest Adult price stated for the season 2024-25
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Ours are going to be interesting
We’ve got the increase in costs that everybody is suffering with but also in Rotherham’s case it comes after a price freeze so any increase will look disproportionately larger.
Factor in the bad results, dodgy players and managerial shortcomings and we may have the perfect storm ending in a season ticket renewal crash
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Any increase at RUFC will go down like a bucket of cold sick. And deservedly so. We the fans feel like we've been shafted so there will be a backlash. Inflation is running at four cent. Some people might tolerate a ticket price increase in line with that. Others won't. The product on offer is of a lower standard next year. If Stewart has a brain cell he needs to freeze the prices. But he likes money in the bank doesn't he?
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The only thing that should go down is the players wages. It’s been obscene for years.
The main driver of clubs getting into financial difficulties.
The owners have to stop this ludicrous activity that threatens all bet the very rich clubs that can pay for better lawyers that the football associations!
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