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Town Announce New Boro Prices
Town Announce New Boro Prices
Monday, 13th Feb 2012 16:16

Adult fans who bought matchday tickets for Saturday’s abandoned game against Middlesbrough will now be able to attend the restaged match on Tuesday 27th March for £5, £7.50 and £10, the club has announced.

Town had cut Saturday’s prices by 25% - adult tickets were priced at £20, £25 and £30 - and the same price discount will be in place for the rearranged game.

Supporters who attended the weekend game will be able to buy tickets for £5, £7.50 or £10, subject to proof of purchase for the original match.

Chief executive Simon Clegg said: “It was very frustrating for all concerned that Saturday’s game ended the way it did but as a club we could not have done any more to ensure the game went ahead.

“Extreme temperatures of minus 13 were recorded at the ground and while our groundstaff did an amazing job to get the pitch playable, the referee felt that the conditions had deteriorated enough in those 37 minutes of play to make his decision.

“We were obviously particularly disappointed for the supporters of both clubs and after the game I made it clear from the outset that we would heavily discount prices for the rearranged fixture and review the situation today — and I have done that.

“It’s the club’s policy — in line with the vast majority of Premier League and Championship clubs - that as the game was abandoned before half-time we would set a 50% discount, but on this occasion we have reduced prices significantly beyond that.

“No one who was at the game on Saturday will have to pay more than £10 to watch the rearranged match and for the vast majority it will be £7.50 or £5.

“I realise that we can’t please every supporter but it has to be recognised that there are significant costs to hosting a football match, regardless of how long it lasts.

“We employ 400 additional staff on matchday for example, who all have to be paid, plus there are costs for catering, medical, match officials and plenty more.

“Hopefully the vast majority of supporters who were here on Saturday will be back at Portman Road on March 27th — with the weather a bit warmer this time!”

The Football League has confirmed that it strictly ensures that every club has a publicly-stated policy regarding ticket refunds or other arrangements for abandoned matches — Town’s tickets include mention of the 50% referred to by Clegg - although with clubs having the freedom to determine that policy.

Town will announce sales priorities and dates in the weeks to come.


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bluelady added 17:27 - Feb 13
flashblue, think a few are doing a pretty good job of making mugs out of themselves, dont need any assistance. i would imagine that a cinema is covered by insurance for such occaisions, i cannot see any insurance company covering a football game for being called off or abandoned due to weather!
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AlanMahon2011 added 17:27 - Feb 13
Clegg makes a profit from the suffering fans yet again
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suffolklad added 17:34 - Feb 13
I feel this is a missed opportunity by the club to regain some trust from the supporters who have lost interest in going to matches and those who cannot afford a season ticket.If I took my wife out for a meal and only received under half of it because of an electrical fault, I would expect a free meal at least.
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hampstead_blue added 17:38 - Feb 13
@itfcchory.
Love the comment.

If Clegg is looking for a 2ic I'd be delighted. Shall I start my own PR campaign now? Would you be my campaign manager?

I'd love to help run the club alongside successful businessmen such as ME and SC. I'd even do it for the minimum wage (assuming I could carry on running my other firms as well). A man has to live you know.

Thanks for the vote. Loving it!
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Taricco_Fan added 17:39 - Feb 13
Not good enough, Town.

If the cost of hosting a match is the issue then surely season ticket holders should contribute to the costs too? £5 per season ticket holder? Why is it the matchday ticket holders have to pay again? Clegg, you're penalising the very fans you're trying to win back. People like me.

What about the people that can't attend the replay? Surely a partial refund should be offered?

This club is a shambles, and after more than twenty years of support, I'm done with it.
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blues1 added 17:40 - Feb 13
mintyhalfwit, an appropriate name, i think. the only person who calls amatch off for condition of the pitch is the referee. no1 else. blueladt, im most surprised you hadnt caught on about jas0999 much earlier. hasnt got a clue. of course it wouldve been great if every1 had got in for nothing. sure the club would have liked to do that, but for heavens sake people, lets just remember that the club are gonna have to pay out all the costs of running the match a second time with the additional costs of having to use the floodlights for the whole match. so i believe they had no choice but to put some charge on the game. and i for 1 applaud whta theyve come up with. so stop whinging, get on down to pr fro the rematch & roar the team to a victory.
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Toepunt added 17:48 - Feb 13
“We employ 400 additional staff on matchday for example, who all have to be paid, plus there are costs for catering, medical, match officials and plenty more."

In that case it should be maximum £9 not £10, surely we won't be paying the match officials again after their last shambolic performance?

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HARRY10 added 17:49 - Feb 13
"Harry is 10 your age as you clearly have no idea that its a business ITFC are running"

No, but it is certainly far less than the number of shares I have in the club.

The amounts involved for the club are miniscule - but the effect is far wider. Perception is all.

I suspect sume will boycott the game on principle as will some who cannot afford the extra travel costs. So perhaps bluelady could tell us all how much will actually be taken in respect of those tickets. £10,000, or maybe less ?

Would any other multi million pound business risk alianating much of their customer base for such a piffling amount ? I very much doubt it. As said before - Perception is all.

Sadly the perception many of us will have is that bluelady and a number of other zealots are unable to take any criticism of the club and will defend it irrespective of how ridiculous they come across. Trying to turn a thread about Middlesboro tickets into one about a missing centre half merely compounds that fanaticism.

The club could easily have turned this round by honouring the tickets/contracts as they are obliged to with season tickets. They could have offered a further reduced price on tickets for the game and looked as if they were trying to get fans back on board, rather than causing bad feeling over a sum that probably amounts to no more than a week or two's wages for someone like Bowyer - who is currently sat on his backside.

So maybe it might be an idea to get someone in who can run the club like a business - then maybe us shareholders might get a dividend at some point !
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Superfrans added 17:50 - Feb 13
good work by Clegg. I'll be there. hopefully the whingers won't and can put their fivers towards a lemon they can suck.
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felixblue added 17:53 - Feb 13
Another con and others can slate me all they like.
But if they had called the game at 11.15 or 14.00 would people still have to pay again ?
Had the game been called would the club still have to pay out of course they would the police and staff would have to be paid, so lets get it on get a few quid in and screw the fans.
Well done club well thought out and to the new and returning fans thanks for coming nice to have meet you but i will understand if you dont return.
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bluelady added 17:57 - Feb 13
but Harry its the small minority moaning. I added the bit about a new CB because there are elements of this club that are frustrating the hell out of me, transfers (or lack of) being one. I have a balanced view and will say it as i see it, on this one i believe the club have made a decent enough jesture.. however what for me will get people back in the stadium is a team consistantly playing well and winning games, and i am afraid without a decent CB that is not going to happen any time yet... so my post did have relevance i thank you.
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Happy2bBlue added 17:57 - Feb 13
Total incompetence and Unbelieveable arrogance in my view. Jewell wants to see the ground full again, he must be having a laugh with this joker in charge having now probably alienated the majority of the 6,000 potential season ticket holders he was trying to win over with his Boro discount. And we wonder why none of transfer targets want to join us, this bloke is a complete embarrassment.
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MintyHalfWit added 17:58 - Feb 13
blues1, an appropriate name, i think. Cor, you're a sharp one! Go and have a re-read of wot i rote and try giving a sensible response. As an aside, the word is 'whinge' and the present participle is 'whingeing'.
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blue_beats_yellow added 17:59 - Feb 13
Yes flashblue, I must be thick, yet it is you who compares the cancellation of a football game to that of the cinema experience. You make a fantastic point, give yourself a pat on the back for that one. I get the feeling, flashblue, that you would have moaned whatever clegg offered. There's no point in arguing with a person (flashblue) who doesn't value the word of a business man who is the CEO of a championship football club and has also helped to bring the Olympics to the country. So unless your Alan Sugar in disguise stop making outrageous suggestions and accept what is on offer!
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bedsitfc added 18:00 - Feb 13
in my view the football league should come out and make a statement as it was the ref they employed who got things wrong.
not the club
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Mark added 18:01 - Feb 13
This has clearly been handled very badly. First I had the impression from the tannoy that tickets just had to be retained for the replay. Then Saturday evening I read that Clegg had stated fans would have to buy tickets at a 50% discount. Then something was said about a statement today, which took until 4pm. Then I read it will cost between £5 and £10, but it is unclear on what basis who will pay what.

As this only applies to match day ticket holders and not all of them will come back, the income raised through say 5,000 £7.50 tickets is minimal compared to the bad feeling and bad PR this has created with the supporters, as well as the negative headlines in the local newspaper. They should have just given free tickets to the new match and offered refunds, that would have been the decent thing to do.
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1878 added 18:02 - Feb 13
I really think that the club have messed-up here!
There was a great chance to win lots of fans over and to tempt fans who'd been thinking of going but have stayed away due to cost of tickets and possibly been put off with how the club is now acting.
Yes there are costs when having a game on BUT a great percentage of the supports who go week in week out are season ticket holders plus a few thousand on top, the outlay for those numbers are already in place. When there are a few more thousand go there isn't that must more that has to been arranged/paid out.
I'm a season ticket holder and I have to say that the owership is peeing off more and more and I'm finding harder and harder to support the club. It is just one joke after another. Why the hell can't the club admit they messed-up! That stupid 'bubble' will keep frost off but that is about it... It is always the same, the fans come last.
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Len_Brennan added 18:02 - Feb 13
"Wembley Arena when Meat Loaf was taken ill in 2005 did it and they had no idea it was going to happen"

Really? That guy hasn't looked healthy since the late 70s, his diet ain't good at all. An accident waiting to happen, that's why the promoters at Wembley were insured up to the gills.
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Gazelle added 18:11 - Feb 13
Moan Moan Moan Moan Moan. Some of you lot must be hell to live with. Why don't you go and watch some village side where you get in for nothing.
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blueblood66 added 18:14 - Feb 13
No! I am awaynon on a business trip then! So as a season ticket holder do I get money back?
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Keaneish added 18:20 - Feb 13
To make my point clear, of course I don't think the FA are going to pay my travel costs but is like to know their position on it as we haven't heard a peep from them. As they had two opportunities to call it off but still gave the go ahead only to change their minds 37 minutes in to it, is like some sort of an explanation!

PaulC - The McDonald's milkshake analogy was bobbins. Try another that's logical to this point in case. If McDonald's had told me on two separate occasions they had chocolate thick shakes and I got there and they never, then yes, I'd want an explanation as to why they'd said this.

Anyway. Bored now. I'm tired of FA silence every time. I'll post what they send back if the email makes it through to anyone at all!
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HARRY10 added 18:30 - Feb 13
"but Harry its the small minority moaning"

That I accept. Amongst the thousands of fans expressing their thoughts and comments of the ticketing pricing there are a few like yourself moaning. Why not go to a thread about the lack of a centre half if that is what worries you rather than come on here moaning ?

As stated the money is minute compared to the bad feeling.

The word raincheck comes from the US where if a game of baseball was called off the stadium honours the tickets for the next game.

If a town fan goes into Wetherspoons and pays for a buger and a pint, only to be told the kitchen has suddenly closed after he has been served his pint would he be told that he can have the burger next week, but it will cost him another coule of quid ?

If the train taking town fans to a home game has to be repaced with a bus for some of the journey then passengers are not charged for the bus journey - despite the fact the train company " still have to pay for the extra bus"

Sadly we seem to have attracted a few fools who cannot explain where, if the club has all these costs is that money going to come from ? The season ticket holders ?

This is a massive pr (PR) disaster and will most likely see the club actually out of pocket. More worrying it justs adds to that drip, drip of disquiet so many are feeling about their club. All for a few thousand quid.

Sorry, sorry times.
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Dissboyitfc added 18:30 - Feb 13
Tarricofan... totally agree, would those who are supporting clegg, i assume season ticket holders, agree to paying for re admission? i doubt they would and neither should those who paid on the day, a real pr opportunity messed up by clegg, people would have warmed to this latest offer a bit better had clegg not came out straight after the game making statements b4 thinking, this club is pushing supporters away, as a club we are not heading in the right direction... very sad
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TractorTrog added 18:38 - Feb 13
sorry but full refund should be given to the fans Marcus should know that we are on a very difficult knife edge with returning fans alot of fans bought these tickets to show that we would appricate the discounted matches in future I felt ripped off to be honnest ...will I go on Tuesday night no I dont think I can take a days holiday for that and pay again not really what you set out to achieve by winning fans back Im afraid SC has shot himself in the foot on this one borrowed time springs to mind!!!!
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Tractorboy24 added 18:42 - Feb 13
For those complaining about the fees, I wonder if any of you have read the back of their ticket before Saturday. This is where the club states it's cancellation policy and entering the ground means you accept these conditions. For those comparing this to the cinema should look at other sports instead, cricket will only offer a percentage of the ticket based on how much has been played, with no chance of a rematch.

For those saying this will not bring in much revenue for the club, you are far off, if the club pays £100 pp to those employed at the club (highly unlikely) this would cost the club £40,000, so any money they can recoup through the extra fees would surely be beneficial.

I purchased 2 tickets for sat and will prob go to the rematch, I hope there maybe complaints from the club to the football league wrt the officials on behalf of the fans.
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