I’m probably wrong but I still feel football clubs should still serve the community, so comparisons with other big companies aren’t completely equal.
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[Albion] Cost of football really is a joke
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I’m probably wrong but I still feel football clubs should still serve the community, so comparisons with other big companies aren’t completely equal.
It’s not the value for money I’m disagreeing with it’s the spirit of charging anything when the club could so easily absorb the cost for free. Charge for the tickets the kit etc... but there should be no suppliment for being a mascot.
I find it hard to believe any Brighton fan would write that.
Iggle Piggle
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- Sep 3, 2010
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You do raise a good point and I personally think that Albion under Knight as opposed to Bloom served the community better rather than the monetised operation we have become.
Despite that, we are still one of the better clubs in this regard and it's not going to get any better. I just thank our lucky stars that we haven't had the seats turned red, got an owner than wants to turn us into the 'South coast Gulls' or an owner than wants to turn the ground into a retail park. We are lucky to have an owner than 'gets it' .The fact that elements of the pricing - the U18 non season ticket pricing being a prime example - is something I can put up with and accept it's worse elsewhere which doesn't necessarily make it right.It's just the way it is.
It's not compulsory
Judging by this thread I think the next time I watch Chl 4, during the day, I'll be confronted by:-
Joe Wilkinson speaking earnestly into the camera
This is Prosecco.
She's 6 years old and her parents are poor.
Despite being season ticket holders at the AMEX,
Prosecco's parents can't afford the mascots package.
She has to travel on public transport, every other weekend,
and when she gets to her destination all she can see is non poor children being mascots.
Please send £5 a month to end this misery for poor little Prosecco.
Sirnormangall
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- Sep 21, 2017
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I’m fairly sure that there was no charge for mascots up to a couple of years ago. Up until then I think you had to be a member of the junior seagulls (small annual cost) and your child’s name was drawn at random to be the mascot. Also at that time I don’t think you had as many mascots for each home match ( maybe just 2 or 3), but in the last couple of years it’s all been changed - more mascots and they all have to pay.
I’m not sure about the current position on mascots for away matches but up to a couple of years ago you could simply phone up and ask - if they had room for a mascot you just turned up, no charge.
Overall, I know we’re just following the same commercial approach as othe PL clubs, but I think it’s a shame the club has changed its approach to capitalise on this, at a time when its income has never been higher. The club quite rightly makes a big play on its involvement in the local community thru AITC etc, but the opportunity to be a match day mascot ( for free) could be another way of providing a fantastic experience to kids who otherwise might never get that opportunity.
Knight's regime kicked it off and did the best they could with limited finances, however Bloom has taken it to another planet with AITC
Prosecco?
Soooooo last year, or sooooo 2 years ago as it's now 2019
This years chav name is Gin
AmexRuislip
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I do see your point in having to pay vast charges for your children to be mascots.
I'm not a STH, but I am fully aware that I will have to pay more to watch my team play, when and where I can.
The point I'm making it's my choice, and I believe people have to respect that, even if it means paying a tad more
We are in the big league now, with big league prices
1) it's covered elsewhere that there are one or two free mascot places for each home match
2) what pool would mascots be selected from? STH, junior members, certain age group, local schools, etc? there are arguments for and against each case - I cant afford a ST, I don't live in the area, I cant make the Burnley match but would love the Chelsea match please. I recall parents signing their kids up to Young Seagulls when they were 6 so they could get a free shirt on their 7th birthday, also stories of fictitious kids being registered for the same - not Albion fans but got a free shirt.
dont think mascots should be linked to AITC
Having said all that it might be easier to administer for away matches by application and a draw, but penalises those kids whose parents cant afford the time or cash to travel away
you cant win !
Not with Brighton fans you can't.
Everytime I'm staggered by the 'offence' taken against the club by fans on here, the only constant is that something more pathetic will be next.
It's fortunate I'm not Mr Bloom as I would have told us lot to 'go f**k yourself' years ago, while locking up the AMEX and throwing away the key.
Thankfully it’s a very small number of moaners and of these most have a genuine concern or suggestion. A very small minority are still in the dick Knight camp wearing their rose tinted specs and rewriting history
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Mr Putdown
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Sunderland had 46,039 on Boxing Day to watch them play poxy Bradford.
I’d guess they have an unbelievably long waiting list for matchday mascot places.
- Jun 27, 2012
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From their FAQs, Sunderland pick them at random from their equivalent of young Seagulls.
Looks like They don’t have a paid package.
https://www.safc.com/club/faqs
BadFish
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- Oct 19, 2003
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Because the club are getting something out of it too. They need mascots for the game so the parents and kids are providing a service to them.