Pretty pink fairy
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I'M STILL WAITNG FOR YOU TO TELL ME HOW FAR YOU'RE PREPARED TO GO IN FINANCING THE CLUB WITH YOUR MONEY
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DR
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[Albion] Cost of football really is a joke
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I'M STILL WAITNG FOR YOU TO TELL ME HOW FAR YOU'RE PREPARED TO GO IN FINANCING THE CLUB WITH YOUR MONEY
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DR
Wealth gives you an advantage in everything that is bought. Odd that.
I'M STILL WAITNG FOR YOU TO TELL ME HOW FAR YOU'RE PREPARED TO GO IN FINANCING THE CLUB
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DR
Further than you, but I didn't think that needed saying, let alone shouting.
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Pretty pink fairy
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Making a few quid out of mascots won’t help give TB his generous loan/share capital back.
The main income streams, including sponsorship contracts, are well into the millions.
A lot of people struggle financially, without the jibes, and the way it was with all names into a hat and picked at random was a lovely touch befitting of a football club. Not every little detail needs to be based on the economic angle.
But the club still offer free chances via young seagulls.
No it doesn't, you're quite right, but something has to be doesn't it?
Why draw the line at mascots which is what 6 or 7 kids 18 times a season.
My son would be in his 30's before his name gets pulled from this mythical giant hat.
(Sure my daughter would have more appearances than Ryan, and that's why we're taking her to Vegas for her 21st)
Was that covered early in the thread?
This specific point is that non-poor parents can bypass that altogether by paying for their kid to walk onto the pitch with the club captain. Apparently.
They don't "need" to charge but I think we have the balance right. To go back to my original point, if that parent had already planned to buy a replica kit and take their kid to ONE game the they would only have to find about another £100 - £120. I know plenty of parents on fairly low incomes who save all year to get their kid a birthday party that costs around that.
There is a bigger discussion going on here about milking the fans in the PL. I think the corner you're in with that one depends on how well you want us to do. When we're paying around 14 - 16 million for players who have struggled to break in to the first team then all income channels have to (unfortunately) be explored. There comes a time when we can't rely on TB to fund us millions per season for ever more.
If the season ticket holding 'poor' parents want to do the same, they can find the money.
Non poor can afford better cars, houses,clothes and holidays amongst other things. Can't think why though.
Fully appreciate that but I’d like to think you take the club mascot out of the cut and thrust of modern day corporate football. Add some pence to pies and pints or a quid on a ticket if needs really must, but let the kids dream of being a mascot be a level playing field and not because wealthier families have the disposable income to guarantee it.
Some players have joined the 1% club to donate to charities, it might be an idea if some of that subsidised the club mascot, it would be a nice touch from the playing and management staff.
It's not just the captain's mascot. There are more than one mascot packages per game. I don't know the exact proportion though.
I'm not sure how many junior seagulls there are. I remember seeing a figure of 7000 but that might be wrong. However, that is about a third of the number of STHs. If correct that would represent a 50/1 chance of being a mascot each PL season if you made it draw only.
I don't know why players are paid at all.
All there wages should be donated to charitable concerns by everybody else...
...who themselves don't donate to charities.
All there wages should be donated to charitable concerns by everybody else...
...who themselves don't donate to charities.
Gazwag
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I'M STILL WAITNG FOR YOU TO TELL ME HOW FAR YOU'RE PREPARED TO GO IN FINANCING THE CLUB WITH YOUR MONEY
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DR
You finance your pub every Saturday afternoon I finance my football club - I know which I prefer to do
I bet Andone's goal looked well lush, in the snug.
You've got your guesstimates wrong; full kit is £71 for kids and if you still get seated behind the dugouts those seats are £65 each (for Cat A match) with no child concessions so £130 for 2 which makes a total of £201 without the food vouchers. Even better value than you suggested!
Iggle Piggle
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Well after the description by [MENTION=616]Guinness Boy[/MENTION] of the day out for the mascot I know what I'm going to get my lad for his next birthday. I spent 2 ton at a soft play a couple of years back and all I got was as much squash as I could I drink and his screaming mates. He will remember being a mascot much, much more and I won't have to spend the day in a fecking soft play centre, Jump in or any other God awful kids establishment.
Sure, the club doesn't need the money but then neither does any other multi mullion pound business that's maximising it's revenue streams where demand is plentiful. I've never known a successful business that doesn't milk it's "customers" and I certainly can't think of one as an example. It might not be right but it's the world we live in.
Sure, the club doesn't need the money but then neither does any other multi mullion pound business that's maximising it's revenue streams where demand is plentiful. I've never known a successful business that doesn't milk it's "customers" and I certainly can't think of one as an example. It might not be right but it's the world we live in.
Seats are W1A - basically the west bit of the SWC. You get to stand behind the away dug out until just before kick off then meet your child in the concourse and sit in W1A.
And, as per the reply to [MENTION=18183]big nuts[/MENTION] , there is a general conversation to be had about whether those kit and ticket prices are reasonable. However, a U10 season ticket in Zone F is £95. That's a fiver a game. Surely some of the prices we charge for other bits allow this to happen.