Djmiles
Barndoor Holroyd
You mean your boy didn’t get a pint too? What a joke.
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[Albion] Cost of football really is a joke
- Thread starter wakeytom
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You mean your boy didn’t get a pint too? What a joke.
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
I guess at Sunderland they have to pay the mascot not the other way round
dejavuatbtn
Well-known member
I have no idea of what the Seagulls Club offer the kids these days but it used to be one mascot home and away in the Junior Seagulls days. The home one from a draw of all members, and the away one from those members travelling to the game. It was always free, although I don’t think the away mascot received a free kit.
Seems that now the club can afford to offer this, they don’t. They just want to grab enough money to pay a player’s wages for few hours. I take the view that we were more of a community club when the club didn’t used to shout about it.
When my daughter was a mascot, Brighton had mix of mascots who were there for free and captain mascots who had paid. The free mascots were pick randomly, if you wanted to make sure your child got a chance you could pay. We were lucky and in a financial position to pay as my daughter was desperate to be a mascots and we got it as one of her Christmas presents. To this day she says it the best present she ever had she was 10 she now 16. It was a game against Reading and some of friends were in the away end. So for me it was worth it. I don’t know if Brighton still have this mix, I hope they do as it will give a child who may otherwise not get a chance a day to remember.
Weststander
Well-known member
Michael O’Leary’s influence grows.
studio150
Well-known member
How much does Gully have to pay each game to wear his outfit and have his photo taken with the officials and captains
- Jun 27, 2012
- 14,612
?? They still do offer 2 free mascot places per game.
https://www.brightonandhovealbion.c...ackages-available-tomorrow-for-201819-season/
This.
The OP might not like it, but other people clearly do and seemingly would be happy to do it again due to it's VFM.
Once again, being free and easy with someone else's (the clubs) money comes very easy for some people.
That may be true, but for just how years has that been written?
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
My son got drawn out of the hat and was a mascot for free for a game in our promotion season.
Why should mascots be free?
Why don't we get free tea or coffee? The club can afford it.
Why don't we get free travel? The club can afford it.
Why don't we get free programmes? The club can afford it.
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Return of the Rev
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Glad my two had the chance to be mascots back in the day, Pompey away, Colchester away and wallsall at the mighty Withdean. Happy days
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 36,015
are you looking to be a masot and disappointed to have to pay, or just making a fuss over something that doesnt have any bearing on you or your experience at football?
Has the mascots package ever been free at the Albion?
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 72,327
Seem to recall STH got free season review DVDs at Withdean. In fact I think we might even have got TWO some seasons incl. a halfway through the season review. And this when the club didn't have a pot to piss in. Just saying, like.
My son and I are STHs. My wife and his sister used our tickets. If not we'd have put them on the exchange,further discounting the cost.
Several points here. In a capatalist economy everything good goes to people with financial advantage. Want to eat in a Michelin restaurant, drive a new car, go to a Lord's test? People with financial advantage will go more than others. But the restaurant has lunch deals, cars can be leased, Lord's offer a few cheaper tickets for concessions / restricted view. The OP stated Brighton charge £350. That is WRONG. They charge that for two places but there is a mascot for every pleyer and the skipper has two. Some of those places are free draws. If they were all free draws you'd have very little chance. If they were first come, first served then they'd be snapped up by people who had decent IT knowledge and knew how to be first in the server queue - or "faked" by ticket sites and passed on.
Secondly my friend's son is a mascot later this season. They live on a council estate and are both NHS workers with very little spare cash but the grandparents bought it for a treat to spoil him BECAUSE they don't have much money.
Thirdly one of my justifications for paying it was that the money went back to the club. For all we know it is budgeted towards the tremendous deals we see for under 10s, particularly in the Family Stand, that allow kids from all backgrounds to go to games. Or, if not, it's put towards players and "something else" subsidises the concession deals we offer.