[Albion] Cost of football really is a joke

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Green Cross Code Man

Green Cross Code Man

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Couldn't agree more, Bournemouth charge similar but their price doesn't even include a matchday ticket!:shootself
 






wakeytom

wakeytom

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Jim Van Winkle said:
It’s OK. Sunderland fans season after season regularly buy replica kits and look like clowns. No one is losing their shit about that.
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I thought all clubs have that?

Think you are also missing the point as with a shirt there is a least a cost to making it, as a mascot what is the cost (other than maybe a full kit - say £80 for kids?)

That matchday ticket one is really bad of Bournemouth
 




Guinness Boy

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wakeytom said:
Fans now having to pay to be a mascot?

I am sure its been talked about on here before but £350 to be one at Brighton, with all this money sloshing around why charge?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-46526716
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Firstly that price is for the captain's mascot. The other packages at Brighton are cheaper.

Secondly my son was a mascot against Leicester this season. I paid for it and I'm not ashamed. To say he had the day of his life is an understatement, He's barely come down off the ceiling. He got to walk out with Davy Propper, do a warm up routine, have photos absolutely everywhere (I was behind the away dug out till 30 seconds before kick off) and we had excellent seats for the game, Murray scored at our end and ran to the mascots. The girls who looked after the mascots and parents were excellent. In fact I cannot praise the club enough, they were amazing.

This cost us £225. Now it would be vulgar to post that if I was bragging but I post it for comparison. Consider he got full kit (I guess over £50 retail), we both got seats in the West Lower (let's say around £50) and it's really £125. A birthday party at a bowling alley or Lazer Zone costs MUCH more than that.

All together it's outstanding value.
 




Stumpy Tim

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Jul 6, 2003
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Guinness Boy said:
Firstly that price is for the captain's mascot. The other packages at Brighton are cheaper.

Secondly my son was a mascot against Leicester this season. I paid for it and I'm not ashamed. To say he had the day of his life is an understatement, He's barely come down off the ceiling. He got to walk out with Davy Propper, do a warm up routine, have photos absolutely everywhere (I was behind the away dug out till 30 seconds before kick off) and we had excellent seats for the game, Murray scored at our end and ran to the mascots. The girls who looked after the mascots and parents were excellent. In fact I cannot praise the club enough, they were amazing.

This cost us £225. Now it would be vulgar to post that if I was bragging but I post it for comparison. Consider he got full kit (I guess over £50 retail), we both got seats in the West Lower (let's say around £50) and it's really £125. A birthday party at a bowling alley or Lazer Zone costs MUCH more than that.

All together it's outstanding value.
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Done the same for my lad against Huddersfield. You both get food too I believe.
 




LlcoolJ

LlcoolJ

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Oct 14, 2009
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Sheffield
Guinness Boy said:
Firstly that price is for the captain's mascot. The other packages at Brighton are cheaper.

Secondly my son was a mascot against Leicester this season. I paid for it and I'm not ashamed. To say he had the day of his life is an understatement, He's barely come down off the ceiling. He got to walk out with Davy Propper, do a warm up routine, have photos absolutely everywhere (I was behind the away dug out till 30 seconds before kick off) and we had excellent seats for the game, Murray scored at our end and ran to the mascots. The girls who looked after the mascots and parents were excellent. In fact I cannot praise the club enough, they were amazing.

This cost us £225. Now it would be vulgar to post that if I was bragging but I post it for comparison. Consider he got full kit (I guess over £50 retail), we both got seats in the West Lower (let's say around £50) and it's really £125. A birthday party at a bowling alley or Lazer Zone costs MUCH more than that.

All together it's outstanding value.
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Well put. Seems pretty reasonable for such a fantastic experience.
 


wakeytom

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Guinness Boy said:
Firstly that price is for the captain's mascot. The other packages at Brighton are cheaper.

Secondly my son was a mascot against Leicester this season. I paid for it and I'm not ashamed. To say he had the day of his life is an understatement, He's barely come down off the ceiling. He got to walk out with Davy Propper, do a warm up routine, have photos absolutely everywhere (I was behind the away dug out till 30 seconds before kick off) and we had excellent seats for the game, Murray scored at our end and ran to the mascots. The girls who looked after the mascots and parents were excellent. In fact I cannot praise the club enough, they were amazing.

This cost us £225. Now it would be vulgar to post that if I was bragging but I post it for comparison. Consider he got full kit (I guess over £50 retail), we both got seats in the West Lower (let's say around £50) and it's really £125. A birthday party at a bowling alley or Lazer Zone costs MUCH more than that.

All together it's outstanding value.
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But why should they charge the £125? I think that's my point. Clubs should be encouraging kids (and in reality parents) to attend which this to me is the issue.

Also dont get me wrong for a kid I bet it is a marvellous experience.

Out of interest if you were/are a STH would they reduce the price as you had a ticket already?
 


Thunder Bolt

Thunder Bolt

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Aug 18, 2009
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Don't we still have a draw from Junior Seagulls occasionally, for a free mascot?
There is often more than one mascot coming out with the team.
 




Superphil

Superphil

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Jul 7, 2003
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wakeytom said:
all this money sloshing around why charge?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-46526716
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That’s the bit that gets me too. I was a player kit sponsor each season from around 2003 onwards, at the time it brought the club a little extra money, as time went by the rate went up, the last season in the Championship it was £1600, name in the program (eventually) players awards dinner tickets for four, hospitality for four for a match, signed shirt, that was the last one I did. Now, IIRC it starts at £4500+VAT, that’s for a cat C match kit sponsorship, for a cat A match it’s something like £9500+VAT. Considering in this day and age our average wage bill is £30K a week, the kit sponsorship money barely covers anything, seems a shame that they’ve made the prices so high, beyond the means of most individuals, and they didn’t even manage to get a corporate kit sponsor for the Arsenal game.
 
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wakeytom

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Weststander said:
Agree with OP.

I don’t think PL club’s should charge to be the Captain’s Mascot, with £110m of broadcasting income. Not least because the places will be grabbed by families with a financial advantage.
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Exactly that - what would £6,650 (£350 x 19) really do given the broadcasting income when what it does is makes a divide between those that can financially afford it to those that cannot, and for very little positive result
 




Blackadder

Blackadder

Brighton Bhuna Boy
Jul 6, 2003
16,121
Haywards Heath
West Ham get the tax payer to subsidise their stadium and charge £700 for a mascot?

Good Grief.
 


The_Viper

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Oct 10, 2010
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I don't understand the issue here to be honest. You get what you pay for surely? You pay for a seat you get a seat, you pay for a VIP experience you get a VIP experience. People who are against this, do you think you should be able to buy front row seats at gigs or VIP meet and greets for the same amount as the cheapest ticket? Proper baffling thread this one.
 






Weststander

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Aug 25, 2011
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The_Viper said:
I don't understand the issue here to be honest. You get what you pay for surely? You pay for a seat you get a seat, you pay for a VIP experience you get a VIP experience. People who are against this, do you think you should be able to buy front row seats at gigs or VIP meet and greets for the same amount as the cheapest ticket? Proper baffling thread this one.
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Because it involves families and kids. For the sake of the relatively minute increase in income, it gives an advantage to the better off in having their little-un walk out with the club captain.

Everything in a football club shouldn’t be about who can afford to pay a lot more.
 


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