I personally can easily afford the price of the booking fee but there is not a cat in hells chance that i would pay it!

Each to their own , I have and will.

And each to their moan, they have and will. Again and again……………..

Just think theres bigger things to worry about , it's a bit like being in the twin towers at 8am complaining about the price of ink cartridges.

A bit of a daft analogy there, listenup, but hey I hope you enjoy the fans forum with the usual 60 somethings (which in itself tells a story). If the very concerning issue of falling attendances comes up (just 800 against a SL team) primarily because of ticketing prices (7% increase on top of last years 17%), you can always shout from the back of the room "Well it could be worse, we could have been stuck in the twin towers on 9/11" I'm sure that will raise a laugh or 2

All match day packages not sold once again. We have had volunteers doing a better job than this over the past decade or so.

These days a lot of things aren’t being taken up or sold out, not just match day rugby packages, from the beginning to end of the chain no matter what it is EVERYTHING is costing a lot more and too much for a lot of people millions of whom are caught up in it all with no say or influence on matters.


This is a global event not just at Halifax Rugby club with the main reasons cited as being COVID and the war in Ukraine.

Despite how a few people on here would try and portray things it’s not the rugby clubs fault COVID came along, Russia invaded Ukraine with the inevitable knock on consequences.

Talking about the past and comparing things to how they were prior to 2019 fails to see what’s happened since then.

The only thing that’s stayed the same is those doing the moaning.

The booking fee irks me, because until mid to late last season we didn't have one. And advance tickets were advertised as cheaper than on the day. (Season tickets I think are also shown vs match day prices). So cancelling out most of the discount with a booking fee, applied to each ticket isn't great. Isn't the ticketing company a sponsor of sorts? Yet we're paying them!

In all honesty, I generally pay cash on the gate (because unlike a lot of clubs we still haven't got a pay by card facility unless you go to the ticket office, Even Barrow and Whitehaven manage this btw) But by buying in advance, I'm committed to going, as Tony Fax says, some people may do other things on the day, due to weather or just how they feel. And that happens to me.

Quote Tony Fax="Tony Fax"A bit of a daft analogy there, listenup, but hey I hope you enjoy the fans forum with the usual 60 somethings (which in itself tells a story). If the very concerning issue of falling attendances comes up (just 800 against a SL team) primarily because of ticketing prices (7% increase on top of last years 17%), you can always shout from the back of the room "Well it could be worse, we could have been stuck in the twin towers on 9/11" I'm sure that will raise a laugh or 2 '" https://www.ladbible.com/community/911- ... 0-20250218 You weren't there complaining about the price of fridge magnets by any chance Tony ,lol.

Quote Tony Fax="Tony Fax"A bit of a daft analogy there, listenup, but hey I hope you enjoy the fans forum with the usual 60 somethings (which in itself tells a story). If the very concerning issue of falling attendances comes up (just 800 against a SL team) primarily because of ticketing prices (7% increase on top of last years 17%), you can always shout from the back of the room "Well it could be worse, we could have been stuck in the twin towers on 9/11" I'm sure that will raise a laugh or 2 '" https://www.ladbible.com/community/911- ... 0-20250218 You weren't there complaining about the price of fridge magnets by any chance Tony ,lol.

Did you just blame Covid and the war in Ukraine for whoever is running the commercial side of Fax not been able to sell out match packages? That has to be one of the strangest takes Ive heard in a while.

Couldn't Fax do what previous people selling packages have done like phoning, emailing, visiting previous sponsors and trying to get them interested again? I know this hasn't happened, or if it has its on a really small scale, because none of my group of friends have been contacted in any way. Maybe its too much effort to spend a little time trying to bring thousands of pounds in to the club? Lets not just accept medicoracy.

You can only ask the same people so many times, I'll speak to one of my mates today and see if he's been asked, although think last time he sponsored the matchball they came to him on the Friday!