Quote: Invincible "It wasn't. I paid for 4 train tickets, all in first class.
Don't know if to cut my losses or still go see the capital at the weekend. One things for sure, I don't think I can be arrssed to go down Thrusday too.
Just don't think I will bother in future booking in advance, happened one too many times has this malarkey.
I'll go sunday, if that is a defoo?'"
The problem is with advanced pre-booked tickets, there's no chance of selling them on via a secondary market such as Ebay either.
I'm so sick / bored / tired of the endless messing about with fixtures, this decision is about the final straw for me as I waste yet more money on useless travel tickets because of the whim of someone at the RFL and / or Sky.
It is inconvenient enough when they change home games, but I think it is now the time to just stop my away travel full stop. No hassle of trying to get to Warrington away next week, no problems having to get to Salford's new ground and forget the hours waiting for the car park to open after games at Wigan.
For those of you that know me, this is some decision.
I've watched Leeds for the best part of 30 years, just about all of my adult life. There was a period when the total number of games I missed over a 12 year period was about five in total (one league game, a couple of hastily arranged pre-season friendlies and the World Club Challenge games in Australia), but enough is enough.
Times are tough and I can't afford to keep wasting money like this, so as a customer who is being shabbily treated by their current supplier, I am going to exercise my right to take my 'recreation pound' elsewhere. I have spent less time on Southstander this season than perhaps at any time since I joined and frankly, since I have other recreational interests (something that is pretty well scheduled and not affected by the whim of a TV broadcaster) I am going to spend the time that I would have otherwise gone to matches, on my other activities thank-you-very-much. Good luck to the RFL's marketing budget to try to coax me back.
My gut feeling right now even possibly extends to telling the RFL to get lost for World Cup tickets too.
Perhaps a sustained boycott of either all away games or perhaps one fixture, such as London Away, might make people sit up and take notice. I know we as a sport need a tv broadcast contract and I know that a Monday night in London was a shabby choice to start with, but everyone made the sort of noises that the game would be on that night and by getting my backside down to the Capital, I felt that not only was I doing my bit to support my team but also a little for the development of the game in London.
I was going to make a special journey to Leeds tomorrow (I live elsewhere these days) to secure my tickets / travel for most of the rest of the season. I'm not going to bother now, furthermore I'll probably send my Wakefield away match ticket (a game that has already been changed three times since the original date) back.
I'll continue to watch Leeds at home (which even that has diminished as a social occasion with the demolition of the Supporters Club, only to be replaced with the opportunity to stand around on sub zero tarmac fending off hypothermia as an alternative) and have my annual game at the Cup Final. Pretty much anything else is up for negotiation.
The announcement via Twitter, late on a Friday afternoon also smacks of a good time to bury bad news. Anyone remember once-upon-a-time, the likes of the club's esteemed media manager coming on here to answer question ? Ah ! If only those days were available now....
In business terms, if the RFL can afford to cheese off a 'loyal' customer like me, then gawd help retaining the more fickle fans.