In wholehearted agreement, I bought for the same reason but they won't see £549 in 2019 for C1.

Same. I'll be buying a ST. I think we get one shot at getting out of this division. I've invested too much over the years to walk away, so i'll throw some money in to try and help us get out. If we get out, I do think we can rebuild. If we don't manage it, we'll be stuck down here for a long time. I won't be buying a ST next year for C1 either.

We do have a good chance of going up though (which has also persuaded me to invest in the club) with two teams getting promoted. Either by finishing top, or via the play-offs. If it was the same hideous, middle 8 farce as what handicapped us in 2015, i would have been out.

Someone on the FB group saying that they'd been at the club this morning and been told we'd gone through the 1000 ST barrier. I'm guessing the December payday has resulted in a modest surge

A long way from the 3000 that AC wanted, but maybe there'll be a Christmas rush...

Yeah, they're all going in to buy both the shirt and season ticket in the one trip....

The scary thing is I think people are getting and Early Bird ST or are more likely not going to bother going to matches.

I'd expect there to be a few announcements in the run up to the deadline.

Source at the club said they had new signings to announce but were holding back their announcement. Same person also told me the delay with the shirts is due to the manufacturers and not any delay on shirt sponsorship (i.e. not worked to deadline).

Don't know how true this is but they have always been accurate when I've spoke with them in the past.

As far as walk up prices go, I've just done a few quick calculations.

At least year's prices, £15 standing for 13 games (which is what the season ticket covers) is £195 total. The season ticket for standing after the early bird is £199. That means either they're going to ask people to pay £4 MORE for a season ticket than just walking up every game, or the matchday price is going up too.

The seating season ticket price would save you a total of £11 from just walking up to every game. So it would at least be a saving, but only if you go to every single game. Miss one, and you've paid more.

I think I can see why they haven't announced matchday prices yet. They must be going up.

We do seem to be getting 'info' from people who have seen various players up at Tong - and reporting who has, and hasn't, been seen - so, if your info is correct, this suggests that the so-far unannounced players haven't actually turned up for training yet? Which, in turn, logically suggests, to me anyway, that they are not just unannounced but that they still may not yet be fully signed.

AC did say at the forum that there were about a dozen 'left to announce' but it's beginning to look as though he may have been a little economical with the actualité.

It's almost as thought AC had been told by the RFL that there wouldn't be more than a 10% drop in ST after we dropped a division.

Anybody else had a call asking why they hadn`t renewed their season ticket?

I had a call today and said because they are charging more for less games of lower quality rugby played by mostly part time players.

I said there was no way I was paying £199 for a season ticket - I always buy mine a few days before the first game but may now not buy one at all as I miss 2 or 3 games each season with work / holidays so may just pay on the gate.

I appreciate they need the money but this is no way to treat loyal long term fans.

I have not had a call but i would suggest that calling people is normal practice is any business why people aren't renewing a membership/subscription.

I wont be buying a season ticket for next season, due to missing too many games with going on holiday, stag do's etc. I will be paying on the gate for as many games i can though.

In the long run I lose out on the ST and do every year. However, it' my insurance policy to keep me going in the bad times (and God knows we've had enough).

If I don't have it I know I won't turn up at games I know we'll screw up and before yo know it I am out of the habit of going, and lets be fair, it is a habit more than a pleasure at the minute.

However, if promotion doesn't happen this year I am not prepared to take this kind of hit again and so I'll likely drift away and take the family with me.

Hope you are reading Chalmers....

I'm still in two minds. I could've been persuaded by now had there been a decent head coach in place and a few more signings announced. There hasn't so I've not bothered buying one. It makes me less likely to get one if the price is going up significantly after the deadline expires because I always end up missing a couple of games due to summer holidays. There is also the court case hanging over us which is a worry. I could pay by credit card to be safe but I don't have one, have never needed one and aren't getting one just for one purchase.

Have I missed something? Who's been seen up at Tong who hasn't been announced?

Scott Moore's been up at Tong which is a strange one.