Don't see how this is the "Pledge Plus" that Andrew Bennett spoke about in the fans forum at the start of the year. Can't see us hitting 12k either to be honest. Although last years price was a bargain there was a lot of optimism regarding a new broom under Potter, quite a few new players and the end of the McNamarra reign.

To be honest, floaters who signed up last year with the hype won't be sucked in as easily as they were. I hope we hit 12k but seriously doubt we'll hit 10k adult pledges. As performances have tailed off this year the number visibly on the terracing has dropped considerably from the start of the year.

Still no marquee signing, players not household names, no real light at the end of the tunnel in terms of Odsal being redeveloped.

I'm a bit glass half empty at the minute.

Did the club want the cash paying that early last year too? Wonder what cash flow is like at the club........

Hope its either a typo or cock-up.
Premier Club @ 10,000 pledges £320
Premier Club @ 15,501 pledges = £170

Why are there no details of concession prices? other than "prices to be set based on Target achieved"
This may well deter those fans who got a concession last year from re-pledging until they know the score.

I'm sure its pretty obvious to you that the pledge hadn't gone live yet. Simple fact is that I received a letter this morning asking me to pledge and when I followed instructions on how to do so the facility isn't there. Nowhere in the leaflet does it state a start date or time. The letters were posted by the club regardless of how quick Mr postman was. Doesn't seem a complicated thing to either state when it goes live in the leaflet or have it ready for when letter arrives.

Interesting responses so far. People complaining about 50% hike in prices but as the literature says if we can get 15k supporters then it will actually cost £55, a £5 cut on last year. It should also be said that the idea of a season ticket was that if you go to every match it will work out cheaper than paying each week. Only two years ago you would only get the equivalent of 3 free matches per year if you bought a season ticket. Now we are being offered 9 free matches and there are still complaints about it being more expensive than last year. (It's akin to the joke about the man finding a wage packet on the floor and complained about the amount of tax taken off).

Other thing to consider is that the more money club has coming in the more it has available to spend on players and also ground developments. Think a price rise was inevitable really as this years price was a real bargain and orobably priced unrealistically low to attract back the stay away fans. Looking at this years pricing I'd guess 12k is the real pledge target. The 15k figure is only mentioned to demonstrate that the price will continut to fall after the pledge target is reached, something which didnt happen last year. If it ends up being £75 then personally I think its a real bargain. I won't mind if its £90 as its still a significant saving on the old season ticket pricing structure and still a big saving on walkup prices.

In shorth then it's a bit more than this year but still worth it if you go to a handful of games or more.

Absolutely nutty. One year the Bulls sell season tickets at laughably giveaway prices, only to the get next year's still-pretty-damn-cheap-and-possibly-cheaper tickets slammed as a "50% price hike"!

Look, the Bulls did us all a favour last year, in trying (and succeeding) to salvage something and unfeasibly create a feelgood factor from the wreckage of the playing season. The fans responded and took advantage. Where in the script were we ever expected to permanently give bargain basement season tickets away? Do any of you seriously think that as a mid- to long-term business strategy, that would work?

If Tesco sell butter for one week on a BOGOF basis, then at the end of the offer, the same idiots would be calling it "a 100% price hike". It's not. It was a temporary bargain and if you like it, take advantage of it.

I wouldn't mind, if the Bulls had put the season tickets back up to 2009 levels, even THAT would not be a "price hike" - they would still be cheaper than 2009 in real terms. But they're not. They're still offering some pretty damn cheap tickets. Buy them - don't buy them - your choice - but stop trying to make out they're not still a bargain - they so are.

People shouldn't complain about the price rise really. To the hardened Bulls fan who go to every home game its fantastic value. Even to the fans with other commitments outside rugby it gives them the opportunity to pick and choose which games they can attend and still save money. However, I think we'd all be surprised how many tickets where sold to people who aren't massive Bulls fans. 4 of my friend have told me this morning that they won't be buying next year for whatever reason.

The price rise doesn't bother me as I'll be there anyway but please don't assume that everyone who bought last year will feel the same as you. I know several people who bought tickets planning to go to a few games but only ended up going to a couple. Not good value to them so the price rise does affect some.

Not bothered about a miniscule increase, in my opinion (and her indoors) its still a fantastic bargain what ever the pledge finishes at. Just get signed and stop nit picking

Only way we will get anywhere near 10k again is if we pull a marquee signing out the bag, which i very much doubt will happen. 7 or 8k tops for the pledge after yet another bad season.

Clearly the club are aiming for the 12k mark. Which is only 953 more fans than we got this year. Which would only be a £15 increase on this years price. Still a bargain.

One thing I just realised, and just re-read letter to confirm, is that when talking about pledges it doesn't say adult memberships anywhere. This implies that junior and concession tickets could count towards the pledge total. This combined with lowering of age at which kids get in free, hence meaning they'll need junior tickets too makes the 12k target a lot more realistic if I'm reading it right.

Even if it is same as last year and only adult tickets count then think people are being too pessimistic and we should reach 10k without too much trouble. A couple more solid signings would certainly help.

I have several problems with the way our marketing department are working at the moment....

Big announcement spoilt by lack of knowledge of how postal system works
Typo's on letters that are sent out without being proof read
Begging themed letters -yeah we appreciate what you do but bring more money in please! I have to wonder how the tone our tentative approahes to wealthy businessmen read.....

Unless as stated above pledge total is to include the kids tickets which would prob push closer to the 15k figuire which would be clever way of making it look like we have improved on our fan base without much actually changing and a few more fans added in attempt to get tickets cheaper.

Some things I have noticed - no second fans forum that we were told about, the promise of improved food options that has dwindled?

I am not complaining about the money just strategies we seem to be taking! Why not say we are building for the future and hope we can keep you the current members and go down a retention policy with an £80 set price?with play matching the levels before the original pledge (i.e. regular season games only) only marquee signings would have kept all people returning let alone improving on it. I wonder if there were problems trying to sign big name players after the orford saga? because I am sure the signings we have made are positive ones but a greg bird.matt orford type figuire now would have been amazing for morale and anticipation for next year!

I'll get completely hammered for this - but i won't be paying £90 for a ticket. the absolute dross thats been served up this year is not worth paying £30 more.

I'll get one if we hit the £75 price bracket, but otherwise no go.


I suspect a fair bit of the current holders will be thinking along the same lines.

Other than the clubs error with sending the information out early, I think they have done well to keep season tickets prices cheap! I for one definitely expected an increase therefore a small chance of a decrease in price is very good. I understand the likeliness of this is slim but to get a season ticket for under £100 for super league is great value. Yes this season hasn't been the best and im sure a fair few floating supporters will not renew but I am optimistic the majority will!