I think it's a very good idea

Well done Marc Green, that should hopefully get a few more for next season

In partnership with Provident is probably the crucial bit. Well it's certainly different, whether the initial 5% will be enough I'm not sure but I hope it works for the club.

Great incentive. Fantastic to hear that Provident are involved for the next 2 years.

So, buy a season ticket in 2017 at 5% less than the 2016 cost. If we don't get promoted then 2018's ticket has a 20% reduction but if we DO go up then you get a 2018 season ticket for free.

Not a bad offer. But I still feel nervous around the club going for this wild offers. Last time didn't work out too well

That's an insane offer. So if we go up then the club will lose any income from season tickets apart from new ones? And if we don't the club will have to operate on even less money?

It's so insane, it's bordering on genius.

well, not sure what to think really. Its certainly different, and as someone who historically always had a season ticket, but didn't last year (not just for rugby reasons mind) its making me think about rejoining is that. I'm not sure it will attract all the lapsed fans back, because we're still playing in the 2nd tier with the worlds longest preseason, but for anyone like me who was 50/50 to get one or not it might just make the difference.

However, we've been here before with crazy ticketing, I just hope Mr Greens calculator works better than the last lots and we're not banking everything on going up.

Well, if we're selling about 2k season tickets, which looked to be about the size of the crowd during the shield games, then it's not THAT big a gamble. If we're in SL then we'll be getting at least an extra 2k on the average gate which will cover the season ticket drop off.

Is the key question, how do we afford a FULL TIME squad in 2018 if we don't go up, bearing in mind we will have even cheaper prices? I hope all our eggs aren't in one basket

If Provident are underwriting the 2018 deal then is there really a problem?

Cracking negotiating if that's the case. 'I know we are going backwards with declining crowds and adverse publicity but can you increase your sponsorship?'

Exactly, sounds like basically an insurance policy, if we did get promoted, the reduced income is covered by the sponsor - but whose sponsorship would be of much more value in SL. So, win-win. Great innovation, you'd have to be mad not to renew

I'm in ... clever marketing twist... hopefully some spreadsheet monkey has got it correct in their assumptions!!

TBH I was always going to renew anyway... born and bred in Bradford...even though I toyed with the idea for about a nanosecond of jacking my season ticket for 2017 after this seasons debacle...realistically I am never going to stop going... so I'm in with bells on!

COYB!!

So how much was a season ticket this year?

I didn't buy one this season but this seems like too good an offer to resist. And in fact seeing as I didn't buy one, the club basically needs to pay me 5% to buy a new one. Winner.

Haven't Widnes done something similar? I think they've said that if they win so many games in 2017, then 2018 prices will be massively reduced/free. I know their sums will be using different figures for central funding etc. but the theory behind it is roughly similar.

I was going to renew anyway so all this means little to me, but if it works and it gets more people to commit then you have to commend Marc and the team for some shrewd marketing.