I pledged 2 Juniors at £45 each too, so throw them and all the others in and I suspect the revenue raised would be very similar to the 6000 members we had last year at the higher price!

I'd be interested to know the total number of pledges full stop, including kids and tots who didn't count, we could have some very large crowds for the big games next year!

Which is why, at long last it was such a very good bit of marketing

and it's a long time since I've been able to say that about the Bulls.

Well done everyone concerned

Cheers for the above.

Glad to know I'm working on the right principal.

p.s You forgot that with also having a 10k+ average crowd we'll tick another two boxes:

One for having an average crowd over 10k

One for filling 40% of the total capacity of Odsal

Well done Ryan!

Wakefield fans dont have the slightest clue their own club, let alone anybody elses.

You could have just stopped there to be fair.

Mick, don't argue with them. There are folk across the forums talking the same waknerage. I dealt with some of them on the VT, but its really not worth it. The maths work out at much-improved income compared with what would otherwise have been the case. We know that, our Board knows that, so bloody what if some of them choose to believe otherwise - does it matter?

And as for Wakey, theirs was a club crying out for an initiative like this ffs. They will be dead soon enough if they don't come up with a sugar daddy or a similar initiative.

btw, amongst other things I have not yet seen a single commentator recognise that 14.9% of the gross goes to HMRC as VAT.

Or that - and this is a beauty, since NONE of these Einsteins have twigged - by converting walk-in income to up-front season ticket income, you get to keep 85.1% of the gross. From 4/1/11 you only get to keep 83.33%, a saving of around £9k on £1/2m gross (for example). Every little helps! And more than the same again in interest.

To be fair some are congratulating us, but others are just like the s on Sub Stand coming all doom and gloom saying we're losing £££££ not making £££££.

I hear Wakefield are on Judge Judy next week over the out laying £128 bill to the milk man.

I totally forgot about the VAT rise in January.

Great thinking by Hood, Duckett and Duffy

To be fair before reading your posts on the issue on the VT I had my doubts about the long term feasibility of the scheme but they certainly cleared things up. So sometimes it is worth arguing the point and those who bother to read it will see it is a fantastic scheme and fantastic achievement by Bradford. Of course you will always get those who won't read it or will just ignore what is written but most will see the point.

Mick, leave them alone on Substandard and elsewhere. They all know you are so easy to wind up, and therefore they go for it without mercy. There are those on Substandard and elsewhere who will refuse to listen, and will try and twist the argument regardless, no matter how irrefutable your own argument is. Don't play their game - do what annoys them the most - ignore them and just laugh at them.

Incidentally, I think you also need to look more especially to Andrew Bennett for this initiative.

So, correct me if im wrong here, but I think what you are saying Adey is that, far from losing money on this cut price bargain of a season ticket that us Bulls fans can enjoy, the club is actually in a position to MAKE money on it?

Of course. The club would not have entertained this initiative had it not been guaranteed to improve our income compared with what would otherwise have been!!

The big gamble they took was whether enough people would back the club's faith in its fans with their faith in the club. And it paid off. Because more than enough of us did. And how!