You have to remember that the one's bragging about doing this tend to be morons. The club will have checks in place to weed out fake pledges, so all they've done is waste their own time.

And a lot of them also tend to be from clubs who can only dream of a minimum home average attendance of 10k+

So just sit back and laugh at sad, pathetic losers. I know I will be

You got it in one:

Castleford
Wakefield
Widnes

I've yet to meet Andrew, will have to tick that off my list for next season.

They will not triple.

Even if they reverted back to last year's prices.

I will pay just over 50% this year of what I paid last year. Many will pay a considerably higher percentage, albeit still with a good saving.

You have been suckered by the headline £60 rate like so many others, completely ignoring the existing early-bird and season ticket discounts already in place and the lower % savings e.g in the stand.

And anyway, for such time as we are stuck in a huge ground with no capacity constraints, this pricing model - suitably tweaked - is likely to be sustainable.

Now I'm REALLY not up to speed on legal stuff, but what you've described here would work perfectly for a 'finders fee' whereby you agree to pay x subject to the other party producing certain goods. How they come about the goods is almost irrelevent and in this case the club has.

I think the legal bit is more around whether the people pledging can be seen to be reasonably expecting to be entering a binding contract. I'd say yes, but the degree of uncertainty/ambiguity as evidenced by subsequent press realeases explaining the minutiae, etc, would almost certainly cause any petition by the club to be thrown out in a matter of minutes.

But as has been said repeatedly, who cares? We get cheap season tickets and without the confusion there will be a LOT of people who will see product and price and will buy despite never having pledged.

i never even thought of the vat bonus to the club too. i guess that's why i don't have my own business

please dont, this guys quite good we dont you scaring him off just yet

I wonder if the bulls will ever officially announce the number of memberships they end up selling. I hope so, and I hope it's close to (or even above) the number of pledges they achieved.

I can see almost all the other clubs in SL copying this idea in some form or other next year



Newsflash...... Bradford Bulls lead the way in Marketing once again, feels like 96 all over again

Duckett said they were going to change the food stalls and things like that for 2011 IIRC.

With alot more people entering, surely they'll also be able to command a much higher fee from the food providers, and hopefully (like he said) they'll be negotiating a deal so the prices aren't as espensive.

I dont think I have been suckered in. As a Leeds fan i am just interested in how your attendances will improve especially in derby matches because i miss the rivalry of pre 2006.

Although I dont want you lot to be too successfull i want you to improve so the rivalry is greatly increased and get the Leeds Bulls games back to the best derby in SL as it was in 03,04 and 05.

I hope the club do something about the price of beer too. (although the quality could be better too

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Something like buy a pint every home game and get one free at the final game. Or a loyalty card where you buy 10 and get one free would be a good idea. Although we don't want to encourage the drunken idiots, there are plenty who complain about the price of beer.