Of course. But what about the layman who is more exposed to football, as we all are whether we like it or not; how do they justify £20 to watch a sport that has no public notoriety nor any famous players apart from Robbie Paul? I'm looking at this from the angle that some people do not attend sporting events for the sporting event, if you know what I'm saying.

But I digress...

Your right Chico!

I have no doubt it's much easier said than done but Salford need to really target families that enjoy watching sport in the flesh but can't afford to take the whole family on a regular basis to watch United/City. The difficulty is obviously attracting these people without star players, a top quality winning team, an impressive stadium and a big crowd atmosphere.

I didn't go to the magic weekend last year as it would have cost too much for the whole family to go. Only I would have got the discount and my husband and the two under 5's would've had to pay full price. With this offer that the club is footing the bill for (the RFL are not going to subsidise this are they?) we will probably all go.

And I wore my shirt and a kind Auntie got hers in my lads size so he could have one (too young to have a season ticket last year).

The problem the club have is that there is no way of pleasing everybody all the time. Inevitably there are always times when offers are not going to benefit everyone. The club have been criticised for not doing enough for families and kids. Now it appears they have listened and the single blokes aren't happy. The crux of the matter is that £180 is an excellent price for what you get and I do believe they are making a concerted effort to increase numbers by encouraging family members to come along with the die hards. Only time will tell.

The main problem with this offer is the fact that the club have called it a family membership. There should be individual prices for adults/kids rather than grouping everyone under the family banner. How many cars do you see driving down Weaste Lane with the 'perfect' family of 2 adults/2 kids all wearing their free away shirt? Not many. Individual pricing for the membership would give people more flexibility. If for example 3 adults who attend games together want to take up this membership they have to take out 2 family memberships at £50 each. Why?

It is true that they aren't the target audience anymore but they really still should be, they are the core people who are gonna commit to following something through thick and thin. Look at Manchester Storm, they focused solely on the family audience and while experiencing some high crowds at the start once the novelty wore off they went tits up. Obviously do as much as you can to attract families but the hardcore will always fall into that 16-40+ age bracket.

So... Pay the same price as a family membership plus early bird ST, get none of the extra benefits? Hmm, well, it's a start, I guess.

I appreciate that year-on-year comparisons may make loyal fans that attend on their own feel hard done to but, even at £180, the season ticket is equivalent to the cost of 10 games.

If you are a die-hard, week-in week-out fan then you're getting 4 matches free plus the Magic Weekend, plus a shirt.

It's not a bad deal at all IMHO and certainly offers good value for money to anyone that attends regularly when compared to 'on the day' prices (which is the whole point of season tickets as far as I'm concerned).

Just passing on the info I got from the club earlier. You don't have to be a family to be a member. You can pay the membership and ST price and get all the benefits even as a single person.

What if your are divorced or live on your own should get a 25% discount like council/poll tax

Here's a radical idea. Why don't the club say there aren't any season tickets just come down and pay on the day! The price is £18 for everyone including kids, OAP's and students. No early bird offers, no free shirts, no free cup games and no free trip to chilly Jocko Land.
"STUFF THE LOT OF YOU!"

There everyone treated equally and the death of the club is nigh. People weren't happy last year they try something new, surprise surprise... people aren't happy. give it a Fooking rest!

Some of you want the club to give you your tickets for nowt and then complain when they don't sign anyone or take 200K for a jumped up little 5h*te who might turn out to be a flop after his first season. FFS where's the money going to come from?

Bored of this thread now as you are all going round in circles. That's the offer, take it or leave it! As someone once said you can only please some of the people some of the time!!!!!!

Point. Missed. Spectacularly. Well done.

Chrismum, cheers for that. It's just a shame that the club didn't make that clear in the original fanfare. It would've saved ten pages of debate!

On the contrary GT I think I've hit it bang on. All those on here saying it is a bad deal are those who can only see a £20 increase and the fact that families are appearing to get a better deal than them as an individual. They seem to have ignored the things that the club has given them and focussed in on the why are they getting more than me aspect of it. So I don't think I have missed the point at all.

Stop posting then!!