Do it all year round as a direct debit and the cost is £12 per month.

It's not exactly hammering anyone that.

I think anyone paying this should get as many kids season tickets as they like for a tenner each.

Although I have always paid up front for my ST I would welcome paying £12 a month as it will take the strain off the bank balance with it being just before Christmas

3 season ticket holders at our house. We would all do it at £12 a month

£25 a month for a ST, A Shirt each year and membership of the Ledgends bar. Starting asap

Unfortunately, we live in a town of, shall we say "rogues". Direct debits are easy to cancel once you have the merchandise. I would hope that the club have fail safe action plans that would mean that anyone who partakes in such actions, not only has the ticket immediately electronically suspended, but are named and shamed by the club, ideally on the big screen at half time!

Indeed, if we talking about 1,000+ people having a constant Direct Debit with the club then it would most likely require a full-time member of staff for it's operation, so you can immediately deduct £15k or so from the cash such a scheme would bring in.

If you was to start DDs now then by the time the season starts you would be sufficiently in front with payments for the club to spot anyone who had cancelled there DD,infact you could have payed for you ST in full before the season starts?

Could it not be possible to enable( Electronically) the ST as being valid for the honest folk who would n`t even have dreamed of cancelling their DD. As for the scrotes who cancelled theirs they would receive a taser like zap as they tried to enter. This could shown as HT entertainment on the screens.............You know it makes sense.

The idea is that it's a constant DD with the club regardless of when the season is and having a season ticket is presumably only one of the benefits.

i understand that matt but if your 5 months in advance with payments then thats plenty time for the club to find any DDs that have been cancelled.

Not in the 'spirit' of things though, is it?
Might be worth speaking to those involved in organising it at Widnes, if that isn't the case already.

Remember matt we are now a business first and a sport second.

Exactly, in which case it doesn't matter how much you've already paid, if you miss a payment without a reasonable excuse then you can't use your season ticket. With the Direct Debit, the club would be able to obtain a list of those who have defaulted on their payment for that month within 3-4 working days of the 'due date'.

The point of being well in advance with payments is the club wouldn't need a full time member of staff on aprox 15k to keep an eye on DDs as you suggested it would need.