Take your blinkers off and give it some thought.I know that will be difficult.
We live in difficult times and in a depressed area.Its not a social club for the sack cloth n ashes brigade, leyther til I die mob .We need them +3500.

Simple numbers game at the bottom line, more money we get more we have to invest.

A rugby town, well are we ?.We have lost generations of fans, our amateur teams are asking for players.Our own council, through lsv seem, if we believe all we hear, to continually want us to jump through hoops for any slight gain.

...and theres too many who want something for nothing.

It will sell out so the whingers wont have to worry about the £40

i think your right, for every one saying they wont pay there'll be three willing to pay to get that little "extra" match day experience

Do they offer 'extras' at LSV then? I didn't think it was that kind of place!!

I won't be paying for £40 extra.
The thing is, I'd be on my own. My 3 mates who get season tickets, said NO CHANCE. So I'll 'go with the flow', not a bad idea, as a lump sum seems a bit steep, but £ per game, not bad at all.

Its a good deal for those happy to pay , a bad un for those not willing to

In fairness it sounds a bargain when you word it like AlexDad did, a thought for next year - word it so it looks a bargain and we really might get a take on it.
However at least the club is starting to realise the finacial revenues it can tap into without even having to try to hard.

Still hoping the club realises it needs to do some sort of 'family deal' for 2010.
For example at Bury FC its 20quid pay on day , alternatively 16quid 1 adult 1 child family stand - a good deal (and i'll ignore the comments from Lether Matt etc in advance ) that is aimed at getting a few on the people interested in the club who will spend money in the future (lets be honest if you take a child to a match you usually end up paying for far more than just the admittance to the ground - programme, drink, something to eat , hat , scarf, posters etc etc all add to the clubs coffers)

Presumably the £40 banqueting suite thing would only be open to West Stand ticket holders anyway? If so it'll probably rule North standers like our lot out, but at least the club are trying some new ideas out.

And if the club can find something people want to be part of and it brings a few quid in then good luck to them. Whether it happens to be my taste, or anybody else's is irrelevant - like Fred says, if you don't like what's on offer just exercise your right not to buy into it, but don't slag the club off for trying to offer something new.

Good news that Basil wants to bring back the feelgood factor and include the fans more as well. It's been too long since the club tried to make the fans feel part of what was going on, and IMHO attendances in recent years have suffered because of that as well as fortunes on the field. With a fan-friendly outlook and a few decent ideas thrown in we'll have something to try and build on to make game days more enjoyable irrespective of the result, and hopefully encourage a few more fans back.

have you tried asking rather than makes presumptions?

Don`t see why it should rule out the North Standers........Last years ST cost the same in the North Stand as anywhere else, so why should the club discriminate to us folk who prefer to stand.

No it includes every season ticket holder.

Definition - shortened form of acedemics, used when talking about classes

Better class of fan at Leigh than I thought

That would be why I ended that particular sentence with a question mark.

It will though exclude non "members".
Are we trying to build a fan base or not.
You can come for a day see the match, but we dont want you in the the prime. facility pre or post match.
Accessability has always been one of rls best attractions.
More the merrier surely.
They could push the half time draw have other draws and competitons recoup any costs that way.We get a share of extra bar takings.
We have plenty of empty boxes why not utilise them post match for another layer of corporate if you really want to charge.One or two could be kids facilities.Bit of thought,immagination really.
As AT said we simply need more people.