That's the dilema. If I was on my own I would cop the price rise for the 'Gold' area, but as my sons membership has gone up from £60 to £200, I am swaying towards the £99. What I haven't seen anywhere is the cost for a match day ticket in the Gold area ? Also, I am in two minds about player sponsorship this year.

Adult 'seat-in-the-grandstand' has gone from £195 to £225*.
Concession 'seat-in-the-grandstand' has gone from £120 to £180*.
Mine have gone from an U12 (£60 for 'seat-in-the-grandstand') but now count's as a concessions this year. A 3x increase*.
Gold U12 with 'seat-in-the-grandstand' has gone down to £40!
I've stumped up for all of 3 of us as we're a full-time club and expect to contribute toward the costs of being so.

*with the 10% Early Bird Discount

Player sponsorship, now there is another situation where much is promised, yet in my experience, little is delivered.

On sponsorship i was contacted by amanda, agreed to renew, players shirt from this year in the post. All seemed very smooth!

The club always seems able to shoot itself in the foot at any given opportunity, especially disappointing after such a good season on the field. How hard would it have been to allow existing season ticket holders a time frame in which to book their existing seat for next season? We wouldn't have even noticed the 25 - 30% price hike for the Gold Season tickets. But no 'it's first come, first served'. Our seats had gone by the time we'd had chance to log on!

I'm amazed to learn that the new season ticket arrangements hadn't been discussed with the supporters association. The club just seems to show a blatant disregard to fans who've stuck with the club through some very thin and challenging times.

I'm not convinced they'll even be bothered whether or not we renew our season tickets 9still waiting for response to my last email sent 6 days ago), but if we do it will be the £99 ones.

How right you are Essex Rhino. Off the pitch the club are very poor. They seem to do their best to alienate their own fans. They fail to even consider what the consequences of their decisions are. Then when people get uptight over it they, try to cover it up by telling lies. It only makes them look more foolish.
Sometimes I wonder why we stick around, gluttons for punishment I suppose.

We stick around in the (vain?) hope that we can do something about it. One day the Hughes era will come to an end and we really need to be taking action now to ensure that does not mean collapse. I am still convinced we can build a stable successful Broncos without the need for a sugar daddy; we just need a long term plan and we need to start working through it!

I always thought we stuck around because we were rugby league fans

Nkpom has got it right. The David Hughes era will come to an end and there needs to be a plan in place for when it does.
As the club are not all that good at planning, we should all be concerned.

Who is David Hughes? Sorry, I'm new! I remember a David that used to visit Daddy, but fail to recollect them calling each other "Sugar."

That smilie with the hat on looks like my kind of guy.

Yah!

Go on come and sit near us. You know Phil won't annoy you.

Any past ST holders been contacted by the club?

Not this season, I was last season. To be fair to the club I have paid on the day all but once in the past two seasons so they have no idea I am still watching games. As it happens I probably will get a season ticket for 2017.

With my experience of the club, I would not be too surprised if it turned out that they had deleted all the past season ticket holder information, when they moved from The Hive.

What do you reckon?