I'm not bothered where it goes as long as it benefits Wakefield Trinity Wildcats in any shape or form.

Me neither mate. Have already signed up to platinum membership but not all the relative newbies or those who have returned from self imposed exile will be willing to pay extra if it means watching a losing team

Any price under 200 quid is under-selling the actual product IMO. SL is surely worth more than that ?

I'll be getting one like every season TRINITY FOREVER

£180 is incredible value - I think many have lost the value due to the unreasonably low ST's over the past couple of years.

At some point the price was going to return to some kind of parity - and that is now.

To alleviate the problem (for those who don't have that kind of cash lying around) the club have offered the spread payment deal - £20 per month for 9 months if you register before the end of August.

The ST committee pushed hard for this and we would be sorry to see it not used as we believe that this is the first move in the club becoming more of a membership basis on a 12 monthly renewable monthly payment contract.

£20 a month? It's less than a fiver a week - or a pack of 20 ciggies.

We're still in SL, still fighting hard and will need all the support we can get from everyone involved - and that very much includes us.

We may be down in the dumps, but I am more optimistic today than I have been for quite some time!

When was the last time you bought a pack of 20 cigs?

The 20 quid a month spread payments is a great offer, though. Good on the ST to get this one pushed through.

Never - thank goodness. But I know they ain't cheap over here!

£180 is great value, I just know how tight some people can be. There will be less take up of memberships next year but this will be offset buy the increase in price.

I wonder if the club have considered harnessing the payers social media presence for flogging memberships? If I were in charge, I'd compel all the players to Tweet a corporately approved message about memberships at least twice per day for the next month - lots of fans, I'm sure, follow the players but ignore the club officials.

It would even be possible to incentivise them such that the player who generated the most sales was offered some kind of prize - a lifetime supply of Costa coffee for example, or a Nandos voucher.

Seems like quite a powerful network that goes largely untapped.

Another network going untapped is the current holders of season tickets. As I have previously commented, email details were put on previous season ticket membership forms and I used to receive information emails from the club. It would have been one of a range of appropriate methods of informing current season ticket holders of the offers for next seasons' tickets.

Good point - don't get the e-mails any more - and not had owt through the post. I used to do the renewal letters and forms and letters on behalf of the club. They weren't the best, but they were individually tailored and addressed. As I see it, the easier you make it to do, the more likely it will be done. Trick missed I feel.