All solid offers, I never realised just how great the loyalty offer is. Even if you miss a few the club doesn't lose out and you aren't that far out of pocket.

Leeds and Cas are arguably the 2 most popular home games of the season - both gone.

Tronc, Brough and Newton were arguably 3 of our biggest name players - all gone.

Charge 100 quid for a half-season ticket and all you'll hear are howls of derision and "how can you charge that much to watch that lot?"

72 quid offers good/fair value for money under the circumstance.

Be surprised if we sell more than half a dozen of these, its been appauling the last 6 weeks. Club is going backwards. V disapointing.

Its become boring zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

It seems like good marketing to me, and isn't too harsh on season ticket holders when the overall marketing strategy is looked at.

If you assume that the games people have attended haven't been bought in advance, then the savings for season ticket holders over the half-season ones are:
Loyalty season ticket holders: £57 (including the discount on the away shirt)
Early bird: £47 (including the discount on the away shirt)
Full season ticket: £32 (including the discount on the away shirt)

If you work on the assumption that the club encouraged people to get the loyalty and early bird season tickets, then the saving isn't too bad, as I doubt those who couldn't sort out a season ticket in time would make the additional effort to get their match tickets early every time.

To get the £2 loss on the full season ticket is only from the worst case scenario: that the fan always buys his game ticket in advance, that an away shirt wasn't bought, and that they didn't take advantage of the season ticket deals. Every other alternative results in a saving, and if it makes people go to games that they might have otherwise chosen to skip, then food and drink sales do better, and the attendance looks better come franchising. No negatives from me.

because we have had a taste of the play offs twice now they expect to improve even more, the atmosphere at Belle Vue is the big factor

I wonder how much of a factor was the actual play-off game. The crowd against Catalan in the play-off was really, really poor, given that it was a play-off game, and we played them because they got an unexpected win against Saints away, which booted out Bradford. I wonder how different things would have been had we played Bradford?

Every thing has a price, and maybe we have just priced ourselves out of things a bit, where what you get isn't what its worth.

This year is about the new stadium, and if things go okay, people will come back, and the burden of that stadium-focus being lifted may allow the club to focus more on marketing. I think Warrington reported a similar thing before the move to Halliwell Jones, that everything drifted as they sorted things out, but they have been on the up since they moved.

Well the good news is no rant about light bulbs, so at least the club are doing something positive

Spot on there McBatt old boy, could not have put it better myself