that I find harsh
but I do support the club in its forward thinking and we can't beholden to what the club decides

surly he could put his point of view across so they could understand how lucky they are at this moment

take for instance Ian has expressed his thoughts and can justify good value for money in helping them in the past as for Barry it looks like he has gone further than most

I think life membership should be given free to long standing season ticket holders one of our group has being supporting Wakefield Trinity since 1951 if that does not deserve a life membership I dont know what does

Strange one this. I too have nothing to show for my "Shares" in the old club but I can't say as I thought I had much to show for them whilst they were applicable.
Seems a bit petty to remove life memberships from a few old codgers who would presumably only be paying pensioners rates for any new passes?

Sandal Cat quote

[iI can understand peoples concerns but I don't know what everyone else paid but I paid £500 for Life Membership sometime in the 80's which got me a Season Ticket for life. It was a lot of money then and say I've got 20 years out of it my ST has cost me £25 each year for the Centre Stand - I think I've had my moneys worth.

The Club (Spirit of 1873 Ltd) asked existing LM's to provide details of when you obtained LM and how much you paid and evidence of that fact. I had no evidence as if I'd kept any receipts they were long gone. When AG bought the Club all the records of members went missing so the Club has no records of LM's, hence them asking the question.

Last season LM's were honoured even though Spirit of 1873 Ltd had no obliogation to do so and I guess they took people on their word. They have now asked people to prove their right to LM which is not unreasonable.[/i

Reading Sandal Cats post appears to me is that if Barry can show his investment with an audit trail then the club is prepared to listen.

Life memberships are a crazy idea, yeah the club got some money upfront but then what happens in the 3,4,5,6 years after.

If we're talking about half a dozen old geezers being disadvantaged by this decision, it would seem on the face of it to be rather churlish.

There seems to be a lot of people ignoring the fact that details of life members were not passed on to Spirit of 1873 Ltd so they aren't able to just roll things on. The club put a message on the website a while back asking all life members to provide proof of membership so that they could work out what needed to be offered.

If any life members can't provide such evidence then it's only fair to all supporters that they don't receive any preferential treatment.

i keep all my receipts from the 80s and 90s. yeah right.

While that is unfortunate how else are the current owners supposed to know who the life members are? It is an unfortunate situation and I have massive respect for those who stumped up £500 at that time but as has been said they've had a pretty good run at it and I'm surprised the deal has lasted this long given the number of financial meltdowns we've had since the 80's.

To be fair anyone could claim they are life members

He's got the lot. The letter thanking him for the contribution, a letter from big Dian apologizing for not believing he was a LM the last time they tried to take it off him and all the ST's from the last god knows how many years with LM written in them.

In that case I would have thought that if it had been shown to the club within the deadline they published they will have decided what they can reasonably do. If he's not taken it in before the date the club asked for it then that isn't the club's fault.

Think in the case of Barry Hough he could show them the dressing rooms and point to the big picture of Wally Lewis in the Ridings shop!

Was that part of the deal for life membership? If so we'd have only needed about 20 life members to build us a new stadium and a top quality team.

Still got my share certificate. Think I will frame it and put it on the wall.