I've been in since day one, joined as season tickets are so cheap, I've won 20 quid. One thing simple thing that made me feel involved, and stopped me from dropping out was asking for confirmation of my membership, the club sent me a membership card with my details and numbers on, seems a small thing (and is) but everyone in the lottery should get one without asking. It means i can see my numbers not come out, just like that other lottery i send my money to for little financial gain.
An idea to expand it might be to combine the season ticket membership and lottery membership in some way, call it being a dreadnought (or something equally as cheesy) give us a special hat/scarf or something that can't be bought separately, offer an extra discount and charge us appropriately for the privilege of being special.

My wife won the £250 the other week and my mate at work won the £2000 prize.

Confidentiality would mean that you should not be able to see the full list of names, why should an individual be able to ascertain whether BigAl, TRB, Sandalcat, Trinity61 etc are contributors to the scheme.
ps in order to protect their identities, the foregoing are not real people, they are actors and their voices have been dubbed.

I think you may be ott here Disney.
I think that if the people running the draw confirm that you are in, then that has to be good enough.
Why would they want to take YOUR cash and not include you.
FWIW, I've had calls asking me to buy a season ticket but, I already have one.
IIRC, you should have received a letter at the outset, confirming your numbers, which also gave a membership number.
Then if you check the draw each week, you should know if you have been lucky.
Equally, if the letter went astray, the new guy should be able to confirm all these details for you.

If it makes you feel any better, I know a couple of people that have won one of the consolation prizes, so the draw is certainly functioning.

The Saturday Yankee? Seem to remember I was in it back in the 90s.

I think it needs simplifying and relating more to Trinity. The link keeps referring to a £250 weekly guaranteed win draw (which is nice) but what does getting all four numbers get you? Is it another £250? Is that necessary? I'm not after picking four numbers that will realistically never come out, nor do I care for deals for third party offers that I'd never use. I'd prefer names to go in a hat (rather than numbers) and be pulled out on a weekly basis with a bank of regular game day prizes, yes a regular cash prize would be nice but why not that and just rugby related things like two tickets in hospitality, a signed shirt or even something money couldn't buy like the chance to travel on the team coach to an away game fixture, or even pick a man of the match! Ultimately we are all interested in the rugby, so I would make it more about the game whilst also trying to simplify the process.
Why not sell tickets at the game too and do the draw at half time? More people might pay in if they didn't feel they had to sign up long term.

Maybe so but it doesn't instil you with confidence when they have my name ,address & phone number but they still ring me and ask if I want to join Now does that say I am not on the system of 1873 or is their software that poop they can't check it, but my D/D still gets paid to them, It maybe that my only option is join the other 200 and cancel my D/D then I know I will not in the draw.

My wife won the draw on the 2nd of june she still not been payed phone up on numerous occasions promised it would b sorted but still no money . we both joined too help the club first but this is very poor pr

Yep but we have had a lottery since then, at the back end of Teds reign.

Why don't we do the golden gamble half-time raffle at games anymore???
Must have been a good earner! Because other clubs still do it!
As I purchase a ticket at most away grounds!

Because we have the Rugby League Doubles instead - the "scratchcard" thing that has a Home team tryscorer and Away team tryscorer and if you match both then you win.
The cynical part of me would suggest that this is better than Golden Gamble as it's quite possible that during a lot of games nobody wins this prize.

Cant find the sandbags dad!!!

Just to put my two penneth in.
I won a free gym weekend, and they sent that out to me straight away.