What are your "age related" circumstances that justifies a £100 ticket then?

Its just that last year i paid i think £70 for my concession and £70 for my grandsons junior ticket, this year he would have been a studant ticket but that has been scrapped so he goes straight up to an adult £250 plust whatever the increase on my concession. All im saying is if the club whant us to attend this coming season the £200 total is what i can afford and are willing to pay, plus dont forget on match days i do buy the odd drink and chips etc, its up to them but i get the impression they arnt bothered about peoples circumstances the price is what it is take it or leave it.

It's a shocking decision. Traditionally students are at the age where they'll either stick with the club and be long term fans or they'll discover other things to do at the weekend and drift away. Offering no student discount on season tickets/entry is one way to make sure it's the latter. I asked a student I know if he'd got his season ticket for this season, his reply was ''no, can't afford it this year''. The student market is a good market to tap into but with no student discount we've no chance.

I am in the slot between 60 and 65 and have no problem with paying the full amount.
Never had 'owt for nowt' in my life including being a student in the late 60's and early 70's.
Before anyone mentions grants in those days.......didn't get one....... my parents had to 'cough up' the lot!

This is exactly it. Once the habit is broken at that age many will never come back, they will have found other pass times and interests. It runs the risk of creating a lost generation of fans whilst at the same time at the other end of the generation gap alienating a set of older ones who who may now be retired and for the last 2 or 3 years have been paying concession prices. Once again if they now cannot afford to go then the habit is broken and that could well be them done for good. The club has come a long way in the last 18 months financially but i think they have got this one badly wrong. For me if you are a student then you should get the concessionary rate. If the club is adamant that the oap rate should start at 65 then that should be for new purchasers and they should have offered existing concessionary pass holders the chance to renew for a set time at a lower rate.

I understand the moans about lack of special Student prices but, as an employed over 60 myself, I can't see the justification for any special treatment for non-pensioners. You might as well offer concesionary tickets for over 50's! The excuse that "it used to be cheap" really isn't valid as the truth is they were too cheap.

Maybe the folk asking the questions should try attending the rlfans forumrl on 4th February and get the opportunity to ask those questions of Michael Carter or someone else who may actually be able to answer it.
Let's face it, none of us on here know the reasons. Ask the question and then see if you're satisfied with the answer.

Why should we have to attend a forum why carnt they give some answers on here we know they read them but dont appear to want to justify anything to anyone, can they really afford to be so aloof. For what its worth as regarding the existing situation i will probably use my £100 by attending 5 selected games paying on the gate.

Just worked out poptart posted ticket prices for this season and if i buy on the gate £22 for my grandson and £15 for me add together £37. If i allocate £200 as previously stated thats 200 divided by 37 = 5.4 games call it 6, if we watch the sky games down my local ( how many sky games are we on) i can select the games to watch probably before the split leave out the games against the lower divisions, then work around holidays ( i missed 2 last year because of holidays) then rubbish weather etc it may work out ok.

But if you attend the forum and ask outright it's a damn sight harder to avoid answering isn't it? Was just a suggestion so no need to get quite so stroppy.

Sorry didnt mean to come across as stroppy was trying to be constructive.

I think you miss the point Wrencat, its not about being prepared to pay full price its about affordability, i can not see the sense in scrapping the student ticket as effectively a good section of support jumps from a junior ticket straight up to adult £250 plus the change to the concession from 60 to 65. Why on earth did they not just increase the prices across the board by inflation plus 3% its a no brainer. As to your last point do you really think you can increase your support and thus income by telling people they should support their pro rugby club and pay top prices, in the real world you can not dictate to people. The true gate price is what people can afford as simple as.

I agree. Most people don't want to buy season tickets (or pay on the gate) to support the club financially.
They buy them because they want to be entertained and the season ticket offers better value to do this.
If you can't afford the season ticket, it isn't a bargain at all. You just pay what you can, and in some cases that will be nothing.

The difficulty is to make Wakefield Trinity affordable in people's budget by making them want to prioritise the spend at the cinema or the football on Wakefield instead.

In that sence, the previous board had it right. They made Belle Vue an exciting place to come. That would have brought in even more income through sponsorship and extra spectators. Unfortunately they didn't have the financial skills to make it work.
I'd rather have MC over any of the previous chairmen, but the perfect storm of all of them would have been nice.

Yes sorry to keep banging on about this i just think they have got it wrong, when this management took over they stopped people sneaking in, they stopped the conterfeit tickets and the freebys from clubs and pubs (i hope) thats all good. What they should have done then as i said before was increase the ticket price across the board, but what they have done is gone from one extream to the other and by changing the ticketing system allianated a big section of supporters.
As they say the proof of the pudding is in the eating and i suppose we will see who was right at the end of the season.