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.

I agree with previous two posters. I pay to be entertained and the current position by the club is short sighted.

The cost of the card entry (instead of paper ticketing) comes at a cost also. I would imagine this system is seen as an investment for future seasons but the cost of the investment has to come from somewhere - unfortunately students and OAP's.

I agree that students should get a discount, however if you are under 65 you are not an OAP.

wow so you would rather of kept the black market going then at the cost of the honest fans that was willing to pay the going rate to watch a sporting game, and you say that they have alienated fans and that is the reason for the drop in attendance, the only ones the have alienated is the ones that can't get the cheap tickets or even jump the wall

A couple of hours entertainment, in warm comfortable surroundings for half the price? Sounds a good idea that!