We’ll replicate Hudds £80 next year. I wouldn’t bank on seeing a game on Boxing Day mind....

Read back a couple of pages I don’t think it’s oh so easy. I know how difficult “new business” is to obtain. I will one last time reiterate, what is going on in the background to change that? What are Wakefield Trinity doing to become the pioneer for Rugby League? I gather it’s obvious that I’m also talking about much more than the season ticket price. Which I might add and hope that anyone that does reply to me does it read, not for one second do I expect the season ticket prices to lower now or in fact in the next 5 years.

Side note: In honesty guys this is the first time in a while I’ve enjoyed myself whilst posting on here and I have had to wind anyone up to do so! Thanks for a great debate so far!

TheDreadnought, you do realise we have commit 6, £26 a month, gets you 6 lines in weekly 1873 draw and pays for the following years season ticket? That's spreading the cost over the year, plus chances of winning £250 each week.

Phew!!! I'm exhausted!!!!

Couldn't say that in all honesty

The reasons for your whinging about nothing you can actually justify, remain an unknown

but I suppose if it quacks like a duck, people will draw their own conclusions.

Have you actually read anything I’ve put? Everything I have about any other club is a fact. You obviously haven’t read it as I’ve confirmed I don’t know how many times that I’ve sorted my season ticket.

I never said that though did I, do as you please. Enjoy championship manager lad

I didn’t know that to be honest, double the initial 3 months that I thought but still more than Hull however I’ll admit it’s not as much as a increase.

We aren't competing with the NRL. No one is going to say, "£25 to go to Belle Vue. Outrageous. I'm off to Melbourne instead."

My comment about the general admission prices when I went to Aus in April was to put in context the Melbourne season ticket prices, in that they are consistent with the single ticket prices, not that we are overpriced.

Cutting season ticket prices doesn't work. Remember the Bradford £80 tickets, a third of the normal cost? If they sold three times as many, they only make the same amount of money as they did before, BUT lose the "on the day" gate money the other two thirds would bring. And if you remember, Bradford went bust straight after. Bradford assumed that fans would spend money on consumables. They didn't. If someone wants to buy a burger at a game, they will. No one will buy a burger they wouldn't ordinarily buy just because they got a cheap season ticket six months earlier.

What brings crowds, and money, in sport is success. To get success, you've got to be able to buy the best players, which means finding the resources, not gambling it all on consumers, who are traditionally from a less weathy demographic, on turning up in droves to witness a bargain basement team try to win, purely on the basis of it being cheap.

We're in the entertainment business. To attract crowds, you have to entertain. To entertain, you have to have the players. To have the players, you have to have the guaranteed income.

What you don't seem to get is although you think you are having a lively debate you don't take on what other people say and accuse them of not reading yours.

You imply in your questioning that you think the reason we are not like Melbourne Storm is through lack of effort. You've been around long enough to see there is effort in what the club does. The issue is money.
Melbourne and even Huddersfield have money in the city and money that sees value in investing in rugby league. Wakefield isn't like that.

Even in the 70s when we had a new era building, we had to sell and with the greatest respect replaced with older has beens. Having David Topliss and Trevor Sjerret plating for us still didn't give us Leeds type crowds. When they went to Hull it drew people in.

So asking MC what he has done to compete with NRL or teams with sugar daddy investors is naive at best.