Yes ... senior moment.
lol
And thanks for the reply Shaun.

Reduction from full price at most clubs is £5 £7 at Featherstone and Keighley

Hi Wahs

The reason why the jump between adult and concessions is larger in other clubs is because they charge more for their adult tickets. As you can see from the information I've provided we are amongst the cheapest in the league for adult pricing.

Featherstone charge £10 for a concession, which is the same price point I've offered you with the multi-game ticket.

However they also charge £17 for an adult, which is £4 more expensive than ourselves. Keighley are one of the cheapest in the division at £8 I agree, however they are an exception and again charge £2 more than ourselves for an adult.

In addition as I've stated we also offer a free child ticket with any adult or concession ticket purchase, which is excellent value.

Again as I have pointed out the average price in the division is £10 and we charge £11. However I have offered to create a product that provides a £10 price point to bring this in line with the league average.

This was raised to show lack of parity between concession and adult

Thanks for the feedback Shaun - much appreciated.

I don't find it easy to attend meetings due to work commitments, which probably affects others too, so I think the forum is a good platform to get quite a lot of considered views. Plenty of people on here make some good points.

Designing a pricing package that makes everyone happy is tough, and I appreciate it is a difficult challenge. If you put the adult prices up to accommodate the concessions, you'll get your ear bent for that.

Even though our admission prices may compare favourably with other clubs, I do have a major issue with the £4 car parking charge which will surely be amongst the highest, if not the highest, in the league. A concession ticket plus £4 car parking is a fairer comparison.

We need to include parking charges in the match day cost, especially as transport links to the Keepmoat are poor. Why do the club think £4 is fair? A couple of quid seems reasonable, £4 seems like a rip off. This type of pricing doesn't endear people to the club. It does the opposite.

I understand that getting crowds of 2,000, with everyone paying £2 to get in wouldn't raise as much revenue as 500 people paying current rates. Initiatives need to raise more cash, not drop income, but we need to do something positive to get old fans back and bring new fans in.

If we have serious ambitions to get into Super League, we need to have crowds of at least 2,000. This is almost four times what we're getting now.

Does the club know why the old fans aren't attending? Unless we know why, we can't really start to solve the problem.

Could Doncaster College students do a project to try to find out the answers?

Where do knew fans come from?

Why not have a special promotion where all Rovers season ticket holders can attend one game for free?

We're probably not going to make anyone a die-hard rugby fan overnight but they won't know what they're missing if they don't give it a try.

Do the club have any attendance targets? If so, what objectives are in place to try to achieve them?

Looking forward to reading your thoughts, Shaun.

As a former fan no longer attending here are a few thoughts.

I have been a rugby league fan since the mid eighties but I have stopped following the sport over the past year.
I used to follow the Dons home and away, go to finals and internationals etc.
As with many Dons fans I first became interested during the Sheridan era and really looked forward to a Sunday afternoon down at Tattersfield. The whole buzz and atmosphere under the old tin roof was great.
As time has gone by things have changed, the sport sold its soul to Sky and the whole SL closed shop, franchising, money troubles at virtually every club, inept administration by the RFL and cost of attending games has really put me off. The worst thing for me though over the past few years, and this probably relates to most of society and not just RL, is the general aggressive, angry attitude which now seems so common amongst opposing sets of supporters. By all means shout for your team, but do we need all the anger?
I have now started watching Doncaster Knights.
The main reasons for this are:
I can pay on the gate the full adult price of £10
Although the car park costs £3 there are often offers such as this weekend where if you arrive more than an hour before kick off it is free, obviously hoping early birds will spend in the bar and food concourse.
The quality of food and drink is excellent. The cow pie is grand.
It is a pleasant experience watching a sporting event without people falling out with each other over every refereeing decision.
Generally speaking RU seems to be more professionally run than RL.

These are my reasons for not attending any longer.

Interesting points, Rupert, providing food for thought both metaphorically and literally.

Paying at the gate does seem to be a common point raised. Sometimes it might not always be the obvious things to the club that are creating barriers.

The actions of the RFL are beyond what the club can control but this does seem a point regularly raised.

Quality of food and drink, paying on the gate, costs compared to rugby union, and the atmosphere inside the ground are probably things the club needs to review.

Hi peeps, l have to agree with most of the points that our long lost fan "Rupert bear" has put on here, every season going way back we have had concerns about falling attendances, But in my opinion we need to stop looking at ourselves ( the club, the players, the fans)n that's not where the problem is, the issues are with the whole of the structure of rugby league, everything is centred around SL, but even the big clubs are struggling so the lower leagues have no chance. We have to stop looking over our shoulders at rugby union and making comparison we will never compete with them at club or international level. The rugby football league attendances across the board are poor terrestrial TV coverage is non existent. sky only care about SL.
The RFL are responsible for OUR demise not the club or the fans.
Rant over going to the pub, I will be there Sunday and l recruited a new fan last week who had a great day and is coming again this week..

Well I am at the Knights tomorrow, so I will review the facilities and compare them with the experience at the Dons.

Good stuff S-O. Can you print off a few flyers and hand them out at the game? Only kidding. Looking forward to hearing what you make of it.

Let folk in FREE .

You are a clown Charlie

That's a cross I have to bear ,anyway im over the moon with Donnys success , its my Favorite away game , I love the Keepmoat , I call it Little Wembley , and cant wait for our game there later in the Season . .

hope to see you there.
Hope plenty of fans get down from both sides for what should be a cracking game.

Thought i would put in my two penneth, i know some won't like it but here goes, the club needs to have something to capture the imagination of young kids, something they can identify with. I thought Doncaster Dragons was a good name, and a good marketing opportunity, just badly done at the time. Something needs to be done, we are all aware of that, the club cannot rely on an ageing fan base, it needs younger people to get involved, so give them something that they can talk and get excited about, and gives the club an opportunity to cash in on merchandise that kids want to wear etc. Just my thoughts.