bellycouldtackle wrote:
Would suggest that watching RL in now comparatively less expensive than it has ever been as the cost of watching ` your ` team at home is so cheap with all the special offers available on season tickets. Am I right in thinking that you could but a season ticket for only £ 100.00 this year. This offsets any perceived price increase for away games. This is also the reason why attendances for cup matches are so low as people will not pay the ticket prices after they have been fed on a diet of discounted season tickets. In reality the clubs should get together and get rid of these cheap season ticket offers. The product is excellent, the stadiums are improving, why reduce the price.
I think you miss the point here.
Whether Wakefield or any other club has looked after their own fans, with ST deals or matchday pricing, is totally irrelevent.
Why should other clubs consistantly get away with charging inflated prices compared with others. These are 2 seperate issues.
The point , especially in the current ecconomic climate, is that many people are having to make choices on how to spend their weekly
income and although we all enjoy RL, it is effectively a "luxury" item.
You mention percieved increases in away ticket prices but these increases are actual, not percieved and or club shouldnt give us cheap admission just so
we can line the pockets of other more greedy clubs.
If our club is trying hard to "help" the fans, then it is certainly not unreasonable for others to be doing something similar, unless of course they feel that
they will sell the same number of tickets, regardless of price or, that their team/ facilities are far superior compared with other grounds and that it is fair and
reasonable to charge a premium.
Whilst the KC is a great stadium, it does not warrent a 20% surcharge compared with others.
It will still be staging 26 players knocking lumps out of each other.
