RyanioBirdio
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Unless otherwise clarified / amended, you’re paying for them by losing your free club shop voucher, and at least one of them will be a tinpot trophy game that less than 1,000 people are willing to go to on average anyway. Early season cup games are discounted to £10 adults and £5 concessions as standard 95% of the time, so any U16 or O65 gets nothing for “free” if the £10 shop voucher is simply transferred over and applied to two £5 cup tickets. If you aren’t able (or willing out of principe in the case of the tinpot) to attend either of the first two home cup games then even full price adults aren’t any better off once the shop credit is taken into consideration.Free cup games is a nice touch.
The club also charged everybody for the playoff game last season when people already overpaid by anything from £50-£200+ versus what they received. Yes, people “knew the risks”, but the club had the chance to provide a small acknowledgment and thank people for their loyalty and chose not to. I said at the time that I found it a little mean spirited. Nothing was “normal” about last season, so the “you don’t get playoff games in a ST anyway” argument is weak. I don’t normally pay nearly £500 to watch 23 games on a laptop or phone, especially when other people could pay half that amount for the same experience, but it happened.
There also appears to be a message of “only people who renew AGAIN are worthy of acknowledgement, last season was a given and we’ve already banked that, so you need to go once more to be thanked. Oh, and you’ve got seven days. Your time begins… NOW.”
No attempt at a mutiny from me - people can pay whatever they like and I have no intention of encouraging anybody not to support the club. Even if I don’t renew I’ll still go to a number of games and put money into the club that way, albeit not as much as previous. But I’m continuing to lay all the pieces out on the table and I’m increasingly unimpressed by what’s on offer. Personally.
Merely my own opinion. It’s up to each individual how they feel and choose to view it all. I would like to think that the TRUE fans stuff between renewers and those who don’t for whatever reason can be left at the door.