Sorry but if prices go up by the alledged 20+% Hudgell is making a big mistake. For that kind of increase I would want Grand Final certainty a Challange Cup final spot, cheerleaders like Wakkey, Someone to pick me up and drop me off at home, a cushion for my seat, free booze at the bar and Rufus to fan me at halftime on a warm day.

Not much to ask surely.

Maybe we are deciding to buy a foreign player for 2010 and pay him for sitting in the sun for three quarters of the season....must be a costly excercise

You already do that with Mills, Spaven, Esders and Watts.

Do you think you have enough information on what the value is for the £60 vs being, to quote your operations manager, "just a fan" who only buys a regular season ticket? Serious question.

Remind me, which exotic, foreign land do these lads hail from?

Ezzo is from another planet, cant get more foreign than that!!

Some details on the Rovers site now. Junior membership really does appear to be free - although it doesn't include all the benefits (notably the half price derby ticket), season tickets are frozen for 2010 and 2011.

The Roving scheme seems, perhaps literally, to be unbelievably good value:

Roving Far and Wide - Your Team, Your Dream
Match Day Programme and DVD for each home game
One free away match ticket for specified matches
5 to spend in store during September
Club Rovers Player of Year Voting Rights
Exclusive Membership Card

For £60!!! This compares very favourably with the current virtual season pass. Okay, some of the stuff is selling a 'dream' rather than anything tangible, but the DVDs, programmes and a ticket for (hopefully for me) Quins is pretty good.

I don't think the club are trying to milk fans. Loyalty doesn't pay players wages or get new stands built, cash does. And people who choose not to join this scheme only lose out in the sense that getting a KC derby ticket will be more difficult, though I believe there were different issues this year anyway.

Season ticket hikes are another issue. Even there though, we can't expect benefactors to take losses indefinately. To an extent we might have to choose between cheaper tickets and a weaker team, and paying more for continued success.

[quote="Mrs Barista"]You already do that with Mills, Spaven, Esders and Watts.

AFAIK none of the above are expensive foreign players and regularly play for the reserves if not in the first team squad.

HTH.

Where exactly do you have to live to get the 'roving far and wide' deal though? West Hull? Cott?

Not very clear is it.

[quote="Mild Rover"]Some details on the Rovers site now. Junior membership really does appear to be free - although it doesn't include all the benefits (notably the half price derby ticket), season tickets are frozen for 2010 and 2011.

The Roving scheme seems, perhaps literally, to be unbelievably good value:

Roving Far and Wide - Your Team, Your Dream
Match Day Programme and DVD for each home game
One free away match ticket for specified matches
5 to spend in store during September
Club Rovers Player of Year Voting Rights
Exclusive Membership Card

For £60!!! This compares very favourably with the current virtual season pass. Okay, some of the stuff is selling a 'dream' rather than anything tangible, but the DVDs, programmes and a ticket for (hopefully for me) Quins is pretty good.

I don't think the club are trying to milk fans. Loyalty doesn't pay players wages or get new stands built, cash does. And people who choose not to join this scheme only lose out in the sense that getting a KC derby ticket will be more difficult, though I believe there were different issues this year anyway.

Season ticket hikes are another issue. Even there though, we can't expect benefactors to take losses indefinately. To an extent we might have to choose between cheaper tickets and a weaker team, and paying more for continued success.[/quote]

Not a problem, I do not expect prices to stick forever or go down but you have to raise them carefully to appease not whack a Glazier type hike on in one go.