very red robin wrote:but isnt this the correct figure (£221 as an example for east stand pass) if your just buying a season pass as new, no doubt if we renew our season pass before a certain date then we will get a discount off the full price of £221? (like this season) so in fact it wont be as expensive as it looks for existing pass holders?
Depends how hard they are pushing the membership - my guess is fairly. Remember as well that prices are frozen at 2008 prices for 2010
and 2011 if you buy membership. So 2 years of east stand season tickets plus membership, works out as a 16.75% increase. For the West Stand it is a 14.3% increase. Hefty, but remember 2 / 3 years of inflation will account for some of that (5-6%, ~one third of the increase, based on the current CPI of 2.2%. Mrs B; the current RPI, which I suspect will be your preferred measure is -1.1%). In real terms, I estimate, prices are going up 10%, and you are being asked for £60 up front. If you can afford that, I think that you can be fairly confident that the money will be invested back into the club/safeguard its SL future.
Also, if fans buy into being a member (in both senses), then the other benefits (which I think have been dismissed a bit too lightly), can be valuable to both club and support.
