Lets say I pick half the games to go to and choose 7 out of the 13 home games...as a non-member that would cost me £126. As a member it would cost me £134. Bargain!!

You have to go to 9 games to make a saving on the single pay as you go membership (£158 v £162).

Yes but your forgetting the free away shirt and the magic weekend ticket.

The financial incentive of being a member is to make it more affordable for familes to attend more if not all the games! It's simple, if fans only choose to attend a few games during the season they pay the full price on the gate!

This new membership scheme seems a great idea to me especially considering all the whinging on this forum earlier this year about the cost of bringing the kids to the match being too expensive.

Free away shirt only applies to people buying the season ticket.

And whilst I agree that the membership idea in general is a good one and the family membership idea could well increase families going to the game, I feel it shouldnt isolate other sectors of the support which it seems to be doing at the minute.

If membership was £10 per person with a family membership at £20/£25 with similar benefits to what are on offer now then I think it would have been received a whole lot better than it has at the minute and could well have got a lot more support, both in take-up numbers and in back-slapping for the club.

I'm going to try and keep out of this debate/argument for a while now anywayas I think I've made my points fairly clear...its a brilliant idea for families and offers superb deals for them - not so good for single/individual fans.

I was indeed 'joshing' (great word by the way!) but, if you really wanted to, I'm sure you cold probably get away with this and use it as a way of making the cost less for fans that attend matches 'on their own'.

There's no practical way the club could verify who lives where and, even if they could, there's no way they could/would check that everynone who comes in is the person that is named on the season ticket.

last week it cost me £54 for two games at United I could not attend due to holidays (both cup matches) but as PR says going to Rugby league is a bargain, also the other week one of the contributors to this site (won't mention his name) attended the Sale Yawnion game that ended 15 - 12 all kicks no Tries and paid £28.50 to get in.


PS 4 numbers on the lottery covered the United costs.

"self-appointed intelligentsia "

looks like the Stalinists have arrived. The clunking fists of the shed.

My point is that it makes no difference if the club has offered to pay supporters to attend and if they gave away butties and beer, someone would find fault. So far we have had every reason not to attend from selling our best player (sic) to young single persons being discriminated against "including grannies being subsidised ).

Compare Sale Sharks - season tickets range from "value" at £199 to "Platinum" at £700. I will compare to the round ball game as they charge fantastic prices with little promise of as much excitement as at any Rugby game. OK Rochdale FC charges less - but the club is teetering on the edge of ruin as they cannot attract the fans. Hardly SUPER League.

We also have the sponsors reducing their financial support. Yet we expect improvement - players and games cost money. Like any business, prices go up.

Whatever the club do, too many see it in negative ways; that's not criticism but whingeing.

Unless the club ask to see photo id such as passports when you apply for a membership??

And how likely is that?!

Even if they did, what's to stop Orsall Red and his lover GT showing their passports, claiming to live at the same address (even though they don't - yet!) then getting two season tickets but only paying the £50 once?

I think the idea is to make it attractive to the people who are going to go to every game and maybe even some away ones with reference to the junior season ticket. If its cheaper to pay as a non member for only a few games then go ahead and do it. You work out what works out cheapest for you and do it. Simple. I have slagged the club off recently for the way things are run but it seems like some people are just moaning for the sake of it on this.