While everthing you say makes sense and is true the 18th man is right, it will put away fans off.

A lot of fans have less money to spend and the cost of living continues to rise, it will put some off.

Let's not get carried away here Bren a roof at one end doesn't really put our ground on a par with any of the recently built ones. We still have the wonky terracing, painted brick walls for toilets, floodlights out, limited seating etc If you want to charge top dollar you have to offer top dollar facilities! You can sugar coat Belle View all you like but it's a bit of a dump, a dump we have grown to love but an old ground all the same. I appreciate it costs a lot to run a club but to get that cash you need to attract the customers, £22 entry won't do that.

It makes me think they regret selling the season tickets so cheaply and makes me worried about what they will try and charge for admission if and when we move!

If its going to be £22 to go through the turnstiles at BV, what are other clubs going to be charging, particularly Hudds and Hull FC as they are usually most expensive ?

I don't think £22 will put us beyond most comparable clubs, such that visiting fans, whilst they may not like it, won't like it any less than they do at other grounds; in short, they'll still stump up to see their team get pasted by the mighty Trin and probably recoup the £2 by bringing a flask. I've been doing it myself for years, along with car-sharing. Likewise for casual home fans - they'll pay the £22 for the games they can make, or they'll buy some form of membership if the price increase makes it a more viable option.

As for your second paragraph - that just seems needlessly pessimistic; nothing in Spirit of 1873's short history suggests that they're likely to screw the fans at NM and given that the stadium will be let to the Trust at a peppercorn rent and the Trust's friendly disposition towards the club, I can see no reason that they'll hike up prices to an unreasonable level if/when we finally get there.

£22 has put me off I have to say. I have never really agreed with the gate policy at Trinity when other clubs always let the smaller kids (under 4s) in for free Trinity always charged which was very frustrating.

I will still get down to Belle Vue, but I will now pich and choose the games I attend. Previously if I was at a loose end I would go down if there was a game on regardless, but at £22 to get my live rugby fix I will probably drop down the league.

Buy a season ticket? You can also get a jr pass for £20 through your local amateur club and bingo, jonh jr gets into every home and away game for about 75p, plus the vouchers for special matches, plus he can bring a friend to a game for free. It's pretty straightforward.

Maybe if we hadn't got a 2 page thread on it the away supporters wouldn't find out till they turned up, just a thought.

Bag open....cats all over the place!

I had a quick look at Giants site to see what their price was this year. It doesn't say.....but I do like their site.
Good merchandise free delivery, free scarfs with orders....I like what they are trying to do.

Yeah,at times I don't think we help ourselves!

Indeed - nothing like giving away fans the heads up that there's something to moan about! If the Shudds travelling support sees this thread, both of them are likely to stay at home.

So you think it will stick at £22 forever then?

You can't see another increase in two years?

Are some of you lot for real? Criticising me for pointing out a price increase that will apply to anyone without a season ticket? I didn't put the sodding price up!

Do you expect anything you buy to stay at the same price forever?

All those posts bumping a thread that they dont see any need to adverise. lol.

Not having a dig here, but as an away fan i could not justify 2 x £22. Sorry.

If the cap fits mate feel free to wear it!


I just think that a lot of away supporters don't really need an excuse to pi$$ and whinge about our club without us teeing the ball up ready for them to knock it back, I personally acknowledged the price increase but chose to ignore it!

Why?

Going to the rugby isn't a cheap day out anymore. If I didn't have a season ticket i'd be paying £10 in fuel, £22 ticket, add a pasty and a pint and you are looking at almost £40 for an afternoon out. That's quite a lot of cash to spend to visit a ground like ours even you must admit that!

I pick and choose away games to go to, away fans will do the same. My concern is that the general feeling about Belle View already is that it is a 'dump', add to that a price increase and I can't see as many coming as last year.

I half expect the club to backtrack on this, just like they did with the season ticket price rising in December.

Er £44? That's without extras like fuel, food and a drink.

Sorry for raising an issue that I thought was important to both home and away fans and for questioning it's logic. I will just bend over and take any thing the club does in future just like quite a few posters on here and make sure I only post comments saying how good it was

And the value for money is better elsewhere??
I don't get his point!

Apology accepted.

I do get your point and I'm not being obtuse, but I prefer to be a little bit more in control of my own spending; I love the rugby and I go to every away game, with the exception of Catalans. To keep the cost of that down a bit, I buy jr ST's for the kids at £20 apiece, car share with a couple of other people and take a flask of tea and a bag full of fruit juice and falafel for the kids, cos I'm posh like that - saves me £10-15 per away game in fuel and incidentals and helps me avoid wandering round away grounds looking for somewhere to que for over-priced burgers and lousy take-away tea.

Come see me at the first away game next season - if you bring your own cup, I'll spare you a splash of tea.