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Nice, but for a game like this one, where there is going to be little travelling support, why not offer tickets for even less? How many more would we get on the gate with tickets at a £5?

£11 seems such an aribitary sum!

We have to try and retain income. For everyone that does not have a season ticket and usually pays on the gate we will be losing money as they would be willing to pay the 'normal' rate. The club has not only to attract a higher gate, but also be sure of at least maintaining income. A matter of weighing up the risks/revenue loss.

It's just good to see we're doing something.....it's games like this and against 'lower' (I know some see us as such) clubs where we can take a risk to get punters in.

Indeed it does, which would suggest that is not arbitary at all, but instead a calculated sum based on what return we require from the game.

We could get 5,000 at full price, and we could get 10,000 for nothing, but which one makes more money?

It would seem that there is genuinely no pleasing some folk!

No.1 is great to see them rewarding season ticket holders & No.2 It's good to see the club acknowledging games against Salford, Celtic, Catalan & Quins are the one's where we need to work the hardest to attract fans

It's a step in the right direction. Don't honestly think it will encourage too many to come but if a few turn then fair enough.

I will contact the club and ask for a discount on my season pass

Isnt the point of offering special deals not just to attract a big gate for that game and make a profit for that game? Although that is an added bonus i thought it was in the hope that the new fans the game attracts come back again and again.

So, if you are not a "loyal" season ticket holder, ( a term that i don't care for, but that's a whole different argument), and do not have a mate who is, do you pay full price or 11.00?

Full price!

Thought as much...

they have to make some thing if they charged £5 and then gave £10 away on the shirt deal then it as costs the club a fiver to start with . I would bet that this would be against the rules set down . I think that its a good idea but will probably end up in chaos , like can my son with a season pass take an adult in as a buddy??? .
One idea i would like to see is for all junior pass holders get to take a friend (under 16) to any 3 games for free and for that freebie to be bombarded with reason to buy a pass next year.

Good idea, but what do students get in for if i bring a mate

Twice the price, but your mate gets in free.

I applaud the club's initiative, as I feel this is one of the games that an extra effort really should be made to boost the attendance.

I am sure, when setting the reduced price of £11, the club has estimated that a 40% discount will attract sufficient additional spectators to offset the income lost by the decrease in price.

As an added bonus to those availing of the discount perhap the club might consider giving a £5-off discount voucher for admission to the Quinns home match in June, another notoriously poorly attended match.

Given that I have already made a arrangements to travel over for this match, even though I will be attending with a season ticket holder, I intend to pay the full price.

I'm really struggling to see how this is, in any way, a good offer.
Season ticket holders don't gain anything: fans who pay on the gate don't gain anything: new supporters coming for the first time with a season ticket holder don't gain anything (they still have to pay £11 as opposed to nowt if they'd stayed at home). The only people who will "gain" are regular fans who come with a season ticket holder and get in for £11 instead of the full price (Ings Roader being an honourable exception but how many others will do as he is doing?).
Don't get me wrong - I think it's good that the club is thinking of ways to increase the gate and it's definitely worth a try but there's a real risk of the crowd not being increased much [uand[/u the club losing money at the same time.
I think a better scheme would be to reduce the price across the board to, say £10 for adults and give season ticket holders a voucher for the club shop, valid for a year, that could also be used towards next season's ticket. That would encourage everyone - season ticket holders, regulars, occasionals and first timers.

Look at it this way, our attendances against Catalans have been as follows;

2006: 3,324 2006 Av Attendance: 5,447 (Down 2,123 on Av)
2007: 4,003 2007 Av Attendance: 6,781 (Down 2,778 on Av)
2008: 5,479 2008 Av Attendance: 7,038 (Down 1,559 on Av)

So it seems the Catalan game is on average by down 2,153. Of that 2,000 that regularily attend i'd say 500 are away supporters. So the club probably realises that their losing 1,500 paying customers, many of which will be adults.

Even if the £11 offer is used by regularly supporters who don't have S/T's isn't that a good thing? They are probably the ones who are most at risk of not attending, and i guess the club probably realises that.

As S/T holders we are also benefitting, £10 at the club shop is not bad for bringing down a mate for a couple of beers and some rugger.

It's a start at least

why are you all so negative? true fans buy there season ticket like me and my son and my mates son..it is a good offer and i will be taking another mate who has never been to an rl game before..also thanks to snowie i have another 2 kids going to hull kr on sunday and hopefully they will get their parents involved...

Wakefield Wildcats Community department went round loads of schools before christmas selling season tickets for£10 - isnt that incentive enough
I have friends who aid the full £35 yet they're not getting a refund for the difference for their early loyalty!!