Legends lounge : Sat Feb 09, 2013 7:06 pm  

According to an email from the club, it sold out at the widens match.........anyone here go?

Re: Legends lounge : Sat Feb 09, 2013 7:48 pm  

gutterfax wrote:

According to an email from the club, it sold out at the widens match.........anyone here go?

Sold out 3 times over apparently.

Re: Legends lounge : Sat Feb 09, 2013 9:29 pm  

Sold out to Widnes fans who thought it was agreat deal and it is a great deal to away fans who can get hospitality at our home games cheaper than a season ticket holder. They only pay to get in the match once but the club expects season ticket holders to buy a season ticket and pay the £40 an away fan pays.

Re: Legends lounge : Sat Feb 09, 2013 11:31 pm  

Was full of Widnes supporters larging up at the back of the main stand.

Was a great day.

Drunken Widnes fans in the corporates. An a bunch of blue-finger-waving away fans in the stand opposite.

Re: Legends lounge : Sun Feb 10, 2013 9:55 am  

A group of us used the Legends quite a number of times last year - in fact most games, but we will not use it while we have to pay more than an away fan. Its not right - like a vast number of the fans we have put endless amounts of money into the club over the last 20 / 30 years in sponsorship of players, season tickets, merchandise etc so we do not see why we should pay more than an away fan for the same facility at a club we support. Name another club in SL who would treat their own supporters like this and then ask why we cannot build crowds. They welcome the away fans with hospitality, they welcome the occassional supporter with free tickets but do absolutley nothing to keep the hard core season ticket support and start to build from there.

Re: Legends lounge : Wed Feb 13, 2013 1:30 pm  

stayinlondon wrote:

A group of us used the Legends quite a number of times last year - in fact most games, but we will not use it while we have to pay more than an away fan. Its not right - like a vast number of the fans we have put endless amounts of money into the club over the last 20 / 30 years in sponsorship of players, season tickets, merchandise etc so we do not see why we should pay more than an away fan for the same facility at a club we support. Name another club in SL who would treat their own supporters like this and then ask why we cannot build crowds. They welcome the away fans with hospitality, they welcome the occassional supporter with free tickets but do absolutley nothing to keep the hard core season ticket support and start to build from there.

Agree with this, part of the reason I havent renewed this year.

Just will be casual while I am in town, however the £40 hospitality sounds great. Ridiculous that Season ticket holders cannot upgrade.

Re: Legends lounge : Wed Feb 13, 2013 1:32 pm  

Why should the club take a loss in offering carefully priced up hospitality at a discounted rate?

Re: Legends lounge : Wed Feb 13, 2013 5:52 pm  

Dave Lister wrote:

Why should the club take a loss in offering carefully priced up hospitality at a discounted rate?

The away fans get a £20 ticket + a £20 meal cost = £40

The ST holders get a meal costing £40

Go figure who is funding whom!

Re: Legends lounge : Wed Feb 13, 2013 6:39 pm  

poplar panther wrote:

The away fans get a £20 ticket + a £20 meal cost = £40

The ST holders get a meal costing £40

Go figure who is funding whom!

Not sure what your point is, the hospitality is an entirely seperate operation. You would be happy with the club making a loss on its hospitality then? For once I can understand where Gus is coming from on this one. As I have said, it might be nice to offer a small discount for season ticket holders but no doubt if they were offered £5 off, people would still be bleating on here about it.

Pleased the club sold it out last week, fingers crossed another high uptake this Sunday. In my experence, the main purpose of hospiality is to entertain those who need to be entertained for the benefit of the club and current season ticket holders don't fall into that bracket for me.

No doubt there will be those stomping their feet saying that they were being mistreated, but I bought my ticket to gain myself entry to the home matches this year, anything else is completely seperate of this.

Re: Legends lounge : Thu Feb 14, 2013 10:06 am  

Dave Lister wrote:

Not sure what your point is, ....

how many of those widnes fans will be back for the Wakefield game? Will many of them drag their arses down to kent?
I can think of no other sport where the home team offer better VFM to visiting fans than that offered to season ticket holders......maybe such practices are popular in zimbabwe and Kent