Re: Season Ticket Update : Sat Nov 05, 2011 9:50 pm  

Stealth Comic wrote:

I'm sure I read somewhere that Challenge Cup games don't count and that this is for all teams.

Half of me hopes it doesn't count as twice in recent years we have had a big crowd against a Super Dupper League Club and all their fans got in free.

Re: Season Ticket Update : Sat Nov 05, 2011 10:30 pm  

Maybe I'm mistaken then. I support equally whichever competition it is, so i was asking more about what I was paying and how many games I could watch. For me, at that cost it was a no brainer because I'd get to all home games that I physically could.

In terms of free tickets: If another club has a season ticket that lets them get to the first challenge cup game free, surely that club would still have to pay something over to share out the game revenue? Just because a fan gets in free shouldn't mean the other club gets no revenue from the gate receipts?

Re: Season Ticket Update : Sat Nov 05, 2011 10:49 pm  

Soupy wrote:

In terms of free tickets: If another club has a season ticket that lets them get to the first challenge cup game free, surely that club would still have to pay something over to share out the game revenue? Just because a fan gets in free shouldn't mean the other club gets no revenue from the gate receipts?

What previously happened was every club got a free challenge cup game. We use ours in the 3rd round against a French club normally. Then in the 4th round we draw a super league club and they get their free game with their season tickets. We dip out.

Re: Season Ticket Update : Sun Nov 06, 2011 11:02 am  

Soupy wrote:

Maybe I'm mistaken then. I support equally whichever competition it is, so i was asking more about what I was paying and how many games I could watch. For me, at that cost it was a no brainer because I'd get to all home games that I physically could.

In terms of free tickets: If another club has a season ticket that lets them get to the first challenge cup game free, surely that club would still have to pay something over to share out the game revenue? Just because a fan gets in free shouldn't mean the other club gets no revenue from the gate receipts?

Cup games are still shared gate. But if a load of the fans are getting in to the game for nothing because it's free with their season ticket, then the pot that is split is greatly reduced. For example Swinton would have made far much more money out of their game with Wire because their game against them was in the round after ours and far less season ticket holders got in for nowt.

Re: Season Ticket Update : Sun Nov 06, 2011 11:45 am  

Feels like a very unfair way of doing business in my eyes.... Suppose all the clubs must have agreed to it though for that to be allowed.