Steelman Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 2 hours ago, upperwinngardensowl said: Interesting if it was prompted by the backlash or by selling next to none at £90. Who cares anyway, its been done Exactly what I was thinking. Call me cynical but I dont believe it's had anything to do with the backlash. More likely that there were very few takers. Hopefully this is more in line with people's budgets. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthefish2002 Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 A step in the right direction for me. But lets not blow smoke up the chairmans backside for this too much like some people are doing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigthinrob Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 1 hour ago, OohAahGuyWhittingham said: Glad that sense has been seen here but all the back slapping and congratulating should be going not to DC, but to those fans who have stood up for themselves and made clear they will not be ripped off And credit to DC for taking it on board. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belfast Owl 2 Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 Great stuff. Listened to feedback and offered a new product. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
areNOTwhatTHEYseem Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 Has anyone who's already bought this membership asked the club about the possibility of claiming the discount off already-purchased tickets for the Hull City game? I'd have had mine and my parents' memberships sorted well in advance if it weren't for the ridiculous £90 'offer'. To miss out on the discount due to the club fecking about feels a bit wrong, to be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handworth52 Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 im glad dc listened its a start. games need to be on radio too like 91 out of 92 clubs, why should our older fans no longer be able to hear us on the radio? id like chansiri to get a football man in to help him make better decisions on the football side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitcat Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 I still think there should be more exclusive bonuses involved. Whatever happened to the little pin badge? Perhaps a nice book, something along the lines of "Candid Shots from the Changing Room" Just so we can get to know the players more intimately. Maybe a feature each month on a different player asking interesting questions like "what is your favourite smell?" Or "if you were a serial killer, what trophy would you take?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark77 Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 37 minutes ago, Steelman said: Exactly what I was thinking. Call me cynical but I dont believe it's had anything to do with the backlash. More likely that there were very few takers. Hopefully this is more in line with people's budgets. It was talked about at length at the forum. He wanted fans ideas and the general consensus in the room was a reduced level of membership with less add ons at last seasons price of £50. It was directly from the discussion. You are being cynical. He even agreed to do it there and then so I knew it was coming. Hence the reason we now have Gold and Silver. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ash76 Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 33 minutes ago, areNOTwhatTHEYseem said: Has anyone who's already bought this membership asked the club about the possibility of claiming the discount off already-purchased tickets for the Hull City game? I'd have had mine and my parents' memberships sorted well in advance if it weren't for the ridiculous £90 'offer'. To miss out on the discount due to the club fecking about feels a bit wrong, to be honest. I'm 99.9% certain they'll do that. If not there's nothing to stop you refunding the match tickets and repurchasing using membership cards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
areNOTwhatTHEYseem Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 1 minute ago, Ash76 said: I'm 99.9% certain they'll do that. If not there's nothing to stop you refunding the match tickets and repurchasing using membership cards Good point. I've never got a refund on a ticket before, so hadn't even considered that as an option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PortlandOwl Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 Part of me says fair enough, well done DC for listening to fans, another part of me says f it.....can't believe you treated a section of your fanbase in this manner to start with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fpowl Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 Everybody kicked off with this years pricing on membership ( rightly so ) we complained, they listened, they acted. This is a fair and good deal we should all be satisfied on this outcome with matter. I’ll sign up to this even if I can only make a few games and don’t get the full benefits Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carbone Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 Sorry if this is a stupid question, but does one membership mean one discount per game, or can one membership buy multiple tickets for one game with a fiver off? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigthinrob Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 6 minutes ago, stevewhiterose said: Part of me says fair enough, well done DC for listening to fans, another part of me says f it.....can't believe you treated a section of your fanbase in this manner to start with. He offered a product into the marketplace. It wasn't pitched right, there was a predictable outcry, it was rammed home at the Forum & he addressed it accordingly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baldrick Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 Fair play for realising the original launch wasn’t well received Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hack-Abusi Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 Great that they've listened to the fans ... although it's not as good in relation to the benefits (should have just dropped the original one down to 50 and allowed discount spend on kit and sale stuff), it's a step in the right direction at least Still a long way to go though ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fpowl Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 41 minutes ago, Carbone said: Sorry if this is a stupid question, but does one membership mean one discount per game, or can one membership buy multiple tickets for one game with a fiver off? One membership per game I believe especially on the discounts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oh_weds_we_love_you Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 Fantastic - SWFC listening and acting quickly! More of this please!! I'll be buying mine and my boys tomorrow as our donation. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leaping Lannys Perm Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 You may remember that, when the original membership was announced that I did some calculating and worked out that membership was only worth it if you attended between 14 and 16 games in the season AND had to sit on the Kop AND had to attend all the extra discount games. Any less and you lost money. Any more and you were better off with a season ticket. I think it is only fair if I did this again for the new membership. Once again this is based on the average category for last season and is based upon a discounted price of £28 sitting on the Kop. It is worth getting the silver membership if you attend 10 games minimum. This will cost you the same amount of money as buying without any membership. But with the added benefit of ticket priority, it can be said that you are better off with membership. The maximum number of of games it is worth attending is now 17. 17 games at £28 is £476. Plus the £50 for membership is £526. The cost for a season ticket on the Kop is £530. So the membership is worth it if you are going to attend between 10 and 17 games. This is a much better range of options than the £90 membership. I hope this helps people in making their decision about membership. But as always, these are based on last year's averages so I can't guarantee it will work out like this. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harrysgame Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 4 hours ago, Simon78 said: If memberships were free would that still be too much? FFS Well said. The club listened and came up with an option gold, silver. Think some people on here would actually like us to fail just so they could say see told you so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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