At Wharfedale the pay at the gate price is now £12, up from £10 last season. There are no (old) age concessions and if I pay extra to join all manner of new levels and types of membership recently introduced, I would then only be paying £10 per game. But I do not want to do anything other than pay at the gate when I want to watch a match. Over the last 2 seasons I have not missed a single home fixture and my reward is.....a 20% hike in entry fee.

Will be very interested to see what other clubs across National 2 are charging for entry.

It does seem to me that £12 for a grandstand seat and car parking (according to the website) is a really good deal even if £10 for the same last year was even better!

Won't you be there? 😆

agree, seems decent value; how many pints of beer at local prices is that - guessing just under three?!

incentivising people to become members is something i'm all for, seems to me that it's a way of getting people to take a bit of a stake in a club, and cheaper prices for tickets, lunches, beer, merchandise etc (+ other benefits such as international ticket ballot or voting rights at AGMs) as a reward for this seems reasonable; and, by the same token, penalising non-members for their slightly lower level of commitment by charging them a little more.

Are you being a tight Yorkshire …….

Won't you be there? 😆

no i get there about eight as i have a season ticket

Isn't supporting the same club for 22 years "taking a bit of a stake"?

Yes… but one has to have a structure for pricing & if someone opts not to become a member (for reasons not elaborated on by SG after starting the thread & inviting people’s thoughts) then they have to accept the club policy if they still wish to attend on their own terms… in my opinion 

Now there has been an increase in memberships and season tickets this year, the first one in since covid if I remember correctly, but I haven't seen anything about on-the-day prices also increasing, so I can only assume they remain at £10.

Concession pricing for OAPs (& any other group) is the sort of topic members of members' clubs could bring motions on in a bid to achieve change...

As I did reading yours!

I’ll not mention the £104 return ticket on Eurostar & the two nights accommodation in central Paris but still good value. 

Going back to the original point, the financial aspect is a purely personal one in terms of what the outlay means to the individual in terms of value and affordability, and what pleasure such an outlay means to you. 

Take my football club Rotherham United (I wish someone would - lol) a match ticket on a casual basis is £27 (personally I would want paying much more than that)

At my age (concession) would cost about £20, which in the Championship was not bad but less so now. 

Now if it was the Titans I would gladly pay because they put their bodies on the line week in week out & get nothing like the money the footballers get.

Out of interest what was the gate price last season (before you decided to leave N2N).

Good luck in Nat 1.

Thank you for the good wishes. We have built a very strong squad this year on top of the (many) lads that have stayed put. How good? Will comment further after the Rosslyn Park opener.

What are your lads’ prospects this year & are Leeds still the team to beat.

Re pricing. See below extract from TitansRugby.com :

Rugby needs all the help it can get and membership of Clubs is the best way to give that help once you have stopped playing or coaching.

In terms of our chances this coming season, we only have one 1st team warm up game v Kendal this coming Saturday, so I have not seen any rugby so far. Blackburn cancelled on us and I believe we cancelled on Sedgeley Park. From what I hear Otley have been busy and boast quite a few new signings as do Leeds Tykes. Fylde will come back stronger I think, so who knows.

Now if Wharfedale had followed what you guys have done re "a standing season ticket including membership at £130", that would have been brilliant and I would have jumped at it. Instead they have used smoke and mirrors to deflect attention away from the pay at the gate increase, launched numerous other "grades" of paying, so much so that they have taken in most of the RM population who have never been to the Avenue. Last season a season ticket with membership was around £175. Last season pay at the gate was £10 per game with 13 home league games. Easy maths and not taking into account my 28 mile round trip per game for the last 20+ years.

I suppose I have a choice to make. Shut up and pay up (not happening), limit my attendance or look at other clubs far closer to home, perhaps not at the same standard/level and go and give them my full support.

There is another option SG: pay up, for membership, thereby giving you the right to speak up (and vote) at AGMs + other members' forums, where it is likely you would gain insights/explanations about why club management is changing prices etc. You have taken the choice to remain on the outside, thereby limiting your choices to those you list. Seems surprising that a long-term supporter of a club would up sticks over a £26 rise in annual admission cost, but your prerogative, and if you do go elsewhere, I hope you'll be happy with the new relationship and find some greener grass...

Totally agree!

It’s three quid in at Skipton, or at least it was last season. Decent ale too. Just remember sunglasses.

The sun shines in Skipton? 

Will certainly come and have a look early season. 

although gargrave green declined to donate

Aha Mr GP, a new career beckons then......Must have missed the bucket due to my late arrival, surprised at the amount. Gargrave Green has always been careful with his money.

Possibly worth a new thread?

It was never about just the cost of entry, it was really aimed at how poorly all of the early communications were handled and worded, you know, smoke and mirrors stuff. Since my original post on here the club has posted numerous clarifications and all is now abundantly clear. Yes, the price at the gate has increased £2 up to £12. But it was the dreadful way it was handled back then.

And yet bizarrely your original post didn't mention anything about these poor communications although it did mention "all manner of new levels and types of membership recently introduced" which suggests the communication wasn't that bad although possibly members would have received even better communication?