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[familyman]

I see that Saints are offering a discount if you buy tickets to three of their matches. http://www.saintsrlf...ickets/page/922 I have not been a match this season at Widnes but even at that price I wouldn't be tempted.

I did get tickets to go to the DW and noticed Saints charged extra than Wigan fans. Is this going to pay for the new stadium or are they being ripped off by Widnes with the amount of rental we have to pay?

Edited by familyman, 31 May 2011 - 07:55 PM.

[SWIMMER]

Hi familyman I think the price of tickets is too high. If you want to take two adults and four children, add on three more adults, and the price is just too much. In such a high area of unemployment I think if they dropped the price there would be a far higher attendance at the matches.

[Greenbanker]

Adult price tickets are £25 pay at the gate. I get the feeling Saints are adding a premium to admission prices at Widnes this year. I have to say that I,ve not yet enjoyed the match day experience at the Stobart Stadium. For me its a soulless place,with little atmosphere. The stewards send you all over the place before you finally get in, then food and drink are at extortionate prices. Then finally its an hour in the car getting home after the game, for a distance of about 7 miles pour moi.

Little wonder then that theyre offering a discount for the next 3 matches.

[Alan]

Before you claim that Saints prices are too high, just compare them with Anfield or Goodison or Old Trafford for a game of soccer. You pay twice as much there to watch a lot of big girls blouses cheating at wendyball

[SWIMMER]

Yes Alan but that is the difference I nor my family want to watch those. My husband goes watching all the games on a saturday. He always watch the Saints we all did, but they priced ordinary families out of the game.

[familyman]

Alan, on 31 May 2011 - 08:47 PM, said:

Before you claim that Saints prices are too high, just compare them with Anfield or Goodison or Old Trafford for a game of soccer. You pay twice as much there to watch a lot of big girls blouses cheating at wendyball

Also don't forget the extortionate wages these prima donnas demand.(If they were have as good as they think they are we would win the world cup every time)

The salary cap in Super league (As far as I know, but I may be wrong)hasn't gone up so why should the admission prices?

[Alan]

familyman, on 01 June 2011 - 08:28 AM, said:

The salary cap in Super league (As far as I know, but I may be wrong)hasn't gone up so why should the admission prices?

Because just about every pro RL club in this country is kept alive by the generosity/daftness (delete as appropriate) of one or more of its directors. Even the top Superleague clubs, apart from very few exceptions, are turning over less than £5 million a year and are running at a heavy loss. I imagine Saints, after a season of low gates and high rental costs at Widnes, will be worse off than most

[Greenbanker]

Alan, on 01 June 2011 - 08:45 AM, said:

Because just about every pro RL club in this country is kept alive by the generosity/daftness (delete as appropriate) of one or more of its directors. Even the top Superleague clubs, apart from very few exceptions, are turning over less than £5 million a year and are running at a heavy loss. I imagine Saints, after a season of low gates and high rental costs at Widnes, will be worse off than most

Eamonn McManus stated that it would be more cost effective to "rent" the Stobart Stadium for a season, than it would be to carry on for 1 more year at Knowsley Road, while the new stadium is built.

Although I have nothing more than a gut feeling about this, I do feel that the extra £6 admission price paid at the gate at Widnes goes a long way to paying for Saints rental of that ground. Therefore making it a great deal more cost effective for the club - but hardly for the Saints "fan in the street" !

Perhaps HJ can enlighten us as to how much Widnes are charging [in entry fees]for their own fans. Although they arent yet in SL,I'll bet its a lot less than we currently do.

As for your comments re- Anfield, Goodison and OT admission prices. I would never pay it/them. Whilst football is the number one game in the UK,it holds no interest for me. So your argument really doesnt stand up.

[SWIMMER]

Hi all sorry but I agree with greenbanker. If you become a director of a Rugby club even one as good as Saints you have to be prepared to put your hand in your pocket.

As I have said before we always supported the saints and none other, however they have priced ordinary people out of it.

I have heard that there will be better disabled provision in the new stadium, so will try it if we can. That is if the tickets are more reasonable.

In this day and age how many families can afford to take the family to the Rugby, which was always a right of passage for all st helens children when I was growing up.

To take the family now would cost well over a hundred pounds and who has got that, not many.

[Alan]

Greenbanker, on 01 June 2011 - 05:23 PM, said:

Eamonn McManus stated that it would be more cost effective to "rent" the Stobart Stadium for a season, than it would be to carry on for 1 more year at Knowsley Road, while the new stadium is built.

And I'm sure he's correct. To be paying for major emergency repairs just to keep Knowsley Road open along with all the normal running costs including commercial council tax etc AND funding the building of a new stadium at the same time would have been a horrendous cost. I wonder though if he and his Board budgeted for the fall-off in gates they're suffering

SWIMMER, on 01 June 2011 - 07:26 PM, said:

If you become a director of a Rugby club even one as good as Saints you have to be prepared to put your hand in your pocket.

Well there's a novel piece of social logic. Directors should be obliged to pay out of their own funds to provide entertainment for the fans. I know it usually works out like that, even at Carlisle and Barrow, but it probably explains why so few volunteer for the job

[familyman]

Greenbanker, on 01 June 2011 - 05:23 PM, said:

Eamonn McManus stated that it would be more cost effective to "rent" the Stobart Stadium for a season, than it would be to carry on for 1 more year at Knowsley Road, while the new stadium is built.

If thats the case can we assume if we had stayed at Knowsley Road the admission prices would have risen by more than £6?

[Greenbanker]

familyman, on 01 June 2011 - 08:33 PM, said:

If thats the case can we assume if we had stayed at Knowsley Road the admission prices would have risen by more than £6?

When you factor in the cost of fuel for travelling to Widnes and back,we're paying a lot more in real terms than an extra £6.

[Alan]

Greenbanker, on 01 June 2011 - 08:49 PM, said:

When you factor in the cost of fuel for travelling to Widnes and back,we're paying a lot more in real terms than an extra £6.

My God Greenbanker! Widnes can't be more that 8 or 9 miles from Knowsley Road, say a round trip of 18 miles. I dream of making short trips like that to watch first class rugby. You guys in th'eartlands are totally spoiled. Barrow, and it's not even Superleague, is 180 miles round trip for me. Even Whitehaven and Workington are 90 miles. Nearest Superleague is Wi**n and that's 240 miles there and back

[SWIMMER]

Hi Alan, I always thought that directors were meant to do that. To help to keep the clubs running and to insert cash were it is needed. Lets face it they get far better treated than the ordinary fan, and that is the way it is suppose to work. Not novel but a fact why have directors if not to help with the upkeep of the club.

[Alan]

Clubs have boards of directors for the same reason that businesses have them. To assume legal responsibility for all the affairs of the organisation, to provide long-term strategic direction, to appoint and oversee management, to be responsible to the shareholders for the prudent protection and use of their investment and ...............and............