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[LOWFIELD]

My son played in the curtain raiser to your game against Leeds Rhinos tonight, the parents of both teams bought tickets, and when we tried to sit in the stand we were told we had to pay more. No one did so we had to go to the terrace at the other side of the ground, miles away from the bar. After the kids game all the kids came over to the same side as there parents, then after the main game every one went home. Your club lost loads of money by not letting the parents have a seat in an empty stand near the bar that they were all keen to use, they would probably of got a taste and had a drink after the game as well. Your obviously that rich you dont need the money, Rovers would never let an opportunity like that slip the net any visitor to post office road is encouraged to tip there pockets upside down thats why we can turn a great team out on the park, but obviously in york rules and regs are more important,it is false economy and financial suicide to charge people to sit down near a bar for a friendly on a Wed night, especially parents with young kids who really do need a seat. Anyway the £20 i was going to spend in your bar has bought me a bottle of wine for a fiver and the other £15 will be spent at post office road on Friday, where i will be encouraged to part with it from the moment i go through the turnstile. Youv a lot to learn.

[Simon Hall]

Yeah, you're right. I wish I was from Featherstone.

[knightsruleok]

My son played in the curtain raiser to your game against Leeds Rhinos tonight, the parents of both teams bought tickets, and when we tried to sit in the stand we were told we had to pay more. No one did so we had to go to the terrace at the other side of the ground, miles away from the bar. After the kids game all the kids came over to the same side as there parents, then after the main game every one went home. Your club lost loads of money by not letting the parents have a seat in an empty stand near the bar that they were all keen to use, they would probably of got a taste and had a drink after the game as well. Your obviously that rich you dont need the money, Rovers would never let an opportunity like that slip the net any visitor to post office road is encouraged to tip there pockets upside down thats why we can turn a great team out on the park, but obviously in york rules and regs are more important,it is false economy and financial suicide to charge people to sit down near a bar for a friendly on a Wed night, especially parents with young kids who really do need a seat. Anyway the £20 i was going to spend in your bar has bought me a bottle of wine for a fiver and the other £15 will be spent at post office road on Friday, where i will be encouraged to part with it from the moment i go through the turnstile. Youv a lot to learn.

Believe me you would have needed more than £20 to drink in the bar at their prices! They should get a reality check and discount the beer on match days, especially for home supporters who are members of the Knights (formerly Supporters Club). They can charge the silly prices for the plush do's they have in there instead. £3-40 for Carling, by the way.

[LOWFIELD]

Yeah, you're right. I wish I was from Featherstone.

answers like that will ensure your club will never be any better than it is now, if your happy that your club has blown the chance to earn some money and lost a bit of good will in the process, fair dos

[Simon Hall]

answers like that will ensure your club will never be any better than it is now, if your happy that your club has blown the chance to earn some money and lost a bit of good will in the process, fair dos

I have no control over what the club does or what it charges, neither does anyone else on here, so your opening post telling US what WE should do and how WE have a lot to learn is aimed at the wrong people. Your point would be better made by emailing the club direct instead. Hope you enjoyed the game and thanks for contributing the £13 entry fee though.

[andyacko]

Moneys really tight these days and people will always gripe about entry prices, replica kit prices, beer prices and the cost of watching friendlies will always be a bone of contention. Difficult to say whether £13 for last night was as good value as £10 at Thunder on Sunday.
All clubs pitch their prices and trust that they will get sufficient 'walk up' on the day.
Possibly Lowfield is correct and that friendly games should not incur a surcharge to sit down - the main stand could have accomodated quite a few more bodies last night and that would have helped the atmosphere and possibly the bar takings on the the tunnel side.
Hope your lad enjoyed the experience of playing at HS anyway - presume he was with the Warriors ?

[TwoBlues]

My son played in the curtain raiser to your game against Leeds Rhinos tonight, the parents of both teams bought tickets, and when we tried to sit in the stand we were told we had to pay more. No one did so we had to go to the terrace at the other side of the ground, miles away from the bar. After the kids game all the kids came over to the same side as there parents, then after the main game every one went home. Your club lost loads of money by not letting the parents have a seat in an empty stand near the bar that they were all keen to use, they would probably of got a taste and had a drink after the game as well. Your obviously that rich you dont need the money, Rovers would never let an opportunity like that slip the net any visitor to post office road is encouraged to tip there pockets upside down thats why we can turn a great team out on the park, but obviously in york rules and regs are more important,it is false economy and financial suicide to charge people to sit down near a bar for a friendly on a Wed night, especially parents with young kids who really do need a seat. Anyway the £20 i was going to spend in your bar has bought me a bottle of wine for a fiver and the other £15 will be spent at post office road on Friday, where i will be encouraged to part with it from the moment i go through the turnstile. Youv a lot to learn.

To reply to the parts highlighted -
To sit in a certain area of a stand at The Bigfellas Stadium also costs more.
When the great team on the park wins something meaningful,recognised,remembered and entered into the history books,let us know.
It is false economy and financial suicide to refuse to pay a small amount of money before waiting a short time and then spending more.

Are you a bloke named Brown or Scargill ??
I reply in peace so I will attach some smileys in an effort to emphasise that.

[LOWFIELD]

I have no control over what the club does or what it charges, neither does anyone else on here, so your opening post telling US what WE should do and how WE have a lot to learn is aimed at the wrong people. Your point would be better made by emailing the club direct instead. Hope you enjoyed the game and thanks for contributing the £13 entry fee though.

Fans have plenty of control over club policies, the money i spent to get in was nothing to the money i would of spent at the bar. But i will keep my money in my pocket as i will when Rovers play there in a few weeks, not only that but as i will be driving a minibus full of 17 big drinkers to the game, i will also not bring them to your bar but drive them instead to a nearby pub. Like i said if your happy with your club policies then fair enough

[LOWFIELD]

To reply to the parts highlighted -
To sit in a certain area of a stand at The Bigfellas Stadium also costs more.
When the great team on the park wins something meaningful,recognised,remembered and entered into the history books,let us know.
It is false economy and financial suicide to refuse to pay a small amount of money before waiting a short time and then spending more.

Are you a bloke named Brown or Scargill ??
I reply in peace so I will attach some smileys in an effort to emphasise that.

There is no extra charge to sit anywhere at the bigfellas, and certainly not for a junior team and there parents at a low key friendly on a Wed night
Are you a new supporter? do you really want me to list the Rovers roll of honours?
The false economy i was referring to was your clubs charging an extra £2 and blowing the chance of that £2 turning into much more.
Im called neither just some ordinary geezer who went to your game with a pocket full of money to spend yesterday and came back with it.

[knightsruleok]

There is no extra charge to sit anywhere at the bigfellas, and certainly not for a junior team and there parents at a low key friendly on a Wed night
Are you a new supporter? do you really want me to list the Rovers roll of honours?
The false economy i was referring to was your clubs charging an extra £2 and blowing the chance of that £2 turning into much more.
Im called neither just some ordinary geezer who went to your game with a pocket full of money to spend yesterday and came back with it.

Think you are better writing to the Knights or the RFL than spouting off on here, as wasting your time. We are just genuine supporters like yourself and get stitched up many a time at away grounds with seating prices and parking, etc. I had to pay £4 to park at Cas for a friendly for less than 2 hours, which is dearer than York city centre.

[Robin Evans]

To reply to the parts highlighted -
To sit in a certain area of a stand at The Bigfellas Stadium also costs more.
When the great team on the park wins something meaningful,recognised,remembered and entered into the history books,let us know.
It is false economy and financial suicide to refuse to pay a small amount of money before waiting a short time and then spending more.

Are you a bloke named Brown or Scargill ??
I reply in peace so I will attach some smileys in an effort to emphasise that.

I think you're missing his point here! What Fev have won or not in their history is largely irrelvant to his point!
And Lowfield is quite correct, (tho it's pains me to say it ). You can sit at Post office Road for no extra charge!
And yes, I think there are some missed financial opportunities from your club. If the choices are, keep the premium to enter the main stand and miss out on all the potential secondary income, or take a hundred quid or so and make nowt elsewhere - I'd go with the former.
If a similar arrangement is likely to be in place next weekend I would suggest the majority of us would do our spending away from the ground!
Just an observation, nowt more. If the York club is happy with their policy, c'est la vie!! I'll won't lose any sleep over it!

[LOWFIELD]

Think you are better writing to the Knights or the RFL than spouting off on here, as wasting your time. We are just genuine supporters like yourself and get stitched up many a time at away grounds with seating prices and parking, etc. I had to pay £4 to park at Cas for a friendly for less than 2 hours, which is dearer than York city centre.

Again you miss the point i didnt get stitched up and wont dont worry about that and
Im not spouting to anyone just making an observation, if your happy like i say good luck,
The business sense of some clubs at this level amazes me, Whitehaven last year there stewards got heavy handed in there clubhouse so we all walked out not spending another penny in the ground costing a club that can hardly afford it a fortune. No one can force me to hand over my money, some clubs have the gumption and good business sense to try and entice it away, some sadly do not

Edited by LOWFIELD, 03 February 2011 - 11:47 AM.

[andyacko]

Ought to just say, at this point, lads that no one has to pay the extra £2 to access the bar so not certain that the point about not spending money in the bar is therefore relevant. The extra £2 is to sit down. If you do access the bar, unless you are a guest or a director, you can't watch the match live from the bar only on the telly.
At the end of the day, it's all about supporting rugby league, surely.
I go to Fev, I buy a programme, a golden gamble etc, half the time at away matches I pay even though I've got a media pass. It's about supporting the game in general whether it's your own side or Fev or Hunslet or anywhere else.
Lets face it, if everyone else goes to the wall, who ya gonna play ? Ghostbusters ?
If we all go and sup in Joe Bloggs boozer, that money has gone out of the game of Rugby League and a club down the road then can't afford to sign the likes of Menzie Yere or Jessie Joe Parker, who are just magic to watch.

[TwoBlues]

There is no extra charge to sit anywhere at the bigfellas,
do you really want me to list the Rovers roll of honours?

Please accept my apologies.I was under the impression that the area of seating to the right of where the players enter the field incurred an extra cost whereas the other seated area did not.There was efforts made to extricate money from me when I was there on 2 previous occasions but perhaps it was unofficial.
I thought''that's why we turn out a great team on the park'' was in reference to the sides under Darryl Powell and not throughout history.
As you pointed out on your original post there are rules and regs. but I'm sure the issues you raise will be considered.

[suzzy]

I think you're missing his point here! What Fev have won or not in their history is largely irrelvant to his point!
And Lowfield is quite correct, (tho it's pains me to say it ). You can sit at Post office Road for no extra charge!
And yes, I think there are some missed financial opportunities from your club. If the choices are, keep the premium to enter the main stand and miss out on all the potential secondary income, or take a hundred quid or so and make nowt elsewhere - I'd go with the former.
If a similar arrangement is likely to be in place next weekend I would suggest the majority of us would do our spending away from the ground!
Just an observation, nowt more. If the York club is happy with their policy, c'est la vie!! I'll won't lose any sleep over it!

as a neutral i have to agree with the point robin and lowfield are making with regards to being able to sit in the stand for a friendly with easier access to the bar and I don't think the topic needed the aggression it got from one or two. I'm sure someone involved will have noted the comments for future friendly games and see the plus side of allowing it but if that's what they are charging for a pint of Carling then i think it did the boys from FETH a favour don't you.

[shades2]

as a neutral i have to agree with the point robin and lowfield are making with regards to being able to sit in the stand for a friendly with easier access to the bar and I don't think the topic needed the aggression it got from one or two. I'm sure someone involved will have noted the comments for future friendly games and see the plus side of allowing it but if that's what they are charging for a pint of Carling then i think it did the boys from FETH a favour don't you.

Stick to Fosters - a real mans drink - at £3.00

[Aiwa]

Lowfields is talking nonsense. If he is too tight to pay an extra couple of quid for the privilege of sitting down, like you have to do at most grounds, then he's hardly going to spend much in a bar. Maybe half a mild. Entry to the bar is free, all he and these other lazy parents had to do was walk to the other side of the ground like most of us do. if he also thinks it saves him money by driving or getting a taxi to another boozer before or after the game, and then paying more for beer elsewhere, then he does not make financial sense either. He also implies he has the Knights best interest at heart, but if that was the case he would have happily given two measly pounds out of his £20 to sit down, if he was so bothered about sitting down.
I imagine this whole thread just comes from a bunch of tightwads griping about paying a couple of extra quid to sit down and working each other up into a lather.

I do think the prices have been too high for the friendlies though.

Edited by Aiwa, 03 February 2011 - 02:04 PM.

[Robin Evans]

Lowfields is talking nonsense. If he is too tight to pay an extra couple of quid for the privilege of sitting down, like you have to do at most grounds, then he's hardly going to spend much in a bar. Maybe half a mild.

You obviously don't know Lowfield! Trust me - he would have spent up!

I imagine this whole thread just comes from a bunch of tightwads griping about paying a couple of extra quid to sit down and working each other up into a lather.

Hey owd cock, like I said on my previous post, if you're happy, crack on! I'll not lose any sleep over it!
I'm expecting 4-500 of us making the journey. I don't want to keep walking from one side of the ground to the other or pay to go into a stand for the privelage of being nearer to the bars! . If you do, that's ok! I'm happy letting the bus driver ferry me about before the game whilst the cash I would have spent in the ground goes 'out of the game' as andyacko said earlier!

If you're happy with how things are - great owd cock, enjoy! Just don't have a pop at our lot if we choose to do something else!
It's not exactly the collapse of the bank of england!

[Robin Evans]

Lowfields is talking nonsense. If he is too tight to pay an extra couple of quid for the privilege of sitting down, like you have to do at most grounds, then he's hardly going to spend much in a bar. Maybe half a mild.

You obviously don't know Lowfield! Trust me - he would have spent up!

I imagine this whole thread just comes from a bunch of tightwads griping about paying a couple of extra quid to sit down and working each other up into a lather.

Hey owd cock, like I said on my previous post, if you're happy, crack on! I'll not lose any sleep over it!
I'm expecting 4-500 of us making the journey. I don't want to keep walking from one side of the ground to the other or pay to go into a stand for the privelage of being nearer to the bars! . If you do, that's ok! I'm happy letting the bus driver ferry me about before the game whilst the cash I would have spent in the ground goes 'out of the game' as andyacko said earlier!

If you're happy with how things are - great owd cock, enjoy! Just don't have a pop at our lot if we choose to do something else!
It's not exactly the collapse of the bank of england!

[LOWFIELD]

Lowfields is talking nonsense. If he is too tight to pay an extra couple of quid for the privilege of sitting down, like you have to do at most grounds, then he's hardly going to spend much in a bar. Maybe half a mild. Entry to the bar is free, all he and these other lazy parents had to do was walk to the other side of the ground like most of us do. if he also thinks it saves him money by driving or getting a taxi to another boozer before or after the game, and then paying more for beer elsewhere, then he does not make financial sense either. He also implies he has the Knights best interest at heart, but if that was the case he would have happily given two measly pounds out of his £20 to sit down, if he was so bothered about sitting down.
I imagine this whole thread just comes from a bunch of tightwads griping about paying a couple of extra quid to sit down and working each other up into a lather.

I do think the prices have been too high for the friendlies though.

Look m8 its like this, i have no feelings for york Knights, or leeds Rhinos, i went as my son was playing in a curtain raiser, i paid in and will be damded if i was paying again to sit down. The bit about lazy parents is pathetic, we all had to cart about our kids kit bags etc and as they got changed right under the main seated area would it not of made sence to put the parents there. I wont be paying anymore for any taxi sunshine the price for the minibus will be the same wether it stops at a pub nearby or your club house. Im no tight wad i spend litterly thousands per season at grounds up and down the country, but your post is hardly likely to make me and the rest spend any at york, well done again