Quote D.D.="D.D."That's correct. We don't give a stuff if we take the p[ii[/iss out of our supporters or not. They'd fleece their own grandmothers out of a few quid at that club.'"
Massively loss-making club building a new stadium - is anybody really surprised? We were clearly being overcharged for tickets at KR compared to some other clubs with vastly superior facilities; this is no different.
The Saints business model makes absolutely zero sense until we're in a new stadium - it's impossible to get the club to breakeven whilst spending full cap at the moment. Unfortunately this is one of the prices we, as fans, have to pay.
If paying an extra tenner for a fleece contributes to the club staying afloat, I don't really care. It would be different if my cash was going into the owner's pocket or to fund a leveraged buy out or whatever, but fact is that every penny counts at Saints and they are having to fleece (pardon the pun) the loyal supporters to keep the club alive until Halo Park opens.
There's another argument around the people of the town getting off their sofa or pub stool to watch the games and the club wouldn't be forced to do these things, but that's been done to death.