Has anyone got an "personal" invitation through the post from Peter Hood offering to take out a 10 or 25 year membership options?

Anyone get one of these membership offers in the post?

Red Membership - Limited to 100 members
Lifetime (limited to 25 years) membership for £5000 or £7500 in the premier seating. With this membership you get a shirt every year, a red member tie and a retro scarf, as well as access to the Coral stand bars after home games.

Amber Membership - Limited to 500 members
10 year membership terracing or seating. With this membership you get 500 teamcard points a year, a amber member tie and a retro scarf.

Membership is by invitation only.

Good value offer for the 10 year membership.

Got one through the post, really wish I could afford.

Excellent opportunity for Bulls fans, and if I had the money for it i'd take it!!

I had a "Black" membership offer. This was £15k, but you got loads for it - would take too long to list. Sadly, its not something I could justify - my missus would go apoplectic and I fear my health would take a sharp turn for the worse rather quickly! - but I had a good look through the offer nonetheless. It was an extremely well-presented and put together proposal, and clearly showed some serious marketing effort at a quality level - been involved in enough such in the past to recognise when this is the case.

Pretty clear that the club - and I suspect you can especially thank bringing Andrew Bennett on board - are pursuing a much wider range of options for improving income whilst providing fans who might like such things with a differentiated premium offering. All good stuff for mine.

Yeah, I got one too.

Good offer if I had the cash.

The red tie clashes with my ginger hair, otherwise I would sign up.

I put a bet on there being a 3 way dead heat in a greyhound race at Romford. I'm rich beyond my wildest dreams but they haven't sent me a letter.

Why have I not got one? Do they think that I am a scummer or something?

It's probably in the post.

It's good to see the club using their new database of supporters to try and make a quick pile of cas...err.. connect more with the fans



But seriously, if they get a decent take up on the offers the club is set to make a packet

This isn't knocking the Bulls, on the contrary, it is great that we are seemingly finally back to having some people with genuine marketing and cash generation nous. But with "life membership" and similar schemes - these don't have a good track record, at all. They are quite regularly go tits eg the debacle at City. I don't suggest people shouldn't buy them, but their history of getting true life membership wouldn't fill me with optimism that within less than the stated deal time, there would be some reason why it didn't apply any more.

The other point is while we get extra cash up front, the opposite side of the equation is that we get reduced income in future years.

But, as I say, great to see well thought through initiatives coming from the Bulls on a regular basis, and lets hope it all pays big dividends.

The bad news I ain't got an invite yet Mrs Aardvark, who only got a cheapo ticket after 2 years away, HAS!

The lady in doors got the Black membership offer, I got nothing

Good job we've no money or she'd be there in a shot

Not been home to check today's post yet, but if I have one of these, I may have to source £500 from somewhere for the 10 year membership. I'm guaranteed to be going for the next 10 years anyway (unless I peg it, but then I probably won't miss the money), so the idea of 10 years of £50 season tickets sounds pretty bloody good to me.

The question is whether I can source that brass or not though, since my funds at the moment aren't exactly brimming.

Yup we got one just wish we could take them up on it but just not possible sadly planning for a season ticket is tough enough these days. Great offer though.

You don't think it's anything to do with only sending to the Banana sceptics do you?

How can lifetime be limited to 25 years? What happens then? Do they all get shot?

Does everyone who got a mailing get offered the same deals or do they aim the more expensive packages at the more upmarket supporters? How do they know?

I would guess it would be judged on where your season ticket is. If it's terracing, they'll aim the lower end. If it's the posh seats in the middle of the family stand, or a seat in the corporate bit, then they'll aim the higher end.

we`re in the terracing and we had a letter with all 3 offers on, not gonna take a 10yr package up tho cos the worlds end is nigh.

Ok I read it wrong apparently, as it's £1000, not £500 as I thought I'd read.

Good offer, but I can't afford a grand. Might have scraped £500 but no chance of £1000.

I would have without doubt of taken a 5 year option. The 10 year option is pretty wallet busting but good value if you have some cash tucked away that you definitely might not need in the near future.

Really good stuff from the club IMO.

It gives the club assurances of effectively guaranteed future income (assuming that the money is invested or accounted for over the duration of the membership) and also a clear target market to sell future opportunities to.

Only thing I can't why anyone would go for red over amber (the 2 packages that I've been sent)? The red asks for £5k for 25 years - £200 per season, and the amber asks for £1k for 10 years - £100 per season. There are some bits and pieces benefits with the red in terms of the free shirt vs a discounted one, but not £100 per seasons worth.

Anyhoo, as I said at the beginning - really good stuff from the club.

I got offered red or amber

Now I'm really curious about what was in the black package

DEATH!

anyone else thinking this offer might be a way for bulls to rapidly get a significant sum of money available to fund a longer term capital project?. If the full allocation is taken up for the read and amber memberships then club has a million pounds available immediately to fund something without having to go to bank. In return they lose some income but spread over next 10 yrs from 500 fans (+ 25yrs from 100 fans), although they only lose the main season ticket revenue really and I'd imagine people who have a ticket paid for in advance like this will be more inclined to spend more on merchandise and gameday stuff.

Maybe a way of raising a significant sum as our contribution to some ground improvements ? Only other thing I can think of wher we may need a large sum of capital would be the image rights thing but I cant see our liability being anything like this big as we never really took advantage of the loopholes apart from for harris.

Not really right there, since Harris' image rights were paid by "independent third party" Publico, not the club. Different issue - The salary cap auditor seemingly determined that those image rights should nevertheless fall within the cap, retrospectively, hence breach.

Don't fool yourself that Bulls did not pay part of relevant players' packages in the form of image rights. They did. All clubs did. And remember we are going back quite aways here. And the annual accounts note the contingent liability for the exposure. If Leeds Rugby lose the test case (and if they DO, then it is a total scandal and proves the establishment is out to wreck RL IMO) then clubs appear top be facing very big numbers indeed. Indeed, the forming consensus seems to be it could be an extinction-level event across the game.

I do not know of a specific reason why the club is looking to generate cash ahead of recognising it as income in the accounts. It COULD be for a specific purpose like you suggest. But I could equally say I don't need to, since its bloomin' obvious anyway. You only have to look at the last published accounts, for 2009, and then think about what likely happened in 2010, to see that a nice one-off cash injection would restore the treasury position to sonething much more sensible. And take the pressure off the bank account at a stroke, so the club can concentrate more on doing proactive stuff for the future. Its a step I would have looked to take had I been Bulls' CFO.

But I speculate, since I have no specific information. I applaud the initiatives though.