Went to the Hunslet game. £5 for parking £ 22 to get in, outrageous. The other fans were equally horrified. I will only go if another SL team is there or perhaps Leigh. #Mugged

You should have read on, you would have seen that this part was tongue in cheek. I do believe you are too expensive for championship, but that wasn't my main gripe.

We have a full time team - it costs.

You're determined not to say what you [iwould[/i pay aren't you!

But we know all that, we've been told so many times. We're too expensive for championship. We're too good for the Championship. Our fans are too arrogant for the Championship. Even the bog paper is probably the wrong weight for the Championship. We're really sorry.

Funny how we've had a great welcome everywhere we've been, and how each club has marketed the fixture to death and built it up as the biggest event for decades etc. Deluded fools, the lot on 'em! Bulls? Pah!

Big chip on shoulder or what?

I HAVE paid £25 for my seat, I HAVE paid £5.00 for my granddaughter to sit (which I believe is wrong).

As a casual supporter I would be more than happy to pay £23 - £25 on the day (to sit), but £27 is far too expensive.

I have been a Bulls supporter (2nd team when we were in super league and my 1st super league team when we left) I have been to more Bulls games than some Bulls supporters I know. I have followed them to old Trafford, murrayfield and Twickenham (in the chucking down rain), so I have absolutely nothing against the Bulls whatsoever. I firmly believe that you will finish the league either first or second and will have a good tilt at super league, hoping that if at least one from our league goes up its you rather than Leigh.

All that said, I'm entitled, as a customer, to have an opinion on the way the pricing policy has been applied and to what I have been told by Bulls officials.

Please be assured if you come to the shay in July it will be marketed to death and you will be extremely welcome, and the maximum an adult will pay will be £20 and all your junior season ticket holders will be charged exactly £0.00 no matter where they sit or stand.

If you can't afford it don't come.

If fans want Bradford Bulls in SL you have to pay for it. It's been tried on the cheap and doesn't work.

Jeez I completely get it, I really do and I paid and I'm coming. But I can have an opinion of how unfair the Bulls have applied the junior ticket.

Well I for one have missed the long meandering threads that ultimately lead nowhere on a topic nobody reading it can do anything about.

Isn't that always the case. Probably done it to death. Good luck for the season, and I mean that.......

Meandering? Never! Me and Bob are straight to the nitty gritty. Incisive. Clinical. This thread meanders even less than Usain Bolt.

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Never seen as much ticker tape in my life that game - people were pulling it out from everywhere !!

Yeah, I [inever[/i used to take clippings......but I did to that match!

One of my 'Fax colleagues told me that Sky were thinking of showing our game which is why it's at 8pm on Good Friday. Now with this announcement about a CC game being shown, I'm wondering whether she got her wires crossed a little. Anyone else heard this? Sky have the rights to the championship, even though they're not doing anything with them at present...

Think 8pm is just the standard time for weekday evening kick offs these days.

I guess it's the Sky involvement which caused it to be moved from the old 7:30, though there was always a valid case of giving away fans a better chance of making the kick off, particularly when a motorway journey is involved. Not that anyone would use the motorway from Halifax....except coach drivers who don't seem to know any other way....

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U19's playing beforehand, 17:30.

Looking forwards to this. Hope for good weather, good crowd.

No. If I didn't have an ST I would pay £12 (concession) at The Shay. At Odsal I have to pay £20 as concessions don't start until age 65 (60 at The Shay).

Anyway, I made my choice and am going to the game. I just wanted to state my point, not have an ongoing argument about it. The money is no big deal, its the principle.

Well I hope you enjoy yourself FaxMachine but not too much.

I don't know where you've got your figures from but [url=http://www.bradfordbulls.co.uk/gameday/gameday-ticketsthis is the pricing from the Bulls website[/url

To be honest I think Championship ticket prices are a bit steep.

Whats the difference between pre-game and matchday?

If the games on Sunday and you buy ticket during week upto Saturday that's pre-game.

Didn't Mr Green say our pricing was based on our aspiration to get back to SL rather than life in the Championship?

Yes, I'm not saying that we shouldnt try to maximise our revenue, or return to the crazy prices of the past. But its likely that there will be quite a few fairly one sided games in the next few months. I don't really see the less committed fans shelling out £20+ to watch us rack up points. And I think its fairly important to keep the fanbase as wide as possible so as to keep those fans interested for when the big games come round. If we set the ticket prices too high we might end up with a very loyal band of 4-5,000 fans but very few casual fans.

But then if you're right, what IS the cutoff price which you are confident these less committed fans WOULD shell out? That is, taking one specific "less committed" fan, are you saying there is a lower price at which he will say, "Oh sod it, I wasn't going to go to watch the Bulls rack up points but at that price I think I will"?

Using very rounded figures, to get a similar gate income to 4200 @ average of around £20 you're gonna need pushing 6000 if you drop the price by a fiver. But is a fiver really enough to pretty much guarantee gates of 6000? I really can't see it, and of course the lower you drop it, the worse it gets. Then again, your theory assumes that the "less committed fans" WILL attend SOME games - against say Leigh, or Halifax, maybe - and so you'd be doing yourself in those games as they may get 6000 - but would have done so at a higher price, so you have to factor in that you're doing yourself on the more attractive fixtures.