An early candidate for disingenuous statement of 2015.

Indeed he did, but you oddly don't mention that this was a defence mechanism to a winding up order issued by HMRC. SSG had a debenture and as such were able to appoint an Administrator. Had they not done so, the fact is the club would have been compulsorily wound up.

What ultimately led the club into administration was therefore, to be accurate, its inability to pay what it owed to HMRC.

Balls.

Where's your evidence for that sweeping statement?

You need to get out more. Have a word with the Academy staff. They're more upbeat than ever. We're really doing well in that dept. Got some great U16s signed up. Some great lads moved up to the U19s too. We're doing all the right things. Our academy set up is better than most other clubs including SL clubs.

Looking at social media most fans seem to be looking forward to the season.

FFS cheer up!

Not that early, probably a bit late to be honest

What?? It's 2016??? Who knew?!?

The people who make calendars. Those shifty buggers are always a step ahead

Those people? Meh. I can always find the stuff they come up with full of holes

Well it's on the Bulls Facebook that memberships have now passed 2700. I'd expect that to creep over the 3k mark after this weekend as most people will be paid this week and we're only a week away from the start of the season

I may even pay up myself this weekend, you just never know

Just got mine today.

Green tweeted this morning that with a week before season starts we're actually on target to sell more memberships than last year.

suspected there would be a late surge but good effort if we manage to increase numbers.

Well I got mine yesterday. £380 all in. Ouch

Getting mine this week...

What do you get for that much, do you get to play scrum half in a couple of games

I'd tell you, but I'd have to kill you

You've bought a season ticket for Tiger Tot!

Announced over 3000 now sold.

Seems like plenty of last minute sign ups came through (or were being held back)

I don't expect I was the only one who left it to the last because no incentive to pay early. I do think they'd have sold more with an incentive, as I would expect that if a number of people leave it to the last, then inevitably a certain proportion will not, in the end, pay.

Having said that, it is a goodly number, by any measure, IMHO

We got ours today - might not even have been included in that figure

There's was no reason whatsoever to get them any earlier.

suspect there will be a decent number sold tomorrow too as people working will go upto odsal on saturday rather than during week. as said no reason to buy before now. suspect we'll end up with pretty much same final figure as last year.

That would be remarkable if it happened and far beyond what I would have expected. It would suggest that our sense that it was last year or never has rolled forward a year. I certainly feel cautious optimism and obviously so do many of us.

I think in terms of crowd average, we'll probably hit the same. Maybe not the same number of memberships as I, for example, haven't bought a season ticket this year due to financial reasons because my job situation has been up in the air since just before Xmas, but I'll likely make the majority of home games

Membership total announced by Green on twitter as being 8.3% up on last year. Great effort by club.

An unbelievable statistic. Just the sort of news that none of us seem to be remotely interested in for some reason, if it was 10% down there'd be acres of threads.

I find it mildly surprising, to be honest - for all the obvious reasons.

Our crowd yesterday was also a bit below the normalish C5K we'd been getting last season, which is surprising if memberships are up. Rubbish day to watch rugby though, it must be said, so maybe the actual attendances will pick up later.

I wonder how many memberships are those with the limited no. of games? A big increase in those, with most not choosing the Fev game, for instance, would explain a fair bit.