Basically for you laying out £65

You've saved
£42 on 2010 pass
£42 on 2011 pass
£11 quid on your 2010 derby ticket
£10 on your 2010 shirt
£5 in the club shop

£110 - 65 = £45

Might not seem alot of money but it's the price of a shirt that you've saved by joining Club Rovers, value i'd say

Look, you're paying 8% more a year since Club Rovers was introduced. That's real actual cash spend increase year on year. Club Rovers was simply introduced to cushion the blow of a 23.5% increase in pass prices. Marketed pretty well as the poor deluded souls like you think the club's doing them a favour and you're getting a fictional "saving". You're a marketeer's dream.

At FC fortunately our pass prices were frozen in 2009 and went up about £10 IIRC, so an average increase of 2.5% vs 2008.

Wasn't the half price derby ticket only for the first 2500 members?

Good shout, the others got a book that was subsequently given away.

Correct, but as I was in the first 2500 it's all good.

If you like an 8% increase, more than double the rate of inflation, to fund some electronic turnstiles that require manning, it [uis[/u all good. Easily pleased, some people.