Hazel wrote: April 8th, 2024, 9:55 am
Where in this country do OAP's not get a reduction in pricing. I guess this Bangit fella is not an OAP or pretty well off. County would certainly make the news in an awful way if that occurred.
I suspect the real reason is that Bangit' knows I'm an OAP and this is just another rather pathetic attempt to wind me up.
On topic my view is subjective but hopefully has a certain logic. Living i the west of Ireland I still want my football fix. So I watch and support Sligo Rovers. However I'm not passionate about Sligo in the way I am about Newport County. If Sligo get laced up 4-0 at home to Galway it doesn't ruin my day. As such at 180 Euro I'm quite happy to buy a season ticket. If it were 350 I probably wouldn't bother. My view is that lots of people in Newport feel the same about County as I do about Sligo. So financially I think it makes sense to at least examine the optimum price level.
The second reason is that if we believe that a football club is a community asset then we should consider how to make football available to people who haven't been fortunate in terms of having a disposable income. Some will be pensioners, some young people, some on zero hours contracts, some with a young family. That's a lot of people. From a personal point of view, I'm aware that I got lucky in life, which at it's heart is where me and the likes of Bangit' differ. I can imagine what it's like to have to watch every penny, that Bangit' can't rather sums him up.