Free season tickets.

[Harry Carry]

I see Burnley have give their 6,500 existing season ticket holders free ones for next season. Would be a nice gesture for Reading to do the same, for the ones who've had STs since the opening of the Mad Stad.

[Sun Tzu]

Is this as well as refunding the season ticket holders from last season, which is the story that has been all over the press.

I'm sure it wouldn;t be hard to psot the reason they are doing it and we aren't !!

[Harry Carry]

Just about time the club gave something back to the fans IMO.

[The 17 Bus]

They gave free travel to Norwich, that must have cost them a lot!!

[Harry Carry]

They gave free travel to Norwich, that must have cost them a lot!!

Why are they treating the Norwich fans?

[The 17 Bus]

Why why why delia!!!!

[Sun Tzu]

Just about time the club gave something back to the fans IMO.

106 points.

Reading 3 Liverpool 1

That's the sort of thing I want back from the club, not 'free' tickets or other nonsense.

[Harry Carry]

Those moments are very few and far between.

[Dirk Gently]

That's what makes them so much more memorable and special.

If there were frequent occurrences they'd be routine and boring.

[The Real Sandhurst Royal]

I hope more clubs pick up and learn from Burnley's gesture to reward the true fans who have supported them through the seasons.

[Schards#2]

I don't see why the club can't throw in the first Carling Cup game free on the season ticket, hardly an expensive gesture as, against smaller sides, we only charge a tenner any way and don't get much of a gate.

[Dirk Gently]

I don't see why the club can't throw in the first Carling Cup game free on the season ticket, hardly an expensive gesture as, against smaller sides, we only charge a tenner any way and don't get much of a gate.

For the same reason as all the other times it's been discussed - it's not our money we'd be giving away.

In cup games the admission price is agreed between the home and away teams, and shared between them and also the FL (in the League cup it's 45% to each club and 10% to the FL "pool").

So even if we said it's a tenner for the game and were able to get the away team to agree to that (highly unlikely as it costs them!) we'd be committed to giving away 55% of £10 for each STH - this benefit would legally need to accounted for as being made available to all STHs, not just those who bothered to turn up.

So that's a cost of £49,500 to be handed over on ST sales so far - and that's before we even get to VAT liability and the way HMRC might question why the ticket price is reduced and insist on VAT being paid on the "normal" ticket price. Increase the ticket price to £15 and we're talking about handing over £74k+.

[TBM]

Maybe the club could give away free rumblestix or clappers, in our opening fixture against Peterborough or someone???! - Just a thought.

[Harry Carry]

oh I forgot the free vouchers for the club shop.

[Schards#2]

I don't see why the club can't throw in the first Carling Cup game free on the season ticket, hardly an expensive gesture as, against smaller sides, we only charge a tenner any way and don't get much of a gate.

For the same reason as all the other times it's been discussed - it's not our money we'd be giving away.

In cup games the admission price is agreed between the home and away teams, and shared between them and also the FL (in the League cup it's 45% to each club and 10% to the FL "pool").

So even if we said it's a tenner for the game and were able to get the away team to agree to that (highly unlikely as it costs them!) we'd be committed to giving away 55% of £10 for each STH - this benefit would legally need to accounted for as being made available to all STHs, not just those who bothered to turn up.

So that's a cost of £49,500 to be handed over on ST sales so far - and that's before we even get to VAT liability and the way HMRC might question why the ticket price is reduced and insist on VAT being paid on the "normal" ticket price. Increase the ticket price to £15 and we're talking about handing over £74k+.

So less than £10 per season ticket holder then, with the possibility that we do not have a home game either, in which the gesture would cost nothing.

[Row Z Royal]

I see Burnley have give their 6,500 existing season ticket holders free ones for next season. Would be a nice gesture for Reading to do the same, for the ones who've had STs since the opening of the Mad Stad.

£60m might have something to do with that.

[Dirk Gently]

I don't see why the club can't throw in the first Carling Cup game free on the season ticket, hardly an expensive gesture as, against smaller sides, we only charge a tenner any way and don't get much of a gate.

For the same reason as all the other times it's been discussed - it's not our money we'd be giving away.

In cup games the admission price is agreed between the home and away teams, and shared between them and also the FL (in the League cup it's 45% to each club and 10% to the FL "pool").

So even if we said it's a tenner for the game and were able to get the away team to agree to that (highly unlikely as it costs them!) we'd be committed to giving away 55% of £10 for each STH - this benefit would legally need to accounted for as being made available to all STHs, not just those who bothered to turn up.

So that's a cost of £49,500 to be handed over on ST sales so far - and that's before we even get to VAT liability and the way HMRC might question why the ticket price is reduced and insist on VAT being paid on the "normal" ticket price. Increase the ticket price to £15 and we're talking about handing over £74k+.

So less than £10 per season ticket holder then, with the possibility that we do not have a home game either, in which the gesture would cost nothing.

and were able to get the away team to agree to that (highly unlikely as it costs them!)

[Sun Tzu]

Don't Arsenal include all their cup games in their ST cost ?


Of course their season tickets cost north of a grand, but that's not the point.....

I have no doubt we could have a cup game or two included. And we probably wouldn't even notice the extra £20 on the cost of the ST....

[Schards#2]

For the same reason as all the other times it's been discussed - it's not our money we'd be giving away.

In cup games the admission price is agreed between the home and away teams, and shared between them and also the FL (in the League cup it's 45% to each club and 10% to the FL "pool").

So even if we said it's a tenner for the game and were able to get the away team to agree to that (highly unlikely as it costs them!) we'd be committed to giving away 55% of £10 for each STH - this benefit would legally need to accounted for as being made available to all STHs, not just those who bothered to turn up.

So that's a cost of £49,500 to be handed over on ST sales so far - and that's before we even get to VAT liability and the way HMRC might question why the ticket price is reduced and insist on VAT being paid on the "normal" ticket price. Increase the ticket price to £15 and we're talking about handing over £74k+.

So less than £10 per season ticket holder then, with the possibility that we do not have a home game either, in which the gesture would cost nothing.

and were able to get the away team to agree to that (highly unlikely as it costs them!)

Unthinkable
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[working class hero]

I don't see why the club can't throw in the first Carling Cup game free on the season ticket, hardly an expensive gesture as, against smaller sides, we only charge a tenner any way and don't get much of a gate.

For the same reason as all the other times it's been discussed - it's not our money we'd be giving away.

In cup games the admission price is agreed between the home and away teams, and shared between them and also the FL (in the League cup it's 45% to each club and 10% to the FL "pool").

So even if we said it's a tenner for the game and were able to get the away team to agree to that (highly unlikely as it costs them!) we'd be committed to giving away 55% of £10 for each STH - this benefit would legally need to accounted for as being made available to all STHs, not just those who bothered to turn up.

So that's a cost of £49,500 to be handed over on ST sales so far - and that's before we even get to VAT liability and the way HMRC might question why the ticket price is reduced and insist on VAT being paid on the "normal" ticket price. Increase the ticket price to £15 and we're talking about handing over £74k+.

Although Derby County STHs get the first Carling Cup home game and a friendly free with their ST. Funny how RFC cannot do things others can....