Thanks for the feedback Shaun - much appreciated.
I don't find it easy to attend meetings due to work commitments, which probably affects others too, so I think the forum is a good platform to get quite a lot of considered views. Plenty of people on here make some good points.
Designing a pricing package that makes everyone happy is tough, and I appreciate it is a difficult challenge. If you put the adult prices up to accommodate the concessions, you'll get your ear bent for that.
Even though our admission prices may compare favourably with other clubs, I do have a major issue with the £4 car parking charge which will surely be amongst the highest, if not the highest, in the league. A concession ticket plus £4 car parking is a fairer comparison.
We need to include parking charges in the match day cost, especially as transport links to the Keepmoat are poor. Why do the club think £4 is fair? A couple of quid seems reasonable, £4 seems like a rip off. This type of pricing doesn't endear people to the club. It does the opposite.
I understand that getting crowds of 2,000, with everyone paying £2 to get in wouldn't raise as much revenue as 500 people paying current rates. Initiatives need to raise more cash, not drop income, but we need to do something positive to get old fans back and bring new fans in.
If we have serious ambitions to get into Super League, we need to have crowds of at least 2,000. This is almost four times what we're getting now.
Does the club know why the old fans aren't attending? Unless we know why, we can't really start to solve the problem.
Could Doncaster College students do a project to try to find out the answers?
Where do knew fans come from?
Why not have a special promotion where all Rovers season ticket holders can attend one game for free?
We're probably not going to make anyone a die-hard rugby fan overnight but they won't know what they're missing if they don't give it a try.
Do the club have any attendance targets? If so, what objectives are in place to try to achieve them?
Looking forward to reading your thoughts, Shaun.