Austerity bites again. Instead of offering a 20% discount up front in return for owning season tickets for five years - as promised by the Icelandic bankers - the club are phasing the discount over four years, at 5% per year. It's 20% David, but not as they expected it!
But anybody complaining should wake up and smell Karren Brady's caviar! These are difficult times and we all have to pull our belts tighter. Teachers, firefighters, policemen, nurses, doctors, you name it - government ministers apart - everybody is feeling the pinch. Public servants have to wait an extra eight years to collect their pensions, so West Ham season ticket holders have no right to gripe over this minor inconvenience.
I mean what's the problem? It's 20% at the end of the day, just delayed or deferred. Mind you, if you're 93 it might prove a bit of a pisser!
Been saying much the same on Twitter, HF. The line they're coming out with as utter hogwash. For me, with son in tow, it would represent an outlay of £800 as opposed to a grand if they honoured the club's promise.
ReplyDeleteAdd to that the wonga I spend each time I go there, bear in mind the lack of 'kids for a quid game' that loyal season ticket holders never benefit from but they seemed to trot out time after time in the last season or two.
It's all total garbage, designed to bleed us of every penny they can, safe in the knowledge that whilst we might kick and scream, we'll all renew - every man Jack of us!
im happy no matter what
ReplyDeleteim happy no matter what
ReplyDeleteAnony-mouse says,
ReplyDeleteIt's a dirty penny pinching sleight of hand by he board. I hope season ticket holders don't accept it cos legally it appears that they are entitled to their 20% off. How typical of West Ham to shoot themselves in the foot over what amounts to the cost of a shite Bosman transfer.
They will lose far more (not just fiinancially but in good will) than they gain by doing this. They certainly deserve to.
Shut up and cough up, bunch of old women!
ReplyDeleteAnony-mouse says,
ReplyDeleteOK David, whatever you say :)
It is a problem insofar that we were promised a 20% discount if we bought a season ticket for five years. Now we are being offered 5% discount for the next four years BUT we would have spent almost twice as much to get that 20% total discount ie we are only getting 10% discount.
ReplyDeleteHowever, none of that really applies as I would be pretty confident to say that no-one bought a season ticket for five years JUST to get a discount.