Season Ticket Renewals

[British Bulldog]

So is that what's driving your opinion of the TMS expense - the fact that match tickets are expensive?

Would you feel the same about chipping in with the cost of the TMS if match tickets were, say, £10?

I would object to paying for a travel voucher whatever the cost of the ticket is, I dont need it and i object to having to contribute to it.

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

Jeez calm down. Firstly in my previous posts I don't really think I've described Albion fans outside of BN1 as the spawn of Satan, and secondly it's a bit disingenious for you to say I/we should write to our Councillors to try and get the TMS system modified. You know full well that current thinking is to encourage people to use public transport and anything that appears to go against that stands absolutely no chance of being passed. For all the good writing to my councillors will do I may as well petition the queen, so that idea's a non-starter.

I'm perfectly calm although slightly irked that the some of the noble folk of BN1 think they are somehow "subsidising" an "out of towner" to attend a game of football at their "Brighton and Hove" club and that I think they should "just pay up and shut up".

Consequently asking the club IS the right course of action as they are the ones who are in the position to make some sort of concession. After all we are 'perfect' inasmuch as we don't use the vouchers (thus saving the club money) and we don't drive into the exclusion zone, thus risking the club being fined for breaking the terms of the TMS. I don't think that asking for some recompense deserves us being labelled as 'whingers who feel hard done by'. We are simply a group whom the club overlooked initially and have ignored ever since - and your attitude ("just pay the money and shut up") isn't helping.

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Who exactly are the "we" here - you, THPP, fans from BN1, from the entire city, non-whingers from the outer wildernesses who, like me, don't use the free bus or train travel facility either? If the club was to offer a reduction for unused ticket vouchers then it must be applied equally to everyone but, as I've said previously, if you do this (say at £3-£5 as Tom's proposed) then there will be many more people who will park in the exclusion zone imo. This can't be prevented and the likely consequences you've correctly outlined above.

 

[Brovion]

I'm perfectly calm although slightly irked that the some of the noble folk of BN1 think they are somehow "subsidising" an "out of towner" to attend a game of football at their "Brighton and Hove" club and that I think they should "just pay up and shut up".

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Who exactly are the "we" here - you, THPP, fans from BN1, from the entire city, non-whingers from the outer wildernesses who, like me, don't use the free bus or train travel facility either? If the club was to offer a reduction for unused ticket vouchers then it must be applied equally to everyone but, as I've said previously, if you do this (say at £3-£5 as Tom's proposed) then there will be many more people who will park in the exclusion zone imo. This can't be prevented and the likely consequences you've correctly outlined above.

The 'we' is all of us who walk to Withdean, or perhaps I should say 'do the entire journey on foot' as opposed to those who park outside the exclusion zone and walk the rest of the way.

Let's get back to basics and ask why is there a TMS scheme at all? After all there was never one at the Goldstone when I would have LOVED a free train ticket. The answer is of course that the Council insisted on it as it could be seen to be 'doing something' about reducing the inconvenience to Withdean residents and also reducing traffic coming into the city. Fair enough, I don't have a problem with the thinking behind it. But, and I'm sorry to labour the point, I'm paying for something I personally don't use in the same way as my Council Tax is paying for the upkeep of the Royal Pavilion which I never visit.

The difference between the Council and the club is the Council recognise that Brighton taxpayers are contributing to the maintenance of something they don't use and offer a 'Residents Rate' reduced price admissission. That is the sort of scheme I'm suggesting as per one of my earlier posts: when buying a ticket the club look you up on the database. If you live within walking distance* of Withdean you get X% discount on production of unused travel vouchers. Who knows, it might even encourage a few more people to turn up!

It's interesting reading this thread that it's only you (and perhaps TLO) who think the current system is ok. Most recognise its inequalities.

*Might provoke an argument as to what consistitutes 'walking distance'!