by Alexander Litvinenko »
02 Aug 2013 15:13
Royal Lady But don't you think that's wrong? Why should paying £10 a year to STAR make you a better fan than anyone else and privvy to anything the Manager has to say, rather than those of us who have paid, literally, THOUSANDS of pounds to RFC over the years in tickets, season tickets, merchandise? You could, quite literally, pay £10 to get to these forums and not even attend any games or anything - how is that "fair" to all supporters? This is one of the reasons I want to stand for STAR, but if I need 10 other STAR members to validate my application, I can't see me getting very far, when my MO is to make STAR all about the supporters and NOT for a few hundred supporters to think they're better than everyone else and certainly NOT to suck up to the club. I'll try and stand if I know I have people backing me, I'm looking at YOU Woodcote et al. So please let me know before the nominations have to be in.
Who says it makes anyone a "better fan" - and what's with the apparent obsession with "grading" people and making valkue judgements about them?
And surely the same reasoning could be applied to absolutely anything where someone makes a choice and spends some money (or doesn't!) - are people who go to away games "better" than those who can't afford to, don't have time to or are ill/disabled/carers?
And it's not a £10 admission charge to the FF - it's £10 for all the benefits of membership, including representation, belonging to a mutual organisation, being eligible to stand and vote, as well as travelling on coaches etc.