Hull City Supporters’ Trust calls on Hull City to scrap the planned membership arrangements for next season. The Trust conducted a survey of City fans over a four day period. We had well over a thousand respondents, mainly nonmembers and mainly passholders. In line with the wider media comments the vast majority were deeply unhappy about the membership scheme. The zoning and pricing proposals, developed without any meaningful consultation with supporters, were widely reviled. In particular, by removing concessions for both older and younger supporters, the club was felt to be behaving in a morally reprehensible way, failing to reward loyalty (as it boasts the new scheme does) and severely impacting on the longterm support of Hull City. In the short term, it seems the scheme will certainly be economically damaging, with the majority of our survey’s respondents saying they would be unlikely or very unlikely to join the scheme. HCST has on its board experienced accountants who have worked up a model that offers an alternative – keeping concessions and removing all zoning. We believe our model will deliver at least as much revenue as the club’s plan, whilst delivering cheaper season passes all round. We propose three courses of action: 1) Hull City immediately suspends the introduction of the new membership scheme; 2) The club’s board and senior officials meet urgently with the Trust and other fan groups to discuss the issues and the way forward; 3) The club works in partnership with the Trust, initially on refining costings for a continued season card scheme for 2016/17 and then later on refining an opt-in membership scheme. The consequences of ignoring the fanbase will, the Trust believes, be disastrous. Whilst the club’s owners have, in the past, shown no inclination to take heed of what supporters say this is an opportunity for them to alter course and enter into a dialogue with fans – for all our benefit. If Hull City's owners opt to yet again ignore the supporters then it is clear that their continued ownership of this football club is untenable and that they must now come good on their promise to sell up to someone who can understand and nurture a loyal supporter base rather than treating it with disdain. The Trust will respond by campaigning against the membership scheme in its current form as well as the continued ownership of the club by the Allam family. For more details including full results of the survey, - http://hullcitysupporterstrust.com/wp-content/uploads/Scrap-The-Scheme-Press-Release-210416.pdf
what an almighty **** up - the club has already started signing 'contracts' with fans for the new membership scheme - I really don't know how they sort this out and come out smelling of roses - how these two ever got on in business is beyond me
Eeeesh. Am I allowed to be a member of the OSC and the Trust? First thing you've done I've agreed with.
More than welcome Happy - http://hullcitysupporterstrust.com/join/ Incidentally, I attended a meeting last night with representatives of the OSC, the Senior Tigers, the Founders Club and the Trust and they all agreed with the content of the statement as well.
An excellent bunch of people on the Trust without a doubt. However, there is one hard fact that you will never get over - The Allam's are NON NEGOTIABLE. End of!
Apparently, the brochure claims that the new scheme will 'counteract a drop off of fans upon reaching adult prices because the jump was too great - now there is no difference'.
Have the trust published the results anywhere, or have they just said what they want to? I'm only asking, as with other things like this they sometimes are 'doctored' to say what the owner of the poll wants.
You can find a link to the full survey results here. http://www.not606.com/threads/hcst-press-release-scrap-the-scheme.327630/#post-9161498
The results of the poll are detailed in full, number of respondents, how many were Trust members, how many season ticket holders, where they sit and their answers to every question. It's all on the link above.
Shouldn't one of the committee be publishing and answering things, just to make sure it's the party line that's out there to avoid confusion with messages seen in the past.
Boycott Dont sign up There are NO winners Everyone is a loser if we rid the stadium of young fans.. Our future support And DMD is spot on because no one on the coach from filey is going to move from west upper Theres not going to be a coach next season It an insane scheme Boycott the scheme Think of HULL CITYS future
