if they werent bothered why did they repeatedly ask me to reconsider?
I think if everyone suddenly took £9500pa out of the club they'd notice.
You didn't, your fees were a 90 minute sit down in a comfy seat, in the warm & away from the riff raff.
You chose to help out for free. There is no value to those services.
If you'd carried on & instead of taking up your 90 minute sit down in a comfy seat, in the warm & away from the riff rag you had subsequently invoiced them for whatever you fancied, then you would have been taking money out of the club. You may have put one invoice in, but I doubt they'd have asked you back. They'd manage without you, but if it's free...
I don't need help wiping my arse, just yet, but if somebody offered to come round & do it for free with the only condition being that they get to sit in a comfy chair, in the warm & away from the riff raff during the bomb dropping ceremony then I'd have them round, for as long as it stayed free.
The point I'm making is I think you're wrong taking cheap shots at other people's choices.
Without wanting to appear like I'm kissing OLM's arse, all TigerRoo like, I think you're very wrong questioning his choices considering the time & effort he has put in over the last few years fighting issues such as the name change & now the idiotic membership scheme. He could easily have sat quietly with many others in the posh parts & carried on as if nowt was occurring, instead he's stuck his head above the parapet & got involved from the front.
If he & others choose to continue or join their specific membership schemes then that is their choice to make & not one I, or others, should be critical of.
What is important is showing unity, as a fan base, in our belief that the scheme is wrong on so many levels & supporting, together, as many protests that we may need until the scheme, in it's current form, is scrapped.
Standing together, we will be heard.