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Post by Neil on Aug 6, 2023 10:53:19 GMT
Someone has reported Billingham Town for how cheap they're selling season tickets, and the league have wrote to the club asking for a response within 7 days. Utterly embarrasing. Imagine a club and a sponsor getting together to offer subsidised season tickets during a cost of living crisis, and someone getting upset by it. So much for the friendly Northern League and the non-league spirit.
They've referred to rule 20. Seems to me a mis-interpretation of the rules as it refers to a 15% reduction on the minimum price, not the club's entry price. Does anyone know if a minimum price has been set that clubs must charge? And do any of our legal eagles know how that would stand up in court as surely it goes against anti-competition laws?
I believe there's only two clubs within both divisions that set their season ticket prices within 15% of their gate prices so wonder if the Northern League Management Committee have sent this letter to all clubs or if it's just Billy Town being targetted.
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Post by spennyfanchris on Aug 6, 2023 11:21:54 GMT
What in the actual hell? How nice of the club and a sponsor to help people when we are in a cost of living crisis and someone moans about it? what bs
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Post by tommo on Aug 6, 2023 11:45:42 GMT
Embarrassing from whichever club has reported it. Pathetic
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Post by sikirk on Aug 6, 2023 12:02:04 GMT
How petty can folk get. If the club can afford to do the cheap season ticket then then so what. Even if its going to bankrupt them, thats there business. There offer is hardly robbing other clubs
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Post by kingsway12 on Aug 6, 2023 12:28:54 GMT
Neil, what is the minimum admission charge set by the board of the Northern League ?
I do recollect reading some time ago that it was £5 for an adult entry to a 2nd division game, thus in minutes of an AGM or old meeting minutes it may well refer to this.
For rule 20 it should reference the minimum charges, if dosen't then how can the board question your club in the terms you have outlined.
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Post by Neil on Aug 6, 2023 13:23:39 GMT
Neil, what is the minimum admission charge set by the board of the Northern League ? I do recollect reading some time ago that it was £5 for an adult entry to a 2nd division game, thus in minutes of an AGM or old meeting minutes it may well refer to this. For rule 20 it should reference the minimum charges, if dosen't then how can the board question your club in the terms you have outlined. No idea, I've never heard of there being a minimum price other than for cup games. And I'm not sure how it would stand up to a legal challenge either. But from what I understand they're not referring to a minimum charge. They're saying it can't be more than 15% than our normal match entry fees. Absolutely mind blowing that people can be so petty. This is helping local people save a few quid, or cost them very little for 2 hours of entertainment every other Saturday. In an area with high levels of poverty that can only be a good thing surely.
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Post by kingsway12 on Aug 6, 2023 14:11:08 GMT
Maybe Windy 1970 will ring round, and try and clarify, but if you look under the Board's ''fees tariff'' - there is not a set fine for such matter, though i do recollect when Darlington were in the league, West Auckland charged every adult £10 entry fee, for their game and of course that is their decision but only charge £2 per adult entry fee for their next home game i think against South Shields, the former league chairman made mention of this and gained entry to the West v Darlington game with his ground pass, though he would pay at the gate normally, as for every other league game. Did the board take West Auckland to task in reference to their rule 20 for charging £2 for the South Shields game ?
Interesting on the fees tariff, number 35, clubs are fined for ''failure to allow filming at the ground'' - data protection 2018 Act, some may not wish to be recorded at a game or photographed especially as a paying customer, for children under 18 permission from their parent / guardian is required in the first instance, can of worms.
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Post by dusty on Aug 6, 2023 14:19:25 GMT
Embarrassing from whichever club has reported it. Pathetic It could have been a League board member noticed it on twitter, thats how I first got wind of it.
Either way I hope it is dismissed and let town get on with it.
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Post by Neil on Aug 6, 2023 14:57:52 GMT
I may be wrong but from what I've heard a complaint was received. Either way the complainant and the NL Mamagement Committee are not going to come out in a good light on this.
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Post by whitleyneal84 on Aug 6, 2023 15:51:49 GMT
I may be wrong but from what I've heard a complaint was received. Either way the complainant and the NL Mamagement Committee are not going to come out in a good light on this. Whichever club complained really needs to take a look at themselves. My money would be on your neighbours only by name as their the only club with any pettiness as to why they would want to do something like that as other clubs would surely have nothing against it. The league should be able to disclose who made the complaint and make it public or make it known to Billingham Town. Is it because the limelight isn’t on them in their centenary season and they don’t have their own ground ? The mind boggles it really does. The club should be defiant and keep on selling them. The northern league committee who have entertained such a joke of a complaint should also back down and let the club get on with it.
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Post by kingsway12 on Aug 6, 2023 16:04:47 GMT
The Northern League Management Committee, on request from Billingham Town will have to disclose any complaint made against them, the individual name (s), the reporting club (s) can be hidden from the form / email itself.
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Post by JayTheSynner on Aug 6, 2023 16:23:26 GMT
As far as I am aware it has nothing to do with Billingham Synthonia. I am now seeing people on social media pointing the finger at us.
All clubs received the same email about ticket pricing and the rules. It gave no indication that any club had made a complain against Billingham Town. Your announcement of season ticket pricing gained some traction across the internet, so perhaps someone from the FA, who made said rule, saw it and contacted the league themselves.
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Post by JayTheSynner on Aug 6, 2023 16:28:35 GMT
I may be wrong but from what I've heard a complaint was received. Either way the complainant and the NL Mamagement Committee are not going to come out in a good light on this. Whichever club complained really needs to take a look at themselves. My money would be on your neighbours only by name as their the only club with any pettiness as to why they would want to do something like that as other clubs would surely have nothing against it. The league should be able to disclose who made the complaint and make it public or make it known to Billingham Town. Is it because the limelight isn’t on them in their centenary season and they don’t have their own ground ? The mind boggles it really does. The club should be defiant and keep on selling them. The northern league committee who have entertained such a joke of a complaint should also back down and let the club get on with it. No one seemed to know about the rule stated in the first post until it was emailed out to very club in the Northern League. Otherwise ticket prices would be a lot different across the board at this level.
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Post by Neil on Aug 6, 2023 16:32:31 GMT
As far as I am aware it has nothing to do with Billingham Synthonia. I am now seeing people on social media pointing the finger at us. All clubs received the same email about ticket pricing and the rules. It gave no indication that any club had made a complain against Billingham Town. Your announcement of season ticket pricing gained some traction across the internet, so perhaps someone from the FA, who made said rule, saw it and contacted the league themselves. I understand the club have had another letter from the NL since that initial email, so it's seperate to that. I've no idea who complained but I wouldn't rush to point the finger at synners. There's a lot of petty people out there who hate to see a club doing something different.
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Post by whitleyneal84 on Aug 6, 2023 16:59:02 GMT
As far as I am aware it has nothing to do with Billingham Synthonia. I am now seeing people on social media pointing the finger at us. All clubs received the same email about ticket pricing and the rules. It gave no indication that any club had made a complain against Billingham Town. Your announcement of season ticket pricing gained some traction across the internet, so perhaps someone from the FA, who made said rule, saw it and contacted the league themselves. I understand the club have had another letter from the NL since that initial email, so it's seperate to that. I've no idea who complained but I wouldn't rush to point the finger at synners. There's a lot of petty people out there who hate to see a club doing something different. I only thought it could of been Synthonia as their the only club with any rivalry or any reason to make such a petty complaint but then even then it doesn’t matter as really which ever club made the complaint should be disclosed by the northern league and then made to explain why they’ve made said complaint
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