Biggles - many people only have the state pension to live on.

Spit- and Accy.

Giving concessions to "pensioners" is ridiculous and a hang over from the 1950s or even the 1930s, when many pensioners were poor. These days, most pensioners are among the most prosperous in society. There is no need for old age ticket concessions. They should pay the full price.

Spit - Donny and Newport too.

Tuesday may 7th,next train strike for London, southeast area announced

Well there you go - they've retained non league status

Noted that crawley, salford,sutton was 60 plus for away game discounts

Most away games in the league, i didn't pay concession rate until 65. In non-league it always seemed to be 60. So not sure that's correct Spit

That's interesting RK, noted that plenty of other teams in this division is 60 plus.but not the fans owned one😂

We spaffed untold millions on a fahncy stand that looks nice but loses money. Or so it seems. Action point #1: reverse the losses.

If you don't want to pay a bit more, then whose money should be funding the club?

The lower rate is set at over 65s, not 60s. That band also includes a wide dispora of people with different income levels, the risk is you lose those on low incomes that have been supporters since the 1960s.

In most European countries you’d pay about 10 Euros to watch 4th division football, I saw Genoa play last season and it cost me 10 Euros

Probably stopping the over 60s discounted s/t ,matchday tickets would save the club loads. With no disrespect why would OI, RK,richer fans get discounts?

Putting it up a fiver would make it £32 to stand to watch fourth division toilet.

Tickets are crazily expensive at our level already. I'm not sure I agree an extra £5 a ticket on top of c.£25-30 is trivial in terms of how people make buying decisions.

I am illustrating where extra money could be raised. An extra £5 per ticket is trivial for most people, frankly, unless you are unemployed or otherwise skint. Money needs to be raised from somewhere. Who else should pay, if not the owners and fans?

Wot Carsh said. We need to make the white elephant stand pay.

Aren’t tickets expensive enough already without putting them up more?

As has been pointed out before, we are competing in a bonkers "industry" where almost all clubs lose large sums of money. In the 4th division the typical annual loss is £1m. So showing a similar annual loss in our accounts is par for the course. The issue is what are we going to do about it so that we can at least break even each year.

From memory (and its been a while since I looked) the 1.8m operating loss number was a bit of a fallacy, I think the accounts included quite a few one off write offs e.g. asset depreciation which aren't "real" losses but need to be accounted for. I believe the actual operating losses were closer to 1 than 2 (which still isn't great of course)

A bit like when we cinished 3rd in 2003 - our promotion was denied due to a not totally dissimilar piece of wording.

DO totally agree. And surely if you're not eligible for promotion there's a point where you shouldn't be considered for play offs and the places get reorganised to account for that. And if no one was eligible for promotion then that would be a case of the league needing to look at their rules.

If 14 National League sides were ineligible would the top relegated side go into the playoffs ;)

If my team had finished one place below play offs in NL, I'd be annoyed that the play offs weren't the top six eligible sides rather than as many of the top six that are eligible. Imagine if 5 of those 6 had not been eligible - no play-offs at all!