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DanoT wrote: Since i did get to go last year, you are right that it is good to have others also get the great fan experience that travelling with the team provides. However what the Lions don't seem to get is that for those living outside the lower mainline season tickets are not feasible, but one time big events like the VIP trip are doable. The Lions need to be more inclusive on what they are offering their fans if they want to live up to their slogan, "The Pride of All B.C>"

notahomer wrote:

DanoT wrote: Since i did get to go last year, you are right that it is good to have others also get the great fan experience that travelling with the team provides. However what the Lions don't seem to get is that for those living outside the lower mainline season tickets are not feasible, but one time big events like the VIP trip are doable. The Lions need to be more inclusive on what they are offering their fans if they want to live up to their slogan, "The Pride of All B.C>"

I didn't know you got to go on the trip last year. Hope it was as fun as I'm thinking this years will be. That being said, I do think the Lions need to do what they can to be inclusive to being for all BC.

One thing, its obvious due to the demand this is something they should have done a long time ago.......

DanoT wrote:I had tried to buy a ticket a couple weeks ago but as i live in Victoria i am not a season ticket holder so the Lions said that they would go on sale to the public if not sold out to ST holders within a reasonable time. They put me on a waiting list. I didn't hold out much hope.

I got a phone call today saying that unsold tickets go on sale to the public on Wednesday but i could buy now. There were 3 tickets left for Winnipeg and now there are 2.

DanoT wrote:Since i did get to go last year, you are right that it is good to have others also get the great fan experience that travelling with the team provides. However what the Lions don't seem to get is that for those living outside the lower mainline season tickets are not feasible, but one time big events like the VIP trip are doable. The Lions need to be more inclusive on what they are offering their fans if they want to live up to their slogan, "The Pride of All B.C>"

Stoke City fans offered free travel for away games
19 July 2013 Last updated at 12:11 GMT

Stoke City are offering supporters free coach travel to all 19 of their Premier League away games this season.

Beginning with the trip to Liverpool on the first day of the season, coaches will take fans from the Britannia Stadium to each away league fixture.

The club are using the increase in TV revenue to fund the initiative.

"We've done it for the odd game, but not the whole season. I'm not aware of anyone that has," chief executive Tony Scholes told BBC Midlands Today.

Stoke previously subsidised ticket prices for those travelling to an FA Cup quarter-final tie at Anfield, waiving their right to 45% of the away ticket sales so they could offer tickets to fans at £20 instead of £35.

"We were looking at this around a year ago, looking at what we could do to keep football as affordable as possible," Scholes continued.

"Our home match tickets haven't gone up for the last five years but everyone knows following their team away from home can be expensive.

"With the new broadcasting deals that came in, that arguably gave us the opportunity to do something and spend a little bit of money back on the supporters."

The new £3bn Premier League TV deal will see top-flight sides receive £55m a year, and even if a club is relegated, they will still receive parachute payments of around £60m.

The_Pauser wrote:Well I'm confirmed for the trip to Regina this Saturday. I was supposed to be in Vienna, so this was a last-minute booking. I was supposed to be in Europe for this entire month...sprained my ankle in Prague but kept pushing forward. In Krakow I ended up getting drugged, and mugged (punched in the face several times and then they stole my iPhone). Then in a separate incident, outside of a night club that I wasn't even at the bouncers started pepper spraying any foreigner that was in the vicinity. I had enough and decided to prematurely end my vacation, sadly. Today at the game I saw the advertisement for this road trip and figured to book it. It definitely helps cheer me up and I'm so excited. Will anyone here be going as well?

Dan_Payne_fan!! wrote:what an amazing experience my pics from the trip and the season https://www.facebook.com/Bunktuzzi/medi ... 256&type=3