previously we did not have to pay £60 to say you wanted an away Tkt. I want every Rangers supporter to stop buying MyGers because Rangers are at it. I have been running a bus for thirty years so I know all the craic. When it comes to it Rangers don’t give a monkey’s about individuals at Ibrox, they would bar you without thinking about it. Rangers supporters kept our club alive and they should think about that when they charge us £45 for Dortmund. Not once have they gave us anything while filling Ibrox with 50k in the lowest division in Scotland
I think need to take wider view on it that bluntly put The club needs money, the directors are facilitating the running of the club to the current level by short term loans which can’t keep continuing so the reality is rangers fans will need to contribute more if we are to retain the league / build up for next season (season money will certainly be going up as well)
& a membership scheme was always going to happen as they’ve obviously seen how it works with English premier sides, the ticket demand is there for us and it also gives rangers a lot more fan data / database info they can work with
It then goes back to , the cost for rangers of facilitating away game tickets when it dozesnt generate the club any money, but fills the coffers ot the other teams in Scotland , while we’re burning manhours on administration costs/ customer service operations / so the mygers fee subsidies that part of the business for rangers, I’m not sure I can really grumble about rangers passing that admin charge on to folk who want to go to away games by being mygers members
Like many people I was paying my £20 for travelclub membership, that could also wind up being just a donation depending on if I managed to make any away trips / how far rangers progressed. So I’m already used to putting extra money in and maybe not seeing anything back , but it’s for the cause at the end of the day
Looking at mygers , ideally for me it should be a points top down system for every away game as that rewards the loyalty of going every game , the problem is the way rangers are factoring in other ways to generate points , plus carving up the ticketing in bands so as not to make it appear like a ‘closed shop’ but reality that means folk on gold being short changed for silver / bronze, gold level shouldn’t be getting devalued , it should be on the other people to try and build up an attendance record to reach Gold level (and yes that will take time , and for games like Annan etc it will be just the same old faces in gold , but they have earned being a face through the years, the younger ones will just need to bide there time / earn their stripes as the other games build up, the older faces won’t always be there , new folk do emerge given time as family / work / business / health commitments come into play