A marvellous gesture by our club, which has kept its word on season tickets and I echo everyone else's praise on that.
However I have one or two questions on the detail. I would have liked a tick box option to donate either directly to the club or to the Society. That still doesn't prevent me, or anyone else of course, from making such donations.
The option to help buy season tickets for those who are unemployed or on low incomes. Very commendable and I hope that helps a few in that position. However would such a donation, if covering the full cost of a ticket, be seen by HMRC as being a commercial purchase and therefore liable for VAT? I wouldn't want to think that season ticket holders who want to go down this route would lose a fair chunk of their donation to the Treasury. How would recipients be identifed? Would they have to have some link to the club or would any economically eligible person in an ML postcode be entitled? What happens to donations if all eligible and interested parties are given their tickets - does the surplus money just go to the club?
I would have preferred a simple tick box set of options but thats just me.
As I say, these are all questions of detail not principle. I'll 100% be donating my season ticket cash in some form or other depending on answers to the above, especially as I'll have had a season back in person and a season't free TV coverage.
The video is top class.