To be honest I don’t tend to bother with Prem cup games prem and Europe are the games I go to.

LI need low prices to attract fans we have the opposite issue the club knows it will fill The Stoop most weeks.

The renewal booklet is up online.  Reasonably informative, but I can't see where they have defined who qualifies for concessions this year.

London Irish and Quins are in very different situations.

Irish have a stadium they need to fill, and IIRC they have some backing from the IRFU.

Quins are filling their stadium and need to find ways of increasing revenue without the ability to add more seats except with the Big Summer Kick Off.

The 25% salary cuts and redundancies will have reduced the losses but as Laurie's letter says they have over the last couple of years lost ticket, food and drink, hospitality, merch, RFU and PRL revenue - basically every single source of revenue has taken a major hit. For an entity that wasn't making an operating profit before COVID, that loss will have been much bigger.

The ongoing support of the owners is reliant on having a plan to get to profitability over time. Quins won't be doing this lightly, but it will be finely balanced in terms of increasing the revenue per seat vs losing STHs. I imagine they expect to lose some - or see some move to lower categories - but will more than recoup that in individual game sales.

If my calculation is correct, club membership for my son & me, ie a family 1 +1 membership, has gone up by 16% since I last paid, for 2020/21.

A pretty meaty rise and it's notable that Laurie mentioned in his email that there is another one to come next season.  If it's the same size next time and, with inflation running at 7% that's not an unreasonable assumption, it would see membership going up by 1/3rd over those two years.

That's a very large rise, but if you look at the context, ie covid, rampant inflation, no rise for 2 or 3 years previously, it doesn't look quite as big.  The club can take this strategy because they are selling out almost every home game.  Ironically, our success on the pitch has enabled this approach.

Personally, I'm not renewing, but that's for non-Quins reasons.  If I was able to, I'd probably swear under my breath and then renew.

Going to need to have a good think about whether to renew this time, touchline is an £80 (21% I think) increase on this year's price. Not sure if it is still value for money when I can only really attend the men's first team matches.

For me, it is a no brainer.
I will just suck up the £80 increase.

I tend to come to every Prem, Prem Cup, and Championship game and also, A-league, pre-seasons etc, if available and all of the women's games.
I lose more than £80 a year in not collecting my £1 back for cup return.
 - so, I may just start collecting the £1 back sometimes to offset the rise.

I am pretty sure that the Prem Cup is being replaced with a new cup competition that will include the Championship clubs. Could provide some interesting games.
Although, as a Richmond member, I may have some divided loyalties :-)

I'm pleased that the the Prem Cup is being replaced. I'd like to see the A League return too. These offer important development games for the next generation.