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SolihullMatt wrote:

If the club want this doing at my place of work (West Midlands Police), then I would be happy to assist.

I know Wasps Rugby in Coventry have done something very similar for emergency services and it worked a treat.

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M00R5 wrote:

Why are we giving discounts to certain people based on their jobs?

By extension of the logic of discounts for emergency services and the military, shouldn't we be extending it to all public servants?

Likewise - on a serious note - if the logic of student discounts is that students are voluntarily poor in the short-term, shouldn't a discount also be applied to the unemployed and people not earning a living wage, who are involuntarily poor?

The trouble with discounts is that they lose the club money without being fair to everyone else. Given the current economic climate, discounts for students and young people makes perfect sense. Without a discount these people would be priced out of coming. I can't help thinking that discounts specifically for the military, then extended to emergency services, are a political point rather than sensible economics from the club.

Before anyone says I hate/don't appreciate the armed forces and emergency services, my granddad was a former Solihull fire chief, whose untimely death was almost certainly connected back to the conditions he worked in during the 70s and 80s. He was also in the navy, as was my uncle. I know how tough it can be to work in those roles and make sacrifices for the good of the community. On the other hand, my other grandfather was a colonial soldier in the Gold Coast, before Ghana gained its independence, so it's not always obvious if the armed forces - by the choices of active members or not - are 'serving the community' in the way we might suppose.

Besides which, the Moors is a football club, not a pressure group. I don't see why we should be making political statements by offering certain categories of employment more worthy of a discount than others.

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