Quote Originally Posted by Deeranged View Post
It would be common sense to scrap all over 65 concessions since it's no more than a relic of a bygone time. The state pension age is now 67 for one thing and, with people now maintaining their health much longer, many more people are working beyond even that age whilst those that aren't are generally well enough off that they don't really need reduced prices. Otherwise they wouldn't have retired. There's a very weak argument I've heard that the reduction in prices at football for age 65 and over can be seen as a kind of reward for decades of commitment to the club. That's nonsense of course and the argument is lost as soon as any individual starts going to games after retirement because they can but couldn't when they were working.

With so many more young people now going into further education rather than into trades or other paid, full time employment along with the rise of zero hour contracts young people are now the demographic that are less well off. For these reasons concessions should be aimed at the younger age groups. My opinion is that the young person concession should extend to age 21 and I could easily be convinced that age 23 would be even more appropriate.

Of course it's only my opinion or belief but it does seem, at least subjectively, to be the case and I believe that someone with access to the required data might be able to prove (or disprove of course) the above.

Meantime I'll continue to use my over 60 National 'Entitlement' Card for buses and to travel first class by train.
Dundee Football Club have an aged support.
If the reduced ticket prices for OAPs was scrapped I can see a lot of them no longer attending home games at Dens Park.
As people get older they start suffering from more illnesses resulting in them not being able to attend every home game in a season.
In my opinion the management of Dundee Football Club should be getting their finger out and restarting the Junior Dark Blues with immediate effect.
At the Dee4life AGM in November 2023 it was stated that Dee4life offered ?5,000 as their contribution to the cost of restarting the Junior Dark Blues but nothing happened.
I read in the minutes of a DSA secretaries meeting that the DSA committee were concerned at the proposed high cost of Junior Dark Blues membership which some junior Dundee FC supporters might not be able to afford.
The Dundee FC Community Trust was supposed to be restarting the Junior Dark Blues but it does not appear to have happened.