Long-serving (and long suffering) Nix fans have put in, paid up and been there for it all. No argument there.
But if there's no upturn in attendances then it's two years left. The club has to do something, which is why they're asking.
Each game say 500 tickets get given away. Maybe there's a takeup of future paid tickets from that. But there's about 28,000 empty seats at the RoF at the minute - so it's costing the Nix nothing to do, and there's the added merch, food, drink stuff in there too.
I can see how fans can, and do, get 'well i've been here 10 years and i've never gotten anything for free'.
But we're into the final two seasons of the license, we're hopelessly under-metrics and it comes down to this:
If the answer's no, then there's a horrible question of priorities here - survival of the club vs finding yourself out of pocket compared to others.
Or ideas - like 'seriously, what do you want the club to do?'
Cheaper tickets would be good. Kids for $1. All that. But whatever.