True, but if folk did they could have chosen to pay the money to go. With the increase folk are now paying for award ceremony attendance whether they want to go or not.
Did they put the burden on you to prove you'd paid? I found a bank statement with a reference of "Craig Noone Kit" on it but the club would not accept this and check their accounts...instead they asked me to prove which account it went into. Was a right ball-ache.
PS And yes I know I should...
I've not been to the Awards but my initial feeling is this is a down-grade. The kit sponsor dinner was informal, small, intimate, you sat with 2 players on a table of 10, and could mingle and freely talk to any player after the food for a fair amount of time. From what I gather the awards isn't...
I used to sponsor a kit with two friends. The price increases coupled with the Albion contacting me 2 years in succession claiming I hadn't paid, and annoying and with difficulty being asked to find proof of the account in paid the money to almost a year later, left a bad taste so we stopped.