Preston chairman Derek Shaw has defended the club's pricing structure on 2008/09 season tickets.A number of season-ticket holders from last term have yet to renew their seats for the coming campaign but Shaw has responded to criticism that fans have been priced out.

He told the club's official website: "We've received much criticism that there are Premiership clubs with cheaper season tickets than ourselves but we are not subsidised by a £50million cheque from the Premier League.

"A lot of these clubs, their season-ticket and gate revenue is one of their more minor revenue streams, the big money comes from TV money.

"The reason we haven't drastically reduced our prices is that our wage bill is in the region of £8million a year and if we offered a ridiculously cheap season ticket then we would have to sell thousands and thousands just to cover what we take now."

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