Post by GasMacc1 on May 11, 2019 10:23:35 GMT
Created summary from Chris Lines thread, 'cos I'm interested in any answers to this...
May 8, 2019 0:03:01 GMT 1 Bamber Gasgroin said:
We have Gorringe, if he's any good at his job, considering the affluence of this City, he should be able to generate considerably more money than, with all due respect, would be possible in Fleetwood.
But the main thing, in their 25 home matches during this season, I make it that a grand total of 75,589 punters watched Fleetwood, compared to 205,755 at The Mem.
I have no idea what the average supporter pays at each game watching Rovers, but we have 18 boxes, 16 of which are sold, 2 for home and away Directors, then we have the hospitality thing in the big blue stand, then we have bars / food etc from all those extra fans, if we say, including the seats / hospitality / programme profits / food / beer, the club get an average of £20 per-head per-match (I think that's conservative), that means we had £2,600,000 more than Fleetwood before a ball was even kicked.
Where is our money going if clubs like Accrington (76,952 attendees) and Fleetwood put out better teams than us and we still post huge losses?
We have Gorringe, if he's any good at his job, considering the affluence of this City, he should be able to generate considerably more money than, with all due respect, would be possible in Fleetwood.
But the main thing, in their 25 home matches during this season, I make it that a grand total of 75,589 punters watched Fleetwood, compared to 205,755 at The Mem.
I have no idea what the average supporter pays at each game watching Rovers, but we have 18 boxes, 16 of which are sold, 2 for home and away Directors, then we have the hospitality thing in the big blue stand, then we have bars / food etc from all those extra fans, if we say, including the seats / hospitality / programme profits / food / beer, the club get an average of £20 per-head per-match (I think that's conservative), that means we had £2,600,000 more than Fleetwood before a ball was even kicked.
Where is our money going if clubs like Accrington (76,952 attendees) and Fleetwood put out better teams than us and we still post huge losses?
May 8, 2019 at 2:35am vertigo said:
With accrington you would have to say they are doing most things better than us as well as plymouth,bradford,southend,swindon etc etc.
But with fleetwood one man has put lots of money into the project while in fairness also creating a club that makes money 24/7 from their HQ.
With accrington you would have to say they are doing most things better than us as well as plymouth,bradford,southend,swindon etc etc.
But with fleetwood one man has put lots of money into the project while in fairness also creating a club that makes money 24/7 from their HQ.
May 8, 2019 10:54:00 GMT 1 Bamber Gasgroin said:
The question was, with our stadium facilities and £2.6 million quid head start, plus our owners are covering a huge sum every year in losses at the moment, how can Fleetwood out-perform us? Why isn't, to quote Lansdown, our stadium 'Bleeding' for us. Just look at the car park, a huge space, sat there doing nothing 300 days a year. It's ridiculous.
This stuff is critical, with SCMP we are restricted to spending no more than 60% of turnover on player wages, yet we aren't making a proper effort to maximise turnover. You couldn't make this nonsense up.
Has Gorringe replaced Zebra Finance yet?
The question was, with our stadium facilities and £2.6 million quid head start, plus our owners are covering a huge sum every year in losses at the moment, how can Fleetwood out-perform us? Why isn't, to quote Lansdown, our stadium 'Bleeding' for us. Just look at the car park, a huge space, sat there doing nothing 300 days a year. It's ridiculous.
This stuff is critical, with SCMP we are restricted to spending no more than 60% of turnover on player wages, yet we aren't making a proper effort to maximise turnover. You couldn't make this nonsense up.
Has Gorringe replaced Zebra Finance yet?
May 8, 2019 at 12:09pm bulbous said:
the car park is a good shout, a park and ride for commuters would be a shout
the car park is a good shout, a park and ride for commuters would be a shout
May 8, 2019 at 12:39pm Bamber Gasgroin said:
Yes, or something similar, parking around there is a nightmare during work hours, secure parking non-existent.
It's frustrating isn't it when we can see this stuff from here but 'professionals' in the club are messing around wasting money on cheap season card readers that keep breaking and which aren't, as far as I'm aware, even connected to a database.
What would put the cherry on top of a not particularly appetising cake would be, rather than look at the available resources in terms of staff and assess all of the skills available and work out how they can be utilised, if we were to see a round of redundancies or cut backs.
Yes, or something similar, parking around there is a nightmare during work hours, secure parking non-existent.
It's frustrating isn't it when we can see this stuff from here but 'professionals' in the club are messing around wasting money on cheap season card readers that keep breaking and which aren't, as far as I'm aware, even connected to a database.
What would put the cherry on top of a not particularly appetising cake would be, rather than look at the available resources in terms of staff and assess all of the skills available and work out how they can be utilised, if we were to see a round of redundancies or cut backs.
May 8, 2019 at 11:06pm vertigo said:
I agree with you,its a joke really.
Its very difficult to make a case for the owners in terms of developing facilities at the ground to maximise its potential.
Even if the plan is to move elsewhere so much more could be done at the mem anyway.
I agree with you,its a joke really.
Its very difficult to make a case for the owners in terms of developing facilities at the ground to maximise its potential.
Even if the plan is to move elsewhere so much more could be done at the mem anyway.
May 9, 2019 at 11:04pm warehamgas said:
Why have we been unable to find a north/ east Bristol version of Andy Pilley? Surely, there must be a local business man out there similar to Pilley, Huw Jenkins (Swansea), John Madjeski (Reading). (I know there are few people to rival Lansdowne’s wealth.)
UTG!
Why have we been unable to find a north/ east Bristol version of Andy Pilley? Surely, there must be a local business man out there similar to Pilley, Huw Jenkins (Swansea), John Madjeski (Reading). (I know there are few people to rival Lansdowne’s wealth.)
UTG!
