by Kulshaw72RFC »
24 Oct 2018 06:21
Stranded genome Some basic rushed numbers that are probably completely wrong because it's Monday morning, but whatever
2,175 (half the south stand capacity) x £20 we charge for away tickets = £43,500 per game x 23 home games = £1,000,500 lost over the course of the season IF every away team sell out the South Stand. Not every team will, so it'll probably be around half that number (if that), minus £9085 for around 300 Club 1871 season tickets (or however many there were).
So I think it'll lose the club about £400,000 to £500,000, but it's hard to say.
As mentioned in my other post, 1 from 7 have sold out the 2200 they get currently and only 1900 of them actually attended. Of those 4, 2 are London clubs who you might expect to take a larger allocation for a short trip. For even half the league to take 4400 tickets, that would means that 12 of the final 16 home games would see clubs want to bring 4k fans. As our home games include Rotherham, Blackburn, Wigan and Brentford who don't travel in big numbers, you would be looking at the remaining clubs all bringing 4000.
Not going to happen.
But it depends how the away teams are doing in the league aswell.
In our last 6 away games we have Leeds, West Brom, Brentford, Birmingham, Preston and Wigan.
Leeds, West Brom will bring the numbers naturally.
Brentford and wigan could easily be fighting for a play off spot so could bring en masse.
Pna maybe not and last game brum which could be a relegation decider could easily do 7k.
It's a sad state of affairs that the club is haemorrhaging money away and being essentially held to random by Club1871 as the commercial and ticketing departments have really cocked this one up. The simple solution would have been to moved Club1871 into Y26 right by the away fans. That way they are not segregated from the loudest and most passtionate fans.
Somebody at the club has made this decision and unfortunately they have
to go.
We as a club need to
restore accountability now and start looking forwards to ensure we are not relegated. That extra lost income could have been a new signing in January to push us up the table, or the difference between going into administration or not.
Who really runs this club?