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Curzon on Saturday
« on: October 07, 2024, 03:53:22 PM »
Whose of to Curzon Ashton on Saturday? Great bargain of £15 return. Let’s get behind OUR team.
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« Reply #1 on: October 07, 2024, 05:28:48 PM »
Inexpensive admission as well.   Saturday was myself, son and grandson cost for admission £52.  If the 3 of us go to Curzon Saturday the admission will be £33.  That’s a staggering 58% more expensive to watch Lynn at home than away.

How does Cleeve truly justify that ?
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« Reply #2 on: October 07, 2024, 05:36:49 PM »
Expensive admission as well.   Saturday was myself, son and grandson cost for admission £52.  If the 3 of us go to Curzon Saturday the admission will be £33.  That’s a staggering 58% more expensive to watch Lynn at home than away.

How does Cleeve truly justify that ?

He can't, although I'm sure he would try.

Maybe it's down to having an overseas investor. :dontknow:
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« Reply #3 on: October 07, 2024, 05:44:05 PM »
Well it can’t be down to rent he pays.
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« Reply #4 on: October 08, 2024, 03:20:04 PM »
Well it can’t be down to rent he pays.


Not great for paying fans, but I guess he might say:

Cost of a full time squad
Cost of training facilities at Ely.
Cost of best manager in league and his assistant including traveling down from Manchester regularly
Cost of being based in Norfolk in a Northern League with travel and overnight stay costs

Whether all the above costs are necessary, is I guess, a different argument

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« Reply #5 on: October 08, 2024, 07:46:58 PM »
It’s the chairman’s choice on what MO he runs his club on.  Seems though he expects the fans and now Joe to continue to fund his hobby.

On a  Personal level we had decided to go to every home game we could.  We have since had a re-think and will at most now do every other home game.   
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« Reply #6 on: October 08, 2024, 08:29:38 PM »
It’s the chairman’s choice on what MO he runs his club on.  Seems though he expects the fans and now Joe to continue to fund his hobby.

On a  Personal level we had decided to go to every home game we could.  We have since had a re-think and will at most now do every other home game.

Yes I can well understand that Mall. The M O at the moment seems to be if you have a successful team then that gets a reasonable crowd paying high admission fees. However, this only works if the club continues to be evermore successful IMO......if it doesn't achieve that then another and another investor are required to prop it up.

The alternative is something that is priced in a way that builds the crowd base and is not totally dependent on on field performance , so that for example it encourages families including grandchildren to come every week.

If the club are serious about "building" they surely need to find a middle ground.

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« Reply #7 on: October 08, 2024, 08:50:04 PM »
It’s the chairman’s choice on what MO he runs his club on.  Seems though he expects the fans and now Joe to continue to fund his hobby.

On a  Personal level we had decided to go to every home game we could.  We have since had a re-think and will at most now do every other home game.

Yes I can well understand that Mall. The M O at the moment seems to be if you have a successful team then that gets a reasonable crowd paying high admission fees. However, this only works if the club continues to be evermore successful IMO......if it doesn't achieve that then another and another investor are required to prop it up.

The alternative is something that is priced in a way that builds the crowd base and is not totally dependent on on field performance , so that for example it encourages families including grandchildren to come every week.

If the club are serious about "building" they surely need to find a middle ground.

A community club?

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« Reply #8 on: October 08, 2024, 08:53:43 PM »
Chairman’s Club Chairman’s choice. I seem to recall SC tried a cheap admission deal but it turned out the extra people who attended didn’t make up for the drop in admission cost. So the revenue for the game was less.

Think the interesting time will come on the lead up to Christmas then the gates in January.  That’s a good litmus test of people’s spare cash. 

I wonder if the new Commercial  Director can pull in enough extra revenue to allow SC to charge a ‘reasonable’ admission fee or will he see that as it will be less him and Joe have to put in.  Then again if SC isn’t their to fund the Club what is he actually bringing to the party ?   Let’s hope this Commercial person does what all those who came before him failed to do.
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« Reply #9 on: October 09, 2024, 07:55:41 AM »
I always buy a season ticket it’s a bit cheaper that way,the cost of running a club like ours must be enormous with the likes of Electricity and other odds and sods taken into the equation.The chairman has poured thousands off his own money into running the club .i do appreciate the ticket is but what’s the alternative,

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« Reply #10 on: October 09, 2024, 07:58:02 AM »
I always buy a season ticket it’s a bit cheaper that way,the cost of running a club like ours must be enormous with the likes of Electricity and other odds and sods taken into the equation.The chairman has poured thousands off his own money into running the club .i do appreciate the ticket is but what’s the alternative,

His Club, his choice.

And of course the Elephant in the room........what happens when he decides to stop pouring thousands of pounds of his own money into the Club? Who services the debt then?
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« Reply #11 on: October 09, 2024, 08:06:53 AM »
Most people have a hobby. 
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« Reply #12 on: October 09, 2024, 09:08:51 AM »
Most people have a hobby.

Mine used to be watching Lynn.

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« Reply #13 on: October 09, 2024, 12:09:02 PM »
I always buy a season ticket it’s a bit cheaper that way,the cost of running a club like ours must be enormous with the likes of Electricity and other odds and sods taken into the equation.The chairman has poured thousands off his own money into running the club .i do appreciate the ticket is but what’s the alternative,

His Club, his choice.

And of course the Elephant in the room........what happens when he decides to stop pouring thousands of pounds of his own money into the Club? Who services the debt then?


Yep this is where it gets circular.....the only way to service it is for someone else with big money to take over and so it goes on........... unless of course it all starts again lower down the pyramid.

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« Reply #14 on: October 09, 2024, 01:21:50 PM »
I always buy a season ticket it’s a bit cheaper that way,the cost of running a club like ours must be enormous with the likes of Electricity and other odds and sods taken into the equation.The chairman has poured thousands off his own money into running the club .i do appreciate the ticket is but what’s the alternative,

His Club, his choice.

And of course the Elephant in the room........what happens when he decides to stop pouring thousands of pounds of his own money into the Club? Who services the debt then?


Yep this is where it gets circular.....the only way to service it is for someone else with big money to take over and so it goes on........... unless of course it all starts again lower down the pyramid.

Football Chairmen tend to want to lose their own money when they buy Clubs, not take on the debts from the previous one.
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