The club is for sale. It's a case of finding someone who is willing to pay 2 billion. It was a struggle to find a buyer for Newcastle .
I remember standing high up in the old Paxton stand,when things happened on the field at that end and was usually catapulted umpteen feet forward. Everyone always seemed to think it was great fun.We did,too! No one seemed to get hurt. …...and kids were lifted over peoples heads to the front.No problem!
Oh! No problems on The Shelf and in the Enclosure, It was the people in the seats that caused the problems!!!!!!!?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...dium-venue-sports-entertainment-industry.html This article from The Mail is why it's worth waiting to sign a naming rights deal. Once we've hosted Guns n Roses, Antony Joshuah and Saracens, the penny's going to drop that this isn't like any other stadium. Levy knows this already and is waiting for the rest of the world to catch up.
I went on the stadium tour today. It's pretty good. You don't get to see where the pitch goes under the South Stand, but you do see the dressing rooms, media centre and walk through the tunnel onto the side of the pitch. It struck me that they were taking a lot of money....more than 40 people for about 16 tours a day about 300 days per year each paying between £15 and £30. I make that about £5m in revenue. There were two guides on the tour and I think you would need about 25 full time staff but that only costs a fraction of the revenue. I also expect most visitors spend money in the shop.
Everythings in millions today. I think it cost 1/6d to get in when I started. 2 quid a win and a pound a draw.I can still remember Eddie Baily coming to a Div 1 match on a trolleybus!
Also, I'm pretty sure that plenty of coin will be flowing in from hosting corporate events. It's a shame that the Richard Hammond programme isn't on BBC, as that could significantly raise potential interest again, outside its current healthy levels, although this sort of thing does no harm... https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1227892627175071744... I was chatting to an unhappy Hammer last week and we got round to our respective stadiums. Needless to say, we had differing user experiences. He was suggesting that their place could be improved over time, with the stands rebuilt nearer to the pitch, one stand at a time...if they owned it and had owners who would invest... I was glad to put him out of his misery by telling him that the roofs on these bowls go up as one entity. As soon as you alter the tension on the cables by too much, the whole thing comes down in a very short space of time. The only way to improve it, is to bulldoze the damn thing and start again...once you've done that, there's only the matter of dealing with the land contamination on that site, before you can start building a new bowl of misery...to include an athletics legacy for Lord Coe. Alternatively, they could buy a site and build from new...in London, that should cost about £1 billion...give or take. They are so ****ed. I wonder when 'That's No Lady Brady' will make her next claim of the benefits of their council house...?
It just seems petty. Anyone willing to pay the current prices isn't going to struggle to find the extra few quid, but why bother? It's not worth annoying the loyal fans for.
And it really has annoyed me. I'm 'only' paying roughly an extra £15 but it's just the principle. I hate that they've also worded it to make it sound like they're doing us a favour "whilst inflation has increased our costs, we have sought to limit the Season Ticket price increase to between £12 and £33".
And the saddest thing is we could probably freeze our prices for about 5-10 years and the only club who'll likely be considerably more than us is Arsenal. It's embarrassing. My ST is now gonna cost about £1010 and mine is one of the cheaper ones at Spurs, if it goes up to about £1050-£1100 within the next few years I think I'll knock it on the head.
This is an unrelated video (though I found it interesting), but it does contain a quote that resonated with me: "But what is football? What do you believe in?" "Football is there as an entertainment industry. Supporters work hard, 9-5, five or six days a week to be able to afford to come to football." "If my team are just going to set up to win games by set-pieces or long balls, it's not what I would want to spend my hard-earned money to watch." - Ian Evatt, manager of Barrow AFC.
Its sad that football ticket prices have gone up so much, especially when you consider that: You are making a lot more on sales of food/merchandise/tickets from all the new capacity Most of footballing revenue comes from sponsorship and tv money I dont know why they think its justified to charge new super high prices just because its i new stadium when it should be the extra capacity that is increasing the revenue, not charging existing members way more
