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season price up by 50% if Dr Allam doesnt get his way

Discussion in 'Hull City' started by incredihull, Feb 20, 2014.

  1. ollyhcafc

    ollyhcafc Active Member

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    if you read the article, its Ehabs quotes and he's talking sense the only people who'll destroy this club are CTWD!!!
     
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  2. bum_chinned_crab

    bum_chinned_crab Well-Known Member

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    Do you honestly mean that? I dont think CTWD got us £70m in debt. I didnt see quotes from CTWD saying they wish fellow fans were dead.

    Sometimes there is such a chasm between me and my fellow fan and it actually hurts me that we support the same club.
     
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  3. Amin Yapusi

    Amin Yapusi Well-Known Member

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    Or instead, maybe not go an buy 2 strikers both at prices you can't afford, when you only needed one. Good starting place, minimise expenditure.
     
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  4. Barchullona

    Barchullona Well-Known Member

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    Increasing season tickets by 50% would increase revenue by about £2.5 million (assuming sales didn't drop because of the increase). Not very much in the scheme of things.
     
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  5. jayc89

    jayc89 Well-Known Member

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    "they can die when they want"

    It was a play on words FFS, the language barrier probably didnt help as he isn't the most fluent!
     
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  6. Barchullona

    Barchullona Well-Known Member

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    He also needs to replace the revenue lost due to people not going in December because their wives won't let them.
     
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  7. SydneyTiger14

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    It'd be a start though. Selling a few more pies would raise a hell of a lot less.
     
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  8. kccircle

    kccircle Well-Known Member

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    Out of curiosity, how many free games do you get with a pass these days? Not had one for a couple of years but in League 2 is was about 9 free games from memory.
     
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  9. Sir Cheshire Ben

    Sir Cheshire Ben Well-Known Member

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    & February, March, April & probably May for exactly the reason you state, although I don't think this is the reason Happy doesn't go to games in December.
     
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  10. Party Hull!

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    The simple fact of it, Sydney, is that many people will simply not be able to afford 50% extra.

    Your average fan, like me, is not rich. Things are tight month to month, many would have to give it up.

    Now, maybe he'd get enough to stay and pay extra to make a bit of profit, or keep it on a similar level, but many people would have to stop going due to cost. It would be too much for me, for example.

    The attendances would be much lower.

    It's another threat, basically, because he can't get his way. He still hasn't demonstrated that the name change will bring in extra revenue, so saying this is an alternative to that lost revenue makes no sense. Just threats.
     
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  11. Obadiah

    Obadiah Well-Known Member

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    It depends on whether the shirt sponsors were lined up, with contracts signed, well before the application for Hull Tigers by a local football team went into the local FA. If they were then the sponsorship isn't dependent upon the name change and there is no chance of them pulling out, unless we get releagted.

    A deal with Hull City Council, expansion of the ground with more executive boxes would have provided additional income for the club. However, he's fallen out with the Council and doesn't need their money as he said goodbye to the rental income he got from their offices at the KC and the library.
     
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  12. Chilton's Hundreds

    Chilton's Hundreds Well-Known Member

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    If he imposed a moratorium on the interest on the debt owed to Allamhouse (ie make it interest free), he could save £3-4m per season.
     
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  13. ollyhcafc

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    would you give up 3-4 million of your kids inheritance.
     
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  14. DMD

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    He'll give up a damn site more if he keeps his word and walks away.
     
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  15. Amin Yapusi

    Amin Yapusi Well-Known Member

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    A little twisting of reality there, Allam didn't really wave goodbye to the council offices at the KC, the council did it of their own accord. Besides the money from that went into the SMC, so would have had bugger all to do with the situation at City.
     
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  16. Sir Cheshire Ben

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    Maybe floating the club on the stock market would be a way of generating more income.

    How about the club being owned 60% by fans & 40% by local businesses?

    How about approaching local businessmen for investment? Ian Richardson has shown a previous interest in investing in the club. There must be others.

    Adam Pearson was allegedly willing to invest, the council were prepared to discuss a joint venture to develop the ground & surrounding area.

    Is it that all these areas have been explored already & people are not at ease getting involved with a mad old fool.
     
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  17. TheCasual

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    Do you actually believe that? It's obvious who pulls the strings.

    Yes the formation of a group who are intent on working with AA to come up with a solution. They not bad mouth him, or made idle threats. CTWD have zero power at the club so please explain how they could destroy it?
     
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  18. Tuckin

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    Hmm. Whatever happened to "a gift to the city of Hull"? Can I charge interest on all the birthday and Christmas pressies I've bought for people over the years?
     
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  19. bum_chinned_crab

    bum_chinned_crab Well-Known Member

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    That's the excuse used every time he gets something wrong and if anyone thinks he has a language barrier after living here for 50 ****ing years or whatever it is then then theyre seriously deluded.
     
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  20. bum_chinned_crab

    bum_chinned_crab Well-Known Member

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    I would if I kept saying "I'd giving a gift to the city of Hull". How many times have people given you a gift and then charged interest on it? It cannot be both - he's either given a gift or he's provided a business loan on which interest is being charged. Either is fine, he just needs to be honest about what it is instead of continually lying.

    Just seen this, we made precisely the same point.
     
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