Awwww.....have you been snooping on my profile again? That aside, the usual shrill mixture of lies and stupidity from you.
London Zoo maybe?! lots of potential City fans in London if you go by the name changing logic, could turn London into the new Hull our magnificent name change!
Companies are separate legal entities so you treat them as separate people. It's like me borrowing money off your kid whilst you're my boss. If you walk out of your job as my boss I don't get to forget about the loan from your kid. He'd lose the money because the money to repay them wouldn't and couldn't exist and nobody would buy the club with the loans in place at their full value. I don't, without these statements to write he could find himself in the dole queue. --------------------------------------- If the club can make more money by increasing season ticket prices then it should do it, and it should set the prices at a level that maximises the income they receive. I don't even care if it prices me out, providing it can be shown the club is getting as much as it can for the tickets it would be acceptable. Regrettable, but acceptable. That has nothing to do with the name change though, it should be like that whether the name changes or not.
Increasing prices to the point where customers can no longer afford the product is not good business sense. Increases linked to inflation are expected, but much more than that is asking for trouble.
I think that Allam sounds worried. All news stories are now saying that Ehab is exploring "alternative routes" to gaining income, and considering CTWD propositions. It's funny how his back-track from supposedly "leaving the Club" if it's rejected... He really is like a spoilt child, and it's the main reason for my solid opposition to the whole name change saga. Just because he constantly tries to blackmail everybody involved. It's embarrassing. If the 50% increase does happen, nobody should buy them. He'd soon bring the prices down.
It's good business sense if you have a limited availability and you're still selling pretty much every one available after the increase. I'm sure there are fans priced out at the current level, but I wouldn't support cutting the tickets to £100 when we don't have any spare tickets to sell and the knock on effect would be that we had to sell/not sign a player that we'd have if we kept them at the current level. It's obviously quite easy to say it when I'm in a position where I can afford it and I know that the prices we currently have are at pretty much the best level they can be so there won't be a big increase (unless they do it to prove a point and cost the club money in the process).
I agree entirely, but but do we really have a spare allocation for season tickets? It's not like we have a waiting list for them. And will we continue to sell them at this level AFTER a significant price increase?
You think so? We have York and Scunthorpe seriously limiting that whereas Norwich have Peterborough and Ipswich which are further away.
Most people don't buy a football club to get where the club is now. They buy a football club thinking they can progress it further. Sometimes they are right and sometimes they are wrong.
There's about five respected brands and the rest are businesses desperate for recognition. Once they get that they will move on. If we change our name to Hull Tigers we will limit our possible sponsors to only a few businesses compared to staying as Hull City.
There is about a 6mile difference between York and Hull and Ipswich and Norwich.It is how many people live in the area that matter's Hull's population is far more than that of Norwich and the surrounding are is more heavily populated. It is less distance from Bridlington to Hull than it is to York. Same with Driffield, Beverley etc. Heading out of Hull there are a of people where where the nearest club is City, Leeds being the next along. In any case it was an FA report which said the 2 club with the most people where they were the nearest team were ourselves and Plymouth.
I agree that it's the number of people rather than purely the distance. I don't think Norwich's attendances have been as low as Hull City's in the recent past. More people will travel from the East Riding to Leeds or Manchester to watch football than will travel from around Norwich to other clubs.
I would like the club to increase the capacity to 34k which I think they can do relatively inexpensively. They could then increase the best seat prices and reduce most of the rest combined with free or cheap tickets for school children to make them the fans of the future. With bigger attendances they may be able to make more money from sponsorship, merchandising, programmes and hospitality. I would like to see the club get some ideas from Manchester City to get people to arrive earlier and spend money around the ground. With the City of Culture 2017 looming why can't the club partner with hotels and the Council(!!!!) and target away fans and football fans in general to spend the weekend in Hull while watching a game on the saturday?
