Well you are using it and have just expressed your opinion which I happen to disagree with , no uncomplimentary bile Where do you get the 99% figure from ? And if you think fans feel like that surely you would want a referendum to prove it once and for all
Dont talk rubbish. As long as the club is in the PL and getting all that wonga do you really think AA will care about the few ? Even you can work that one out. Go to North Ferriby Utd then and buy there pies and teas. Much better than the KC ones anyways. Enjoy.
Have you just got home for lunch? Or have you just got up? You know what I meant - keep supporting the team, whilst denying the Club/AA further funds from merchandising. Make that the vote. Now stop being so obtuse.
Who gets what from what? Ticket Sales? Pies? Beer? Club Merchandise? Where's the profits from those go?
I believe, though I might be wrong that the caterers are sub-contracted out by the SMC to another company who pays for the running costs of the catering, pays rent (or similar) to have the space and then the profits are theirs, so not buying beer + pies etc will only harm the catering company in the short term, and the club(s) in the medium/long term (whenever the contract is up) Merchandise will purely be for the retail department at the club, and ticket sales will be for the club too. That's the way I'd imagine it to be anyway.
As DH has said, merchandise and tickets would hurt the club, pies and pints would have very little effect. Realistically, the real money comes from Sky, so a few tickets and programmes will barely be noticed, though a shop full of unsold merchandise would no doubt piss the club off.
Ok cheers, so the bottom line is, only going to games and boycotting the food/drinks vendors doesn't hurt the club? Everything else, tickets, stuff from the shop, goes back into the club.
As a Premier League club, it's almost impossible to hurt the club financially in any significant way, as 80-85% of the clubs income comes from TV revenue. They will obviously want to take as much money as possible, so any reduction will disappoint, but it won't cause any hardship. Boycotting club products is the only one likely to cause problems, as it leaves the club with a warehouse full of unsold goods, but it's more of a headache than a major financial problem.
We don't want to give the club a major financial problem. If that's the goal we aren't supporters, we're just ****s.
Boycotting the food and drinks will hardly touch the club, and won't affect them at all for this season. Merchandise and extra tickets etc are exactly what we should be focused on to improve our income streams. Look at how many shirts we sold in 08/09 when we were in the Premier League first time around compared to how many we sell now. We should be aiming to get a decent line of shirts, polos, training wear, leisure wear etc to try and get every penny out of fans that we can, but the stuff in Tiger Leisure is tat. I was looking for a pair of gym shorts in TL during the summer, the only size they had was XXXL, so I went to the FC shop next door and bought some in my size for £15. That's £15 that I was willing to give to City but they didn't have the stuff I wanted. I've just had a look on Tiger Leisure and some of the products don't even have photos on them. I mean FFS that's Sunday League stuff.
I totally agree with you , very puzzling to me when the club are talking about needing to increase revenue
I've said this for years but I'm going to say it again, we need a kids club. We're the only club in the top 2 divisions (or at least used to be) without a functioning kids club. Literally all it needs to be to start with is giving members (who you charge £40 to join) a bit of discount on their season pass, free shirt printing and a signed birthday card every year. In return you invite them to have their birthday party at the KC (charge them, obviously), have members nights (even easier now with the family lounge) and do other low cost gimmicks like that. You've then got them hooked on the club, buying a season pass and a shirt every year for the next 40 years, and their kids will do the same. They'll also drag at least one of their parents along. Before you know it there's a full family attending because we've interacted with one kid.
I know the retail manager of Hull FC - I will let him know about that as that is one area that FC have flourished in - great line of merchandise and fashionable items and good stock!
I think Nick Thompson seemed to understand that side of things and was working on stuff like that , but he's going/gone
Never seen a sensible question asked on here. All I see is peoples opinions. If I care not to agree with your opinion, then I will say so !
Have to agree with you there, Hull FC really do excel in that department. Last season they managed to sell out their training gear a few months into the season and brought an entire new range out which was then sold out by the end of the season. They also sold out their entire stock of four (yes four!) different playing shirts. They have offers, constant email contact, incentives for pass holders and non-FC items such as sports nutrition/compression garments/boots...etc. Can't we just poach the person who's running things for them?
Lee Jenkinson - He's just been made a Director of the club, so obviously AP agrees he's doing a good job! I believe FC have sold more than 10000 home shirts every year for the past 6 or 7 years on an average crowd of about 12000 (give or take), so there's clearly some people doing a good job. http://www.hullfc.com/article/31386/club-trio-join-board-of-directors
