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Post by mftc on Jul 7, 2022 9:40:04 GMT
What is the break even figure? Will the club produce a DVD and a proper promotion book? When is the Fun Day?
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Post by mftc on Jul 6, 2022 17:52:06 GMT
See the CT and SC have grouped together to get transport for the squad to go and watch the Lionesses tonight.
Should be good for team spirit.
Who knows in 7 years time, maybe one of the Gas Girls may be in the Euros squad.
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Post by mftc on Jul 6, 2022 7:28:48 GMT
There are plenty of other large scale developments still proceeding in Bristol and the UK as a whole. It was only announced last week the Galleries is going to be bulldozed and rebuilt. With the imminent introduction of the congestion charge at £9 i think any development in the Broadmead area is stupid and i hate to think what effect that would have on any FM development stadium or not ! 2 of my customers based in Broadmead have said they are looking to move out of their shops to outside the Congestion Zone because they fear a massive drop in revenue. Don't worry after 40 years of dreams of a new stadium, by the time we get one we will be driven around in our own robot chaffeured, wind powered flying pods, so congestion charges will be no problem
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Post by mftc on Jul 6, 2022 7:21:18 GMT
I hope the club let people know through a wide range of mediums.
If you go on Twitter or the forums that is fine, but I bet there are a fair few hundred fairweather fans that might "just turn up" as it is the first game of the season.
I am not sure if it has mentioned it as a news item on the official website.
It should be easy to contact the press association to ensure that even the nationals show the game as sold out on the fixture lists for the weekend papers.
Believe it or not young uns, some people are not glued to their phones and unfortunately The Sun maybe their only source of "up to date" news.
No doubt there will be people who do turn up without tickets (after all when is the last time we have had a sell out first game of the season - the first game at the Mem was about 4th of the season) and the club will get stick for not sending personalised letters direct to the door, phone calls and emails three days in advance to let people know.
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Post by mftc on Jul 5, 2022 20:01:16 GMT
I want a dvd and book, and if others want alternatives then that's down to the club. Snap. Happy to pay un up front subscription to make sure costs are covered. If they charged £25 for the DVD and we could watch a premiere exclusive with the players and get a free pint, I am sure it would make a large profit. I believe DVDs are very cheap to copy from the master copy. Bar takings would be good and a good chance to mingle with the players, this improving the rapport. Win win. C'mon the media team, you can do it for us older fans.
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Post by mftc on Jul 3, 2022 18:28:39 GMT
Bright added: "The uptake in Season Ticket holders has blown us away ahead of the new season. Last year, we had 3,900 and right now we are just under the 5,000 figure. Our highest as a club was in the 2015/16 season when we hit 5,056 and we are very close to that number - it would be great to make 2022/23 the season we set that record. There’s the answer to everyone’s question When he says our highest as a club, I assume he means since he has been at the club? What was the best at the Mem under Ollie, Trolls or DC? - even under those managers, I can't remember such a general feel good factor around the club as Waels investment has generated.
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Post by mftc on Jul 3, 2022 18:23:11 GMT
Now signed for Maidenhead in the National League after Dover's second string.
Still big on social media it seems.
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Post by mftc on Jul 1, 2022 12:35:33 GMT
Good evening everyone. This is what you have all been waiting for, the most comprehensive set of figures on S/T sales to be found on any Rovers forum. Even better than the club! So here we go: West Stand (408) sold 408 East Stand (1,024) sold 1,024 SW Stand (392) sold 383 West Terrace (1,130) sold 845 Family terrace (618) sold 338 Thatchers North Terrace (3,095) sold 2,366 East Terrace (1,487) sold 908 So total S/T’s sold 6,272, 77% of availability. Since my last update on 9th June we have sold an average of 15 S/T’s per day. Well, our head of sales disagrees with you. According to his figures we have sold around 1300 less than what you are quoting. Appreciate your efforts, but I'm inclined to believe the club. The difference is for the other spaces taken such as staff, volunteers, wives and girlfriends, agents, media, friends, youth team, CT, St John's Ambulance, scouts etc, etc Would never have guessed it was that many though.
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Post by mftc on Jul 1, 2022 6:12:28 GMT
What's the saying?
All for one and one for all - no it's pull the ladder up, I'm alright.
If you are one of the (admittedly) few that this causes problems for, many on here just don't understand/care, that for them, this may be a very big thing.
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Post by mftc on Jun 30, 2022 7:10:48 GMT
only 2 ,im sure there will be more in the wider fan base, unfortunantely when i can get to the ground, then the only thing i will get is a ticket ,pasty can be got elsewhere, booze from outside vendors, so yes some revenue will be lost, , Whats the name of you garage so i can avoid using it as i pay for repairs in cash I’d say the club already lose a fair proportion of revenue to the Welly, the sportsman and the chippys on Glos Road. I’d also argue that they have also taken a lot of business back from those outlets with the fanzone which looks set to continue. So even if your protest over cash (when you get to the ground) happens, the club are still up anyway. They may be "up" but like TG himself said they need more people to go to the fanzone, buy tickets, merch, 50/50s etc. We can't keep going on making losses. Do you think it is ok the club settles to get 95% of max income when they can easily just make life easier for (admittedly not a huge amount of) fans and make 100%? Most of this thread talks of programme, 50/50s and pasties, but there must be fans would buy a shirt with cash and maybe other things so it is not necessarily so small fry. What about non Rovers fans who attend a works Xmas party for example. No doubt any booking will mention cashless but no everyone is going to read the small print. Someone could order a £30 round and then not be allowed to pay for it, despite having the money - bizarre. To try and improve income from "other revenue streams" the club has to be competitive and provide customer service. Telling prospective customers what they can't do surely can't be a good thing, as no doubt other competitors will offer cash sales to get the business. Fine lines they say but surely it is very very simple for the club to provide an olive branch? After all the views on here are from people who are computer literate and aware of the issue. There are many Rovers fans who are totally unaware that the club are going to enforce this policy on supporters. There are some fans who like/have to live as simply as possible just to get by. Others can't handle any change (no pun intended). No doubt the club will put a message on Twitter which only caters for a certain percentage of fans, but come FGR when people turn up for the first time, I bet many wouldn't even know about it. Just think of the problems and criticism the club have then. At least they could phase it in during the season?
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Post by mftc on Jun 29, 2022 7:05:05 GMT
I think that this will cause the club to lose potential earnings, which no business should look to do.
They may save a few thousand quid a year counting the money, some tax savings, security costs etc, but the inconvenience to supporters, the costs of the machines, human errors, system downtime etc will cost a hell of a lot more.
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Post by mftc on Jun 28, 2022 6:49:04 GMT
I guess charity bucket collections are a no go as well then.
I think the Ukraine and the CT made quite a bit last season and quite often the programme used to show letters of thanks.
I remember one charity wrote in the EP a few years ago to say they spent hours down town with tens of thousands of shoppers in bright sunshine and raised about £100 and a week letter spent an hour at a drenched Mem with 6000 and made £400.
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Post by mftc on Jun 27, 2022 20:21:40 GMT
Appreciate that you want a choice. Are you prepared to pay more when using cash? So a 50:50 ticket is £1 for card, would you pay £1.20 to pay by cash? Or would you want the club to lose vital profit for your choice? There are other options rather than pay more V lose vital profit! Where did the 20p come from? Is that really how much it costs for every ticket sold, to break even against tap to pay? scdave how are the prizes to be paid out? It used to be in cash. Will these now be bacs payments? It is run by the FC now, not the SC, so best ask Dave Bright. Good question though. I doubt if anyone at the club have thought of that, but I would guess it has to be electronic payment.
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Post by mftc on Jun 26, 2022 18:10:51 GMT
It would be nice to have freedom of choice.
No doubt this will put some older fans of purchasing anything.
Get ready for forum meltdowns as the system goes down.
Just my luck, I'll finish work early v FGR, get my 50/50s around 12 and then the system will crash and no one else can buy one. I'll win, but still lose half my stake!
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Post by mftc on Jun 26, 2022 17:58:28 GMT
I believe the squad size next season is limited to 20, with players 20 years of age or under not included in the playing squad total, so by reckoning JB’s playing squad could look something like this : Belshaw Jaakkola (tbc) Ward (20 rule) Hoole Gibbons Connolly (20 rule) Anderton Kilgour Clarke Grant Jones (20 rule) Edwards (20 rule) Rossiter Finley Evans Coutts (tbc) Anderson Egan (20 rule) Heal (20 rule) Collins Loft Saunders Greenslade (20 rule) I’m assuming Westbrooke and Rodman have little or no chance of making the nominated playing squad, so by my reckoning that leaves around another four players over 20 that could be recruited, but then the salary cap comes into play (increase of £1m from last season?). Very much prepared to be put right on all this. Edit: and this list includes the requirement to have @ least 8 ‘home grown’ players included (I think!). James Connolly 2/11/2001 so will be 21 as at 01/01/2023. Luca Hoole 02/06/2002 so will be 20 as at 01/01/2023. That does not change the "picture". Connor Taylor 25/10/2001 so will be 21 as at 01/01/2023, so if he comes back he counts in the size. On your list isn't Egan a defender and doesn't Hoole count as a young player? If Edwards is Max, who played in the FA cup last season isn't he only just turned 17, so unlikely to player other than in the EFL trophy?
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Post by mftc on Jun 26, 2022 15:45:23 GMT
If you count the dots, I think this represents effective spaces taken, which is not necessarily just ST sales.
Ie, staff, volunteers, wife's and girlfriends, comps, youth team players and coaches, media/journalists and various liggers etc so that will probably account for 300+, so probably 5,500 STs, which is very good.
Just a pity the break even is likely to be 12,000+.
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Post by mftc on Jun 25, 2022 8:15:24 GMT
The EP says it is likely the club (well Wael) will have to pay a fine for the Scunthorpe pitch invasion.
Pass the fine on to the culprits I say.
And they should pay the cost of a season ticket for each of the seasons they miss while they are banned, due to the loss of income for the football club.
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Post by mftc on Jun 23, 2022 6:13:30 GMT
Not first game, but if we are around 17th at the end of November and then play Morecombe, hopefully the club will arrange a quid a kid and reduced adult admission as there will be a lot of non season ticket holders who will be financially suffering and won't be able to afford to pay on the day as a rule.
I can't imagine Morecombe will bring many so there should be plenty of spaces.
I wonder how much thought the club has given to the effect of the cost of living rises?
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Post by mftc on Jun 22, 2022 19:39:01 GMT
Leonard Rossiter, Funky Gibbons, we are just signing anyone with 70s tv links.
Next must be Dan Sweeney!
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Post by mftc on Jun 22, 2022 12:25:51 GMT
If Rossiter sets up Collins will the media team call it a Cinzano moment! Ha Ha Nice one!, was trying to think of a Leonard Rossiter connection! I just hope with all his injuries, he doesn't start to suffer with Rising Damp or it will be Goodnight Vienna!
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