To a certain extent, but the CEO of a football club is quite different to the majority of CEO's in that they are the face of the organisation to the clubs fans, who are very different to your normal, erm, customers, and therefore maintaining a good relationship with them is something you'll be...
Disagree, I wouldn't say they've been completely dense. The Amex has been, in the main, full. Discounted pricing hasn't been required, and therefore the club have avoided a culture where people expect to be able to pick up tickets on the cheap because it's so much easier to watch Brighton now...
Maybe?
He's definitely had some good PR training. Lowering everyone's expectations by announcing losses, creating speculation of price increases weeks before any announcements, and then justifying almost all of the price increase on the "travel subsidy" seems to have worked very well in terms...
I've not blamed him for anything, just fascinated by the people backing him when all he's done is warn us that we're making a loss, and put the prices up as a reaction.
Which is great, except the Girls themselves haven't got a problem with it and asked to carry on dancing - not sure why you're so desperate back Barber up on this one.
I would have thought it wouldn't take much of a brain in the clubs marketing department to realise we're not selling out now as it is and the capacity is increased next year so block buying and discounted tickets should be encouraged...but yes, I suppose that's a good hting.
Re the others...