The club deserves more credit for the effort it goes into making life better for Away fans in terms of being allowed to drink, guest beers, making them feel welcome and comfortable. The idea that fans should be kicked out into the rain and made to stand in a compound for half an hour surrounded...
But we don't balance our books do we ? We lose millions every year despite some cost cutting on the non playing side by Barber, the increased sponsorship he's brought it and the high average attendance and those losses (to pay for a first teams squads wages) thats subsidised by Tony Bloom's...
Presumably you're churlishly accusing Tony Bloom of investing in the club to sell it here. If so he's a complete fool because there is no way he could get anything like the £205m he's invested in the club even if the hotel plans ever come to fruition. The club, the stadium simply aren't worth...
Here's Derby's average attendance over the last 6 years (not season tickets) as requested in a previous post.
Derby
09/10 - 29,230 (14th)
10/11 - 25,863 (19th)
11/12 - 25,878 (12th)
12/13 - 23,075 (10th)
13/14 - 24,981 (3rd)
14/15 - 28,609 (3rd currently)
ICG... - I'm feeling gloomy too but...
I agree. ST holders not renewing is worrying. Attendances where users have attended but not turned up is concerning although this will always happen for midweek games. I agree that there have been several midweek games where the attendance is close to 16/17K as reported via sources posted...
We've had a couple of midweek games in the last 4 months or so (Wigan ?, Ipswich ) where the attendance (not tickets sold) was below 20K on basis of insight posted on here and the empty seats.
We've also had 10-11 Saturday/Friday games where the attendance (not tickets sold) has been well...
NSC has around 5-6K active members. It also has many tens of thousands more of users who don't register and just browse the forums of course. Its a brilliant and successful thing. I value it highly and thoroughly enjoy debating on here with you lot when i should be working.
However the Albion...
"to be seen" ???
Do you really think the club aren't concerned about renewals ? or relegation ?
So far in the last 6 weeks Tony Bloom has accepted the resignation of his manager and recruited a new manager best known for taking a Champ club to the Prem League. He's sacked his Director of...
Less than half of Albion's revenue each year is from tickets, and a healthy proportion of that is away tickets/matchday tickets. Sponsors, TV etc.
And Tony Bloom effectively subsidises every ticket sold at the Albion by £20 of his own money.
So the person "pissing money up the wall" is TB...
Sure. Understood. There'll always be a lot of no shows for midweek games.
So PPF is predicting, i think, 10K Season Ticket Holders for 2015/16 - a 48% drop.
And sounds like you're predicting 13K Season Ticket Holders for next season - yep ? Nearly a 40% drop in one go..
Last year they...