Apparently Reading have planned this for 16 YEARS

[Seagulls over Lewes]

John Madjeski said that he planned to take Reading right to the top, SIXTEEN YEARS ago.

Were you born then?

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Re: Re: Apparently Reading have planned this for 16 YEARS

Let's do the maths again.

The same calculation for the Albion would result in an income of £24 million in 8 years (based upon an average attendance of 6,541 in the past 6 years).

minus rental of the ground.

minus stewarding of the surrounding roads.

minus the legal bills.

etc.

etc.

etc...........

 

[dougdeep]

John Madjeski said that he planned to take Reading right to the top, SIXTEEN YEARS ago. They had 8 years of Elm Park before finally moving in the Madjeski Stadium.

It took them FOUR years of having Mad Stad to get in to this league, runners-up to us.

FOUR years later they are now promoted to the top flight.

Lets say Reading's average attendances over the past 8 years were 18,000 whilst ours were 6,000. Ticket prices were priced at an average of £20 for both sides. Both sides have 46 games a season.

Reading have recieved an average £140,000,000 over these 8 years of having the Mad Stad.

Brighton have recieved an average of £50,000,000 since loosing the Goldstone.

One thing that has made the difference making Reading a better team than Brighton within these 4 years is.......a stadium.

Well said 1066.