17-03-2015, 12:35
It's a difficult conundrum.
Most clubs now don't rely on gate receipts for their financial security. We'd need massively to develop income streams beyond Saturday afternoon.
If anything we ought to be looking at lowering ticket prices, producing great deals for season tickets (to improve our cash flow), even offering freebies for youngsters for some games ........ simply to grow our fan base and maintain the interest when we're finding the going tough on the field. (The more people you can get through the gate the keener sponsors are to splash you their cash.)
Rotherham is a much bigger place than Chesterfield. But their expenditure on players hasn't been provided only by gates of 10,000. Mr Allen probably could match their spending, but he shouldn't! If we are ever to get up there, the aim has to be to stay at that level (at least) and to achieve it we'd have to be extraordinarily innovative. And it's true that our LOYAL fan base is around 4-5,000. But that is simply part of the data. And once a club makes its mark at a certain level the data does change. Burnley can't possibly be in the Premier League. It's not big and it's not attractive. But they beat Man City 1-0.
AFC Fylde are advertising for a CEO. £50,000 pa. Their stated aim is the Football League by 2022 at the latest. We all want to be Burnley, but do we want to look like Sean Dyche?
Most clubs now don't rely on gate receipts for their financial security. We'd need massively to develop income streams beyond Saturday afternoon.
If anything we ought to be looking at lowering ticket prices, producing great deals for season tickets (to improve our cash flow), even offering freebies for youngsters for some games ........ simply to grow our fan base and maintain the interest when we're finding the going tough on the field. (The more people you can get through the gate the keener sponsors are to splash you their cash.)
Rotherham is a much bigger place than Chesterfield. But their expenditure on players hasn't been provided only by gates of 10,000. Mr Allen probably could match their spending, but he shouldn't! If we are ever to get up there, the aim has to be to stay at that level (at least) and to achieve it we'd have to be extraordinarily innovative. And it's true that our LOYAL fan base is around 4-5,000. But that is simply part of the data. And once a club makes its mark at a certain level the data does change. Burnley can't possibly be in the Premier League. It's not big and it's not attractive. But they beat Man City 1-0.
AFC Fylde are advertising for a CEO. £50,000 pa. Their stated aim is the Football League by 2022 at the latest. We all want to be Burnley, but do we want to look like Sean Dyche?