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Jack Griffin
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A higher profile with people who have real money, as postulated by a rogue branch of gestalt Grendelomics.
How does rugby have a higher profile? Most people aren't bothered about it and prefer football. Championship football is a lot more attractive and well known by the average man on the street.
Haha how many corporate tickets do the franchise sell then? How much are they raking in in ticket sales each month?
Yet again having to defend my football club on it own forum, weird.
How does rugby have a higher profile? Most people aren't bothered about it and prefer football. Championship football is a lot more attractive and well known by the average man on the street.
Haha how many corporate tickets do the franchise sell then? How much are they raking in in ticket sales each month?
Yet again having to defend my football club on it own forum, weird.
this isn't an attack on the football club.How does rugby have a higher profile? Most people aren't bothered about it and prefer football. Championship football is a lot more attractive and well known by the average man on the street.
Haha how many corporate tickets do the franchise sell then? How much are they raking in in ticket sales each month?
Yet again having to defend my football club on it own forum, weird.
We are hardly 'off the radar'.
Of course we're off the radar. Just look at this weekend. Nice article in the Times, live match on Sky Sports. Clearly totally off the radar :facepalm:
It's a well known term that means no one other than CCFC fans are interested in us because we are at such a low level that we don't count.
Sponsors don't care because we have little coverage in national media or TV. Potential purchasers don't get the buzz out of a League One team so won't look at us.
Rugby has a higher media profile (in particular TV coverage) than football outside the Premiership.
It seems to me that a Rugby Premier club is in a live TV match either on Sky or BT sport just about every week. How many live games does the average Championship club get a season?
But again how often is a non-Premier league club on the tv? 15-20 second goal highlights aren't what sponsors are interested in. The football league highlights show is 72 clubs squeezed into an hour.The FL highlights show is on in prime time on Saturday night. There's loads of coverage on Sky Sports. There's been several articles about us in the national press. And the radio don't seem to shut up about us.
Not sure about that. How much coverage does even top level club rugby get on freeview channels?
Doesn't matter how often you are on, its how many are watching. There's less rugby clubs so clearly they will be shown more often. According to BT Sports own website their record audience is 276K, the average audience for our games on Sky is 320K.
A Premier rugby club match has say 100k but 25-30 times a year is far more attractive for corporate & sponsorship.
my understanding is these clubs have 22 league games and about 6 european games broadcast.They only play 22 games so each club can't be on 25-30 times a year!
my understanding is these clubs have 22 league games and about 6 european games broadcast.
you obviously have the attention span of a goldfish. this part of thread development came about when the grown-ups were discussing bond financing in relation to the Ricoh and possible new stadium finances. Nothing to do in particular with Wasps except as a relative comparison in the financial health of the 2 sports currently relevant to the Ricoh.Come on Dave. Why let the facts get in the way of a bit of franchise PR?
my understanding is these clubs have 22 league games and about 6 european games broadcast.
don't have BT sport but i've been told there are live or delayed showings of nearly all the matches. all european games are broadcast somewhere live - not just in the uk.Every teams has every league game broadcast?
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don't have BT sport but i've been told there are live or delayed showings of nearly all the matches. all european games are broadcast somewhere live - not just in the uk.
this is again drifting off topic which was whether we are "off the radar" as someone stated and would a return to the campionship put us "back on the radar" and lead to an improvement in our overall situation re: stadiums, investment etc. Also someone had stated that as the local football club we should be maximising local corporate & sponsorship opportunities/revenues so why aren't we?
then as usual it digressed to being a thread about wasps rather than what we are or aren't doing.
it's not really about viewing figures as such but was about the local profile of both clubs and why we in particular seem to struggle with attracting quality local sponsorship & corporate revenue. The example highlighted was the difficulty in even attracting shirt sponsors at times. And is Wasps "debatable" higher media profile,for example, drawing those revenues away from the club?I agree that championship football won't cure our ills nor bring in money for a new stadium but I do think you're getting hung up on British viewing when it comes to Premier Rugby vs Championship football. Championship football has a far more global appeal to top flight rugby.
There's a list of countries that have had championship football rights on this wiki:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_League_Championship
Whereas the rugby wiki page it seems is just UK, Australia and America
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it's not really about viewing figures as such but was about the local profile of both clubs and why we in particular seem to struggle with attracting quality local sponsorship & corporate revenue. The example highlighted was the difficulty in even attracting shirt sponsors at times. And is Wasps "debatable" higher media profile,for example, drawing those revenues away from the club?
Unfortunately we are very very unlikely to achieve back to back promotions, we just don't have the financial clout to put a championship promotion pushing team together.
We need a better plan for the future than fluking a promotion to the PL.
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There is no better plan, There is no sugar daddy.
Do we give up ?
No, we take a step at a time and the first step is getting out this horrible league. The second is making sure we never come back.
Absolute bollocks, pretty much any championship football club is higher profile than premiership rugby.sorry based on what?
Rugby has a higher media profile (in particular TV coverage) than football outside the Premiership. More attractive to sponsors. Also rugby seems to have a different sponsorship base to football anyway.
My understanding was the Wasps corporate hospitality etc. was selling better than the football club's.
Which major employers/businesses in the Coventry area have significant sponsorship or financial relationships with the football club? WHy do we find it so difficult to even find a decent long-term shirt sponsor?
Didn't bournemouth and saints have rich owners that got them promoted?
I find myself agreeing with Italia a lot here.
My point was that money talks and if we were suddenly thrust into two promotions on the bounce and the money of the premier league I would sit back and see just how WASP are going to deal with that? They are a top side at what they do. yet they can't fill the Ricoh and will continue to seeks ways to survive at the Ricoh without the football club as part of that strategy.
The pendulum will swing eventually and they will be aware of that. If they could set a deal up ahead of time with the football club then happy days for all. BUT they won't want this with SISU. Let SISU have the rights to part company with CCFC with the Ricoh attached either as part owners for new CCFC owners or some other deal suitable to both sides.
I could even see WASP selling and making considerable money from it - they bought well.
A Rugby franchise is easily moved (as witnessed) but the football club with the name Coventry City definitely not!
watch this space as they say in the years to come. I don't think we will have too many to wait.
Southampton were not that good before they got a decent owner.
We were not that good when we got SISU.
Didn't bournemouth and saints have rich owners that got them promoted?
Maybe because attendances are dropping and they have to pay back that bond. They need us alright.No Butts Park Arena for me thanks.
On whether City will be a the Ricoh for long. I want them to be. Not looking forward to other options that may come to the table.
Rugby fans don't seem to think city are welcome at the Ricoh anyway. Mainly due to the court case...But probably underpinned by a general view that the stadium is a rugby venue and the fans don't want football there. They know how to raise finance and put on a show. Why would they need city's money?
No Butts Park Arena for me thanks.
On whether City will be a the Ricoh for long. I want them to be. Not looking forward to other options that may come to the table.
Rugby fans don't seem to think city are welcome at the Ricoh anyway. Mainly due to the court case...But probably underpinned by a general view that the stadium is a rugby venue and the fans don't want football there. They know how to raise finance and put on a show. Why would they need city's money?
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