council may lower rent? (3 Viewers)

stupot07 · Jul 10, 2012

coundonskyblue said:
Can I just ask those who believe that the rent is too high because we have been relegated, would it have been acceptable for acl to increase the rent had we been promoted to the prem?

Yes. In fact I think there should be a sliding scale for the rent which changes to reflect the league we are playing in.

Astute · Jul 10, 2012

coundonskyblue said:
Can I just ask those who believe that the rent is too high because we have been relegated, would it have been acceptable for acl to increase the rent had we been promoted to the prem?

If you lost your job or got your hours reduced at work you could be elegible for help with your rent. Is this fair? This is paid by the people that are more lucky with their employment.

If the rent was reduced by 20k a month we would still pay 1m a year in rent. 5k a week would be enough to bring in another 3 players. This could get us promotion. Then the rent could go back up. If we got back to the Prem all money deferred could then be paid back to the council or wherever it goes to. Our football club brings a lot of money into Cov. The better we are doing the more money it brings in. Times are hard at the moment. The more money that is brought in the better for the local economy. This is much more than "love SISU get a rent reduction, hate SISU keep the rent where it is"

skyblueman · Jul 10, 2012

This is daft really because there aren't really any other options for either side - the club needs a stadium to play in and the stadium needs a club to play in it - neither has any other option - so I think the only sensible course of action is to allow the club to defer part of the rent to some forward point when it can afford to pay it. Yes you can argue the rent is too high anyway but you can also argue the stadium cost a vast amount of money and therefore it's justifiable. Perhaps the key point here is what the rent covers - I think the club should have the option to rent the whole facility from the owners and thereby generate additional income for the club - what would it cost to rent it completely? and what business model could the owners come up with to generate a viable business - as it stands the club is not getting a fair crack at this as they are hugely restricted on commercial activities - i.e just ticket sales and the club shop - it's not enough - it needs the whole facility to be made available - this in my opinion is the answer to many of our problems

coundonskyblue · Jul 10, 2012

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skyblueman said:
This is daft really because there aren't really any other options for either side - the club needs a stadium to play in and the stadium needs a club to play in it - neither has any other option - so I think the only sensible course of action is to allow the club to defer part of the rent to some forward point when it can afford to pay it. Yes you can argue the rent is too high anyway but you can also argue the stadium cost a vast amount of money and therefore it's justifiable. Perhaps the key point here is what the rent covers - I think the club should have the option to rent the whole facility from the owners and thereby generate additional income for the club - what would it cost to rent it completely? and what business model could the owners come up with to generate a viable business - as it stands the club is not getting a fair crack at this as they are hugely restricted on commercial activities - i.e just ticket sales and the club shop - it's not enough - it needs the whole facility to be made available - this in my opinion is the answer to many of our problems

Most sensible post on this thread.

wingy · Jul 10, 2012

Theres one Element that keeps coming through to me on many levels .What was the Commercial reason for lowering the price of season tickets ,Answer their inability to fund us ,maximise numbers ,Borrow against it !!!!.By the same token there is a compound effect to this,Firstly,the amount lost through simple reduction ,possibly £500k.,Roughly the amount of rent reduction they hope to recieve.

.Secondly ,there will be interest to pay for the borrow against reducing the value of take even further,again possibly adding a further £300-500ksignificant loss of turnover here.Followed by the loss through the turnstiles of £22. match tickets ,while obviously they could argue the point of Streamlining /Convenience .Would it represent a difference of around £10 a ticket ,that is a discount of close to 50%,too much ,they were too cheap last year and are a little light this year compared to a few others in the division .

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