Admire your optimism but I think we would struggle to fill the ground if tickets were only £5. The people of Coventry only seem to turn out if there is a chance of getting a Wembley ticket or we are playing a top PL team.I'd liked to of seen £15 a ticket for the first game, think that could be a missed opportunity to fill the ground 1st game back!
What if Robins has no interest in signing a “marquee” player, should the club do it to keep the fans happy? MR doesn’t strike me as the type to be signing “big names” if they don’t fit what he wants.. you could argue Bright is an exception to that but he’s made it pretty clear it’s up to Bright to prove himself
We should be treating this season like Wasps and MK Dons did when they moved city. We’ve severed the fan base and need to rebuild.
Boddy: "Mark Joy has been out on the piss and said we can sign any player now for £10 million and she will fund it - lets do it"
Robins: "Thanks Dave but I'd rather not spend the owners gift of cash I am much happier signing young loans and hope they work out or a goalkeeper no one has heard of"
Haven't we sold more season tickets since 2005?
Dont know. But the Championship and football generally has changed a bit in 16 years.
Just according to me. £349 is a good price
Each to their own however to say it’s disappointing that we’ve sold more season tickets than we have in many years, I would disagree.
When you consider the damage that’s been done in the last 2 decades and our record of season ticket sales, 10k or so isn’t bad at all imho, rebuilding your support takes time.
Dont know. But the Championship and football generally has changed a bit in 16 years.
Not sure if it’s football that’s changed or we were living in a parallel universe to football for so long with all the drama & never ending crises going on.
We’re playing catch-up now, either way.
Has it? How? Referencing Wasps strategy as good is bizarre - it was catastrophic, cheapened the brand and now they cannot sell hardly any full price tickets
Have we ever sold more than 10,000 season tickets? I can't recall us hardly ever doing so
We would all be delighted if Ostigard returned, feel good factor would surge but we wouldn't sell one extra season ticket on the back of it.I don't think Samo is saying that the budget needs to be busted, it's entirely within the owners' gift to expand the budget or not. They choose not to. I agree with him that a marquee signing would be nice.
Catch up to what?
Great postA marquee signing like who?
Marquee signings come with marquee sized demands & the risk is high & goes against everything Robins has built in his time here.
Completely hpothetically, say we took a punt on someone like Scott Dann who some have been clamouring for. He was on £60k p/w at Palace & even Bournemouth are struggling to match his demands.
Say we managed to land him but he demands £25k p/w on a 2 year deal. It would be utter madness to offer that, he's 34 years old, injury prone & not managed 20 games in a season for 5 years now. You'd be shelling out £2.6m just on him - that's an awful lot of season tickets you'd need to sell on just one player who might barely ever play.
What does that do for squad morale too? Someone like Hamer or O'Hare could be tearing up the league & they're on a fraction of what this guy's on who isn't even contributing?
Yes, Joy/Sisu could invest more if they so choose but they'd want to see a risk/reward analysis & I can't see a scenario where any would look appealing.
We would all be delighted if Ostigard returned, feel good factor would surge but we wouldn't sell one extra season ticket on the back of it.
It's all about the match day ticket prices, and their too much
PUSB
Again you spectacularly miss the point. We’ve been away for years, we’ve had lockdown, this isn’t a normal season and we need to rebuild the fan base is the point. Not cry wanking over Wasps.
I’ve only got data back to 2010, but since then average crowds have increased by ~17%
The old adage " Speculate to accumulate" returns
That's what Bury did and all they accumulated were debts
MoneyCatch up to what?
"Cry wanking over Wasps" - a typical response. They did what many want on here - massively reduced prices which then sets the benchmark - at Wycombe thy could and did charge over £30 a game.
I am sure you could charge a fiver and lose money every week with 25,000 in the ground - then when you increase the prices they just don't come again
We haven't been away for years - its two and one of them was behind closed doors.
The price for many games at £20 is very good value for money
I just want to skip forward 3 weeks
Start of the season on the SundayWhy what’s happening?
Start of the season on the Sunday
You'd like to start the season with our current defense?
Frankly this is a poor argument, fair enough good will for the first game, I'd be on board with that, people still want L2 prices in the Championship. The reality is we have one of the cheapest season ticket and matchday ticket costs in the division, need to look at it with abit of perspective and think ourselves lucky.We would all be delighted if Ostigard returned, feel good factor would surge but we wouldn't sell one extra season ticket on the back of it.
It's all about the match day ticket prices, and their too much
PUSB
I'd liked to of seen £15 a ticket for the first game, think that could be a missed opportunity to fill the ground 1st game back!
Where have I suggested a marquee signing being a 34 year old ex player?
Completely hypothetically, say we took a punt on someone like Scott Dann...
Let’s be honest she set the strategy for funding several years ago now and hasn’t moved from it. Those who are tasked with finding the players with the model that has been set or focused on those costs and have been identifying potential targets with that information. It has been a success for the past 3 seasons now, we are making progress albeit I take for some it isn’t quick enough. To suddenly change away from a successful model just by throwing cash at the transfer market is not guaranteed to bring further success. At least we know where we stand with this model and Robins and has team to date have improved year on year. I for one don’t want to go back to shit or bust.Lets be real... the club has as much money as Joy wants it to have.
Unless I am mistaken we have been told for years we have pay our own way. It was made crystal clear that investment or splashing some of it was not happening.Fair point. I am just suggesting that for our club in particular, given our circumstances, a little more courage and money could have reaped rewards. Joy is not short of money I'm told, it seems short sighted not to splash some of it now.
Let’s be honest she set the strategy for funding several years ago now and hasn’t moved from it. Those who are tasked with finding the players with the model that has been set or focused on those costs and have been identifying potential targets with that information. It has been a success for the past 3 seasons now, we are making progress albeit I take for some it isn’t quick enough. To suddenly change away from a successful model just by throwing cash at the transfer market is not guaranteed to bring further success. At least we know where we stand with this model and Robins and has team to date have improved year on year. I for one don’t want to go back to shit or bust.
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