Revenues Your having a Laugh (1 Viewer)

[covboy1987]

The club keep going on about they want all revenues that is one of the reasons they left the Ricoh -but i am confused if this is the case the evidence does not back up the claim as the Marketing of the club leaves alot to be desired

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A barrow at Tesco for there Club shop
Tickets for away games can only be purchased till very recently from the away side now you can go to a run down shabby office where you are greeted and escorted up stairs which is a very uninviting experience
We had a 12 seat hospitality box at the Ricoh for 4 years and the rest of the years seats in the premier area - I have not received one phone call asking me why i cancelled or even trying to persuade me to change my mind and emails have not been responded to
The phones do not get answered even if you were interested

 

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[James Smith]

The club keep going on about they want all revenues that is one of the reasons they left the Ricoh -but i am confused if this is the case the evidence does not back up the claim as the Marketing of the club leaves alot to be desired

No Sponsor in site
A barrow at Tesco for there Club shop
Tickets for away games can only be purchased till very recently from the away side now you can go to a run down shabby office where you are greeted and escorted up stairs which is a very uninviting experience
We had a 12 seat hospitality box at the Ricoh for 4 years and the rest of the years seats in the premier area - I have not received one phone call asking me why i cancelled or even trying to persuade me to change my mind and emails have not been responded to
The phones do not get answered even if you were interested

There is no business case for the move to Sixfields, they can't make more money being there thanks to the lower capacity, lower ticket prices etc. The only reason that I can think of for the move is to make sure that they don't give one penny more to ACL in the hope that they can't survive without our club. If that doesn't work expect them to resort to more legal action because having left the Ricoh that's all they can do. At a guess I'd say they'd take action against ACL, the council and probably the Higgs too as they've not had any threats yet.

 

[shmmeee]

It's almost like they want the move to fail isn't it? While blaming ACL/CCC the whole way.

If I were to look into my tinfoil ball I'd say the day will come where "sell us the Ricoh or the club really is liquidated this time" will come.

Or maybe they're just massively incompetent.

 

[Snozz_is_god]

It's almost like they want the move to fail isn't it? While blaming ACL/CCC the whole way.

I think you've hit the nail firmly on the head there.

 

[bigfatronssba]

My rough mathematics suggests an average attendance of 2k would give an income of around £600k over a season. No way is that sustainable.

 

[ESB]

My rough mathematics suggests an average attendance of 2k would give an income of around £600k over a season. No way is that sustainable.

Did that require using toes as well?

 

[StevieM]

For what it's worth I have always thought that the whole Ricoh ownership thing is a red herring.
The only real reason that I can think that they want the club for is maybe to load us up with huge debts to assist in their nefarious hedge fund antics (joke...for the legal boys!!) -otherwise any "real" business organisation would have shifted us on like a hot potatoe years back?? :thinking about:

 

[barnes8]

why would you buy a football club as a debt tool? Surely you'd use another less public business without the potential problem of irate football fans? I don't know the answers, just seems illogical.

 

[ESB]

But couldn't you say that in general about SISUs actions, I'm struggling to find logic as I think their opportunity to get ownership of the Ricoh freehold has passed.

 

[Mr B]

why would you buy a football club as a debt tool? Surely you'd use another less public business without the potential problem of irate football fans? I don't know the answers, just seems illogical.

Barnes I don't think you get it they don't care about irratating Covnetry fans else they wouldn't of moved to Sixfields in the first place, the fans are far, far, far from their thinking. What Covboy says only solidifies that.

 

[AJB1983]

Worrying about what the fans might think requires them to care about them in the first place....the one fundamental thing they do not do....hence this farcical move and the disgraceful comments in the programme at the weekend.

 

[jas365]

We had a 12 seat hospitality box at the Ricoh for 4 years and the rest of the years seats in the premier area - I have not received one phone call asking me why i cancelled or even trying to persuade me to change my mind and emails have not been responded to
The phones do not get answered even if you were interested

We were talking about this the other day, there are 4 of us who had home and away ST's. I've had a home ST for 26 years, that's the shortest time out of the 4 of us (the longest being 40+ years). We've had away ST's since they were introduced 13 years ago.
Not one of us have had a phone call even asking why we haven't renewed, which I find staggering.

 

[barnes8]

Barnes I don't think you get it they don't care about irratating Covnetry fans else they wouldn't of moved to Sixfields in the first place, the fans are far, far, far from their thinking. What Covboy says only solidifies that.

No I totally agree, moving to Northampton is showing no respect for fans views, they couldnt give a shit about us. My point was that if you've got two potential businesses to buy as debt tools, one being a football club, the other some business out of the public eye surely you'd go for the latter.