Astute
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Anyone who replaces players lost without heavily relying on youth players coming through has more ambitions than us.
20,000 maximum shows they are committed to keeping us in the lower leagues even MK Dons have more ambition then us FFS.
20,000 maximum shows they are committed to keeping us in the lower leagues even MK Dons have more ambition then us FFS.
As are you if you believe paying £1.3M a year didn't damage the club financially.
No!!
Torch, stop manipulating history .. you know the day Richardson sold Highfield Road was the start of the club being financially damaged. ACL bleeding us dry is what you want to believe and you are way of the mark.
Oh and SISU knew about the rent before they bought the club. There lack of due diligence cannot be blamed on ACL. Business was done between the two parties and contracts signed, knowing what the rent was.
No!!
Torch, stop manipulating history .. you know the day Richardson sold Highfield Road was the start of the club being financially damaged. ACL bleeding us dry is what you want to believe and you are way of the mark.
Oh and SISU knew about the rent before they bought the club. There lack of due diligence cannot be blamed on ACL. Business was done between the two parties and contracts signed, knowing what the rent was.
So you've no issue with us being in Northampton have you. A new company owns the club they don't like the rent deal having done a due dillegence and business was done with Northampton town,
So you've no issue with us being in Northampton have you. A new company owns the club they don't like the rent deal having done a due dillegence and business was done with Northampton town,
20,000 maximum shows they are committed to keeping us in the lower leagues even MK Dons have more ambition then us FFS.
Anyone who replaces players lost without heavily relying on youth players coming through has more ambitions than us.
So you've no issue with us being in Northampton have you. A new company owns the club they don't like the rent deal having done a due dillegence and business was done with Northampton town,
Please justify to me how we need a bigger stadium then 22,000 based on the last 11 years average attendance stats:
00/01 20,582
01/02 16,150
02/03 14,812
03/04 14,816
04/05 16,047
05/06 21,031
06/07 20,342
07/08 19,123
08/09 17,407
09/10 17,305
10/11 16,309
11/12 15,118
12/13 10,948
So you've no issue with us being in Northampton have you. A new company owns the club they don't like the rent deal having done a due dillegence and business was done with Northampton town,
So the averages don't show how many games had above this amount whilst being close to what it would hold. Saying that the numbers have drastically gone down since SISUE took over so you could be right if they stay
Please justify to me how we need a bigger stadium then 22,000 based on the last 11 years average attendance stats:
I will look at the amount of times we have gone over 22,000 and poost it shortly, I don't think you can put the decrease in attendances down to Sisu solely, the novelty of the Ricoh must have started to wear off, the team was no closer to promotion before and during Sisu and prices from what I had always seen froze at a similar amount.
The reason given by SISU for needing this new ground is we need access to more revenues. Since moving to the Ricoh there have been 54 games where the attendance has been greater than will be possible in the proposed new stadium, that's a lot of lost revenue in ticket sales alone. That is before you even begin to consider the huge drop off in attendances that we have seen under SISUs ownership and also ignoring the fact that we could, as unlikley as it seems at the moment, one day be back in the premier league. The new stadium is fine if everyone is happy being a low end championship / league 1 side.
And you will also have to consider all seats lost through segregation. And after that you would have to sell allocations fully of home and away fans as both would cause ticket losses. So maybe 20k from a 22k stadium?
And you will also have to consider all seats lost through segregation. And after that you would have to sell allocations fully of home and away fans as both would cause ticket losses. So maybe 20k from a 22k stadium?
yes we have had higher attendances during the first few years during the Ricoh years and when the big boys came to town or when we had derby fixtures, but except that it doesn't tally.
So your argument is that if we ignore all the big games where the crowd would be too big for the proposed stadium the ground will be big enough?
Discussing any stadium capacity is an exercise in the fruitless, as you're all arguing over an irrelevance that'll never happen. It's akin to me lying awake at night wondering which sexual position I'll employ first when I finally bed Scarlett Johansson after charming her at Dandos Walsgrave...
So your argument is that if we ignore all the big games where the crowd would be too big for the proposed stadium the ground will be big enough?
What your missing is the financial accounts that show we were giving many tickets away - Colchester is a game where we had 25,000 as tickets were £5. Many of the other games offered guests of season ticket holders massive discounts.
If the club managed to really sell out in say an 18,000 stadium
Revenue would be much higher than any season in the Ricoh.
As are you if you believe paying £1.3M a year didn't damage the club financially.
Well that argument can be levelled at any expenditure.
The Ricoh added 5k fans onto the gate on its own. At £10/ticket average that's £1.15m over the season, before you add in sponsorship or the pull for players/managers, etc. For a club expecting to go up not down I'd say that's a fair return.
The mistake the club made was (as always in those days) not thinking it was going to get any worse. They should've agreed to the sliding scale, either originally or now.
As I said previously the average attendances do not lie, since we have been at the Ricoh we have not averaged beyond 22,000 a season.
Why should a ground be built that has bigger attendance only the third of the time in which we have been a stadium that has been able to hold that capacity?
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The new ground will be 12000. Have I missed something?
The new ground will be 12000. Have I missed something?
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