So, What Happens . . .

[Batch]

I'll admit I'm struggling.

[Nemo]

Makes sense to do the trial game in that competition as it removes the "how do we get the season ticket holders down to 1000" problem and, slightly sneakily I guess, means you can sell the tickets in a way you wouldn't be able to do for a league game.

[pauld]

Makes sense to do the trial game in that competition as it removes the "how do we get the season ticket holders down to 1000" problem and, slightly sneakily I guess, means you can sell the tickets in a way you wouldn't be able to do for a league game.

Indeed. If it was a league game, then it's all cost for the club. With this, they might at least have some chance of covering the costs. Doubt they'll do much more than that though

[Valid Pint]

I'm following the New Salamis in the FA Cup tonight.

[tans]

Interesting statement from the Colchester chairman

https://www.cu-fc.com/news/2020/september/club-statement/

[Jimmy HaveHave]

Interesting statement from the Colchester chairman

https://www.cu-fc.com/news/2020/september/club-statement/

That's an excellent read and quite surprised that they don't sell many for away matches

[Batch]

I had totally missed the away club can benefit from ifollow sales.

[Jimmy HaveHave]

I had totally missed the away club can benefit from ifollow sales.

I would imagine most have as I had no idea how it worked

[Private Fraser]

According to Dan Roan on the BBC this morning, plans for fans return binned for the forseeable future (or at least until the next u-turn).  

https://twitter.com/danroan/status/1308301698750844928?s=20

[tans]

Pob has confirmed this

[bathford]

According to Dan Roan on the BBC this morning, plans for fans return binned for the forseeable future (or at least until the next u-turn).  

https://twitter.com/danroan/status/1308301698750844928?s=20

Under the changing circumstances, it was the only thing that could be done.

[Flashheart]

I hope we've budgeted for a whole season without fans. (With help from the Bogle money).

[The Artist Formerly Known as Audrey]

This from the Colchester owner regarding how the iFollow money affects his club. The uptake from their fans seems extremely low, though.

‘Streaming Revenues
The way it works currently is that the home team keep all of the revenue for the tickets they sell through their own website and they also get the revenue for the first 500 that buy via the away team. For example: for Saturday’s game against Bolton, we sold 452 iFollow passes, (so we keep all of the revenue from those), and Bolton sold 2252 iFollow passes, (of which we get the revenue from the first 500).

This has put a very new aspect on the revenue that is available to clubs this season. Bolton made more money in gate receipts from our home fixture than we did because they had the revenue from 1,752 iFollow passes whereas we had the revenue from 952 iFollow passes. In normal times, we would have expected about £54,000 in home gate receipts from this fixture but we will receive just shy of £8,000, whereas Bolton would have expected about £600 for the 5% commission we pay them but will have received about £14,000 more than that.

We sold just over 300 streams for the away game against Bradford, so we earnt £0.00 for that away game and I expect that to be the case for every away game this season. So based on twenty three away games, Bolton look set to receive about £345,000 from the streaming of their away games this season whilst we can look forward to approximately £0.00.

Perhaps these facts might help some of you that think we should still be in the Championship understand what we are up against.’

[Geoff the Ref]

This from the Colchester owner regarding how the iFollow money affects his club. The uptake from their fans seems extremely low, though.

‘Streaming Revenues
The way it works currently is that the home team keep all of the revenue for the tickets they sell through their own website and they also get the revenue for the first 500 that buy via the away team. For example: for Saturday’s game against Bolton, we sold 452 iFollow passes, (so we keep all of the revenue from those), and Bolton sold 2252 iFollow passes, (of which we get the revenue from the first 500).

This has put a very new aspect on the revenue that is available to clubs this season. Bolton made more money in gate receipts from our home fixture than we did because they had the revenue from 1,752 iFollow passes whereas we had the revenue from 952 iFollow passes. In normal times, we would have expected about £54,000 in home gate receipts from this fixture but we will receive just shy of £8,000, whereas Bolton would have expected about £600 for the 5% commission we pay them but will have received about £14,000 more than that.

We sold just over 300 streams for the away game against Bradford, so we earnt £0.00 for that away game and I expect that to be the case for every away game this season. So based on twenty three away games, Bolton look set to receive about £345,000 from the streaming of their away games this season whilst we can look forward to approximately £0.00.

Perhaps these facts might help some of you that think we should still be in the Championship understand what we are up against.’

That is really interesting.  Clearly Colchester are going to have little to cheer in the foreseeable future.

[Panda Paws]

Even the Bolton take up seems extremely low. A self-proclaimed big club only generating 2000 log ins.

I reckon most teams are seeing considerably lower take up than we'd think - seems from these two clubs to be in line with their average away following.