New beginnings - 25% Truth, 80% Bollocks

[Mooneyraker]

What was the last concerts that failed and lost money? Can anyone remember the acts?

Peter Andre, Atomic Kitten, Blue.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-23487178

[Ƭ̵̬̊: The Artist Formerly Known as CWIG]

3k and lost money.


If you think these sell more than 3k you're living on another planet.

[Audrey]

Wrexham allocated just under 3000 tickets for Boxing Day (2988)

[Nemo]

Wrexham allocated just under 3000 tickets for Boxing Day (2988)

How many hotel rooms in the Leonardo have they been given?

[RobertT]

Wrexham allocated just under 3000 tickets for Boxing Day (2988)

And for all the talk of music events, it's things like this that make money.

While I am all for pushing the envelope and seeing if we can gain new revenue from the "festival" approach, the real money to be made is getting at least two home friendlies against teams that can bring in crowds of 7k+.  Because none of the attendees will be on a season ticket, they generate far more incremental revenue.  The Wrexham game, despite the teeth gnashers, will make double most other games in terms of on the day type revenue.

[Mooneyraker]

And for all the talk of music events, it's things like this that make money.

While I am all for pushing the envelope and seeing if we can gain new revenue from the "festival" approach, the real money to be made is getting at least two home friendlies against teams that can bring in crowds of 7k+.  Because none of the attendees will be on a season ticket, they generate far more incremental revenue.  The Wrexham game, despite the teeth gnashers, will make double most other games in terms of on the day type revenue.

Almost like it is worth investing in getting out of this League...

[Audrey]

We’d probably get 5 or 6 sell outs in L1.

[adje]

If they get Andy Partridge out of retirement, I'm in!

[Ƭ̵̬̊: The Artist Formerly Known as CWIG]

Putting the cart before the horse, isn't it?

Thought we were going to work on the stadium first before any of this is what Clem originally said? Makes me wonder if that will ever happen.

An actual competitive budget that afforded us a proper squad could have seen us in league one next year. Away followings with teams on the bank potentially 6 to 10 times depending on who goes up and down. Instead we're wasting putting money up for this that I'm pretty certain we won't make back.

Sort out the DRS executive boxes and town end with facilities out and our stadium would attract actual music acts like the slave traders do down the road.

[joeydubya]

Peter Andre, Atomic Kitten, Blue.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-23487178

Says they had reduced tickets, you'd think with Blue on the bill they'd All Rise!

(I'll get me coat)

[Mooneyraker]

Says they had reduced tickets, you'd think with Blue on the bill they'd All Rise!

(I'll get me coat)

Well our current owners are 'Fly By' night!

[Audrey]

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[Cookie]

Carlisle flogged to the Waltons.

https://twitter.com/officialcufc/status/1727364026278289639?t=4OzYbsBu5lB4jtw1wafVpQ&s=19

[Audrey]

Jim-Bob?

[RobertT]

They have laid out some key themes ahead of their takeover - investing equity instead of debt to fund the club, first priority is to purchase and build out a training facility, then to develop the existing ground, provide a budget that enables them to compete with the top teams in L1 for the remainder of this season, then aim for promotion next season.  All the sort of stuff you'd have hoped would have happened here.  Instead, we transferred debt (zero equity investment thus far, as far as we know), have diddly squat on the Training Ground (well, we got some scaffolding added, but we still share with Palates) and have had no plans as yet produced for our ground development.

The proof of their pudding will be in the eating I guess, but ours tastes a lot more bitter than it did when we started nibbling on it two years+ ago.