stevesmitt

count me in to. If it can work anywhere near as good as it did with beckett it will be good for the team.

i agree that there would be a lot of work involved and the easiest thing is to get caterers in to do it but would latics really be worse off finacially doing it themself?

i disagree. you wouldnt need someone to run the catering, you would need your part-time match day staff (5hrs) and 1 person to do a full day on match days and as far as bulk buying goes you can go to any cash and carry and put a burger or hotdog together for 35p so if you was to bulk buy in large quantities you might get it down to 25p saving 10p an item which sell at around £2.50 which is only 4% extra profit which is very little. the bookies would need the same match day staff and somebody to do a little research on the internet getting the odds together.

i dont know, that would be a question for the club not me. i just can't see how the club doing it themself would have any more overheads than what the caterers or the bookies have got.

the caterers and bookies obviously pay latics a fee to work there, they might make £1000 each profit and pay latics say £400 leaving them with £600 for themself. if latics ran them they would make the whole £1000. obviously i dont know exact figures but with food, beer and the bookies the club will be losing out on a decent amount each game. these companys are taking money of the fans which could be going to the club.

surely if the club didnt franchise the betting, food and beer and ran them themself we could earn a good chunck of the 15k a week needed.

im not trying to say it will happen, just letting people know what i was told. the guy who as told me as no reason to lie but he too could have just been told a rumour but what got me thinking was why would a rumour like this be going round a club like celtic? scohles doesnt live in middleton but he went to school here and lived here till about 7 or 8 years ago. ive typed celtic director adrian in to google and it seems they have a commercial director called adrian filby.

dont know how much truth is in this but ive just had a phone call from a supplier of mine who lives in glasgow telling me that scholes is to play till christmas at utd then finsh the season at latics and retire at the end of the season. he is a celtic fan and was told by a friend of his called adrian (didnt get his surname), who is a director at celtic. apparently he was told by somebody he knew at old trafford. ive heard many rumours before about scholes finishing his career at bp and living in middleton i know a few people who are still friends with scholes from when he lived here but none of them have heard him say he will play for latics. so like i said dont know how much truth is in it but just thought id let you all know.