Harry Dowds Green Shirt

So could be more for the fourth round.

 

Although my five live matches number came from the same source that got the £s wrong for me.

According to this website the TV fee for round 4 is £123,500

http://unofficialbulls.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=print&thread=35228

Big bag of two pences - sorted.

Lol. Doesn't bother me. It's the chap at the back of the queue who ends up there half an hour longer beause everyone needs change that will be peed off especially if its cold and raining again

The question is.

 

Would you be happy to pay an extra 96p to the cost of your match ticket what ever it is, if the money was donated to the JFT96 Appeal?

 

 

Not only would this be fantastic PR for the club, it would be another way for the appeal to keep in the public eye and for all fans attending to help in a small way.

Thanks for that rick. It wont help with the queues though all that change having to be dished out

Noble idea though

It was suggested last season by someone to open a few turnstiles and have people come through them and pay on an early morning, tell people before hand to have the right change and bingo an easy and quick way to sell tickets and can have say 8 turnstiles open so less queues for all

No No and No again. Sorry but that is a disaster waiting to happen and will casue more peoblems than it will solve.

This is not like last season, we have three weeks to sell the tickets plus the benefit of a home game this Saturday. There is plenty of time and therefore there are unlikely to be long queues this time

Yep, remember being queued up at 7am, got my ticket around 9am. They only had one person issuing tickets if I remembered and then switched it... to 2

Not really. They opened early when they got in becasue they saw the size of the queue

The game v Liverpool is undoubtedly going to be a sell out, but what is the most effective method of selling tickets to people. Last year was quite a cock up and due to the limitation of the amount Liverpool will be allocated will be mean Liverpool fans will come over and buy tickets in the home section. The club need to make this game as fair as possible and despite not being a season ticket holder myself anymore, I still feel they deserve priority. Thus, the question is to be asked what is the best method of sales. Personally, the method of opening the sales to season ticket holders is priority giving them the option of one extra ticket per season ticket and or two extra if they hold a stub from the forest game. The club should then bring in a promotional offer allowing those who go to the Brentford game priority tickets along with those who still hold a forest game stub and offer them priority tickets . This then prioritises those who are season holders, went to the forest game and go to the Brentford game and most likely sell majority home tickets. After this depending on the amount left, open them up to general sales selling the remaining until full capacity. Please give other models of sales

I disagree. Last year was not a cock up.

We've previously had to cordon off a number of seats between the large and small sections and if this happened we'd be chucking money away. If this doesn't have to happen then happy days, let's keep the big bit for us.

 

As has been suggested on another thread, put vouchers on the gate for the Brentford game. If nothing else it will give us an indication of demand from the home fans. I appreciate that we have a number of exiled fans but they are small in number compared to those who live locally.

Will be a cat A game so will be fully policed in any event so unlikely to be no need to cordon off seats

Can i get one with ticket stubs?

Only from Barcelona games

Where do i get my "I'm a better fan than you " badge?

Apparently the guy that runs the beardybus hands them out each trip

I wouldn't say I have any superior knowledge of building things (at all). But I do know that I sat in the thing.

 

They might have made a loss on it though. If I remember rightly, the game was televised subject to Chasetown playing at home, and them not moving it to a nearby bigger ground. For them to play at home they had to erect the stands. So the TV money probably made it worthwhile.

Exactly and if ESPN/ITV said the same then that may make a difference but for a club like us without that insentive, it initially appears to not make sense but watch this space as they say

No, they've come out and said there won't be standing, not seating.

This is a discussion board and whilst I repsect your opinion, there are things that go on in the background that dont always come out into the open and which you wouldn't be aware of. I am aware there are already discussions going on behind the scenes about this already and that is what I am referring to.

They did put a couple of temp stands up though. Think the one we were in was 500 capacity. If I remember right it was only a tenner to get in too.

Exactly - they wouldn't have done it if they were going to make a loss.

I'll bow to your superior knowledge on the subject. I'm sure you've got more experience than I have

Out of interest, are there logistical reasons for this?

Would have to be done via the safety advisory committee. (police & Council basically) consultaion would be needed and this all takes time. And we all know how quickly the Council move

If it can't be done for whatever reason, it would be nice for someone from the club to come and say that they've at least considered it.

 

No harm in being proactive.

They already have today. Not saying its ruled out yet (the draw was less than 2 hours ago) but it initially looks unrealistic

Splitting the RRE will lose us money due to segregation issues.

 

If giving Liverpool the Chaddy is an option, I'd do that. Otherwise, get your Thermos' at the ready you non-season ticket scum. Mwahhahaha!

Why would you give Liverpool the Chaddy instead of the large section of the RRE. Chaddy holds 3,500 and the large section of the RRE 3,000.

In any case that will not happen full stop.

Not a chance, they'll get the full the stand.

I believe that Liverpool will get the large section only and we will have the small section. This will be a police cat A game in any event so there is no reason why the stand can't be split

So Chasetown made a loss?

I think you will find that CHasetowns were mainly standing and 3 or 4 deep which we will not be allowed

There's probably money to be made, but not that much.

 

Even with a monster 5,000 seat thing you'd gross £100k, allowing for kids prices etc. Deduct the cost, half the proceeds and what's left?

The lookers paddock only held 1200 seats so thats the maximum you would get in now. at £20 per tichet take off vat and an allowance for kids & oap's and you average will be £13 giving income of £15,600. We cannot deduct this cost from the takings as a match cost and so will only keep 40% of that figure or around £6,200. You cant put 1200 temp seats in for that so the club would lose money.

Sorry this wont happen

If you really want to guarantee yourself a ticket for the Liverpool game then role upto BP tomorrow morning and buy a season ticket for the 10 remainig home games.

Simple.

We've made over 100k from the cup games I wonder were that will go ;)

Making up for the shortfall for the poor attendances at BP

If the fee is £2.5 million then at 10% we would be expecting in excess of £200K which plus the initial fee we received will have been very good business.

The worst part about today is losing Dux. From when Warnock signed him until his last game for us he was our Mr Reliable. Wholehearted, determined and a players player. A captain and leader of men (and boys)

He was also a team man and when PD took over stepped up on match days to do the analysis watching the opposition and noting down any change of tactics (now thats a proper use of a clipboard) and passing that information to the manager to decide if he needed to counter. Over the last 2 and a half years watching the ressies, you can see the calm way he has cajoled his troops wanting to help get bthe players ready for 1st team action. As I say a team man.

If thers's 1 person unlucky today it's Lee Duxbury. Good luck for the future Lee and thank you for your efforst over the years. I hope you get fixed up somewhere soon.

Exactly the point. Yes there have been a couple, but Steve Eyre nipped in and got Bunn to Rochdale and then he went to Preston before he came to us and Scappuzzi needed an interpreter so Mancini shouldn't be mentioned in the same sentence as footballer

Connections with City??? so thats Wabara and????????

We've had as many players from United

The backroom setup has clearly been wrong for some time and needed re-organising. Making Butler a coach instead of the sports science work that he was specifically brought in to do made no sense and was a waste of money the club doesn't have. It also smacks of jobs for mates and was in no ones best interest except Butler. What good is that to OAFC?

The structure Dickov wanted in place when he came was

Manager

Assistant

Sports scientist/fitness coach

1st team coach/Reserve team manager

Goalkeeping coach

That is a bloated setup imho for a league 1 team with a small budget but he was backed all the way.

To then do away with the fitmess side of things and use that member of staff as a coach (or as he has become known clipboard man) makes no sense.