Re: Gareth Hock : Sun Mar 01, 2015 11:32 am
Pumpetypump wrote:
it isn't unreasonable for fans from club A to wonder how club b can afford hock and moi moi and then to plausibly suggest how the finances might be structured.
On the face of it I struggle to see how it stacks up.
On the face of it I struggle to see how it stacks up.
I can't tell you how it all stacks up either but there's a few things going in our favour at the moment, which perhaps 'outsiders' don't consider.
The increase in our fan base, we were struggling to get 2000, 5000+ home supporters against yourselves and its looking like another 4000+ today so an extra 2000+ @ say £10 should help to cover FFMM, Worthington, and Hock we already had the other lads . this in turn increases merchandise sales.
For a club like yours 4-5000 may still seem low with everything else to fund, we're lucky in that LSV funds the office/ticketing staff, we have some great volunteers, running Centurions TV and radio, putting match advertising banners around town, running the official away match coaches, Alan use to do the programme, and then there's LISA, all of which cost nothing and put money into the club, think the club only actually employs about 3 staff, the lady who run's the mechanise, and a couple of lottery people who I hope are also putting more into the club than their wages cost.
I'm not privy to the details but apparently we also now have a 'Unique special arrangement' with LSV, whatever that means, but since we've moved there has definitely been a change in attitudes, whether it's because LSV is now home to both Man Utd and Blackburn U21's, a few European/South based teams train there when in the Northwest, been a good choice of venue for the RFL events, there's been a few sports advertisements filmed there, and it held the Elton John concert. Leigh Centurions did have an 11% share in LSV don't know if they still do but maybe perhaps with all these other things going on the pressure on Leigh Centurions to fund the place on its own no longer applies and we may just pay peanuts to play there.
In other words I've no idea either.