Re: Championship Shield Fixtures : Sun Jul 24, 2016 9:21 pm
Maybe as a business the club is doing ok? Who knows. We've been through financial hell prior to the relegation to the Championship and naturally we all assume the worst. However our average attendance for the season is over the magic 4000 this season which I remember Marc Green saying in one of the initial sign up meetings was required. Perhaps the actual number required is a little less than that? In negotiations of any kind no one ever reveals the true figure that is acceptable to them.
The hospitality suite always seems full and we have a lot of sponsors/associated companies now. The hospitality bit also seems to do a bit of non-Bulls related business too. I'm sure we make a good amount from the four replica jerseys released every year and all the other merch and then there is also Bulls TV, Lottery etc.
If you factor in that we have had 40 first teamers on the books this year and quite a lot of those are our ex super league squad who will be on a fair chunk and are probably leaving then maybe the shortfall from the central funding won't be that hard to make up?
None of us know but Marc Green doesn't seem like the sort of guy to me that would take gambles. He said he would run it as a business and I'm sure that involved doing a worst case projection of not making the 8's. I was at the game so didn't listen but I saw a post somewhere detailing Marc Green's spot on BCB today where he apparently said that next years squad is sorted.