Boro are charging us £30 on a Tuesday night with concession prices also excessive. Who is going to pay that except a handful of hardy souls when you can watch it live on sky Sports?
This League is absolutely bent from top to bottom, rip off ticket prices and teams squandering money they’ve never really had and getting away with it.
1 - how many would go up - say 200/300 - so £9,000 for Boro - 5% advance ticket sales income to RUFC - £450!!!
2 - We currently charge then £25 to come down here but they will fill the away end , so that makes us £62,500 less 5% (£59,375 sales) as per above, but according to EFL rules you can charge the same like for like, so in that case we charge £30 and we make an extra £11,875 and yes there would be the 5% advance ticket sales which all of them would be £75,000 less 5% (£71,250 sales).
3 - spread that over a season would be near an extra £225k for the club, if all the away end sold out which in turn can be used accordingly by the club to maybe invest in a fans bar indoors (unused corners spring to mind) and therefore more profit for the club as i would like to have a drink indoors at the club if the opportunity arose.
I know the above is hypothetical, big clubs will travel, look at Newcastle they could have sold another 8k if we had the capacity on the away end.
Investment is one thing - TS built the stadium and the club will always be in his debt for the stadium we see today, but we have t move on and invest again!!!
-- Edited by WorcesterMiller on Wednesday 26th of September 2018 12:37:40 PM
WorcesterMiller is dead right, there's no reason why we can't do this (and why not charge them another £5 Priority Exit Fee when the police insist on using the Exit Strategy) - see:
