Re: Rumours thread. : Sat Oct 27, 2012 8:05 pm  

Saint Simon wrote:

yeah bad times for salford. They said they needed 8k attendances, and barely got 5.5k. at an average of say £20 a ticket, thats 2500 x 13 home games x £20 = £650,000 hole in they're finance plans.

Not the only club in trouble either.

Re: Rumours thread. : Sun Oct 28, 2012 1:09 pm  

The RFL have paid the wages of the Salford players for October.

Re: Rumours thread. : Sun Oct 28, 2012 4:43 pm  

SFW wrote:

The RFL have paid the wages of the Salford players for October.

I told people on here last summer they was in trouble. They stopped putting food on For the players after games as money was so tight.

The is also another club that's worried theyight not even start the super league season.

Re: Rumours thread. : Sun Oct 28, 2012 5:04 pm  

St pete wrote:

The is also another club that's worried theyight not even start the super league season.

Wigan.

The RFL have found the other set of books

Re: Rumours thread. : Sun Oct 28, 2012 5:16 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

Wigan.

The RFL have found the other set of books

Wish it was but isn't.

I told you Salford was in trouble. It was one of the reasons that parish went.

Re: Rumours thread. : Sun Oct 28, 2012 5:19 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

Wigan.

The RFL have found the other set of books

Which club had to start selling 2013 season tickets in June/July 2102?

Re: Rumours thread. : Sun Oct 28, 2012 5:21 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

Which club had to start selling 2013 season tickets in June/July 2102?

Is that just good marketing or are we in trouble to?

I think it's a matter of trying to sell early.

Re: Rumours thread. : Sun Oct 28, 2012 5:24 pm  

St pete wrote:

Is that just good marketing or are we in trouble to?

I think it's a matter of trying to sell early.

It was a case of getting the revenue in early, but there must have been a reason. It's a very unusual step.

Re: Rumours thread. : Sun Oct 28, 2012 5:29 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

Which club had to start selling 2013 season tickets in June/July 2102?

I'd say that's a bit late to be selling tickets. Almost 100 years too late.

As for selling season tickets early, it would not do much financially for a club as it would just bring in money earlier, but it's still the same money that would have been spent and it still has to last the same period of time. It's not like they can keep bringing the renewal date forwards.

If anything they could probably see that the GF was not likely this year and so the peak time to renew was the game against Warrington at HJ.

There is the arguement that you get more interest, but Saints allow DD over the course of the season and even if everyone paid up front, the extra month of interest 8000*200*0.04 (at best) /12 = £5333. Not a serious boost to balance against any losses.

Re: Rumours thread. : Sun Oct 28, 2012 5:31 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

It was a case of getting the revenue in early, but there must have been a reason. It's a very unusual step.

Seems an absolutely sensible idea to me. Why wait till now, when people's minds are wandering off Rugby, in favour of Christmas, or booking next years holidays, or any of the other demands on finances, get people to buy when they have rugby at the front of their priorities. Just becasue it is unusual doens't mean to say that it isn't a very good marketing ploy. If everyone stuck to the tried and tested, we would really stagnate.