: Tue Jun 09, 2009 6:58 pm
PBGIANT wrote:
In terms of the beer money at clubs I think you’ll find that the majority of clubs employ outside caterers to sell food/drinks and Leeds in no exception. The club may get rent from these companies but it will be nowhere near what the company makes on the beer.
Clearly Leeds are an exception - the catering vans are outside contractors but the public bars definitely are not.
Whatever you think about Leeds Hetherington doesn't p*ss money away, as your comedy outrage about ticket prices would seem to indicate. OTOH Leeds have to, and do, turn a profit whereas I'm guessing the accounts of Huddersfield wouldn't make such good reading. It's easy to have "cheap" ticket prices when supply massively exceeds demand and the fella who owns the club is happy to go on footing the losses year after year. For Leeds neither of those are the case.