mickyb1234 wrote:
So, what you gonna do about it?
What would you have me do Michael?
Year 1: I'd fly back to London for 3 Months to arrange the marketing and promotional activity in the run up to the start of the new season. Then I'd run the activity remotely from NZ for the duration of the season before returning to the UK in July to debrief and pan for the 2017 campaigns.
The only sticking point would be the cost of my flights and accommodation whilst in London as well as the 1 year contracted fee of £100,000 and the required marketing budget of £200,000.
In return for this investment, I would deliver the club a 100% increase on 2015's attendances so delivering 8,041 additional fans during the regular season at a cost to the club of £37.31 per fan. Take the £20 cost of a ticket away and at the end of the first regular season, the club would have made a loss of £140,000 on Marketing. BUT....if I were to deliver this new average during the 8'S as well, then this loss would be reduced to as little as £32,000.
Year 2: Same deal as before financially with the target being a 50% increase across the board. This is based on 1,462 fans as the previous years average and 2,193 being the new target. If hit over 15 games then these new fans would cost the club a loss figure of £80,000
Year 3: same as year 2 financially and target wise delivering an average of 3,290 per game and the cost of fans now being a £33,000 excess.....
Now Michael, I have no idea if I could achieve these growth figures, but given the amount of cash that Hughes has flushed over the years on hair brained schemes, it'd stand as good a chance if not better than anything done before. Invest £300,000 in my services and £600,000-£700,000 in marketing and by year 4 you have an income from tickets of £990,000......almost enough to release us from our ties to Hughes.
Imagine Michael.....back to the level of fans we had before Gus....it'd be like old times except with Batley Bulldogs replacing Wigan Warriors.....
