Re: Jake Mullaney : Tue Dec 08, 2015 2:55 pm  

Bullseye wrote:

Perhaps some really clever play on words to jump on the back of a popular film franchise you mean?

It could link to the name of the coach or a player.

That’d get ‘em flocking in.

BTW did you get permission from the Harry Potter studio to use their typeface?

Jeez, I just had an awful flashback....

Maybe we could make up the shortfall by passing around collection buckets at games?

Re: Jake Mullaney : Tue Dec 08, 2015 3:22 pm  

Well, the chairman suggested 4000 members each averaging about £900 spend over the course of the season - in all areas - tickets, food/drink, merchadising, social....

That would enable us to spend the full £1.85m cap

[Bulliac]

Re: Jake Mullaney : Tue Dec 08, 2015 3:29 pm  

Well, after my recent posts bemoaning the general level of discussion on boards during the off-season, note that [according to 'who's on line'] we have 13 members and a rousing 211 guests currently fascinated by this discussion! Wow, 211 guests, if only we had some way of monetising this...come to think of it, wasn't PHs business involved in the interweb thingy? I'm sure he could come up with some way of making this a winner.

[Bullseye]

Re: Jake Mullaney : Tue Dec 08, 2015 3:46 pm  

Highlander wrote:

Well, the chairman suggested 4000 members each averaging about £900 spend over the course of the season - in all areas - tickets, food/drink, merchadising, social....

That would enable us to spend the full £1.85m cap

4000 fans spending £900 means an income of £3.6m.

So that’s £1,775,000 required on non-players salaries.

Interesting.

I think we’ll be lucky to get anywhere near 4000 members let alone 4000 contributing £900 a year. That kind of outlay is ludicrous. There’s unlikely to be anyone able or willing to spend almost a grand on the Bulls in a year.

I’d expect even the most committed fan to struggle to pay more than £500 a year. Most won’t get near that.

Re: Jake Mullaney : Tue Dec 08, 2015 4:24 pm  

Sensei-Bull wrote:

If the Bulls don't reach their season ticket target then the bloke responsible for recruitment needs to raise his hand. The Bulls had a good dig last year and I'm sure that not many will use the result as a reason not to return next year. All that was required was to keep the majority of the squad together, cut the slack from the oversized squad and use that cap space to add 2 or 3 Super League quality replacements, who would genuinely improve the squad and excite the fans. Instead they replace the slack with more slack of arguably no better quality in positions that don't necessarily need improving. I'm absolutely baffled by their recruitment of late and I'm sure that it will have an impact on ticket sales. How many props do we need? Have they set a ceiling for how much they are willing to pay a player? Why do they seem so keen on having a massive squad, half of which won't play a game? Wouldn't it make sense to use the wages of 3 un-needed players to sign 1 classy scrum half? I think I'm missing something?

Have to agree. We seem to have fallen into last years trap of quantity rather than quality. When it was given out on Sunday we had a signing to announce, I thought, great it must be a scrum half. Big disappointment when another huge forward walked through the door I have to say. Maybe the halfback is being kept for shirt presentation night.

Re: Jake Mullaney : Tue Dec 08, 2015 4:59 pm  

£900 over a season? That seems excessive to me.
I'm guessing that that includes the regular season and middle 8s. Add to that away day tickets bought through the club rather than on the day walk ups.

Now I consider myself a fairly average fan and I don't usually spend more than £20 on match days inside the ground. A burger and a couple of pints and that's it.

Re: Jake Mullaney : Tue Dec 08, 2015 5:01 pm  

BeechwoodBull wrote:

Have to agree. We seem to have fallen into last years trap of quantity rather than quality. When it was given out on Sunday we had a signing to announce, I thought, great it must be a scrum half. Big disappointment when another huge forward walked through the door I have to say. Maybe the halfback is being kept for shirt presentation night.

I believe Steve Ferres has identified a player in Australia. I just hope his agent doesn't sell the said player like we were sold Marc Harbert. God bless his soul.

[Bullseye]

Re: Jake Mullaney : Tue Dec 08, 2015 6:12 pm  

He'll end up being another winger or second row if past recruitment is any guide.

Re: Jake Mullaney : Tue Dec 08, 2015 6:14 pm  

Highlander wrote:

Well, the chairman suggested 4000 members each averaging about £900 spend over the course of the season - in all areas - tickets, food/drink, merchadising, social....

That would enable us to spend the full £1.85m cap

I can't for the world of me see how the figures quoted are attainable.

Re: Jake Mullaney : Tue Dec 08, 2015 6:23 pm  

Peter Hood wrote:

I can't for the world of me see how the figures quoted are attainable.

They're not. Which gives the club the perfect reason as to why they're not spending such a large salary cap and a ready made answer when people question them.