: Fri Mar 06, 2009 5:38 pm  

Starbug wrote:

It wasn't meant as a criticism Kelvin

Leigh also have a F/T commercial manager and other P/T sales and marketing staff , and that is as well as the LSV stadium having thier own commercial,Marketing and sales people

We have a P/T CEO who works for the Owners company

But the RFL have told them to access the funds available they need to employ yet another person whose remit will be to bring in ' new outside extra corporate ' money to the club , they also require this person to meet certain percentages over his stated salary or the money will be withdrawn

Now you are based in London and have a large business community to pitch to

We are in Leigh and well we dont really have wall to wall millionaires just queing up to spend a few hundred thousand on a hobby

The RFL seem to think we do have

Which tells me a lot about them and thier understanding of NL/Championship RL

Wouldn't these be problems in Super League too?

: Fri Mar 06, 2009 6:57 pm  

Dico wrote:

Wouldn't these be problems in Super League too?

Sorry I dont understand your point ?

: Sat Mar 07, 2009 1:43 am  

dally messenger wrote:

i guess a bit higher.

les cats got a bit higher than that and still needed outside money.

it does depend on sponsorship, rent at ground etc but id guess 8500 - 9000.

the NRL it seems to be 17,000 - 20,000

For a number of NRL clubs though they are paid to play at the stadium and only get a minor cut of gate receipts, it's usuall around $100k a game. At an average of $20 a ticket that is only 5,000 through the gate. No wonder clubs with better stadium deals like Newcastle, NQ etc work harder to get fans in and make alot more money through gameday income.

: Sat Mar 07, 2009 1:46 am  

ps good to see Warrington being so honest and upfront with the fans, i wish all clubs (including my own) would do the same. It can act as a motivator to the faithful to dip into their pockets a little more if need be.

Surprised Wolves spend an extra 1.4mill on slaries above and beyond the first team squad salaries. Must be those Aussie wives in the shop!

: Sat Mar 07, 2009 3:18 am  

JB Down Under wrote:

For a number of NRL clubs though they are paid to play at the stadium and only get a minor cut of gate receipts, it's usuall around $100k a game. At an average of $20 a ticket that is only 5,000 through the gate. No wonder clubs with better stadium deals like Newcastle, NQ etc work harder to get fans in and make alot more money through gameday income.

its a guaranteed $100,000 per game but if the crowd gets over a certain figure then the club shares it with the ground

the clubs have said that the $100,000 at homebush makes more money than 10,000 - 12,000 at a traditional ground like leichhardt oval.

the clubs that have moved to homebush permanantly like the dogs, tigers and souths have all seen very large crowds there.

the dogs got 38,000 for the roosters match last year.

souths have had a couple of crowds over 30,000

crowds are growing because of homebush

: Sat Mar 07, 2009 2:33 pm  

then why do fans b1tch and moan so much about it?

I oersonally hate the ground, too big, too far away form the pitch, tands not elevated enough, expensive and when it rains the bottom two tiers get soaked. Only thing it has going for it is capacity, good chance those games would have drawn equally large gates if the clubs home grounds had a big enough capacity.

ps there has been plenty of sub 10,000 crowds in there as well. I still don't understand how a sold out Leichardt with 17,000 in can make less money. The local council must be charging teh Tigers an arm and a leg to play there!

: Sat Mar 07, 2009 3:05 pm  

JB Down Under wrote:

ps good to see Warrington being so honest and upfront with the fans, i wish all clubs (including my own) would do the same. It can act as a motivator to the faithful to dip into their pockets a little more if need be.

Surprised Wolves spend an extra 1.4mill on slaries above and beyond the first team squad salaries. Must be those Aussie wives in the shop!

They have to be for the shareholders. Same as I could go into HSBC now and look at Lloyds Banking's balance sheet...not that i'd want to

: Sat Mar 07, 2009 3:07 pm  

Dico wrote:

They have to be for the shareholders. Same as I could go into HSBC now and look at Lloyds Banking's balance sheet...not that i'd want to

Surely you would be able to see Llloyds TSB under the Public Information Act these days...

: Sat Mar 07, 2009 5:08 pm  

JB Down Under wrote:

then why do fans b1tch and moan so much about it?

I oersonally hate the ground, too big, too far away form the pitch, tands not elevated enough, expensive and when it rains the bottom two tiers get soaked. Only thing it has going for it is capacity, good chance those games would have drawn equally large gates if the clubs home grounds had a big enough capacity.

ps there has been plenty of sub 10,000 crowds in there as well. I still don't understand how a sold out Leichardt with 17,000 in can make less money. The local council must be charging teh Tigers an arm and a leg to play there!

when theres 30,000 there the atmos is quite good. people whinge because for crowds of 10,000 or so it gets lost in a stadium that big.

with leichhardt they have to hire a big screen for the VR, thats something ike 10,000 - 20,000 and security and stuff.

the nrl has encouraged clubs to take the less attractive games away from homebush but keep the big games there.

homenush allows the better clubs to market themselves and grow their crowds so lets judge it 10 years down the track

i think youll see the dogs, souths and tigers all average 25,000 - 30,000

: Sat Mar 07, 2009 5:31 pm  

sort of relevant to the above : http://www.leaguehq.com.au/news/news/to ... 19943.html

sort of relevant to the above : http://www.leaguehq.com.au/news/news/to ... 19943.html