Re: Stadium Developments : Wed Feb 18, 2009 6:21 am  

Marsdengiant wrote:

Do also give me a prompt when the new stadium is actually built.

I'll send you a pic, otherwise you may miss the visit due to it being an away game

: Wed Feb 18, 2009 8:44 am  

The Key wrote:

I laugh at you mere pesants while I sit in my comfy KC stadium seat every two weeks

Welcome Mr Duffen!

Re: Stadium Developments : Wed Feb 18, 2009 10:02 am  

BIGAL1 wrote:

I'll send you a pic, otherwise you may miss the visit due to it being an away game

Send it to my grandkids (as yet not born). I will only be around another 40 years so may miss it actually being built

: Wed Feb 18, 2009 3:28 pm  

recent history shows us that most teams who get a new stadium increase their attendances by around 50% warrington and hull achieved this. This would give saints an average of around 15k obviously it would be more for wigan /warrington/leeds etc but less for cats/ quins etc

Re: Stadium Developments : Wed Feb 18, 2009 8:09 pm  

Marsdengiant wrote:

Send it to my grandkids (as yet not born). I will only be around another 40 years so may miss it actually being built

You are breeding

: Wed Feb 18, 2009 9:28 pm  

Starbug wrote:

New stadia are great , as long as they either belong to the club or are run by the club for the benifit of the club

Council ' facilities ' that are available to clubs for 17/18 days a year are most definatley not ' preferable ' than owning your own ' dump '

No problem with Wheldon road , it does what it says on the tin , it is a RL ground , tatty yes , old yes , lacking in atmosphere ? NO

Bang on mate!

Many of the cheerleaders for new stadia seem to think playing out of a new stadium is a licence to print money for the club involved. As you say, unless the club owns the stadium the money to be made out of it is extremely limited.

Re: Stadium Developments : Wed Feb 18, 2009 9:32 pm  

BIGAL1 wrote:

You are breeding

Never while posting

: Wed Feb 18, 2009 10:01 pm  

Cecil B wrote:

Bang on mate!

Many of the cheerleaders for new stadia seem to think playing out of a new stadium is a licence to print money for the club involved. As you say, unless the club owns the stadium the money to be made out of it is extremely limited.

Complete and utter rubbish.

Hull FC make far more money at the KC than they did at the Boulevard and they don't own the KC.
Ticket sale increases, corporate increase, bigger profile, more merchandise sales as a result, etc. You may say "you have to pay rent", but this covers maintenance, which you would have to pay if you owned your own ground anyway.

: Thu Feb 19, 2009 4:04 am  

Wellsy13 wrote:

Complete and utter rubbish.

Hull FC make far more money at the KC than they did at the Boulevard and they don't own the KC.
Ticket sale increases, corporate increase, bigger profile, more merchandise sales as a result, etc. You may say "you have to pay rent", but this covers maintenance, which you would have to pay if you owned your own ground anyway.

its not as if Hull FC have signed a poor tenancy deal whereby the stadium gets loads of extra revenues once Hulls crowds grow above a certain figure

: Thu Feb 19, 2009 4:18 am  

dally messenger wrote:

its not as if Hull FC have signed a poor tenancy deal whereby the stadium gets loads of extra revenues once Hulls crowds grow above a certain figure