The Ultimate Super Ayr Thread

[Hazbart]

5 hours ago, Thumper said:

If everyone did it the club would have in the region of two million pounds, which it could presumably use to improve the product and thus the number of walk-up customers.

For that price you could go to about 65 games at current walk-up prices. That would mean attending nearly every home match for four years. The club would be mad not to try to lock that in early. They should be offering 50 year season tickets.

Not sure they would attract sufficient walk up’s to cover for the shortfall.

Let’s say we have what 900 season ticket holders who sign up yearly. If they all go 5 yearly, we get a shit load of extra money in year 1. 

We throw a load of money at the team, gain promotion to the promised land. Attract some new fans and have a couple of years in the Premier League before doing a Livvy and coming back down.

We then find ourselves back the championship, probably with a significantly higher wage bill than we have now and still have 2 years with no season ticket money coming in and crowds that are in decline because those new fans we attracted during the good years don’t hang around.

It’s all hypothetical but we definitely wouldn’t be the first club to try to throw money at it and fail…..

Maybe the 5 year tickets are capped at so many per year to ensure a more steady income stream over time.

 

[Thumper]

16 minutes ago, Hazbart said:

Not sure they would attract sufficient walk up’s to cover for the shortfall

I have never ever seen a club lamenting selling too many season tickets and therefore impacting their matchday revenue.

Any theoretical disaster spending in the event of getting promoted is irrelevant. Everything the club is doing off-field is in theory aimed at permitting promotion to be a reasonable leap. If it happens at all it will be an enormous impact for a generation. Also, if Derek Stillie is indeed stinking the club up again, the tories will happily step in to use the taxpayer money they allegedly detest to bail out one of their own.

[Roxanne's man]

1 hour ago, Thumper said:

Prices at Somerset might have inflated but it's not like Freddos, which were still 5p when I was in high school.

Oaft! Freddos for 5p, The Beano for 30p, bag of wotsits 10p, pint of beer £1.

What the f*ck has happend over the years? Folks just got greedy? £1 would have bought you enough sweets to make you puke. 

I remember one of the cafe vans in the Sre did a hotdog for a quid can't remember when though.

 

[Hazbart]

14 minutes ago, Thumper said:

Also, if Derek Stillie is indeed stinking the club up again, the tories will happily step in to use the taxpayer money they allegedly detest to bail out one of their own.