Jake Young

Not true. Sparks said it’s bigger in the interview.

 

Well I am guessing Rupp is underwriting regardless of season ticket sales. I haven’t heard how many we have sold so far.

 

Did Ryan actually say that? I don't remember that specifically. He did say we had the 5th largest budget last season and this season's budget is higher than last season.

 

That's exactly my point. Rupp must be underwriting some or how would they know it's bigger?

 

Season sales are up compared to this time last year, and of the 6,000 sold so far nearly a 1,000 are NEW season holders. It’s therefore looking promising, without Rupp input , but clearly they are committed to spending higher.

 

I still feels like we were robbed.

 

Yes. You said this “and this season's budget is higher than last season.”

 

No. You're jumping to conclusions. He didn't say that.

He said "it will deliver a substantial six figure sum to the bottom line." END

He didn't mention recruitment. It could be used for lots of reasons.

 

I was asking Park about the contribution to recruitment.

 

Okie dokie , my error sorry., Two subjects one kitty. The bottom line is more £’s turnover.
How it’s spent/ profited/pocketed is another debate..

 

Absolutely. However their inflationary pressures will also increase exponentially, thus more pressure on marketing teams. As daft as it sounds to some…don’t play on winter nights, unless one has a generator to power the floodlights. That’s going to cost megabucks?

 

I don’t know the costings, but I’ve still never understood why we have Tuesday night games mid winter I can’t think of anything less appealing tbh. We usually schedule in 6 Tuesday night games a season, it doesn’t always work work like that with postponements etc. but they could at least put the original 6 into 3 before the clocks go back and 3 after. I know there’s the odd cup game but it’s far from impossible. Not only is it the electricity costs but you get far less pay on the day punters on a cold Tuesday night as well, I’ve been there when it’s felt like there were about 10,000 there when we’ve been in the playoffs and far less when doing poor.

I’ve said this before but I’d move the group stage Micky mouse trophy games to pre season as they do in Scotland, one or two of them are played before the clocks go back so that’s potentially 2 slots there. You’re more likely to get more pay on the day customers late September than early December imo which means more money to cover costs. Also I think our last Tuesday game was late March early April, a fair few light and warmer Tuesday nights not used, again it’s just about sensible planning by the football league, something I’m not sure they are capable of. One final thing to reduce Tuesdays is do what we’ve done twice in the last 10 years, have the first round of the league cup the Saturday before the start of the season, can’t this year due to the early start but no reason it couldn’t be a regular feature going forward, this would probably draw a bigger crowd that the first round on a Tuesday and it frees another early season Tuesday up to get a league game out of the way.

 

Whatever we think of Robinson that can't be right. A guy driving a forklift truck in a warehouse can earn more than that. On top of that he would probably earn more playing semi/pro football with a job on top of that.

 

We are definitely a big club at least in the bottom two divisions. There's Sheffield Wednesday Derby County and Ipswich Town but that's it as Sunderland have finally gone up. People think it's because of the cheap season tickets but our away following says otherwise. Second best only behind Bristol rovers in a rubbish season.