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Has to be a cut off point at which we end up losing money. Tenner a game, £220 sounds fair. I've no objection to more expensive for a better product, say the championship.

 

See my earlier submission.

How about, as fans who use the word ‘our’ when talking about the club take the first step and start paying more for the product.

maybe then the owners will acknowledge our commitment to ‘our’ club by ‘investing’ more of their money as well.

whadyathink?

 

We've been through it before. You could build 50 football stadiums in Bradford, perhaps not if you want a ready to go football stadium sized shape!

Ask Jack Tordoff where he wanted to build, from memory (& l might be wrong) it was around the area where KFC/BMW/Wickes are on Otley Rd. These were not there in 1985, see above....

 

There is easily enough money in football for it to happen.

 

Let's make it even cheaper then.

 

£100 quid a ticket, kids free.

 

You might as well, because Fulham's squad wasn't paid for by gate receipts.

 

Exactly.

We'd need equivalent investment until we got to the Premier League, at which point TV money and parachute payments would take over and cover us.

If we want to compete in the Championship, we need tens of millions of pounds of investment on a rolling basis every season, just like the other Championship clubs.

Then, if we want to build on infrastructure and top end training facilities, we could use yet more of those millions.

But it won't come from season tickets, none of it will. We might get a League One player out of it an increase though.

 

Why don't Fulham charge £150 then?

 

There is a long standing discussion about why clubs don't charge far less for season tickets when they're a drop in the ocean.

 

I don’t think there will be extra money gates will be lower sponsorship lower catering and shop sales lower

 

If we paid £250 a ticket attendences would probably half sponsorship would fall as would catering and shop sales

 

Profit? In the Championship? Not very likely.

Factor in that Fulham fill their ground, and there's literally no reason to drop prices. But rephrase your point about charging 360 for an adult ST, if they did decide to drop to 150 they would lose around 5 million.

Is there an implication that Fulham would struggle without that 5 million? It would take 28 years before they lost the equivalent of the transfer fees they spent on their current squad. That's nearly three decades, and we haven't discussed wages.

I think Schurle was meant to be on 5.5 million a year, or thereabouts, last season on loan.

Now, if we did what they did and sold tickets for 360 and we filled the stadium, how are we going to compete with that extra 5 million given we wouldn't be able to afford any if the required transfer fees and clubs would have individual players earning more than that in a single season ( on loan or otherwise)...

I'm just not seeing how it makes us competitive, and I'm not seeing how the gate receipts for Fulham make any difference.

 

You could be realistically where would you build one. You could build one at Queensbury Celtic playing fields but you wouldn't. Brentford have built one on the size of a postage stamp, but that's due to land being at a premium in London. They also have a public transport infrastructure that can take some of the strain. Bradfords geography is completely different. Nowt to stop you building a stadium at say King George playing fields but you wouldn't. Just like there's a stadium at Valley Parade but you'd have to be mad to build one there now.

 

Why don't we just sponsor the club?

Raise X amount that we feel will make a difference and sponsor us.

 

A complete new start at Odsal would be ideal or somewhere along the M606 Rooley lane corridor although I haven’t been there for a long time so I don’t know if there is the space

 

Sites near the city centre are OK transport wise. Valley Parade isn't that bad to get away from if your heading toward the motorway. The A650 and Manchester Road can get you away fairly quickly compared to a lot of grounds.

 

Exactly, no way would the possible loss in revenue these sources bring in add up to the extra revenue generated. The fans that don't renew due to a price increase probably wouldn't buy merchandise or use the catering anyway.