We've already talked a lot about the $7.5k vs $75k stuff. Start on
P7 or even with BG's post here:
. i mentioned this earlier , but
$7,500! and he wants a reduced rate? to what?
.
if that is the case let's look at some numbers:
- $7,500 x 13 home games = $97,500 in rental fees ... a year!
- lets assume 'other' costs are consistent regardless of the venue ... so excluding security, road closures, etc
- also exclude finals games (apparently that is the ffa's cost) and acl (for the sake of the argument)
- a 50% reduction will save $48,750 ... a year!
- free rental will save $97,500 ... a year!
- ok, so i couldn't afford to pick up the tab ... but seriously!
. what does less than $100k a year get you:
- a groundsman, lawn tractor and some petrol?
- the reason for ccm not putting in a tender for management rights seems obvious ... they couldn't manage the stadium for less than $100k pa!
- yet he still wants a better deal!
. what would it take to gain or lose $100k pa through other streams:
- 279 platinum members @ $350
- 375 gold members @ $260
- 500 blue members @ $195
- 4,875 walk up supporters @ say $20 (you could say he has already lost 5,000 people in two games ... not the whole season!)
- if he loses more than say 400 members in the next year ... and gets the rent for free ... he would still be shooting himself in the foot if there was any feet left
. and the money brought to the coast through the quoted 42,000 people is largely an irrelevance to gosford council. if a couple (or a family of 37) wsw supporters attend a match and head for a
stuff 'til ya chuck feed at the leagues club beforehand ... how much money does the council see before the profits are taken to a holding company off the coast?
. anybody get the feeling i think this is all illogical?
When we talked about $75k, it was noted that that's $975k for a 13 game season, which seems a plausible sum. But like the quotes from MC about taking games away, nobody's ever bothered to get the SMH to correct the numbers.
That's part of the whole problem here. Nobody at the club is bothering with actual facts.
If MC came out with numbers and said "this is what we're getting through the gate, we need to hit
x or we're going under," we'd be more able to take it as a rational and considered thing.
If he came out and told us what the annual loss was, it'd give people a feel for the scale of the problem. More importantly, if he told us the *direction* of the bottom line, it would give us a better idea.
At present we have no information, only the presumption that he deems we're not doing well enough. We don't even know what success is defined as being, so not running a 10% surplus could be not doing well enough for all we know.
We don't know whether bringing our average up by 1k is enough.
We don't know if bringing memberships up to 7.5k is enough.
We don't know if getting one more big sponsor is enough.
We don't know if nothing will ever be enough, and if it's up to him the club's moving.
We just don't know because he's not saying.
Instead, he will quietly make his plans and they'll have a session to chat with some handpicked fans who will apparently be convinced by the end of the meeting (according to Bruce at least) and that passes for consultation and communication.
It's a load of horseshit.
For the first time I'm seriously unsure as to whether I renew my membership.
& yes they got worse & worse til they moved to pittwater rugby park then that was the beginning of the end
