General sale tickets

AFCBade said:
Don’t think history being re written Rob. Care to expand on this?

Not talking about a whole new ground. An extended south end was a relatively modest cost vs some of our prem spend and would not have damaged too much the cost of the playing squad. Could have used training ground purchase money for starters.
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I'm talking about Eddie Mitchell.
 
" We also have 1000 Main Stand ST Holders who won't turn up and will leave gaping empty seats in large blocks because it's Barnsley. Most of the Main Stand are an embarrassment of prawn sandwich levels. Credit to the East and North because there's never empty mass blocks like that, their might be 1 or 2 seats scattered around but the way 30 or 40 people in a square route of column and row of seats can go missing in the MS every week is pathetic, club staff probably to blame aswell but it's still pathetic.
 
AFCBade said:
Don’t think history being re written Rob. Care to expand on this?

Not talking about a whole new ground. An extended south end was a relatively modest cost vs some of our prem spend and would not have damaged too much the cost of the playing squad. Could have used training ground purchase money for starters.
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I had a chat with some senior bods at the club about this, when it was mooted, we'd expand upon going into the PL.

Basically the sums didn't add up for the extra seats. The costs for the groundwork alone would have been a 6-figure sum.
AFCBade said:
Of course. Most owners don’t do all of this out of charity. Risk and reward. As long as it’s win:win. The old Dean court was a dump and Mitchell was right to upgrade it as far as he did.
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What did Eddie Mitchell have to do with the old DC?
 
rgb said:
I had a chat with some senior bods at the club about this, when it was mooted, we'd expand upon going into the PL.

Basically the sums didn't add up for the extra seats. The costs for the groundwork alone would have been a 6-figure sum.

What did Eddie Mitchell have to do with the old DC?
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depends how you judge return on investment or payback. 3-5k more fans every home game over decades gives a big lifetime value for the club.

re Mitchell, he was the driving force behind turning a total dump outside the ground into a professional looking environment and pushed for the fourth side of the ground. Maybe used Max’s funding and maybe got a personal return too but he transformed the appeal of the ground.
 
Get 2 papers on a Sunday inc football league paper and neither had afcb attendance in. Looking at the first two games attendance in the afcb programme of c 9.2k level, so will be interesting to see the qpr gate as I assume they will fill the away end?
 
AFCBade said:
depends how you judge return on investment or payback. 3-5k more fans every home game over decades gives a big lifetime value for the club.

re Mitchell, he was the driving force behind turning a total dump outside the ground into a professional looking environment and pushed for the fourth side of the ground. Maybe used Max’s funding and maybe got a personal return too but he transformed the appeal of the ground.
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indeed, I know its not my money, but as the outlay would have been relatively low for a PL club, I think the benefits around getting more in the ground would work out better for the club in many ways beyond immediate ticket income.
 
AFCBade said:
Don’t think history being re written Rob. Care to expand on this?

Not talking about a whole new ground. An extended south end was a relatively modest cost vs some of our prem spend and would not have damaged too much the cost of the playing squad. Could have used training ground purchase money for starters.
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It's an interesting point and I've been thinking about this for a couple of days before posting. I wonder what the general consensus would be on this board if the club were to announce they were selling the training pitches but the money would go towards a new South stand ?
 
AFCBade said:
depends how you judge return on investment or payback. 3-5k more fans every home game over decades gives a big lifetime value for the club.

re Mitchell, he was the driving force behind turning a total dump outside the ground into a professional looking environment and pushed for the fourth side of the ground. Maybe used Max’s funding and maybe got a personal return too but he transformed the appeal of the ground.
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EM had nothing, whatsoever, to do with the old DC
 
rgb said:
EM had nothing, whatsoever, to do with the old DC
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Happy to stand corrected - thought 1. EM used his staff on some of the work and 2. He wanted to develop black label events and tarting up the place helped increase the attractiveness on non match days.
 
Bitzer said:
It's an interesting point and I've been thinking about this for a couple of days before posting. I wonder what the general consensus would be on this board if the club were to announce they were selling the training pitches but the money would go towards a new South stand ?
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its a tough call. While eddie was there, training ground seemed to be no 1 priority. If we are not now to proceed but have a valuable asset doing nothing then better to release the value.

Personally feel that afcb need both if it wants to succeed outside the prem
 
The training ground site has next to no value. The previous owners have a charge on it should it be granted planning permission for housing. Essentially it is worth the value of an unprofitable golf club in the middle of nowhere.

Maybe if we get promoted back to the PL we will see it developed. I certainly hope so.
 
DJ said:
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I’d love to know a bit more detail about these “returned tickets”. If you go on the portal there are probably several hundred now available for Luton tomorrow, including all seats in the first 4 rows of block 30. Are they suggesting that all ticket holders in those front 4 rows just happened to return their tickets?

I would not be at all surprised if there has been another ticketing f up and those tickets were never made available by the system in the first place, a bit like what we suspect happens in the far end blocks of the main stand.
 
james_AFCB said:
I’d love to know a bit more detail about these “returned tickets”. If you go on the portal there are probably several hundred now available for Luton tomorrow, including all seats in the first 4 rows of block 30. Are they suggesting that all ticket holders in those front 4 rows just happened to return their tickets?

I would not be at all surprised if there has been another ticketing f up and those tickets were never made available by the system in the first place, a bit like what we suspect happens in the far end blocks of the main stand.
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I think block 30 is usually reserved for wives/girlfriends and youth team players.
 
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