Asked how much would I put in the pot if I wanted to help save the Bluebirds, years ago, I would have emptied my pockets in seconds, now I would ask to see the books first.
It’s old hat but football is pricing fans out of the game and it show this season with crowds down which was not help by the country’s finances hitting rock bottom. However, you still have players with their noses in the trough looking for more money and clubs looking to put up the match day ticket.
Fans are cherry picking games more and more it can the seen with the Cup games, attendances are way down has fans put the league first has big clubs play weaken team up to protect their league status. This season the attendance figures at the Cardiff City stadium have been holding up well except for the cup games with an average of 20,483 so far but we are way ahead of Swansea with 15,234. Seeing most fans are season ticket holders what is the gross take on match day. Does it cover the match day cost? If it is depended on match day ticket sales surely not.
Cardiff have created one massive headache for themselves financially this summer, normally the sale of season tickets would boost the club in summer there will be next to none. The ‘Golden ticket’ money is gone according to all the rumours soaked up with other things but players the fans were lead to believe. If Ridsdale can guide the club around the minefield it is in club should be primed for some investment or a takeover. It the reports are true Portsmouth bottom of the Premier League with debts of £70m, and the winding up order was over £7.5m owed to HM Revenue and Customs have three different group interested in buy the struggling club. Why, if they were save they will be playing Championship football next season so why are they not will to save money and come here. With a reported £50million, a year player’s wage bill if they do go down this season who many of the big earns will be knocking on the door of the chairman asking for a pay cut.
They seems to be a lot more fans protesting these day one of the biggest is the one being carryout at Manchester United, there debt make outs look like small change, a whooping £700m and the owner are hated more than Ridsdale simply because they are have been hating longer. I do think they have the best protest statement wearing the traditional green and gold colours of Newton Heath the ordinary name of United. Could the colours of Riverside FC chocolate and amber be the future of a protest in the shape of a football scarf?
It’s old hat but football is pricing fans out of the game and it show this season with crowds down which was not help by the country’s finances hitting rock bottom. However, you still have players with their noses in the trough looking for more money and clubs looking to put up the match day ticket.
Fans are cherry picking games more and more it can the seen with the Cup games, attendances are way down has fans put the league first has big clubs play weaken team up to protect their league status. This season the attendance figures at the Cardiff City stadium have been holding up well except for the cup games with an average of 20,483 so far but we are way ahead of Swansea with 15,234. Seeing most fans are season ticket holders what is the gross take on match day. Does it cover the match day cost? If it is depended on match day ticket sales surely not.
Cardiff have created one massive headache for themselves financially this summer, normally the sale of season tickets would boost the club in summer there will be next to none. The ‘Golden ticket’ money is gone according to all the rumours soaked up with other things but players the fans were lead to believe. If Ridsdale can guide the club around the minefield it is in club should be primed for some investment or a takeover. It the reports are true Portsmouth bottom of the Premier League with debts of £70m, and the winding up order was over £7.5m owed to HM Revenue and Customs have three different group interested in buy the struggling club. Why, if they were save they will be playing Championship football next season so why are they not will to save money and come here. With a reported £50million, a year player’s wage bill if they do go down this season who many of the big earns will be knocking on the door of the chairman asking for a pay cut.
They seems to be a lot more fans protesting these day one of the biggest is the one being carryout at Manchester United, there debt make outs look like small change, a whooping £700m and the owner are hated more than Ridsdale simply because they are have been hating longer. I do think they have the best protest statement wearing the traditional green and gold colours of Newton Heath the ordinary name of United. Could the colours of Riverside FC chocolate and amber be the future of a protest in the shape of a football scarf?
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Havent we sold the majority of our season tickets before Xmas almost every year for the last few years? Why will it make more difference this year?
Plus, if attendances are 20k plus then almost half the crowd will be buying tickets on top of season tickets and our attendances in previous years werent much above that!
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