x tickets at £5 per tickets = £5x ... or have I missed something?
Less the full price ticket match income from people who would have bought a match ticket at standard price.
So, best guess the club would have sold at most 3,500 tickets at £4.17 each net of VAT. That’s £14,583.
If we assume for argument’s sake the average net yield from a paid ticket normally is £15 that means the club got the same as if 1,000 people had bought match tickets at normal prices. No extra.
Or you can say the club lost £10,830 from those 1,000 people and gained a similar amount back from the other 2,500 who came and paid.
I’m assuming that the home crowd was 6,000 season ticket holders, 1,500 comps and 3,500 payers. There may have been more STs and comps and fewer payers.
It’s anyone’s guess how many would have paid at full price - I doubt if it would have been quite as low as 1,000 for a Saturday game. But given we had 8,000 home fans on Tuesday and won it’s reasonable to assume we would have had 9,000 plus today, which makes the FFAF effect very small. In 2010/11 we would have sold a five figure number of £5 tickets, from recollection.
Yes but you haven’t factored in the increased sales from catering , club shop sales , official programmes ect ect from the increased foot fall and also the long term of of for example even a small amount of those £5 tickets were first timers or youngsters who on the back of today might consider buying a season ticket for next year
Repeat business is why I advocated it in the first place but obviously the fewer attend for £5 the less it is likely to have that effect and a high proportion will be existing fans on those numbers. The profit on the ancillary spend is insignificant. Might be worth £1-£2 to the club on average, so 2,500 x £2 if you’re very lucky. The club gets a tiny share of the catering income.
the club need to get the selling of beer and food back in house asap,they are missing out on significant income
Some, but they are not picking up the costs either. I spend nothing on catering match after match at The Valley and almost never have in all the years I have been going (not out of principle but because I don’t choose to eat and drink in the ground). A majority do the same, so it’s not as lucrative as some people think anyway.
the queues in the Lower Covered End are always huge before and at half time on all outlets - so they must be doing ok!
They is the catering company, very little reward for CAFC
PWOR has anyone named and shamed the pitch invading tosspot?
As for match day catering revenue: 3 out of 4 bods next to me at the Curbside outlet redeemed their S/T free drink vouchers. Add those 4 together with mine and 2 wines, 2 teas, one chips and a coffee, total gross revenue about £6 - nobody's making any money out of that. £3.50 for a small punnet of skinny chips is daylight robbery, no surprise there's no queueing.
Lads, quick request - if you're going to post NSFW stuff, especially in the General Charlton category, can you put it behind a spoiler cut please? Otherwise there's a risk that people reading in their lunch breaks or down time at work will end up on a disciplinary for accessing inappropriate content.
I sit in the lower north / covered end and parts of it are now quite unpleasant, especially on fill the Valley days. I’ve seen people I don’t recognise hurling abuse at visiting players, arguing with the stewards, throwing things and on one occasion someone was shining a laser pointer. On a couple of occasions I have felt uncomfortable and next season will be moving.
We don't want to go back to the bad old days, when fan behaviour was so bad that fences had to be erected around the pitch. That all stopped after the dreadful Hillsborough disaster and fans didn't run onto the pitch any more. It does need strong action to be taken against bad behaviour and to show that it won't be tolerated.
If this type of thing was happening multiple times with bad consequences then act accordingly, but let’s not turn it into anything like the fan behaviour of the 80’s. The game and fans have evolved in the most part and when things need to be acted upon for example the acceptance of racism, they generally are. The guy was obviously having fun after a few sherberts and mad a wrong choice, no need to make more of it.
It’s happened three times in 2022 and it has all involved people on free or cheap tickets. Just a fact. There is concern about that internally.
It’s an inconvenience, not the major problem people are making it out to be. I’m a season ticket holder and if chose to do the same I could. I don’t see it matters what has been paid. Basically 3 people won’t be coming back for the rest of the season.🤷🏻♂️
Only a dick head could say that it is only an inconvenience. It is a bloody nuisance that makes people needlessly late for other things and a lot of fans travel some distance. Then there is the fact that it could lead to the club being g fined or even ending up behind closed doors. Get real.
Pot and kettle calling people a dick head, prick.
*Apologies admin if my first reply was a little fruity*🤷🏻♂️😬
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As for match day catering revenue: 3 out of 4 bods next to me at the Curbside outlet redeemed their S/T free drink vouchers. Add those 4 together with mine and 2 wines, 2 teas, one chips and a coffee, total gross revenue about £6 - nobody's making any money out of that. £3.50 for a small punnet of skinny chips is daylight robbery, no surprise there's no queueing.
*Apologies admin if my first reply was a little fruity*🤷🏻♂️😬
I bet his partner is delighted with the example he’s setting them