****9PM FACE OFF****TONIGHTS GAME. IMPORTANT!!!!
- Thread starter Gaz G
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Can I just say, I completely agree with you on your point about the players... All the comments complaining that they have not had a personal phone call telling them of a situation that they were already aware of seriously need a reality check.
There has been no thought at all to the officials who will be on the ice until god knows what time tonight (i'm sure taking abuse as normal from "fans" as well) to then have to travel home and will probably allow a matter of about 4 hours sleep before getting up and going to their full time job... and I'm 110% sure that the game fee they will receive will not be worth it. But hey, they are still at the rink regardless of the unavoidable issues and getting on with it.... if it wasn't for them, it really would not be going ahead and I hope the "fans" remember that before shouting the usual boring and predictable abuse tonight.
All in all, people need to take a step back and actually look at the situation and stop being pathetic and selfish!!!!
There has been no thought at all to the officials who will be on the ice until god knows what time tonight (i'm sure taking abuse as normal from "fans" as well) to then have to travel home and will probably allow a matter of about 4 hours sleep before getting up and going to their full time job... and I'm 110% sure that the game fee they will receive will not be worth it. But hey, they are still at the rink regardless of the unavoidable issues and getting on with it.... if it wasn't for them, it really would not be going ahead and I hope the "fans" remember that before shouting the usual boring and predictable abuse tonight.
All in all, people need to take a step back and actually look at the situation and stop being pathetic and selfish!!!!
So considering it was against the Panthers (draws a good crowd), and being conservative, the delay to the face-off looks to have cost the club 500 ticket sales (probably more, but as said...conservative)...so say £6,000.
That's just in direct ticket sales for that game, so could be more in terms of impact on follow up ticket sales due to bad feeling caused last night.
Probably more again in administrative costs through refunds.
Easily a £10,000 shortfall in achievable revenue compared to a few hundred pounds saved by not flying the kit.
Ouch.
I get the feeling the kit will be flying from now on if we're playing in Belfast and then again at home the following night.
That's just in direct ticket sales for that game, so could be more in terms of impact on follow up ticket sales due to bad feeling caused last night.
Probably more again in administrative costs through refunds.
Easily a £10,000 shortfall in achievable revenue compared to a few hundred pounds saved by not flying the kit.
Ouch.
I get the feeling the kit will be flying from now on if we're playing in Belfast and then again at home the following night.
Not sure I agree with that Maths.
Sad I know - but I do keep an eye on ticket sales through the week and for some reason we were lower than normal - but then we might have had good sales on the door so we have probably lost around 500 there.
However, I think it's fair to say that most people who couldn't go would have had children, so the average ticket price wouldn't be £12. Probably nearer £10.
You also seem to have counted season ticket holders twice. Plus season tickets holders wouldn't get the full price refund, only the pro-rata rate at which they bought the ticket (assuming of course they do get a refund).
And of course they would still have to take tax off that. Plus cost per ticket to Planet Ice? So we are looking at around a couple of grand loss but I'd say a bit less than half of what you were suggesting.
Sad I know - but I do keep an eye on ticket sales through the week and for some reason we were lower than normal - but then we might have had good sales on the door so we have probably lost around 500 there.
However, I think it's fair to say that most people who couldn't go would have had children, so the average ticket price wouldn't be £12. Probably nearer £10.
You also seem to have counted season ticket holders twice. Plus season tickets holders wouldn't get the full price refund, only the pro-rata rate at which they bought the ticket (assuming of course they do get a refund).
And of course they would still have to take tax off that. Plus cost per ticket to Planet Ice? So we are looking at around a couple of grand loss but I'd say a bit less than half of what you were suggesting.
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It was never intended as a precise account!! That said I was explicit in stating *revenue* so by definition implies "before deduction of costs and expenses such as PI"!
The point is that whichever way you cut it...the lost revenue (and therefore profit) directly from the game, but also caused by bad feeling (follow up ticket sales on the door for future games, plus bad feeling that appears to be publicised on this thread regarding treatment of ST holders) far outweighs the supposed cost savings by not flying the kit with the team.
Mistakes are made (by everyone), and that's perfectly ok and acceptable. The key is to learn from them...and I would hope that in future the club would not follow the (illogical...in my opinion) option of transporting players and kit independently.
It was never intended as a precise account!! That said I was explicit in stating *revenue* so by definition implies "before deduction of costs and expenses such as PI"!
The point is that whichever way you cut it...the lost revenue (and therefore profit) directly from the game, but also caused by bad feeling (follow up ticket sales on the door for future games, plus bad feeling that appears to be publicised on this thread regarding treatment of ST holders) far outweighs the supposed cost savings by not flying the kit with the team.
Mistakes are made (by everyone), and that's perfectly ok and acceptable. The key is to learn from them...and I would hope that in future the club would not follow the (illogical...in my opinion) option of transporting players and kit independently.