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| Quote: Tony Fax "Fax's financial performance over the last 10 years is as follows
As before the Champ & Champ 1 clubs will find out this month how much CF they are allocated.
Media exposure through TV is a must to bring in sponsor ship with their names / logos being on display on the kit and around the stadium for the cameras.
Problem is not all clubs can agree on it, this years proposal was voted against by the likes of Bradford and Fev and although the RFL had the power to bring it anyway they chose not do so and upset there big buddies at the Bulls.
Gledhill made me laugh as when it was first announced he called it a great lucrative deal until his club voted against it because of fear of losing bums on seats then it quickly changed to a bad idea.
So we limp along on the sidelines in the ever lengthening shadows.
If only Simon Grix had stayed away or better still been a local footballer then it would be FC Town with all these problems .
Incidentally speaking to Dave Singer a lot recently who’s still avidly supporting Town and he sends his regards.
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| Quote: faxcar "
Gledhill made me laugh as when it was first announced he called it a great lucrative deal until his club voted against it because of fear of losing bums on seats then it quickly changed to a bad idea.
Why would Bradford and Fev vote against a lucrative deal, and why would it have lost bums on seats?
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Quote: Tony Fax "Why would Bradford and Fev vote against a lucrative deal, and why would it have lost bums on seats?'"
Because they thought people would stay at home instead of going and paying through the turnstiles but they weren’t the only ones with the league being split.
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://ww ... urfk5bo51f
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Quote: Tony Fax "Why would Bradford and Fev vote against a lucrative deal, and why would it have lost bums on seats?'"
Because they thought people would stay at home instead of going and paying through the turnstiles but they weren’t the only ones with the league being split.
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://ww ... urfk5bo51f
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| Quote: faxcar "Because they thought people would stay at home instead of going and paying through the turnstiles but they weren’t the only ones with the league being split.
I thought Bradford gave away free tickets anyway!
Looking at last weekend's attendances, I really don't think they can get much lower even if streamed.
Fev's crowds seem to be falling off a cliff - 1,345 against Barrow.
Swinton attracted just 1,048 against SL wanabees Wakey who would most likely have taken a few hundred.
Toulouse got 2,079 against Sheffield in a top of the table clash.
Donny got 1,443 against Fax.
The biggest laugh was 3,006 given at Bradford against Dewsbury. I say laugh, because watching the highlights the terracing behind the sticks was empty, the seating stand opposite looked to have 200 tops, so almost 3k must have been in the terracing below the camera. Hmmmm ... maybe a Bulls fan would care to verify this?
Batley and Haven didn't disclose their crowds, but they're usually in the mid hundreds.
If anything, an interested armchair fan watching a streamed match may be tempted to actually attend the next time round if he/she liked what they saw.
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| Quote: Tony Fax "I thought Bradford gave away free tickets anyway!
Looking at last weekend's attendances, I really don't think they can get much lower even if streamed.
Fev's crowds seem to be falling off a cliff - 1,345 against Barrow.
Swinton attracted just 1,048 against SL wanabees Wakey who would most likely have taken a few hundred.
Toulouse got 2,079 against Sheffield in a top of the table clash.
Donny got 1,443 against Fax.
The biggest laugh was 3,006 given at Bradford against Dewsbury. I say laugh, because watching the highlights the terracing behind the sticks was empty, the seating stand opposite looked to have 200 tops, so almost 3k must have been in the terracing below the camera. Hmmmm ... maybe a Bulls fan would care to verify this?
Batley and Haven didn't disclose their crowds, but they're usually in the mid hundreds.
If anything, an interested armchair fan watching a streamed match may be tempted to actually attend the next time round if he/she liked what they saw.'"
Just posting what I’d read and included the link.
On attending where you had to pay I’m sure I read someone somewhere had been put off by the admission prices and was now becoming a armchair fan.
I think the user name was something like Foney Tax or similar.
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| Quote: Tony Fax "I thought Bradford gave away free tickets anyway!
Looking at last weekend's attendances, I really don't think they can get much lower even if streamed.
Fev's crowds seem to be falling off a cliff - 1,345 against Barrow.
Swinton attracted just 1,048 against SL wanabees Wakey who would most likely have taken a few hundred.
Toulouse got 2,079 against Sheffield in a top of the table clash.
Donny got 1,443 against Fax.
The biggest laugh was 3,006 given at Bradford against Dewsbury. I say laugh, because watching the highlights the terracing behind the sticks was empty, the seating stand opposite looked to have 200 tops, so almost 3k must have been in the terracing below the camera. Hmmmm ... maybe a Bulls fan would care to verify this?
Batley and Haven didn't disclose their crowds, but they're usually in the mid hundreds.
If anything, an interested armchair fan watching a streamed match may be tempted to actually attend the next time round if he/she liked what they saw.'"
Its hard to see the game continuing as semi professional at this level, teams losing money hand over fist. I think our average is down around 400-500 or so from previous seasons and the Wakefield game was the lowest attendance I have seen from Fax fans in a long time. Without a money man most teams are basically insolvent unless they are fortunate enough to own their own ground.
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| Quote: faxcar "Just posting what I’d read and included the link.
On attending where you had to pay I’m sure I read someone somewhere had been put off by the admission prices and was now becoming a armchair fan.
I think the user name was something like Foney Tax or similar.
Too right, faxcar, , even though I don't think I'll ever become a 100% armchair fan unless the admission continues to go up!
But alas, I'm not immortal and one day I would hope I will be replaced by a "new" fax fan when I'm finally laid to rest.. But that's where I think the "churn" has now hit a brick wall. I reckon there's about 1,300 all weather fax fans left. How many of those are new in the past 10 years do you reckon? Anyone's guess. 100? 1,000? Hardly any IMO.
Not just Fax. Look at the attendances. Fev! Sheffield! Even Widnes struggle to break 2k.
Haven will be the first. Then wait for the rest .........................
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| Quote: Tony Fax "Too right, faxcar, , even though I don't think I'll ever become a 100% armchair fan unless the admission continues to go up!
But alas, I'm not immortal and one day I would hope I will be replaced by a "new" fax fan when I'm finally laid to rest.. But that's where I think the "churn" has now hit a brick wall. I reckon there's about 1,300 all weather fax fans left. How many of those are new in the past 10 years do you reckon? Anyone's guess. 100? 1,000? Hardly any IMO.
Not just Fax. Look at the attendances. Fev! Sheffield! Even Widnes struggle to break 2k.
Haven will be the first. Then wait for the rest .........................'"
I honestly just don’t know what’s going to happen but as you say the empty terraces can’t be disputed.
Fax could be one of the first to go as we’ve got serious challenges in the board room, on the field with performance and off the field with the stadium issues all here at the same time.
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| Quote: faxcar "
Fax could be one of the first to go as we’ve got serious challenges in the board room, on the field with performance and off the field with the stadium issues all here at the same time.'"
Maybe so, but I think Fax will always be around even if it's a mid table League 1 club.
Still waiting for London and Warrington to file their accounts (they're both overdue - maybe the IMG should deduct them points?) then I'll summarise the SL clubs.
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| Quote: Greg Florimos Boots "https
Not good reading. Feel sick to my stomach. I can’t see us getting another 1000 people through the gates let alone against Dewsbury (no disrespect).
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| Quote: Greg Florimos Boots "https
Here we go again.
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| We can all see that virtually all the RL clubs, including Super League, are insolvent. The sport as a whole has been sleep walking into oblivion. Wait for others to follow.
Probably the best option would be to go into administration otherwise it's just throwing good money after bad, kicking the can down the road, with the same outcome. Then start with a clean slate in League 1, get rid of the white elephant and tap the Council for a much smaller new stadium which should pay for itself through additional income streams.
The debt has become far too large - £540k in 2023, probably much worse now. Cannot possibly see the club digging itself out of this huge hole.
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| There is no way the council would sell the shay site for housing/ shopping or what ever and then plow that revenue into a new stadium. Even if that stadium is smaller. One the council sell the Shay, and I feel they will sooner than later, they will be done with supporting professional sport in this town.
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| From the statement the tax man is the main debtor they want to serve first. However in your initial post TF you stated the money owed to the tax man was 47k alone. Goodness knows what it is now.
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