Quote: paulwalker71 "Is from a Dudley Hill perspective, Pimp007?
Feel free to elaborate, mate. I feel the time for having incomplete facts is long past after all we've been through in recent years.'"
Yes it is mate. Top and bottom Mark Sawyer agreed with our chair and vice chair that most games would be at Dudley Hill. We were wanting to charge £3 in for season ticket holders, which are mainly the majority of people in attendance. Bulls wanted to us to charge £1.
The Bulls when the agreement first started were supposed to maintain our pitch for us. Theyrolled and cut it twice last year. So we pay for someone to come and keep up to the pitch.
£1 was just not feesible. The Bulls contributed nothing towards in essence. We had to pay for staff (as committing to something like this you will never live on volunteers at all) The floodlights cost around £50 an hour (not exact) to run. Theres club electric, theres aftergame food for players, plus all utilities int he changing rooms for lights showers etc.
We get nothing from te council in way of pitch help and pay 8k a year to play on the ground.
Also the RFL said our pitch was too wide for it so one of our committee members had to take half a day unpaid to be at the club with th RFL in preperation for the season starting.
Lets be honest it gives the Bulls a chance to play out of the same base as Bowling now which has never been able to happen because they have never had the facility for it. Would have happened years ago if they did have. Easy to see why with a lot of staff affiliated with Bowling.
Again very much dissappointed with the club who still havent got their way on what they wanted to charge
Ultimately it shows a disregard again for a community club. I wasnt going to go this far as lke I said n=dont want to sound bitter but the are facts
