With us needing a 10,000 crowd every home game, just to break even.

Which isn't going to happen, then the reported 23k we are losing for every home (except Leeds & St Helens to date) isn't doing any good and I fear for what the future holds.

Yesterday on the popular side, people were saying a move to Valley Parade for next year is in the pipeline which in my opinion would kill the club dead.

I think everyone knows we don't have a sugar daddy like Wigan, Warrington, Huddersfield, Hull KR etc who will underwrite the losses year on year.

Sport must be the only business where they expect their customers to keep buying the product off them even if the quality of the product is poor.

Any other business would go to the wall if they allowed themselves to be run the way the Bulls were in the last four years.

Yes, most supporters do go through thick and thin but others don’t as they have other things in their life.

I can’t imagine not looking forward to the Bulls games as it gets me through the tedium of work. We can’t slag others off though for not paying large sums for poor entertainment. It is up to all clubs to make the “whole package” worth paying for and not simply relying on supporters blindly turning up each week.

When considering the product on the field at Odsal (I include yesterdays horror show as a prime example) which is very much hit & miss this season, then add £18 to watch it in a stadium with no roof over 70% of it's total capacity.

We did well to get over 8,000 in yesterday I think, but it's still 1800 short of the 10,000 break even figure.

You just need a cup run or grand final appearance and crowds will come back. They cant have gone glory hunting to Valley Parade, surely?

I don't know what it is mate, but the Bradford City cheap season pass can't be helping us at all.

Plus it's true in what you say, if we made it to Old Trafford then the glory hunters would be out in force but come next season we would be back to our 9,000 average again.

They wont be helping. I think you need a stringent financial budget and it be stuck to.
If you're making a matchday loss, you should be looking at:

Ground rent for catering vehicles - is it enough compared to their profit?
Number of stewards/police - is it relevant to the attendance on the day?
Prematch/HT - spending too much on it?

Stick some offers on at the begining of the season to increase sales of tickets, season tickets etc. Flyer drop in BCC offering 5% off the cost of a ST. Things like this need to be done if they aren't already.

See the Rip Off Odsal thread mate for what I've put in bold.

We just can't lose £23,000 every game.

This season we are £220,000 under the cap, what will it be next season if the crowds continue to stay away?

That's a good read mate, well put.

I can't think of anything that will get the lost fans back.

Money.

When considering the product on the field at Odsal (I include yesterdays horror show as a prime example) which is very much hit & miss this season, then add £18 to watch it in a stadium with no roof over 70% of it's total capacity.

Yes agree

Can we not fund a roof over the popular side ourselves?

There needs to be a way that you can offer cheaper tickets to pull a few extra in whilst reducing the deficit on match days.

I think you should invest in a "Laws of the game" manual first Mick!

I know the laws of the game.

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