No it shouldn't. You are correct & it doesn't look good on the club.

I'm trying to remain positive however I'm waning a little bit!

Ring and ask for Michael Carter himself perhaps!

I would be interested to know if our Corporate facilities are utilised off season. Is it used for weddings, dinner dances, Disco nights, Quizzes. race nights etc... These events if publicised correctly would generate cash in the coffers over the bar, for meals, raffles on the night as well as just for ticket entry. I would be willing to DJ / present and organise Quiz events. Surely if something was going on at our club and it meant we would be making money, 100s would support it wouldn't they ?

I've sent a pm

Although someone told me today he was disappointed I engaged with fans on here!

please dont stop posting, you have done a great job quashing the false rumours before they get out of hand.

Just don't get in any petty arguments with some of the EDIT on here, it's amazing how people could think engaging with fans is a bad thing though?

No thanks.

James Elston?

PM sent.

I actually thought the filter would kick in

Martin Hopkins has emailed me to say could you please contact him about this; he doesn't have an account here so can't PM you, but would love to talk to you about your idea.

He also asked me to pass on that he is loving this thread and has already nicked a few ideas!

Love this thread and if some of these ideas do come to fruition then I would love to part with some of my hard (ish) earned pennies. I went to headlingly this year to watch a strong man competition. There were alot of big player's from worlds strongest man and it generated a good crowd. I wonder if something could be arranged at belle view. Obviously the competitors wont be house hold names but im sure an event would draw a crowd. Could always speak to the nutrition company that is associated with us and see if they would get involved in arranging something. . The fitness industry is really growing in popularity these days and if advertiswd right I think the people of wakefield and West Yorkshire would be interested in something like this.

The only really best way for a business to save and not leak money, is to go through their accounting cost centres with a fine toothcomb and find out what is spent, when, where, and how much, and see if these are neccessary, and if they are, they need to look at if they are getting things at the right rates. Things like, electricity, gas, water and telephones for a start. I once worked somewhere where they were on domestic rates, rather than business. Then look at other things, such as stationary and staffing. Are all staff on the books, or are some temps, where you would pay a lot more for them, or dont outsource staffing, like they do with security.

A way to make more money, would not be to give their season tickets away and merchandise, like they do. If we sold say 4000 season tickets, and they went up by, say £20 a head, thats £80,000.

Also, events at the club on a night, such as parties, we dont make anything, because, we logically outsourced this in 2012.

I think it is in the making, but releasing a book on the history of the club would be a good way for the club to make something.

One final pointer, I used to work within a sports club, is that where I was used to host a monthly dinner, for corporate guests, where they had after dinner speakers. This made money, and was also used as a networking event for possible new sponsors, partners etc.

Anyone wanna buy some stats for 400,000 , if so I will plug the gap.

2 ideas after tonight. We only have 250 or so people signed up using the WTW code on Foxy bingo. Each person brings in £50 to the club. If a disclaimer was arranged could the club use £10 from every season ticket to automatically sign up every season ticket holder generating £50 x 4000 season tickets = £200000 paper work would need to be sorted so log ins can be sent out etch but its do-able. If people have the option to opt out I'd have no issue?? Would anyone else??
2nd idea. If 10% of the total of this seasons ticket holders rejoined for £1000 for a 4 year season ticket would it really have a big negative effect down the line? Create some sense of loss as its only 400 people needed, give some limited edition shirts to wear on game day to show who they are (Brisbane broncos have a yellow shirt section for a similar idea) make them feel special.