Quote: DSJ1983 "Exactly this. It’s a great stadium in our traditional club heartland and we already have loads of history there. The bare bones 10k attendances the atmosphere is flat but if we stop getting hammered every week and get a bit of buzz around the club again could easily be back to 12-13K, 15K with a good side.
The obvious downside is the lack of extra revenue to be made from non rugby stuff. It’s a salary cap sport though set at 2.1 million, it’s not going to stop us competing with anyone really. The council and the SMC have seemingly knocked the concerts on the head at the stadium and Rovers don’t seem to be doing many now so maybe it’s just not the money spinner people thought it was anyways.
Even under the Allams the petty arguments seemed to boil down to money, find ourselves in a decent financial situation I’m sure we can make the ground feel like home again if we are willing to pay for club decorations and stuff around the ground. Hardly been a priority past few seasons though.'"
Concerts involve giving the promoter a big fee up front and taking on all the risk. Years ago when the stadium had gigs they ended up reducing tickets to break even, but the problem there is when you've done that once the public remembers and hold off buying full price tickets next time.
The Who and Rod Stewart drew poor crowds at Craven Park last year, both acts too old, prices high and you end up with pitch damage which is why they've not bothered this year.
The only thing we miss out on is bar and food takings but how much profit is really made during 3 hours for 15 nights/days a year?
