What would be the reason in leaving then Keith?. I’d love to know your point of view on it.

I don’t know any more than you. Save a lot of money? End of lease? Moving to better premises? Commercial decision based on expected savings being greater than possible reduced profit?

I have no information about how or why the decision was made but based on the knowledge that our club is run by successful businessmen I suspect it was for a more substantial reason than saving a few quid. I do not even know what you consider to be a few quid.

It has to be that they think it’ll increase profit. Maybe some of that can be reinvested in more efficient marketing methods than having a city centre retail presence. I dunno.

A pop-up around the launches of season passes and shirts should mitigate a lot of the lost revenue. I would guess that there are some pretty quiet months in that shop outside of those times. But that’s all we can do - guess.

I’m not assuming that the they always make what turn out to be great decisions, but i’m not going to go the other way either.

As for Hull, do they have a shop at the KCOM? If not, then I doubt Allam would be keen to help set it up. But if they could and they did a cost-benefit that showed it was a better option, i’m sure they would.

So a few quid, or a lot? It all comes down to cost of rent/wages (of which I’d presume most being on a minimum to a living wage baring the manager) and the value of a city centre shop. I’m not privy to the figures but with season passes, shirt sales and merchandise sales, the club should be reaching well over a million pounds per annum gross. I’d love to know the net Profit on merchandise but non of us will ever know. So a few quid or a lot would depend on what you’d lose by not having a prime location. It would be interesting to know footfall figures our shop currently gets, something we all could caragorically say would never happen at a stadium shop.

You don’t know about rent/wages. I don’t know either. You could find out by looking at the clubs accounts on line. All organisations have to file their accounts. Not sure which will be the club’s last accounts available.

The only question for Rovers fans is " Who will we play in the million pound game ".

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Any sign of Mr VaiVai yet? Seems very quiet from the club at present?

The club said 6weeks for a visa from when he signed.

Thanks. So should be settled in before the derby then?

Hopefully.

We need him here sharpish to provide competition for places in the centres. Granted Heff has been dealing with injuries and not a great preseason but he just doesn't look the part so far in SL. I'm a huge fan of his and expected him take the league by surprise. Most surprising to me is he defence this year, I thought this was a real strength for him last year. Fingers crossed he gets some better service and gets back to top form.