Sold out already? (5 Viewers)
- Thread starter Woolly68
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selling through the ticket exchange, once your seat is sold then the club will post out
a paper food/drink voucher for the concourse to the value of £10, which
then has to be used before a certain date.
Brighton Sky Blue
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Ah I see, thanks!
Gleneagles65
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Tricky times right now. Top of the league and have the highest average home crowd in the Championship. Imagine anyone predicting that even just two seasons ago.
SkyBluePower
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Can You Pay On The Gate consigned to history ( for now)
shmmeee
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Did you just post evidence that the vast majority are working M-F 9-5??
Just out of interest which tweaks would you say need looking at?
Flying Fokker
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You just sent me down a rabbit hole…I knew it was low….not ‘The vast majority’ as some would proffer.
Some data suggests as low as 6%.
Over nine in ten not working the usual 9-5 week | YouGov
A new YouGov survey in conjunction with Teneo Blue Rubicon and McDonald’s reveals that almost six in ten (58%) UK workers would choose to start work earlier than 9am if they could leave earlier than 5pm.
yougov.co.uk
chiefdave
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You might want to check the underlying data for that survey. People were given the choice of picking the time they started work in half hour increments covering a 24 hour period.You just sent me down a rabbit hole…I knew it was low….not ‘The vast majority’ as some would proffer.
Some data suggests as low as 6%.
Over nine in ten not working the usual 9-5 week | YouGov
A new YouGov survey in conjunction with Teneo Blue Rubicon and McDonald’s reveals that almost six in ten (58%) UK workers would choose to start work earlier than 9am if they could leave earlier than 5pm.
It is absolutely true that 6% picked 9am as their start time. However 82% picked other so fuck knows what time they're starting that doesn't feature in a normal 24 hour day
I went down the same rabbit hole and although data seems sparse the most recent data I could find showed 63% working a Monday to Friday 9 to 5. The next biggest group was those working flexible or compressed hours within that timeframe.
tskezz
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We've sold out like 6 times in 20 years hahahaha
Speedies_Chips
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Several clubs in the Premier League have a waiting list for season tickets. So in your world we spend millions expanding the CBS to handle maybe 5 thousand or so extra people, then what happens when we find ourselves back in the Championship and back with a ground that's too big for us because the floating support disappear again?
The economics of expanding the stadium do not add up. Even Donald Trump wouldn't be able to justify that one.
chiefdave
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Would you know what a few years of knowing that will be maintained before spending tens of millions?
Flying Fokker
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Nah. I’m not going there againYou might want to check the underlying data for that survey. People were given the choice of picking the time they started work in half hour increments covering a 24 hour period.
It is absolutely true that 6% picked 9am as their start time. However 82% picked other so fuck knows what time they're starting that doesn't feature in a normal 24 hour day
I went down the same rabbit hole and although data seems sparse the most recent data I could find showed 63% working a Monday to Friday 9 to 5. The next biggest group was those working flexible or compressed hours within that timeframe.
. The KO time is not a problem for’The vast majority’. Shift workers may miss it. They do anyway. The 9-5 ers that can’t get the day off as well
Ah Ha!You might want to check the underlying data for that survey. People were given the choice of picking the time they started work in half hour increments covering a 24 hour period.
It is absolutely true that 6% picked 9am as their start time. However 82% picked other so fuck knows what time they're starting that doesn't feature in a normal 24 hour day
I went down the same rabbit hole and although data seems sparse the most recent data I could find showed 63% working a Monday to Friday 9 to 5. The next biggest group was those working flexible or compressed hours within that timeframe.
Your’e not going to get me on that one. The answer is out there…Local authority, maybe, industry/ warehousing? Nope. Retail, nope, emergency services, public services, hospitals, pubs/ cinemas/ schools? Retail…nope, anything that requires 24 hour cover?
It’s tough having to miss a game but certainly not going to affect big numbers over and above what happens normally.
Employers play some shitty games this time of year. I remember going in to work for 4am on Christmas Eve on the belief that a 12pm finish would be reduced to 10am as a gesture of good will. Nope. (One view is that anything else would have weakened management anyway).
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Jay88
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Yeah I agree, we'd have to spend a large amount of money for just a small increase. Also playing with a reduced capacity for a good chunk of time while an expansion is taking place.
Potbellypig
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No.
Paxman II
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I have to answer this becuase you are taking a very pesamistic viewpoint with little regard or experience of funding such projects over the long term. Initially a relatively small expansion by adding to each end of the ground would not be that expensive to pull off. In the world of premier league players we would have to purchase at 20/30/50m a throw just for a palyer, as our budget grows exponentially from going up. It would be relatively small investment to increase capacity. Building could be done in two phases over two off seasons with no disruption to current capacity. It would add somewhere around 10k seats bringing the capacity up to just under 43k. I'll let you do the math on increased revenue. Premier league money, even parachute payments would easily offset the build cost with a clever structured loan, sponsorship and the rest. I doubt Doug would even need to fund any of it. He bought the stadium for what 40m? It's worth now in excess of 125m by today's standards and increasing in value. It would become even more valuable after the works. It's just not difficult and not expensive if structured correctly. Oh, and the wait list would decrease, and your home fans will be forever grateful! At 32,500 current capacity in the championship, we are selling out and leaving thousands of supporters without tickets. How many more will be crying without the possability of a ticket in the premier league?
All that wouldn't even need The Donald's help
Brylowes
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If the stadium is now worth in excess of £125mI have to answer this becuase you are taking a very pesamistic viewpoint with little regard or experience of funding such projects over the long term. Initially a relatively small expansion by adding to each end of the ground would not be that expensive to pull off. In the world of premier league players we would have to purchase at 20/30/50m a throw just for a palyer, as our budget grows exponentially from going up. It would be relatively small investment to increase capacity. Building could be done in two phases over two off seasons with no disruption to current capacity. It would add somewhere around 10k seats bringing the capacity up to just under 43k. I'll let you do the math on increased revenue. Premier league money, even parachute payments would easily offset the build cost with a clever structured loan, sponsorship and the rest. I doubt Doug would even need to fund any of it. He bought the stadium for what 40m? It's worth now in excess of 125m by today's standards and increasing in value. It would become even more valuable after the works. It's just not difficult and not expensive if structured correctly. Oh, and the wait list would decrease, and your home fans will be forever grateful! At 32,500 current capacity in the championship, we are selling out and leaving thousands of supporters without tickets. How many more will be crying without the possability of a ticket in the premier league?
All that wouldn't even need The Donald's help
why did the astute businessman Mike Ashley sell it to us for £40m just 3 months ago ?