OK so adjust everything to £9.95 a person. For arguments sake lets say that is the case for both sixfields and the Ricoh:
2500 fans at sixfields at £9.95 each + £3 per head F&B = £24875 + £7500 = £32,375 per game.
10000 fans at the Ricoh at £9.95 each + £0 per head F&B = £99,500 per game
Just the 23 home league games would make it:
Sixfields = £744,625 a year
Ricoh = £2,288,500 a year
If rent was agreed at £150,000 a year for sixfields and £400,000 a year at the Ricoh then Ratio is:
Sixfields = 4.96:1
Ricoh = 5.72:1
Or if you want to look at it another way, the "profit" (obviously not profit but you get the idea) is:
Sixfields: £744,625 - £150,000 = £594,625
Ricoh: £2,288,500 - £400,000 = £1,888,500
Now if they had accepted the 10 year deal (just to make you all happy - the one not offered legally) of £150,000 a year (based on us staying in league 1) and only stayed for 5 years to build a new stadium, resulting in a (possible) £1,000,000 charge for each year they broke the lease then it would look something like this:
Sixfields - £744,625 a season x 5 = £3,723,125
Ricoh - £2,288,500 a season x 5 = £11,442,500
take off the rent
sixfields - £3,723,125 - (5 x £150,000) = £2,973,125
Ricoh - £11,442,500 - (10 x £150,000) = £9,942,500
ACL charge the £1,000,000 per year the lease is broken. 5 x £1,000,000 is £5,000,000.
£9,942,500 - £5,000,000 = £4,942,500.
Still very simple. But the answer always comes out the same!
