Seems to have not been picked up on in other thread re info Paul Barber referred to re our £22m turnover and £8m loss - this means we spent £30m in the year to 30th June 2012
Also says on other thread we had a £14m player wages budget - this means there was £16m of other expenditure - a staggering amount whatever way you look at it.
Re the other £16m a rough "guesstimate" would say it has to include the categories of:
matchday travel costs - surely £2m if Lord B is right and it is around £100k per game
non player football staff wages ?? (management team, head of academy, head of football operations, expanded medical team, performance analysts, scouting network etc)
directors and senior managers pay ??
all other staff wages ??
electricity and gas bills - surely a lot more than Withdean!
write down of main stadium costs - say £75m over 50 years gives £1.5m per annum
write down of fixtures and fittings - got to be best part of £1m per annum you would think
At best maybe only £5m of the £8m loss is cash spent in year, as could be around £3m of write downs of items for which the cash has aleady been spent
So in summary BHA FC is currently getting about £100k per week of funding to keep it afloat
Assuming the £16m of costs can't be reduced / are more likley to go up - re academy staffing structure etc - then we need more turnover - either sponsorship, or fans paying more
Would say a very difficult balancing act re season ticket pricing for next year - as season ticket holders now seem to be viewed as having "7 games for free" - not hard to imagine a tasty price increase being marketed as us fans/customers that tells us we still get "5 games for free" etc
Interesting times
Also says on other thread we had a £14m player wages budget - this means there was £16m of other expenditure - a staggering amount whatever way you look at it.
Re the other £16m a rough "guesstimate" would say it has to include the categories of:
matchday travel costs - surely £2m if Lord B is right and it is around £100k per game
non player football staff wages ?? (management team, head of academy, head of football operations, expanded medical team, performance analysts, scouting network etc)
directors and senior managers pay ??
all other staff wages ??
electricity and gas bills - surely a lot more than Withdean!
write down of main stadium costs - say £75m over 50 years gives £1.5m per annum
write down of fixtures and fittings - got to be best part of £1m per annum you would think
At best maybe only £5m of the £8m loss is cash spent in year, as could be around £3m of write downs of items for which the cash has aleady been spent
So in summary BHA FC is currently getting about £100k per week of funding to keep it afloat
Assuming the £16m of costs can't be reduced / are more likley to go up - re academy staffing structure etc - then we need more turnover - either sponsorship, or fans paying more
Would say a very difficult balancing act re season ticket pricing for next year - as season ticket holders now seem to be viewed as having "7 games for free" - not hard to imagine a tasty price increase being marketed as us fans/customers that tells us we still get "5 games for free" etc
Interesting times