[Football] Football Governance Bill / Independent Football Regulator

[Bozza]

Funny how they didn't pass on any of the huge windfall profits to the fans last season

That's a good point.

"We've made all this extra money - we need to pay it back to those hard-attending fans who kept coming along"

For the sake of lazy maths (math, if you're American), let's assume there were 30,000 fans at each of the 21 home games in the 2022-23 season...

£122m / 30,000 / 21 = £193.65 "dividend" per fan per game.

So, if you made it to all 21 home games that season, the club owe you a shade over £4k.

 

[Zeberdi]

That's a good point.

"We've made all this extra money - we need to pay it back to those hard-attending fans who kept coming along"

For the sake of lazy maths (math, if you're American), let's assume there were 30,000 fans at each of the 21 home games in the 2022-23 season...

£122m / 30,000 / 21 = £193.65 "dividend" per fan per game.

So, if you made it to all 21 home games that season, the club owe you a shade over £4k.

Seeing as we have another thread on the Football Governance Bill do you want to merge mine into this thread because there’s a lot of useful background about the Bill and analysis on the original thread that would be a shame to lose ?

[Football] - The Football Governance Bill

Standards Is it going to change the value of what they say? It's not like they a presenting information to people who have the highest standards. Confromity is best avoided in my view, I don't trust people in suits, certainly not more than those in t-shirts.

www.northstandchat.com

Or I will post any updates of the Bill on the pre-existing thread - I don’t mind.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

That's a good point.

"We've made all this extra money - we need to pay it back to those hard-attending fans who kept coming along"

For the sake of lazy maths (math, if you're American), let's assume there were 30,000 fans at each of the 21 home games in the 2022-23 season...

£122m / 30,000 / 21 = £193.65 "dividend" per fan per game.

So, if you made it to all 21 home games that season, the club owe you a shade over £4k.

I presume this will have to be based on official attendance; I always knew their “pretendance” would come back and bite them on the bum.

 

[Titanic]

I presume this will have to be based on official attendance; I always knew their “pretendance” would come back and bite them on the bum.

If they used the actual season ticket holders who attended in person it might act as an incentive to actually bother going.

 

[Titanic]

Seeing as we have another thread on the Football Governance Bill do you want to merge mine into this thread because there’s a lot of useful background about the Bill and analysis on the original thread that would be a shame to lose ?

[Football] - The Football Governance Bill

Standards Is it going to change the value of what they say? It's not like they a presenting information to people who have the highest standards. Confromity is best avoided in my view, I don't trust people in suits, certainly not more than those in t-shirts.

www.northstandchat.com

Or I will post any updates of the Bill on the pre-existing thread - I don’t mind.

I have an idea... you use that thread... and we can all stay here

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I have an idea... you use that thread... and we can all stay here

Sorry @Zeberdi but this really did make me chuckle

 

[Fourteenth Eye]

The "we'd have to charge the fans more" seems to be a favourite reason for the club to use if they really don't want to do something.

It was also used as one of the reasons for not installing Safe Standing for a while.

It's not a great look for a business that has revenues in the region of £200m, paying many employees millions of pounds per year to put on this "we don't have two pennies to rub together, so the fans will have to stump up" act if something comes along they don't like.

Paul Barber is a great communicator and fantastic ambassador for the club, but on this subject he doesn't come across well at all. Might be the one area where he gives a polite "no" to the media requests.

We are recording with PB tonight......

 

[ROSM]

We are recording with PB tonight......

Given the albion roar defence of PB in a tweet responding to martin ziegler, I'm sure he is very happy with you

 

[American Seagle]

I’d start with a transfer levy of 0.5/1% paid by the buying club

Stop clubs from paying agents - make the players pay it themselves.

The first is not a bad idea. The second whist I don't disagree with would have to be policed hard. I could see it leading to increased "bonuses" that pass via the player to an agent instead.

 

[Fourteenth Eye]

This weeks show with Paul barber is up now



He confirms the clubs stance on the bill & also that the quotes from the times piece were taken out of context.

The funding for the academy & the womens team are most definitely NOT being cut