Suggestion Box: Alternate Ways To Save The Club £40,000 A Season

[Thunder Bolt]

Aiming to build a hotel on the site probably broke the planning conditions just a tad also tho eh?

Total respect to the club for actively promoting sustainable modes of transport for those visiting the stadium. Tho they couldn't have foreseen SASTA implementing Beeching-level cuts on the region's rail network. Even more reason to withdraw the travel subsidy. The club aren't getting what they paid SASTA for, and the consequences for the start of this season will be seriously grim and will whack the club in the pocket in lost revenue. They don't deserve that.

The hotel didn't pass the planning application in March of this year, which was a different issue.

Originally, that area was going to be for City College, until the funding from the government was reigned back.

 

[chimneys]

For us maybe. But a hefty outlay for the club that could probably be trimmed considerably if everybody who didn't need the travel subsidy voluntarily opted out of it.

As I eluded to in my original post, withdrawal of travel subsidy will result in drop in crowds unless we are doing very well, which consequently will put the club in a worse position financially.

I appreciate where you are coming from, but very difficult to create solution you are proposing in reality. So travel subsidy/scheme is all or nothing.

 

[RandyWanger]

Get rid of Manu and Holla. Will be more than 40k saved.

 

[Gwylan]

[pedant alert] should be 'alternative' not 'alternate' - alternate means every other (because of work, we can only attend alternate matches).

Strictly speaking, alternative should be one of two but colloquially its use has expanded

 

[Gary Leeds]

Allow betting inside the ground

 

[Stat Brother]

For August turn the water off in the East Stand and add 1p to the price of each bottle of water.

 

[Gwylan]

Get rid of Manu and Holla. Will be more than 40k saved.

How does paying off Manu and Holla save money?

 

[maltaseagull]

Swear box on the back of every seat. FFS Murray

That would make more than £40K

 

[Hotchilidog]

Disagree with the withdrawal of the travel subsidy, as we saw with the failed voucher system in the beginning it would just encourage evasion. It's actually cheaper just to apply the subsidy to all regardless of use.

I'd just dock the players a couple of quid a week, they'd hardly notice.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

[pedant alert] should be 'alternative' not 'alternate' - alternate means every other (because of work, we can only attend alternate matches).

Strictly speaking, alternative should be one of two but colloquially its use has expanded

Picky

Strictly speaking, you need a full stop after 'expanded'.

 

[Taybha]

Sell the 1200 empty seats behind the south goal to home fans for £20 a pop on matchday .

 

[Gwylan]

Disagree with the withdrawal of the travel subsidy, as we saw with the failed voucher system in the beginning it would just encourage evasion. It's actually cheaper just to apply the subsidy to all regardless of use.

Does evasion matter? As we've discovered in the last few weeks, SASTA get paid whether a train has zero or a thousand people on it. If there's no incentive to collect money, why does it bother the rail company if thousands evade the fare?

 

[Biscuit Barrel]

Get Bloom to write a cheque for £40,000

About time that bloke put his hand in his pocket

 

[Mr Bridger]

Let the away fans earlier so they can start guzzling ale. Times I've walk round pass them when the home end is open and serving and they are waiting outside. Why?

 

[Dick Swiveller]

Allow betting inside the ground

Been explained at least twice at forums that this would cost money rather than make it.

 

[Mackenzie]

Get rid of Pat (Paul) Nevin and let Chris and Colin pick up their own cones.
Barber 10% pay cut.
Charge 50p per person for the free park and ride.
Axe the fan zone bands.
Employ 200 less stewards.
Employ less catering till staff, but train the ones who do work.
Buy one less U21 player.
Rename the Seven Stars, the Amex Seven Stars Community Pub and charge them £40k for the privilege.

 

[The Albion Roar]

Get rid of Pat (Paul) Nevin and let Chris and Colin pick up their own cones.
Barber 10% pay cut.
Charge 50p per person for the free park and ride.
Axe the fan zone bands.
Employ 200 less stewards.
Employ less catering till staff, but train the ones who do work.
Buy one less U21 player.
Rename the Seven Stars, the Amex Seven Stars Community Pub and charge them £40k for the privilege.

I know you're not serious, but how do you employ 'less [sic] catering staff', when you don't employ any...?

 

[Hotchilidog]

Does evasion matter? As we've discovered in the last few weeks, SASTA get paid whether a train has zero or a thousand people on it. If there's no incentive to collect money, why does it bother the rail company if thousands evade the fare?

Somebody will want paying for the trains regardless. At present, given the size of Falmer Station, it is just logistically easier to leave the barriers open when 25000 people turn up on a matchday. If the transport subsidy were ever abandoned do not expect the saving to passed on to ticket holders, prices would undoubtedly stay the same.

I honestly feel finding a £40,000 in a playing budget of over £20million is far easier.

The other thing they could do is hire a decent bar manager who maybe able to generate that £40,000 from the bar itself. Seems to me the club has gone for a quick and easy solution. If the bar is limited to 160 members only then they may actually sell this as 1901-lite, which if they do vindicates their decision.

 

[studio150]

Those fans that want to stand charged an extra £250 for the season and all moved to the south stand

 

[durrington gull]

Sell the 1200 empty seats behind the south goal to home fans for £20 a pop on matchday .

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