| Message from the Chairman on 16:22 - Aug 5 with 1912 views | judd |
"...accuracy of the content" for my part does not imply that anyone is lying.
It could be the result of a number of things such as oversight, forgetfulness, interpretation or human error, for example.
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| Message from the Chairman on 17:19 - Aug 5 with 1782 views | JPSDale |
The virus has made a mockery of all aspects of life - not least football.
The Chairmans comments are perhaps "conservative", but id rather the club under promise and over deliver, or just survive this period.... I think that the limiting of crowd numbers will damage the big supported clubs more than clubs such as Dale
Sunderland had a average of 30,169 last year V a capacity of 37.772, so they were running about 80% - and still loosing masses of money. When they have to drop to about 7000 based on new rules, they will be missing 23,000 paying supporter or loosing about 65% of the average - about £500k per game at £20 / head
Dale on the other hand had a average of 3574 and can allow 2170 in the ground so we are "only" loosing 35% ( of a much smaller number ...) - about £28k per game at £20/head
Dale have only a small number of existing contracts and we dodged a bullet with Hendo not signing the contract offered. The New Normal we keep hearing about will be true of Div 1 player salaries and with a bit of planning, lots of work and a bit of luck Dale can come out of this stronger than we went in. The cup runs / TV / sales cleaned up the overspend previously and help cover the hole the K19 has kicked into the club
Our Chairman might not be the communication king or splashing his cash - but i'll bet hes not sweating half as much about financial survival with restricted gates receipts as the new Sunderland Chairman ( Donald Resigned, nobody yet appointed ! )
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| Message from the Chairman on 17:24 - Aug 5 with 1770 views | AtThePeake |
Likewise, “People are allowed to question and be suspicious” in no way equates to "it's the Board so they must be lying". At least, I didn't mean it to anyway. | |
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| Message from the Chairman on 17:46 - Aug 5 with 1696 views | DaleiLama |
"The virus has made a mockery of all aspects of life - not least football".
It has indeed. The Imps sold 4k STs in early bird pre-lockdown. With a capacity of 10,120 ………... | |
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| Message from the Chairman on 18:40 - Aug 5 with 1610 views | boromat |
Gonna be some upset fans there! | |
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| Message from the Chairman on 19:16 - Aug 5 with 1530 views | Dalenet |
Or at Tranmere where they sold a similar number ahead of the lockdown at over £400 a pop and then had to make 40 staff redundant. I haven't checked to see whether their fans have been offered their money back (I suspect not) or whether they think the price they paid for league two football is good value | | | |
| Message from the Chairman on 20:19 - Aug 5 with 1450 views | boromat |
To be fair relegation was always a risk to them. But yes similar issues with all the clubs that had started to sell season tickets early. | |
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| Message from the Chairman on 21:22 - Aug 5 with 1362 views | JPSDale |
The Imps had an average of 9006 last season - great for them and not knocking them, but they are the only club for 20+ miles - Donny, Scunny, & Notts. Dale have more Premier League teams alone closer probably than this ...
They are also central to the community - something we are slowly improving with Club, Local Clubs, Schools & Council all working better together
Dale might learn a few tricks about things like early bird etc given Imps success | | | |
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