George Street-Bridge wrote:God knows how many times we've done the £9 thing and it doesn't get any less ridiculous with repetition. That must be Southern League prices and the upshot would be a Southern League-standard squad getting slaughtered every week,.until eventually the club settled at Southern League level in all respects.

However, the ground would have become unaffordable long before that and we'd have had to kick it off with a fire sale of players as the prudent thing to do as a hedge against collapsing income through the gate and from sponsorship.

Good luck persuading a family of four to stump up 36 quid a game loyally through that process.

George Street-Bridge wrote:God knows how many times we've done the £9 thing and it doesn't get any less ridiculous with repetition. That must be Southern League prices and the upshot would be a Southern League-standard squad getting slaughtered every week,.until eventually the club settled at Southern League level in all respects.

However, the ground would have become unaffordable long before that and we'd have had to kick it off with a fire sale of players as the prudent thing to do as a hedge against collapsing income through the gate and from sponsorship.

Good luck persuading a family of four to stump up 36 quid a game loyally through that process.

George Street-Bridge wrote:God knows how many times we've done the £9 thing and it doesn't get any less ridiculous with repetition. That must be Southern League prices and the upshot would be a Southern League-standard squad getting slaughtered every week,.until eventually the club settled at Southern League level in all respects.

However, the ground would have become unaffordable long before that and we'd have had to kick it off with a fire sale of players as the prudent thing to do as a hedge against collapsing income through the gate and from sponsorship.

Good luck persuading a family of four to stump up 36 quid a game loyally through that process.

newgroundrodney wrote:

George Street-Bridge wrote:God knows how many times we've done the £9 thing and it doesn't get any less ridiculous with repetition. That must be Southern League prices and the upshot would be a Southern League-standard squad getting slaughtered every week,.until eventually the club settled at Southern League level in all respects.

However, the ground would have become unaffordable long before that and we'd have had to kick it off with a fire sale of players as the prudent thing to do as a hedge against collapsing income through the gate and from sponsorship.

Good luck persuading a family of four to stump up 36 quid a game loyally through that process.

What I actually asked, was whether we could sell enough tickets at £9 to MAINTAIN the current level of ticket sales' revenues.
It seems to me, that in the normal run of the mill games, the current price is correct, and the only way we'll increase attendances is by climbing another division, then another. No matter how cheap we make it, no matter how affordable we try to make it, none of that will attract extra fans. I don't know what our 'per match' ticket revenues are, but I'll hazard a guess of £37,000.... we'd need 4100 crowds to reach the same level at £9.... including around 400 away fans...
So an increase of 25% in the number of home fans at £9 would see us maintain current revenue levels (guesstimate).
If we were allowed to introduce such a structure, and Newport people won't pay £9 to watch League Two football, we might as well pack up and go home.

lowandhard wrote:Back to the original topic.
Is there a site that the council owns and would be willing to gift ( they did so for the Dragons )? Or is there a site that wouldn’t be too expensive to buy? That would :-
A) be easily developed as a training ground , and then
B) be capable of , and permission would be given for , development as a future stadium.
We should have demonstrated to the council our value to the city but will they gift us some land and make that support concrete? The club should ask the question.

The NCFC Hippy wrote:

lowandhard wrote:Back to the original topic.
Is there a site that the council owns and would be willing to gift ( they did so for the Dragons )? Or is there a site that wouldn’t be too expensive to buy? That would :-
A) be easily developed as a training ground , and then
B) be capable of , and permission would be given for , development as a future stadium.
We should have demonstrated to the council our value to the city but will they gift us some land and make that support concrete? The club should ask the question.

damn good question, and yes back on topic, did the council gift the dragons the training ground land? where was it and when, do you know?

The Newport wrote:

The NCFC Hippy wrote:

lowandhard wrote:Back to the original topic.
Is there a site that the council owns and would be willing to gift ( they did so for the Dragons )? Or is there a site that wouldn’t be too expensive to buy? That would :-
A) be easily developed as a training ground , and then
B) be capable of , and permission would be given for , development as a future stadium.
We should have demonstrated to the council our value to the city but will they gift us some land and make that support concrete? The club should ask the question.

damn good question, and yes back on topic, did the council gift the dragons the training ground land? where was it and when, do you know?

Maybe from his son. Wait a minute Sorry no I'm wrong he doesn't discuss anything regarding Newport County or the Dragons with his son.

newgroundrodney wrote:

George Street-Bridge wrote:God knows how many times we've done the £9 thing and it doesn't get any less ridiculous with repetition. That must be Southern League prices and the upshot would be a Southern League-standard squad getting slaughtered every week,.until eventually the club settled at Southern League level in all respects.

However, the ground would have become unaffordable long before that and we'd have had to kick it off with a fire sale of players as the prudent thing to do as a hedge against collapsing income through the gate and from sponsorship.

Good luck persuading a family of four to stump up 36 quid a game loyally through that process.

What I actually asked, was whether we could sell enough tickets at £9 to MAINTAIN the current level of ticket sales' revenues.
It seems to me, that in the normal run of the mill games, the current price is correct, and the only way we'll increase attendances is by climbing another division, then another. No matter how cheap we make it, no matter how affordable we try to make it, none of that will attract extra fans. I don't know what our 'per match' ticket revenues are, but I'll hazard a guess of £37,000.... we'd need 4100 crowds to reach the same level at £9.... including around 400 away fans...
So an increase of 25% in the number of home fans at £9 would see us maintain current revenue levels (guesstimate).
If we were allowed to introduce such a structure, and Newport people won't pay £9 to watch League Two football, we might as well pack up and go home.

lowandhard wrote :
Back to the original topic.
Is there a site that the council owns and would be willing to gift ( they did so for the Dragons )? Or is there a site that wouldn’t be too expensive to buy? That would :-
A) be easily developed as a training ground , and then
B) be capable of , and permission would be given for , development as a future stadium.
We should have demonstrated to the council our value to the city but will they gift us some land and make that support concrete? The club should ask the question.

The NCFC Hippy wrote :
damn good question, and yes back on topic, did the council gift the dragons the training ground land? where was it and when, do you know?

The Newport Wrote :
Maybe from his son. Wait a minute Sorry no I'm wrong he doesn't discuss anything regarding Newport County or the Dragons with his son.

pembsexile wrote :
You must feel very proud of yourself. So far this week you have made comments about somebody's wife and now somebody's son. Pathetic.

The NCFC Hippy wrote:

lowandhard wrote:Back to the original topic.
Is there a site that the council owns and would be willing to gift ( they did so for the Dragons )? Or is there a site that wouldn’t be too expensive to buy? That would :-
A) be easily developed as a training ground , and then
B) be capable of , and permission would be given for , development as a future stadium.
We should have demonstrated to the council our value to the city but will they gift us some land and make that support concrete? The club should ask the question.

damn good question, and yes back on topic, did the council gift the dragons the training ground land? where was it and when, do you know?

pembsexile wrote:

The Newport wrote:

The NCFC Hippy wrote:

damn good question, and yes back on topic, did the council gift the dragons the training ground land? where was it and when, do you know?

Maybe from his son. Wait a minute Sorry no I'm wrong he doesn't discuss anything regarding Newport County or the Dragons with his son.

You must feel very proud of yourself. So far this week you have made comments about somebody's wife and now somebody's son. Pathetic.

Stan A. Einstein wrote:If you divide the total crowd per season by the total receipts the mean average cost of watching Newport County is about £13-50p. Thus a 3,000 crowd gives a total gate receipt of about £40,000.

Now a £10 flat fee would require about a 4,000 to give broadly competitive income.
Now whilst I disagree with NGR's figures, for me £12 to stand £20 to sit would be better. The principle is at least arguable. Low prices don't work according to Tesco and Saintsbury's. Aldi and Lidl might disagree.

Try reading through this thread. NGR and Highandwide are two of the most mild mannered of people and yet it seems that for daring to advance views that a certain clique on here don't like they get castigated. The clique should be ashamed.

Amberexile wrote:

Stan A. Einstein wrote:If you divide the total crowd per season by the total receipts the mean average cost of watching Newport County is about £13-50p. Thus a 3,000 crowd gives a total gate receipt of about £40,000.

Now a £10 flat fee would require about a 4,000 to give broadly competitive income.
Now whilst I disagree with NGR's figures, for me £12 to stand £20 to sit would be better. The principle is at least arguable. Low prices don't work according to Tesco and Saintsbury's. Aldi and Lidl might disagree.

Try reading through this thread. NGR and Highandwide are two of the most mild mannered of people and yet it seems that for daring to advance views that a certain clique on here don't like they get castigated. The clique should be ashamed.

Where is the total receipts figure published? Does it include season tickets? How do we count season tickets in the attendance figures?

Stan A. Einstein wrote:If you divide the total crowd per season by the total receipts the mean average cost of watching Newport County is about £13-50p. Thus a 3,000 crowd gives a total gate receipt of about £40,000.

Now a £10 flat fee would require about a 4,000 to give broadly competitive income.
Now whilst I disagree with NGR's figures, for me £12 to stand £20 to sit would be better. The principle is at least arguable. Low prices don't work according to Tesco and Saintsbury's. Aldi and Lidl might disagree.

Try reading through this thread. NGR and Highandwide are two of the most mild mannered of people and yet it seems that for daring to advance views that a certain clique on here don't like they get castigated. The clique should be ashamed.