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Originally Posted by Exile on Spencer St
It’s obviously rankled you, NorthernSoul, but your maths assumes every ticket would sell for £28.50.
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Not at all just factor in the spend on food, drink and programmes [Do Stanley still do a paid for programme ?]etc and its not hard to arrive at the figure i quoted.
Its not the fact that this decision has been made that rankles with me but the fact that no one at the club has the balls to come out and explain the rationale behind a decision that makes absolutely no financial sense what so ever.
And if they did no doubt they would cover up the real reason with crap about not letting the visitors fill the ground but hey ho it didnt do much harm in recent seasons against say Leeds, Ipswich, Derby and of course Sunderland did it all of which were great spectacles and the fans of those clubs all went away with nothing but good things to say about Accrington Stanley in my opinion it adds to the crack on the day and in the long term would do more to encourage the fans of the future to get hooked than any shirt give away would do.
And all that is before the fact that the club could well end up with some of the police bill that will be needed when a thousand Cumbrians descend on the town on a Bank Holiday Monday without tickets if the great escape is still on after the Port Vale game on Friday. It makes absolutely zero sense to have 1700 empty seats in the ground when there are 1700 fans sat in Carlisle [ or in the pubs in Accy] who would have been quite happy to contribute to that 100k defecit.