[cmonstanley]

Originally Posted by Bazf

Yes Murdoch pushed a lot of money into football, which in turn made clubs able to buy better players, problem was that in the UK we are stilling living on our 1966 world cup win, we haven't produced more then a couple of dozen world beaters in years. Teams have to go abroad to find players, players cost more, get paid more, therefore to cover expenses prices go up. Arsenal play week in and week out with no British players, it costs 35 quid to go to the Emirates stadium, so more people buy sky and watch it at home. Now Rovers do a price drop, this is the team that took 886 supporters away to play in the last round of the cup, they get no one going to their home games so if they atract more people it will still be profitable. One of the reasons football is not an attractive option in the USA is sitting in a 60,000 seater stadium with 5000 supporters, no atmosphere, that is what its like at Ewood park. At the end of the season compare the records of Stanley and Rovers, I would like to bet which one would be in debt and which one would be in profit. We as a club are looking at premiership clubs and trying to imitate them, we are in the lower divisions we need to keep our feet firmly on the ground, every deal needs to be for our benefit, every decsion about pricing should be to bring in money for the club. How could you change prices in mid season? what about the season ticket holders? Rover couldn't give a hoot about their fans, Stanley should.

when you put it that way your right but the problem is that the fa dont care about lower league clubs and the money should be more evenly spread and we are getting the knock on effect and its not beneficial for the whole of the game plus the national side is getting the effects as well cause the most succesful national players started at the grass roots [lower league clubs]now there is only a few good enough ..