05-23-2015, 05:01 AM
(05-23-2015, 12:25 AM)MosquitoFleet link Wrote:your non attendance does nothing other than to financially penalise the club
if you dont swipe your card at etihad and we dont reach 20,000 crowd , we pay etihad money
last week the club paid $200,000 to Etihad for a 16,000 crowd
no, Im wrong you are not a fair weather supporter, you are a football guru.... :
Oh Mozzie, such an apt name.
I'm well aware that the club loses money when nobody turns up.
What you are suggesting doesn't quite make sense though.
I know the club talks in general terms with attendances and profit/losses at games. What you are saying IMO is parroting what the club says.
However, i think the reality isn't so clear cut. Under your situation...
Scenario 1. If we get 19,999 people attend the game and each one of them buys a ticket at the gate. Not 1 single person is a member....because we didn't get 20,000 people there, we pay.
Scenario 2. If we have 20,000 people attend a game, and each one of them uses their membership card to get in, not 1 person buys a ticket at the gate. Then we don't pay Etihad a cent.
In reality,
- under scenario 1, Etihad takes a lot of coin at the gate.
- under scenario 2, Etihad doesn't make a cent.
But you are suggesting that 1 person makes all the difference? BS.
My interpretation of what the club says is that assuming general member/supporter ratio, the break even point is about 20,000. That is not set in stone.
So given i am a member and don't pay at the gate, my (non)attendance makes SFA difference to the bottom line.

