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Do they care?

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Do they care?

Poll Poll Do the ownership care?

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Idi Amin said:
Thanks Ron. I’ve also got a lot of experience of developing and running businesses.
North Ends revenue from ticket sales and general operations net of TV/FL payments last year was £5.8 million.
Extrapolating from your statement above: you would expect improvements in merchandising, the fan zone and catering to generate an increase of £34.8 million per annum from a fan base of perhaps 16,000, including irregulars.
That would mean each of those 16,000 fans would spend an additional £2,175.00 per year on merchandise/food/drinks.
Am I missing something?
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Mine was a generalisation with a couple of examples, if you wanted a full on commercial business proposal then it would need to be commissioned.
 
Idi Amin said:
If true, £4m is a big amount. What exactly do they do at Rovers that generates that kind of revenue?
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They loan fans out like @Coley to support other clubs for a fee

(Their accounts didn't show any breakdown unfortunately so whether it's hospitality or rent type income generated outside of match days who knows)
 
JK said:
Loads of empty seats on the Town End so I wouldn't be surprised if it was close.
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I went last week to get two together on the Town end and the only place they had them was on the front three rows.

As I wanted to be at least half way up I decided maybe the Finney would be worth a change, I was having difficulties even there but finished up having to go in block D which is classed as premium.

I was a bit pissed off when looking towards the Town End only to see plenty of spare seats, obviously there must have been many ST holders not in attendance.
 
Doc Brown said:
Is Blackburn Rovers’ commercial income really £4m per annum?
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It’s what they tell their accountants and auditors. The 2022 figure I’ve seen on a tweet or elsewhere is higher still in the £5.5m range

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jakehake said:
It’s what they tell their accountants and auditors. The 2022 figure I’ve seen on a tweet or elsewhere is higher still in the £5.5m range

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Yeah it's unclear how they are making those numbers. I've seen quotes saying it's due to increased sponsorship etc.

But then I saw back in 2018 there was reference to this in an article by the "price of football"...
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Dreyfuss said:
Yeah it's unclear how they are making those numbers. I've seen quotes saying it's due to increased sponsorship etc.

But then I saw back in 2018 there was reference to this in an article by the "price of football"...
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Good find. So £800k is advertising for the chickens. Doesn’t seem to be anything else above that though for the remainder

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Morse said:
It's all beginning to make sense.....What I don't understand is, if that is the case, why the hell don't they just sell the club? They're currently turning the club into a basket case....
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Easier said than done. Football clubs aren't normal businesses - they lose money and a lot of it. Therefore the owner has to be someone with cash and a lot of it. And someone prepared to lose a lot of that cash.

A loss of £15 million a year means you need someone with £45 million to even pass the EFL fit and proper test. Most don't like it, including me, but getting the losses down makes the club easier to sell. Not that there's people queuing to take over.

An alternative to the current basket case situation is administation. But without a "sugar daddy" owner Preston NE can't survive in the Championship.
 
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