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The fact that we have sold 4000 season tickets so far and the dingles 8000 might have something to do with it.
MrFrost wrote:QuoteThe fact that we have sold 4000 season tickets so far and the dingles 8000 might have something to do with it.The fact that our most expensive adult season ticket available before the discount ended was £440 compared to Barnsley's £365and our cheapest being £320 compared to Barnsley's £299 may have something to do with that also!!!Current season ticket prices.Most expensive DRFC £460 Barnsley FC £365Cheapest DRFC £400 Barnsley FC £299
I know this has been mentioned on the Shackell thread, but thought the subject deserves a thread of its own…In light of O'Driscolls comments on the OS about £500k being out of our transfer capabilities...What exactly are the capabilities/aims of the club this season? I'd have hoped that after a first year of consolidation, and a subsequent mid table finish we would look to push on for a top 10 finish, or possibly even 'a Blackpool' I'm not saying this is not our aim, but I'd also have hoped we might have had some cash to spend for these 'mouth watering' signings that Gartom has referred to in the past to aid us in reaching this position. Gartom, can you tell us, does SO'D have a reasonable amount of cash to spend to bring players into the club? Especially considering the club can expect up to £1.75m extra each year in revenue from the new deal struck with the Premier League. I am not too disappointed about not signing Shackell, we may have other irons in the fire for CB (i.e. a free transfer in the shape of Elliot Ward?), but I would be disappointed if we are left at the start of the season trying to pick up the 1 or 2 quality, but free players missed by other clubs… to be as prepared as possible for the new season, we need to have the majority of the new players training with the squad for a good few weeks before the season starts. I think I'd be even more disappointed if the 'mouth watering signings' statement was just another way of pushing season ticket sales with no intention of actually bringing this type of player in. Can you also assure us that we won't be left waiting for us to make our first signings of the season when all other teams are finishing their business!
DRFC85 wrote:QuoteI know this has been mentioned on the Shackell thread, but thought the subject deserves a thread of its own…In light of O'Driscolls comments on the OS about £500k being out of our transfer capabilities...What exactly are the capabilities/aims of the club this season? I'd have hoped that after a first year of consolidation, and a subsequent mid table finish we would look to push on for a top 10 finish, or possibly even 'a Blackpool' I'm not saying this is not our aim, but I'd also have hoped we might have had some cash to spend for these 'mouth watering' signings that Gartom has referred to in the past to aid us in reaching this position. Gartom, can you tell us, does SO'D have a reasonable amount of cash to spend to bring players into the club? Especially considering the club can expect up to £1.75m extra each year in revenue from the new deal struck with the Premier League. I am not too disappointed about not signing Shackell, we may have other irons in the fire for CB (i.e. a free transfer in the shape of Elliot Ward?), but I would be disappointed if we are left at the start of the season trying to pick up the 1 or 2 quality, but free players missed by other clubs… to be as prepared as possible for the new season, we need to have the majority of the new players training with the squad for a good few weeks before the season starts. I think I'd be even more disappointed if the 'mouth watering signings' statement was just another way of pushing season ticket sales with no intention of actually bringing this type of player in. Can you also assure us that we won't be left waiting for us to make our first signings of the season when all other teams are finishing their business!in the star it plainly says that we had agreed a fee with wolves for shackell but that our valuation of what he should be paid was less than what barnsley's was thats the way it goes we make an offer and they accept/reject it thats lifedont read any more in to it than that
bedale rover wrote:QuoteDRFC85 wrote:QuoteI know this has been mentioned on the Shackell thread, but thought the subject deserves a thread of its own…In light of O'Driscolls comments on the OS about £500k being out of our transfer capabilities...What exactly are the capabilities/aims of the club this season? I'd have hoped that after a first year of consolidation, and a subsequent mid table finish we would look to push on for a top 10 finish, or possibly even 'a Blackpool' I'm not saying this is not our aim, but I'd also have hoped we might have had some cash to spend for these 'mouth watering' signings that Gartom has referred to in the past to aid us in reaching this position. Gartom, can you tell us, does SO'D have a reasonable amount of cash to spend to bring players into the club? Especially considering the club can expect up to £1.75m extra each year in revenue from the new deal struck with the Premier League. I am not too disappointed about not signing Shackell, we may have other irons in the fire for CB (i.e. a free transfer in the shape of Elliot Ward?), but I would be disappointed if we are left at the start of the season trying to pick up the 1 or 2 quality, but free players missed by other clubs… to be as prepared as possible for the new season, we need to have the majority of the new players training with the squad for a good few weeks before the season starts. I think I'd be even more disappointed if the 'mouth watering signings' statement was just another way of pushing season ticket sales with no intention of actually bringing this type of player in. Can you also assure us that we won't be left waiting for us to make our first signings of the season when all other teams are finishing their business!in the star it plainly says that we had agreed a fee with wolves for shackell but that our valuation of what he should be paid was less than what barnsley's was thats the way it goes we make an offer and they accept/reject it thats lifedont read any more in to it than thatThe point is though that O'Driscoll, on the O/S, says that £500k is way above our transfer capabilities. How can you read anymore into that, it's in black and white. If someone costs £500k, we aint got it, end of. Makes you wonder what the offer was actually that Wolves agreed on.
Especially considering the club has £1.75m extra each year in revenue from the new deal struck with the Premier League.
QuoteEspecially considering the club has £1.75m extra each year in revenue from the new deal struck with the Premier League. This makes absolutely no difference to Rovers muscle in the transfer market, in fact we're in a worse position since every other club has at least the same to chuck at players and some a great deal more.
Or maybe we have got £500k but we don't feel the need to announce the fact to all and sundry. The fact that we agreed a fee with Wolves suggests we have got the money. I wouldn't take every quote that SOD feeds the media as gospel.
Apparently the fee was £300k. What i'm disappointed in is the fact we couldn't compete with Barnsley in terms of a wage packet when we have a supposed richer board and that their income from tickets etc isn't much different from ours as their prices have been cheaper all around for ST's and matchday tickets for the last 2 seasons.I just hope some of these \"mouth watering\" signings and the \"we we're going for a promotion push next season\" things JR told us come off, because the fact we got outmuscled by the dingles financially has me worried into how much \"spin\" we were sold in order to generate ST sales and how much is actually going to happen.
topnotch_Donny wrote:No doubt the board will be plugging the gap again, so we should be grateful for that.Infact, we cant really moan if they sold one or two players a season to make ends meet, can we?
The facts are that not only have we so far failed to tie up any players that are coming out of contract like Oster etc but we have been outmuscled financially by Barnsley!!!! if it was a club like Derby or Forest then fair enough but the fact that a club that finished below us the last 2 seasons, have a large debt & have a similar income to us can do this really has me worried.
Sounds bad but after having a season ticket for the last god knows I'm actually glad I haven't chosen to renew this season.
As I understand it Watson and Bramall came in because of their friendship with John Ryan. They wanted to help John and saw it as a way of giving something back to the town. Whenever I post this it's usually met with incredulity. BUT if you look at all that's happened at the Rovers since they've been involved nothing suggests that isn't the case.John is still chairman.They don't seek publicity and let John get on with running the club.They haven't taken over the club as was widely assumed they would.All 3 put in equal sums annually to boost the club coffers.What you've got is a stable club without debt that's been able to hold its own in the Championship. I don't think it's a bad position to be in.As for being out muscled by Barnsley, perhaps O'Driscoll just didn't value Shackle as highly as Robins does?