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3 hours ago, BFTD said:
Kudos again to @LeodhasXD for seemingly doing a dozen things at once on matchday, while also staying calm as everything goes wrong!
Edit: hope you enjoy your Stenny break next month!
You've got to stop saying that. People will start realizing it's going wrong every week
Although the BBC audio commentary of the Celtic game is going off too and that's not as complicated so I guess it's not that bad.
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2 hours ago, HoBNob said:
Dunfermline were paying more than 100k? What a shambles.
No more than the 15k for hiring a Stenhousemuir equivalent. You've not got that much money to splash around if you hadnt noticed.
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2 minutes ago, Skyline Drifter said:
Possibly, if you don't include the cost savings.
We'll get about 10 years from our pitch. I'd imagine Stenny, and presumably you, going by your reported usage, are more like 8 years? I suppose £300k over 8 years is feasible although if anything it's a bit low.
I'd guess that it meant one year but was just massively exaggerated to prove a point. In Stenny's case it probably includes the income from their separate five a side pitches also.
Yeah I'd like to see it replaced sooner rather than later!
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6 minutes ago, Skyline Drifter said:
Whatever, anyway, I don't see any mileage in working it out to the nearest tenner. The initial point was there's not a chance anybody's making £300k hiring a pitch out, even including cost savings. £100k + is just about arguable IF it's hired out pretty much exhaustively and there's demand for it. I don't think we're disagreeing on that (now).
I wonder if the original 300k was over the life of the pitch. Would make much more sense.
and Dunfermline were paying more than that I think but they were storing all kinds of kit here too and having the odd behind doors friendly. I'll say on the bookings - it was certainly fully booked the last time I checked. In our area the kids team seem to run the show in terms of astroturf bookings so we're stuck playing on grass. There's not availability despite the increase in astro pitches.0 -
I'll concede @Skyline Drifter300k is optimistic after sitting down but prize money isn't. Alloa Ath - £116k SPFL prize money as estimated by @SPFLmediawatch on twitter. Stenhousemuir is estimated as just £89k after winning the fourth tier last year.
I'll keep it as simple as possible through timeslots its used. Obviously for Alloa Athletic you're not going to get any income but you'd pay to have the same facility elsewhere. 4 days its fully booked from 6-9. £40 a third would give you over 48 weeks £69120. Dunfermline would have been in 4 days a week for 4 hours. They'd have got a healthy discount however I'd wager.
I don't massively keep up with the youths and women due to time involved but estimate they're at home 24 times a year on Fridays - Sundays. Throw the use our changing facilities in it might be £300 instead of just £200 for the pitch. For the 4 teams - £28,800.
There's kids youth teams in most Saturday mornings even before our first team games. We've got some welfare cup final on next Saturday while we are away, we had three girl's/womens cup finals last month. There's walking football on during the day three times a week and there's also some free football programme - I forget its name but I had a conversation with the guy the other week. I did weekly play on the Sunday nights before I started playing in a Sunday afternoon league. I'm not sure on the 5-a-sides because they used to be community club income. So what I've accounted for isn't necessarily exhaustive.I don't think ticket sales go that far even if you have you have 4x Dunfermline and Falkirk bringing 800 or so fans.
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7 minutes ago, Skyline Drifter said:
It really isn't. I've no idea how much you fleeced Dunfermline and BSC for but there's no chance you're training twice a week for what, 2 - 3 hours a night, 48 weeks a year (little extra in pre-season maybe) and it would cost a six figure sum. You could hire Ochilview for £150 a night! That's £15k a year.
I'll do a fag packet calculation in a bit when I've got time. Ours is still used heavily during the day and at night.
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40 minutes ago, Skyline Drifter said:
tldr I think that's maybe too pessimistic. I mean 300k is a figure that you could probably easily account for in the alternative venue bookings you 'save'. It's certainly a figure we'd have surpassed when Dunfermline and BSC were regular tenants.
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31 minutes ago, Neilly said:
First of all they advertise no PATG for away fans. This is poor anyway but the online portal for buying tickets did not work and actually caused viruses on your phone when trying to purchase for the majority of people. Then get to the ground and there IS a PATG option which was communicated to nobody.
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4 minutes ago, Central Belt Caley said:
f**king. Hell.
Took him only 27 seconds to mention the pitch. Must be a record
My favourite line is “We’re undefeated…apart from that one we lost at Annan” so we’re not undefeated then? f**king moron
Mad because someone should probably mention football is played over 90 minutes. And that Alloa have the most clean sheets in the league - or that Celtic are yet to concede if we're talking the whole country for a defensive record.
Strikes me as completely bizarre to be so upbeat when Inverness capitulated so comprehensively to not see out the game.0 -
2 hours ago, BFTD said:
@LeodhasXD - well done coping on your own calmly with literally everything going wrong on the stream
Edit: "ye've f**ked that up big man, eh?"
I think I got it sorted out before the players to be fair. Only 30 minutes in before I turned up - they took 70
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3 hours ago, Skyline Drifter said:
Are you sure you don't do a half time draw at all? I've certainly bought tickets for one at Alloa but may not have been in the last year. Perhaps they only do it in the hospitality and boardroom areas as it's where the money is and a lot less hassle to do that? Perhaps it simply wasn't making enough profit to be worth the effort.
You will have but it stopped after covid because there wasn't hospitality/boardroom where most of the money was coming from and never got going again.
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45 minutes ago, AlloaAdam said:
10 years ago £16 was probably too much at that point and we were also in the championship. You and I clearly aren’t going to agree on this but I just don’t see any scenario where people who weren’t going to be coming along anyway would want to turn up and pay 20 quid.
Agree on that - but I think the reality of running a business means you can't speculate on who will maybe turn up on Saturday. There's been plenty who thought a pricing gimmick might increase attendances to cover a shortfall but it rarely works out.
Just for the record I agree on the student tickets or another 16-21 category because it's too steep between u16 and adult and flat rises across the categories means it was more expensive for some too but that's all above my paygrade.
Still the worst money I have ever spent at football was £23 to watch St Johnstone and Dundee 5 odd years ago. Finished 0-0 and it was turgid. Somehow I was meant to be more happy to have spent that money because it was a Premier league game - was far less exciting to watch than Alloa.0 -
2 hours ago, AlloaAdam said:
take advantage and charge more because they know we'll pay it.
Should probably start charging season ticket holders for the playoff games if that's the goal- they'd get roughly double the money at least than the money earned by axing an early bird. The season ticket still stands out as excellent value.
On the walkup 10 years ago I used to look at the minimum wage and it was under £7 while we were charging £16. It's now £11.44 and we're charging £20. So you're working less for what you're watching.0 -
4 hours ago, AlloaAdam said:
No early bird season ticket offer this season - a simple way we used to give back to loyal season ticket holders
Surely it wouldn't be too difficult to find a Sports Journalism student who could come in on a Saturday afternoon for a few hours to volunteer, get experience of what it's like working at a football club on a matchday, do some live tweets, potentially interview Andy for the youtube channel and get experience in that regard as well? Another place where it just seems lazy to me and they won't go to the effort of finding someone to do it (not that I reckon they'd be hard to find).
Early bird was actually away because it was easier admin without it - and it's not been there for a couple years now that's not new.
We were the main programme on BBC Scotland on Saturday and we had updates from Arbroath. But you need to remember the traveling is rotten this year and the updates will only be available if folk are available. There's just not people queueing up to work 3-4 hours of their prime weekend time plus doing it without expenses. I've had people giving me a dig out but no-one who can do it regularly.
https://x.com/AlloaAthleticFC/status/1829887421368189174
https://x.com/AlloaAthleticFC/status/18299057356917475900 -
7 hours ago, Nigel Blackwell said:
I think they play at cappielow.
On 10/09/2024 at 16:26, THE_warrior said:Where do rangers B even play there games?
Cappielow last year. Seems like Forthbank this year.
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We can be quite methodical and slow in the build up in general. Though that was a the case at Arbroath last week and it is the right way to play...
...but that second half was excellent and what we've not really managed to put together in the league as of yet despite being unbeaten. Zipping the ball out of tight areas at the back like it's nothing - releasing Buchanan who really made milne (who is generally a great left back) look average. Kevin's goals are top quality - even got LD involved some wonderful touches about the edge of the box. I like him as the striker in a two and I don't feel like I've seen him on his own up top too much but I think he grabbed that opportunity in a way that he hasn't playing in that pocket behind the striker.
By the end of the game Partick looked to me both tired and aimless while we were pushing for more goals. A word with the BBC technician at the end and it's a familiar Alloa story - you wouldn't know which of those sides was in the higher tier.2 -
On 30/08/2024 at 14:39, printer said:
Post on the club's Facebook page as follows. Copying it here so more fans can see it. (Hope I'm not stepping on your toes @LeodhasXD .)
......for all Alloa Athletic FC season ticket holders. The Q&A session is scheduled for Thursday, September 5th, at 6:30 PM at the Recs. The session will commence with Big Andy, followed by Chairman Andy Allan and Alex Brown. Subsequently, the Women's team manager and others will take the stage.
Had quite a few say they like the idea but they are busy so if you've got an email from me and you can't make it but would've like to I can pass that on. I'm not available either so we're all in the same boat
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Little bit later as I couldn't stomach sitting back down to watch a 0-0 straight after a long drive.
Andy's interview audio was done in what seems like a wind tunnel on my phone so I may just type it out tomorrow.
In summary, not happy with a point, he never is, frustrated we didn't play well today but defensively worked well. I said the defence had done their job and he countered with it's a team effort. Will look at how to improve (did talk after the audio about our percentages of duels won and long balls which is quite stark)2 -
6 minutes ago, ExiledLichtie said:
Don't say that to our fans. Some our fans still live in the 3 on the bench era and consider any more than 17 players to be wasteful...
Utter woke nonsense to have more than starting 11 and 3 subs tbh.
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First question: are Dumbarton doing this for a meme?
Second question (@Jan Vojáček) how many consecutive draws for a club record?0 -
I think today was the worst of our league games and allow it because I felt a point was a good result before the game.
I'll give the caveat that Miko Virtanen's chance was possibly the best open chance anyone had today and we have been greedy how much we seem to snatch a good result under Andy Graham.
In terms of territory and how they used the ball Arbroath seemed more effective... yet I was calling the game as a 0-0 after the first couple subs so that probably gives you a summary of how dangerous I thought they were.0 -
17 hours ago, printer said:
Post on the club's Facebook page as follows. Copying it here so more fans can see it. (Hope I'm not stepping on your toes @LeodhasXD .)
......for all Alloa Athletic FC season ticket holders. The Q&A session is scheduled for Thursday, September 5th, at 6:30 PM at the Recs. The session will commence with Big Andy, followed by Chairman Andy Allan and Alex Brown. Subsequently, the Women's team manager and others will take the stage.
No crack on. They've not said anything to me to put stuff out about it so as long as people know.
I'll find out on Monday what the score is.
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Tyrece scores the only goal in tonight's friendly vs Linlithgow Rose too.