Probably investing in a cinema group is nearly as risky as a football club.

Lol, sone of London a shit hole and rapidly getting worse , that's why most move out of London boroughs.

From an EFL document: "League One and League Two Clubs follow the Salary Cost Management Protocol (“SCMP”) These state that Clubs can only spend a fixed percentage of its revenue on player wages etc. This limit can also be added to or impacted by equity injections or net transfer spend."

*braced

"Look, Judah, he is driving a Greek chariot!"...camera zooms in on scythes on Messala's wheels, scythes which are each braces with 4 gussets. Now, forgive me for having an eye for detail, but those gussets are welded on. Pretty good for around 30AD, seeing as electric welding wasn't refined enough to accomplish that until 1904 (Oscar Kjellberg).

Maybe because the patrons of Everyman cinema aren't expected to fork out 30 times a season?

My quote was from the Cardiff hierarchy explaining what could be done in the Championship and how League 1 was different. My bet would be they know the rules well, if not maybe we can get them deducted a whole load of points.

What a great Attenborough programme this is [Link] showing how much wildlife there is in London - a must watch for all those who constantly slag London off all the time but who don’t really know it at all… 🤗

Thanks Jon.

I for one spend very little, if any, money at the ground. Don’t find it at all appealing for a drink post-match. Pretty much always stayed for drinks at KM after (and normally a pint before). Can’t recall the last time I had food at any football ground (tends to be over-priced and not great quality).

OI - first of all thankyou for responding. However are you sure that you are correct? My understanding from a brief read of the EFL protocol is that share capital is explicitly excluded from the definition of "Relevant Turnover" . You may be confusing the definition of "Relevant Turnover" which is the base used for determining the max 60% wage cap with "Football Fortune Income" which is used to determine solvency.

OI Well explained for our Next major shareholder. He's just waiting for the 50+1 vote!

"In League 1 turnover is also allowed to include cash injected by the club owner by way of new non-refundable share capital ( i.e not loans).So an owner can greatly increase the allowable limits of player wages by this method" - so it does include cash injections and this is how clubs manage to have much bigger budgets than us. Again it may be possible to up our spend per head, I'll leave that argument tp those experienced but I don't think we are purposely keeping it low.

Could someone please explain how they think a fairy god father/mother directly impacts or assists our playing budget. In JJ’s post-match interview, he reiterated the fact that unlike other clubs in our division, we are restrained from making new signings, based on our lack of financial resources. A recent statement from the Club suggested that we have the second lowest playing budget in the league. The thing is all League 1 clubs have to abide by an overall Player Salary limit dictated by the EFL set at a maximum of 60% of “relevant Turnover” – which includes matchday & season ticket receipts but does not include cash injections from owners or exceptionals such as net transfer income. Could anyone who believes that we can’t balance our own books without a Millionaires fairy dust please explain why Wimbledon shouldn’t be able to achieve at least the same average spend per head as the Everyman Cinema? Aren’t some people just making excuses for failure to do so?

Cureron is currently player-manager of King's Park Rangers in the Eastern Counties division one north.

Jamie Cureton is still playing aged 50.

Our old friend Kevin Ellison now aged 46 is due to make his 1000th club appearance for Vauxhall Motors v Runcorn on 10th Jan

Quite a few new cinemas near me the Epsom picture house is excellent, the Light in Redhill is ok also the Everyman in Reigate is decent

Last time I went to the cinema was about 20 years ago,surprised they all.aint gone bust by now.

It would be impressive to become the only (or close to the only) club in the EFL not to make a loss.

No mention of the Three Kings of Orient Rob?

The fairy dust millions model is what's keeping most of our rivals in business. It's also the reason why our funding model is struggling to compete with them.

Sounds like bollocks to me but you never know i guess [Link]

I couldn’t help but notice some people on here wishing for a fairy god father/mother to appear in the new year to throw some mythical fairy dust millions into subsidising their hobby. I recently became an investor in the Everyman Media Group – owners of Everyman’s nationwide chain of cinemas. Interestingly their average UK ticket & beverage spend per head is around £23 (net vat) and around 15% higher at £26 in London. I suspect that this amount compares very favourably with our own average comparable spend of around £17 (someone may have a more accurate figure). Frankly it seems absurd for anyone to suggest that with our stadium full or near capacity for most matches and with people being turned away that we can’t close our trading deficit by closing or dare I say, surpassing the average take of a cinema. I appreciate that not all of this extra spend will convert to profit but it seems likely that closing this £9 per head deficit would generate around an additional £1.5m in profit. Wimbledon’s financial woes largely solved without the sprinkling of fairy dust!!

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