Yes the average take from fans would be in tens of pounds not hundreds of pounds but maybe the concept provides a route to JG engaging with the club and offering to produce or fund an effort to think about ways of accessing these fans.

A4E - Green Man? See you down the front!

Jeff Lynne cancelled his last show in Manchester the other night, his very last show is due Sunday at Hyde Park. Big worry for his health, not just the broken hand he acquired a week or so ago. Missus is supposed to go on Sunday, but in following him for the past few shows on Youtube, she reckons he's suffering with something like Parkinson's, he's not looking the full monty these days apparently.

Pete - the 50,000 is a guess but derived from a bit of simple critical thinking. 25,000 fans attended Wembley. I'm assuming a significant number watched from home on Sky or from abroad via livestream. Aside from those people there will be a large number of fans who were either working or otherwise engaged. In my family alone one of my sons and my father were both otherwise engaged but both have been to several matches over the last couple of years.

JG - you can say that about any club. 18K Walsall at Wembley means they have 40K on tap by your calculations. Anyway never mind that, were you really a Franchise supporter for 2 years?

Alan IoW - it’s a festival, so I’m not going specifically to see them, but they’re on the bill, so it’s likely/possible I’ll see them as they’re headlining one of the 4 evenings 😬

I suspect that there might be a fair number of people who aren't hugely into football but who would, if pressed, name us as their favourite team without having much to do with us in practice. But fans with that loose a connection with us aren't going to shell out £400 each per year (particularly when some may be kids).

Ah, JG. That figures.

Pete

FTR, I love 'um and Hester Chambers parents have a fabulous niche jewellery business in Newport that will make pieces to your designs

A43 or you could just see them on iPlayer at Glasto and decide if the experience is meh and you watch something else less boring instead...

Where did this 50k supporters/fans figure come from and how was it arrived at?

Meanwhile, just to say, I’ll be seeing Wet Leg (among many other bands) in August at a festival, so I will let you know what they’re like live…. 🤪😬👏

I still see no trousers…. 🤪

Raynes Park - I know of a lot of Season ticket holders who didn't go to Wembley for a variety of strange and rationale reasons. Anyway I'm sure I won't be far off my 50,000 estimate on the basis of my definition - but whether it is 40,000 or 60,000 doesn't really matter - the point is that most businesses can't even dream of that kind of loyal, dedicated customer base. We have so much potential.

Laurence - you don't. Most fans never or rarely come to matches. I supported AFCW from 2004 onwards but due to other sporting commitments didn't attend a match until 2009. I still purchased club videos, books, annuals and club wear. I would have happily paid some form of membership subscription giving me access to dons tv etc. Likewise there are lots of fans who now live abroad. As a kid I supported Leeds United but only went to half a dozen matches - but I was still very proud of being a Leeds supporter and regularly put Leeds Merch on my list to Santa.

JG, my donation is going directly into the playing budget via WAWF. I might donate to the club if I see that the powers that be are stopping the losses. Todays's announcement is a good start.

There are probably close to 50K who have real name recognition of us and a favourable attitude. I doubt half would name us as "their club" but they are a potential market in some ways, a lot of them will be children so you need 'nag-power' too. I doubt you'll make large sums from them but if you don't try to pull them closer then you'll get nothing from them.

21,000 of our 'fans' didn't go to Wembley? Seems unlikely.

Easy, Laurence. Sell shares in each seat. With our 50,000 fans, that’s 5.5 subscribers per 9,000 seats. Each would get just over 16 minutes of Plough Lane game time.

50,000 spending £400 per year? Are you a reincarnation of Richard Griffiths?

Galty - how do you get 50,000 fans into a 9,000 capacity stadium, please?

Well said KT2 - Why should Meadow's monthly donation subsidise the profitability of My Pie Man or the Pie Eaters? I am glad to see that there is a growing sense on here that the club needs to become more business like and profitable. On that note the Club possibly has around 50,000 fans (I'm defining a fan as someone who would name AFCW as their favourite football club and either attend in person or watch at least 1 match every couple of seasons on tv). That is an incredible and very loyal customer base. Now that the Club have started to look at increasing revenue and margins from beverage spend we need to look at how we can maximise the financial interaction that these 50,000 have with the club. If we could get to a point where each of these 50,000 fans on average spent just £400 per annum on home tickets, livestreaming, beverages, merchandise, competitions & prize draws etc etc we'd more than double our annual revenue which would put us on a par with Wrexham. There must be loads of ways to achieve that and I accept OI's point that they need to be low cost and relatively easy to implement - but they will be out there.

No big deal, really. MyPie know how popular they are and are trying to use it to their advantage. If they want to continue, they’ll have to pay a bit more to us. If they don’t, they will be replaced. Ball’s in their court.

Well if there are people waiting for a pitch,again suggests that those in charge should of been getting the best deals ,can see why we lose so much a season.