Beach volleyball is alright

There was a crowd of just under 10,000 at the O2 final, so not a full house - decent turnout, but the O2 holds up to 22,500. Been there a few times for gigs (Foo Fighters, Muse, Manics, etc…), and the atmosphere is great when it’s properly full…

Women’s tennis and hockey is a decent watch too IMO

The only ladies sport worth watching is athletics.

I remember the 80s when football was in crisis and the press were gleefully predicting that basketball was set to take over as number 1 sport in the UK needless to say it never happened

stop feeding the troll

a4e - you are correct. Apologies. When my son said BoxPark I assumed at Wembley. Apparently last years final was played to a full house at the 02. Apparently Marinakis of Forest is the latest to get on board. It seems to have come out of the wilderness and is really promoting itself. I will get along myself to see what he is raving on about.

I know someone who played for Surrey Storm. The club was forced to close down when the Netball Super League relaunched last year and they weren't selected.

I imagine netball has razzmatazz because minor sports need the spectacle as well as the game play to get the crowds in. It probably has a few people who pump money in and that is fine, people should be able to spend their extra money how they like. Football shouldn't need the showbiz element, it is only the match that should matter (though I take that to extrmes).

Apparently (per my google search), the average salary for super league netball players last year was approximately £12k for the whole season, so it doesn’t seem exactly a sport awash with cash and certainly no useful comparison with football.

Alicia Scholes (the shortest member of the *cough* Pulse squad at 5’ 4”) is the daughter of Little Paul Scholes of Manure United fame - maybe he’s “pouring” money into the sport, just as he did with League 2 Salford City…? London Pulse netball team do not (as far as I can tell) play their games at Boxpark Wembley, but rather at the Copper Box Arena on the Olympic Park in Stratford… There is a netball club called Wembley Magpies Netball Club, but they are based in Perth, Australia. Boxpark in Wembley is basically a bar and events venue, they do parties, karaoke, and other stuff….

Money is pouring into netball? I’ve seen it all now

RIP Chuck Norris, 86.

On a different note, does anyone follow Netball? My youngest son’s latest girlfriend is a British Netball player and plays for a club called London Pulse. They play their matches at BoxPark in Wembley and apparently regularly get 4500+ fans paying an average of over £30+. He went to a match last week and says the atmosphere, razmataz and entertainment was electric. Money is apparently pouring into the Sport. He thinks coming to Plough Lane is incredible dull by comparison – particularly for an occasional, relatively neutral fan. Sometimes it’s good to look outside the box.

I haven’t voted – not because I don’t love the Club – but because I believe that this vote has nothing directly to do with me or the Club. It is simply the vote of an outdated “Collective” Industrial & Provident Society (or Community Benefits Society, or indeed any nightmarish name you wish to dress it up as) to determine not whether, but the extent to which they continue to tyrannise, trample & overlook the interests of 5000+ minority fan owners by selling some of their 75%+ shareholding. If the RMT Union owned 75%+ of the Club and automatically enrolled me as a member (without an Opt-In mechanism) I would take the same view. Supporting the Club doesn’t mean that we have to participate in the internal affairs of such a body. The Club is doing a lot of things right and beginning to put its financial house in order, but is having to do so with one hand tied behind it’s back due to a number of non-commercial ideological restraints dictated by this “Collective”. An industrial & Provident Society no more represents Fan Ownership than the Socialist Unity Party of Germany represented ownership by the People.

Naz - I just succeeded in renewing, my season ticket, certainly not easy but eventual success.

do I understand correctly that we are been asked to vote to remove the 15% limit, but with no other limit set instead?

Florida - I received an e-mail on 4th March with a link to follow. I would give you that link but I think it would go to my account. So maybe try [Link] But, as I say, every time I try the page gets stuck on the delivery method. If you manage to crack it, do let us all know!

Can somebody point me at the season ticket purchase page please. I can't find it. TIA.

I agree with OI

You at least need a rolling contract to supply 'working capital' for a period, e.g. 1.5 million per annum with a 3 year notice period. Asking for this would probably make investors run for the hills.

Stuart D- I agree, unless you get someone who would buy a minority and at the same time agree to fund our losses (which investor I doubt exists, and if you did get someone like that they would in effect have taken control of the club, by the simple fact that they could threaten to turn off the money tap if they didn’t get their way on anything). Much cleaner and clearer to just sell control and be done with it.

Selling equity to a minority investor is just kicking another can down the road.

Season ticket renewal online still getting stuck at the delivery modes page. And I thought the club was keen on getting money in early.

Timmy, their comms are 100% accurate. The key word (see my earlier post) is "help" and i think I've shown how. WE NEED OTHER INITIATIVES TOO.