Gemmill

Snatch is pump. FACT!

Are you really an accountant Gem ? What impact do you think less income will have on the clubs spending power ? No doubt you would be the first to complain if the club stopped attempting to buy quality players ....... There is no quicker way to oblivion for NUFC ie where we were for decades prior to the current board taking over, than reducing income into the club. Apart from re-employing Souness, who you backed, that is. To give a balanced look on this, while it is a worthy gesture by Blackburn, they are only doing it because they can't fill a small ground because they have poxy support. Remember the mackems dishing out freebies and such like, and were the source of piss taking by us for doing it ie caring club and all that bollocks ? What did you think of that ? The only ways clubs can withstand reduced admission fees, is 1. If players salaries are capped, and it simply isn't going to happen 2. Standing areas in stadiums to get more people in to make up the shortfall in income [short term before greed took over again anyway] Yes. For the umpteenth time, I am an accountant. What profession do you lend your dazzling array of talents to btw? Just out of interest, and seen as you have such a strong opinion on what others do for a living (accountants, teachers, etc.) So what exactly do you think the result would be if the club dropped admission prices ? From an accountants perspective ? I think we are going to see a drop-off in season ticket sales in the summer. Some of the league attendances this season have shown that we no longer have guaranteed sellouts. I'm making numbers up here, but if we say that at present we are selling 48,000 season tickets at £500 a piece on average, that's revenue of £24m. Now, say we are going to lose 5,000 renewals in the summer - I don't think that's unreasonable btw, people are getting sick of the mediocrity (yes, yes, 5th best, I know). So, that would leave us selling 43,000 at £500 for £21.5m. If you were to drop the price by 5% across the board, you would only need to retain less than half of those non-renewers for that to leave you breaking even and still making £21.5m. That's breaking even on tickets alone btw, I'm not even factoring in the extra £20m we're supposed to be getting from the TV money. Why not offer that to the fans? At worst, if you still only get 43,000 renewing at the 5% discounted amount, you lose out on £1m revenue. You could easily make that back with one sold out cup match at SJP. A 10% discount would see you lose £2m, but again, you could make that back with a cup run. It's a goodwill gesture that could make a lot of difference. In the grand scheme of things it makes fuck all difference to the club's finances. It could even improve them in the long term as you get more kids able to afford going to the cup matches and catching the bug etc. Not a lot to argue with there. Some would also say the directors could waive their dividends to make up or help the deficit, but they have done that already this year, not that my paltry 10 quid or whatever it has been in the past would go very far At the end of the day, money is important though, plenty of people go on about one or two million quid being the difference between signing a player who would be good for the club and missing out. There is no doubt that it would be a good goodwill gesture, but I think doing it in the Cup Games is more feasible and realistic, don't you ? Especially when there are a lot of cup games. Bringing in the next generation of supporters etc etc ..... most of us started going when we were kids, so we have to get the kids coming in and get them hooked. I agree that season ticket sales will probably drop this summer, although all it takes is improved performance on the field and they would be back. I'm not daft enough to think that directors would waive dividends, and they shouldn't have to to fund a slight tweak in ticket prices. Yes, £2m would make a difference if you're looking to sign a player, but if you consider that you're probably going to lose that £2m anyway due to a fall in season ticket sales then dropping the prices a touch may even get you back £2m that you've already lost (using the example above, if you dropped the prices by 5% and retained 2,300 or so of the 5,000 that you would otherwise have lost without the reduction, then you've broken even on the lost cash, any more than that and you're showing a gain). If the drop in prices did lead to them losing significant revenue (although I fail to see how it could), you could make the money back on general sale tickets or by adjusting your policy for cup ticket pricing. Hit the corporates first - there's a not a lot to do in Newcastle by way of corporate entertainment, so take advantage of that by increasing the prices a bit. Companies will pay, (what choice do they have, the rugby?!), individuals won't.

When the two films are virtually identical and there's no apparent reason given for liking the first one and hating the second, the only thing I can presume is that the debut was out of nowhere by an unknown which meant nobody had any prejudice against it. Going into Snatch everyone knew more about Ritchie and couldn't forgive him treading the same ground as if it's all he knows is being the geezer that he is, and that pissed them off. If that's daft, so fuck, because if no one can explain why they were so different class it's the only logical explanation I can come to. In my opinion they aren't virtually identical. In my opinion Lock Stock was far the more entertaining film. That's all really. I don't like to over-analyse films so that's as much as I can give you by way of logical explanation for why I prefer one over the other. Watching films to me is about being entertained, so if one film entertains me and another doesn't, I tend to prefer the former over the latter. Maybe Leazes could use a similar argument as to why Shepherd is best for Newcastle and stop trying to come up with actual reasons. Save us all some time. I'm hoping that was a joke?

Are you really an accountant Gem ? What impact do you think less income will have on the clubs spending power ? No doubt you would be the first to complain if the club stopped attempting to buy quality players ....... There is no quicker way to oblivion for NUFC ie where we were for decades prior to the current board taking over, than reducing income into the club. Apart from re-employing Souness, who you backed, that is. To give a balanced look on this, while it is a worthy gesture by Blackburn, they are only doing it because they can't fill a small ground because they have poxy support. Remember the mackems dishing out freebies and such like, and were the source of piss taking by us for doing it ie caring club and all that bollocks ? What did you think of that ? The only ways clubs can withstand reduced admission fees, is 1. If players salaries are capped, and it simply isn't going to happen 2. Standing areas in stadiums to get more people in to make up the shortfall in income [short term before greed took over again anyway] Yes. For the umpteenth time, I am an accountant. What profession do you lend your dazzling array of talents to btw? Just out of interest, and seen as you have such a strong opinion on what others do for a living (accountants, teachers, etc.) So what exactly do you think the result would be if the club dropped admission prices ? From an accountants perspective ? I think we are going to see a drop-off in season ticket sales in the summer. Some of the league attendances this season have shown that we no longer have guaranteed sellouts. I'm making numbers up here, but if we say that at present we are selling 48,000 season tickets at £500 a piece on average, that's revenue of £24m. Now, say we are going to lose 5,000 renewals in the summer - I don't think that's unreasonable btw, people are getting sick of the mediocrity (yes, yes, 5th best, I know). So, that would leave us selling 43,000 at £500 for £21.5m. If you were to drop the price by 5% across the board, you would only need to retain less than half of those non-renewers for that to leave you breaking even and still making £21.5m. That's breaking even on tickets alone btw, I'm not even factoring in the extra £20m we're supposed to be getting from the TV money. Why not offer that to the fans? At worst, if you still only get 43,000 renewing at the 5% discounted amount, you lose out on £1m revenue. You could easily make that back with one sold out cup match at SJP. A 10% discount would see you lose £2m, but again, you could make that back with a cup run. It's a goodwill gesture that could make a lot of difference. In the grand scheme of things it makes fuck all difference to the club's finances. It could even improve them in the long term as you get more kids able to afford going to the cup matches and catching the bug etc.

When the two films are virtually identical and there's no apparent reason given for liking the first one and hating the second, the only thing I can presume is that the debut was out of nowhere by an unknown which meant nobody had any prejudice against it. Going into Snatch everyone knew more about Ritchie and couldn't forgive him treading the same ground as if it's all he knows is being the geezer that he is, and that pissed them off. If that's daft, so fuck, because if no one can explain why they were so different class it's the only logical explanation I can come to. In my opinion they aren't virtually identical. In my opinion Lock Stock was far the more entertaining film. That's all really. I don't like to over-analyse films so that's as much as I can give you by way of logical explanation for why I prefer one over the other. Watching films to me is about being entertained, so if one film entertains me and another doesn't, I tend to prefer the former over the latter.

NOOOOOOOO!!! *pulls Renton back from the abyss*

Are you really an accountant Gem ? What impact do you think less income will have on the clubs spending power ? No doubt you would be the first to complain if the club stopped attempting to buy quality players ....... There is no quicker way to oblivion for NUFC ie where we were for decades prior to the current board taking over, than reducing income into the club. Apart from re-employing Souness, who you backed, that is. To give a balanced look on this, while it is a worthy gesture by Blackburn, they are only doing it because they can't fill a small ground because they have poxy support. Remember the mackems dishing out freebies and such like, and were the source of piss taking by us for doing it ie caring club and all that bollocks ? What did you think of that ? The only ways clubs can withstand reduced admission fees, is 1. If players salaries are capped, and it simply isn't going to happen 2. Standing areas in stadiums to get more people in to make up the shortfall in income [short term before greed took over again anyway] Yes. For the umpteenth time, I am an accountant. What profession do you lend your dazzling array of talents to btw? Just out of interest, and seen as you have such a strong opinion on what others do for a living (accountants, teachers, etc.)

Are you absolutely certain you aren't just sweating again?

Agreed, I thought it was fucking terrible. The fight/Fuckin in the bushes bit is brilliant. I loved Snatch, what's wrong with it? Not that much. People just don't like Guy Ritchie because they think he's a mockney twat. Bollocks. People just don't like Snatch because it isn't any good. Well no one seems to have a reason why it was so much worse than Lock, stock other than just "because it was worse". Not convincing me. It wasn't as good a film. Sometimes opinions on films can be that simple. I've no real desire to convince you one way or the other, but to put it down to people not liking Guy Ritchie is daft.

Agreed, I thought it was fucking terrible. The fight/Fuckin in the bushes bit is brilliant. I loved Snatch, what's wrong with it? Not that much. People just don't like Guy Ritchie because they think he's a mockney twat. Bollocks. People just don't like Snatch because it isn't any good.

Euphemism? No, I just knocked over my bottle. GUMPH! FNAAR!!!

Why mention it in here then numbnuts? The answer's 42 btw. Because this is the Friday thread, chimpboy! And because I didn't want to get Renton in a huff if I ruined his thread.

How gay is that "question for the theists" thread btw? We normally have a good laugh on a Friday afternoon, but the fucking boffins are wasting a perfectly good Friday wittering about religion and who made the universe. Anyway, I hope we get an answer on that universe conundrum by home time!

Euphemism?

'I've got a thing for ging...' 'heytherebert' It is though. That's you on the right.

That's brilliant from Blackburn. I don't expect any other clubs to follow suit. Particularly not NUFC.

Not really arsed either way, but one thing is certain - they ARE going down.

Have you finished the God Delusion yet btw? Nope, too busy reading poker books. I'll get back onto it right away though, sir!

Enough of this jibber jabber! It's Friday!

Don't get him started on the Asians.

Karma for the "tumour boy" chants tbh.

Eh? What's the story there then, or is it just a woefully OTT headline? I remember the business about Pardew allegedly having an affair from earlier in the season, which I assume is what the article is alluding to?

Get off the internet then, you tubby tit! Fuck off Gemmill. I'm having breakfast. You could be here a while then? Oh, very funny. Ha fucking ha. It's Friday and you're eating! You should be the happiest man alive!