Thats decent enough I think we could get around 1500 going with the right marketing etc......[b said:
Take the 1 off and you'll be a bit closer ...[b said:
So the Club lose even more money?[b said:Quote[/b] (Smiffy @ Jan. 26 2005,23:04)]If subsidised transport was involved yes!.
Come on Ron, you know it makes sense!.
To be honest, I'm not completely sure, although I seem to remember someone mentioning that the Club loses money when they do subsidised coach trips. Then again, it will depend on how many people go.[b said:
Yes it would lose money. At say £5 a time a full coach (49?) will raise under £250 which at Supreme prices I would think covers less than half the normal trip charge to Brizzel. The only way the club wouldn't lose was if Supreme gave them a deal, which is possible based on that they used to have a board member for may years.[b said:
When the club Subsidise a Coach or Coaches it means exactly that.[b said:
I remember when I used to help Paul Holland out running the coaches back in the day we used to get people see us collect a large amount of cash and assume that we were making a profit running the coaches. However the cost of hiring them is not cheap at all, and for every trip where a profit is made any money just goes to cover the losses of taking a half full coach to the North East for a midweek game.[b said:
Very true, & one of the problems the Trust has at present is that we are now regulary running two coaches to most games. Fine if they are full, but not so good when you only have around 80 people. But what can you do, we do not want to turn people away and just use one coach. Here's hoping at the end of the season it all balances out & we don't lose (or in fact make) too much money.[b said:
That was always the perrenial problem we had, fill one coach fine - you've made a little profit to offset some further losses. However have a coach and a half worth of people and you are making a loss. We used to try and off-set this by having the option of a couple of smaller vehicles to use as a sort of overspill - stick the regulars on there who would be prepared to bung the driver a few quid in tips and have a detour there and back for a drink. Everyone was happy, us few **** heads had a good drink and it helped keep the prices down for those who just wanted to take a more sedate coach trip there and back.[b said:
Bloody hell - if we did that now half of them would never get to the match[b said:
There were a few occasions when that happened - however that was more to do with the unreliability of the overspill vehicles we used. Anyone who ever travelled on the 'Fire Engine' will no doubt vouch for that.[b said:Quote[/b] (Beaver @ Jan. 28 2005,11:19)]Bloody hell - if we did that now half of them would never get to the match[b said:
Not really in our experience, it never worked out too economical to use a double decker coach (ie number of seats to cost of hire) plus there is the fact that it is bloody uncomfortable if you are sitting on the top deck (you feel every single bump in the road).[b said:
Ah shut up and get back to your grotty kebabs
I think we found in the past that the Double Deckers were normally profit making (just). However your right in respect to the comfort (lack of) upstairs. Whenever I travelled on the DD's I always sat downstairs (perks of the job)[b said:
