Ticket News Daggers (home) - Saturday 9th March 17:30 - Live on TNT

[Smiffy]

Daggers (h) now confirmed as live on TNT.

Sat 9th March 17:30 KO.

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[Texas Eslan]

Why do they keep putting the games on the TV where we would actually get a reasonable away support in for? It must be frustrating to the club. Surely a home game against Solihull would be better for the TV?

 

[Evening Echo]

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[CanveyCastle]

With a 5.30 kick off.

******* TV company.

 

[Harry Bullocks]

Should be a belter

 

[BigCol]

We have lost out on quite a few quid there in ticket sales. Is this actually acceptable?

 

[Tommy2holes]

Everytime we have a potential semi decent away crowd we get picked for TNT.

Not good for the finances.

 

[ESG]

With a 5.30 kick off.

******* TV company.

Royaly hate BT/TNT

 

[Danshrimper]

We have lost out on quite a few quid there in ticket sales. Is this actually acceptable?

In what way would it be unacceptable? TNT Sports are entitled to pick whatever game they want. I’m sure this is made clear to clubs at the start of the season.

Our two highest attendances this season were games broadcast on TNT. So I’m not sure what all this overreaction about losing money is for.

Why do they keep putting the games on the TV where we would actually get a reasonable away support in for? It must be frustrating to the club. Surely a home game against Solihull would be better for the TV?

We’ve already played Solihull at home. And even if we hadn’t, I’m not sure how that would be better from a TV perspective.

It’s hardly a surprise that they’d rather pick a local game with a decent crowd and atmosphere. Than a game against the likes of Gateshead with 10 away fans and a muted atmosphere.

 

[Strykr]

That sucks for me, was planning on coming back to southend for that one, nice 3pm kick off. . Why cant they televise the long distance games, surely thats better for everyone..

 

[Texas Eslan]

In what way would it be unacceptable? TNT Sports are entitled to pick whatever game they want. I’m sure this is made clear to clubs at the start of the season.

Our two highest attendances this season were games broadcast on TNT. So I’m not sure what all this overreaction about losing money is for.

We’ve already played Solihull at home. And even if we hadn’t, I’m not sure how that would be better from a TV perspective.

It’s hardly a surprise that they’d rather pick a local game with a decent crowd and atmosphere. Than a game against the likes of Gateshead with 10 away fans and a muted atmosphere.

I’m aware we’ve played Solihull at home. Wasn’t really the point though. I am saying this hurts the bottom line and is annoying to say the least. Also had our home game vs. Chesterfield televised which would have impacted on the away support against a good sized club who would have brought more if it wasn’t I’m sure.

 

[GBJ]

The question is, how much TV revenue will we make from the game and would this figure compensate the loss of a few hundred extra fans?

Due to part closures, the North Bank can hold around 600ish I think. From memory, Chesterfield brought down around 450(?) An extra 150 fans, paying £20 each would have returned £3k.

Did we earn more through TV revenue?

I’d expect Daggers to sell similar to Chesterfield tbh, maybe a tad more.

 

[Danshrimper]

I’m aware we’ve played Solihull at home. Wasn’t really the point though. I am saying this hurts the bottom line and is annoying to say the least. Also had our home game vs. Chesterfield televised which would have impacted on the away support against a good sized club who would have brought more if it wasn’t I’m sure.

The question is, how much TV revenue will we make from the game and would this figure compensate the loss of a few hundred extra fans?

Due to part closures, the North Bank can hold around 600ish I think. From memory, Chesterfield brought down around 450(?) An extra 150 fans, paying £20 each would have returned £3k.

Did we earn more through TV revenue?

I’d expect Daggers to sell similar to Chesterfield tbh, maybe a tad more.

You can watch the games on National League TV anyway, does it really make that much difference to the away support?

Chesterfield brought 493 to us. A few weeks earlier they played Boreham Wood away, which is a similar distance, and took 499. So I’m not sure on what basis there would have been loads more of them if it wasn’t on TV.

They definitely didn’t bring anymore than 450 odd the last two seasons either, albeit one of them was a Tuesday night.

 

[Smiffy]

The question is, how much TV revenue will we make from the game and would this figure compensate the loss of a few hundred extra fans?

Due to part closures, the North Bank can hold around 600ish I think. From memory, Chesterfield brought down around 450(?) An extra 150 fans, paying £20 each would have returned £3k.

Did we earn more through TV revenue?

I’d expect Daggers to sell similar to Chesterfield tbh, maybe a tad more.

I swear someone said we earn something like £6k from TNT games. Unsure if that was individually or in total for the season. Either way it’s peanuts.

 

[GBJ]

I swear someone said we earn something like £6k from TNT games.

If true, that should make up for the loss of fan revenue.

I think people are quick to forget that we can only sell 600ish in the NB, so it’s not like we’re missing out on an extra 1000+ away fans (although not much chance of that in this league anyway)

Edit: If it’s £6k for the season, that’s a different story

 

[Texas Eslan]

If true, that should make up for the loss of fan revenue.

I think people are quick to forget that we can only sell 600ish in the NB, so it’s not like we’re missing out on an extra 1000+ away fans (although not much chance of that in this league anyway)

Edit: If it’s £6k for the season, that’s a different story

Don’t also forget that this would stop home fans coming along as well…

 

[Texas Eslan]

You can watch the games on National League TV anyway, does it really make that much difference to the away support?

Chesterfield brought 493 to us. A few weeks earlier they played Boreham Wood away, which is a similar distance, and took 499. So I’m not sure on what basis there would have been loads more of them if it wasn’t on TV.

They definitely didn’t bring anymore than 450 odd the last two seasons either, albeit one of them was a Tuesday night.

You can’t watch NL games at 3pm on a Saturday unless you are using non legitimate means.

 

[ESG]

You can’t watch NL games at 3pm on a Saturday unless you are using non legitimate means.

Now we know what the rat does on a Saturday afternoon now

 

[Swiss Tony]

The question is, how much TV revenue will we make from the game and would this figure compensate the loss of a few hundred extra fans?

Due to part closures, the North Bank can hold around 600ish I think. From memory, Chesterfield brought down around 450(?) An extra 150 fans, paying £20 each would have returned £3k.

Did we earn more through TV revenue?

I’d expect Daggers to sell similar to Chesterfield tbh, maybe a tad more.

Depends if Wet Spam are at home.

 

[Danshrimper]

Don’t also forget that this would stop home fans coming along as well…

Based on what? The home end was sold out for the last match on TNT Sport.