Ticket discounts for BMW workers - cryptic clue

[GodalmingYellow]

OUFC take no percentage of catering revenue from any food and refreshment concessions within the stadium. This is a myth.

OxVox are meeting Lindleys in the coming weeks to discuss the standard of food, the pricing and value for money. OxVox members will be sent a survey so we can fully represent their views and concerns.

Point 9 of our recent OUFC meeting makes reference to the meeting (see below) and we made a Trust comment on the matter also (link below)

http://oxvox.org.uk/PageContent.aspx?id=128
http://www.oxvox.org.uk/news.aspx?id=279

Season Ticket holders get a good deal, I don't disagree. But what about those ardent fans who cannot afford to invest £250-£400 but go to every game because of cash-flow (that number is at least 2000 every home game).

I'm not sure that you're right about the catering.

IIRC the club and StadCo came to a deal last season where revenue from catering and advertising inside the stadium is split 50:50.

I'm sure someone with more time on their hands than me will be able to find the announcement on the official site.

[Snake]

I'd like to hear this Snake rant, mainly because I reckon it'll hark back to the FOUL days and some perceived, but not fully explained, injustice from then.

I don't see the problem with this, firstly in my opinion BMW are no more obliged to be involved with OUFC than they are with any other local football club or business. Secondly it appears win-win, bit of press, maybe a few more tickets sold - pretty much as explained by GY above.

More encouraging is that the club is trying and apparently making progress on these sorts of relationships.

There is quite a long list of ‘joint ventures’ under WPL but still no sign of a proper partnership that will enable the purchase of the stadium.

We are Division IV, so that rules out Arab billionaires but a big local business may be the ticket we need to move forward given that the club is already run efficiently and all the basics are in place with Thomas, Wilder et all. And BMW are based in Cowley and the PM lives next door. How hard is it to get a proper deal after all these years?

As things stand the BMW stuff is up there with hopes regarding the University, gems from Africa, the Oxford Mail, Buildbase, Bridle, a now bankrupt Debt Doctor, Seacoast United, the council for a few shops on Blackbird Leys on the overflow car park, or maybe some flats in the corners of our ground. I’m still waiting to hear about something like free balloons from that bloke with a beard who’s based in Kiddlington and is still a virgin when it comes to involving himself in Oxford United. Meanwhile, all those businesses in the Science Park actually employ people to stop Us parking there instead of charging a few quid per car.

Told you it would be a rant

WTF?

Do you really think that a major, international business is going to come along and plonk a shit load of money in to the club, enough for us to be able to buy the stadium? That's as mental as people who come on at the start of each season and say &quotwhy haven't we signed Ronaldo / Beckham / Giggs. Something must be wrong at the club.&quot

We're a local sports team and as such must look to local businesses. Putting together a team of sponsors is like putting together the team of players. Some will be statement sponsors like Duberry / BMW. Others will be a little more stable and lucrative such as Bridle (the Beano of sponsors, perhaps) and some will turn out to be the Futcher of the team, much like Debt Dr.

As for the bearded chap down the road (or even the PM?!), why the hell should have any investment, financial or emotional, in our club just because he has a house in Kidlington. He also owns an island in the South Pacific, and you don't see him sponsoring local rugby team there.

I don't get your negativity to all the activity that seems to be happening at the club. Local business are they key. Even when Burnley were in the Prem, their biggest advert behind the goal which everyone saw on MOTD every week was:

DAVID FISHWICK MINIBUS SALES

I think you need to take your eyes off clubs like Man Utd and look at just how local our club is. Therefore the partnerships need to be local and yoiu build it up from there.

&quotDo you really think that a major, international business is going to come along and plonk a shit load of money in to the club, enough for us to be able to buy the stadium?&quot

Err, yes, and we should not give up hope that the next person to come along isn't a former youth player with no cash (or socks).

[recordmeister]

In which case, sir, I happen to think you are deluded and I'm glad you're not running our club. It's not Football Manager, you know. It's real life. And in the present enviroment the club maximise all revenue streams including small, local investors in the club. These are far more likely to feed a cash hungry animal, than going on a diet until an invite to a Michelin starred resturant comes along.

[Snake]

Agree, in real life a massive global car manufacturer would not take the piss like they did with those seats. Next thing you know Scum fans will break into the Stadium again and paint &quotHonda&quot over them.

[Brahma Bull]

OUFC take no percentage of catering revenue from any food and refreshment concessions within the stadium. This is a myth.

OxVox are meeting Lindleys in the coming weeks to discuss the standard of food, the pricing and value for money. OxVox members will be sent a survey so we can fully represent their views and concerns.

Point 9 of our recent OUFC meeting makes reference to the meeting (see below) and we made a Trust comment on the matter also (link below)

http://oxvox.org.uk/PageContent.aspx?id=128
http://www.oxvox.org.uk/news.aspx?id=279

Season Ticket holders get a good deal, I don't disagree. But what about those ardent fans who cannot afford to invest £250-£400 but go to every game because of cash-flow (that number is at least 2000 every home game).

I'm not sure that you're right about the catering.

IIRC the club and StadCo came to a deal last season where revenue from catering and advertising inside the stadium is split 50:50.

I'm sure someone with more time on their hands than me will be able to find the announcement on the official site.

I am 100% right and we re-clarified it with Kelvin a few weeks ago when we started talking about Lindleys and the report into catering at FL grounds.

However, you are right with regard to what was announced on the official website a few years back but things change.

[Snake]

Somehow I just knew that the horrible and overpriced football food that some people like to queue for (at the expense of missing the game at times) would creep into a half-interesting debate on here.

Hey, can’t this be done on the OxVox board as the last time I saw their Leader on the telly he was talking about the price of it like it was some essential part of the Oxford United experience to get a decent priced burger at half time? Having said that, if someone like GY is not sure where the profits go then maybe the club / Oxford Mail / whoever / should clarify the matter and officially tell Us where our hard earned goes and be done with it once and for all. Or would that upset Mr. Kassam, Ian?

And no linked jokes about sausages please as only 4.8% of BWM’s institutional investors come from Germany these days.

[Kernow Yellow]

But what about those ardent fans who cannot afford to invest £250-£400 but go to every game because of cash-flow (that number is at least 2000 every home game).

Going off on a tangent here, but that's patently rubbish. As discussed several times on here before, the non-ST holders that attend games come from a pool of many thousands. Many of us only attend a handful of home games a year. The idea that it's the same 2,000|| making up the attendance week in week out is obviously wrong - if that were the case the vast majority would have season tickets! It also serves to underestimate our fanbase - I reckon that at least 15-20,000 OUFC fans attend at least one home game each season, and most of those attend several.

Anyway, as others have already said, I don't have a problem with promotional prices to any number of groups of people to get more bums on seats, provided that the price offered per game is no less (and preferably slightly more) than a loyal customer could buy a season ticket for at any given time during the season.

[GodalmingYellow]

OUFC take no percentage of catering revenue from any food and refreshment concessions within the stadium. This is a myth.

OxVox are meeting Lindleys in the coming weeks to discuss the standard of food, the pricing and value for money. OxVox members will be sent a survey so we can fully represent their views and concerns.

Point 9 of our recent OUFC meeting makes reference to the meeting (see below) and we made a Trust comment on the matter also (link below)

http://oxvox.org.uk/PageContent.aspx?id=128
http://www.oxvox.org.uk/news.aspx?id=279

Season Ticket holders get a good deal, I don't disagree. But what about those ardent fans who cannot afford to invest £250-£400 but go to every game because of cash-flow (that number is at least 2000 every home game).

I'm not sure that you're right about the catering.

IIRC the club and StadCo came to a deal last season where revenue from catering and advertising inside the stadium is split 50:50.

I'm sure someone with more time on their hands than me will be able to find the announcement on the official site.

I am 100% right and we re-clarified it with Kelvin a few weeks ago when we started talking about Lindleys and the report into catering at FL grounds.

However, you are right with regard to what was announced on the official website a few years back but things change.

Ah OK, thanks BB. Funny how that announcement didn't make the headlines....

[GodalmingYellow]

But what about those ardent fans who cannot afford to invest £250-£400 but go to every game because of cash-flow (that number is at least 2000 every home game).

Going off on a tangent here, but that's patently rubbish. As discussed several times on here before, the non-ST holders that attend games come from a pool of many thousands. Many of us only attend a handful of home games a year. The idea that it's the same 2,000|| making up the attendance week in week out is obviously wrong - if that were the case the vast majority would have season tickets! It also serves to underestimate our fanbase - I reckon that at least 15-20,000 OUFC fans attend at least one home game each season, and most of those attend several.

Anyway, as others have already said, I don't have a problem with promotional prices to any number of groups of people to get more bums on seats, provided that the price offered per game is no less (and preferably slightly more) than a loyal customer could buy a season ticket for at any given time during the season.

Can't disagree with you there KY.

And for those who need the cashflow, there is a finance scheme in place.

[Beach Road End]

Can’t believe people are getting fussed by this. Anything that looks to kick start a partnership with one of the county’s biggest employers is to be applauded as is a scheme which should help to get more bums on seats.

I take it everyone who is against this is also against student/NHS/armed forces discounts at various shops/restaurants?