Colchester United - Chairman message to fans

Excellent read that. I read a few bits from their Chairman when they had to release a few players they wanted to keep, and he spoke so openly and honest about everything, including finances. Breath of fresh air.
 
Enjoyed that. Although looking at those ifollow figures is scary. It makes you wonder how the hell are these clubs surviving, the economics just don't seem to work with the overheads they will have. I can't see some of them making it through the season if the fan restrictions continue for too long.
 
Yes, appalling figures those for most clubs.
Mike Kelly did some research for the fanzine at the end of last season and found that ifollow video subscription rights totalled only an average of £76k for each club for a season. That was why Boro didn't ever sign up to ifollow - it was signing away all your digital rights and they felt also signing up to an inferior product that hardly paid anything to the clubs and was a longterm deal.
Clearly things are better with the new match pass deal but still it looks impossibly difficult for many clubs to survive for long on such an income.
 
Really worry for a lot of EFL clubs as it is looking unlikely that fans will be allowed in grounds before Christmas at the very least. What's the FSA position now on fans being allowed back in Rob? I would have thought based on Saturday's Boro experience it is not unreasonable to lobby for earlier as we clearly showed it could be done safely for a limited number. Otherwise what's the point of having a test?
 
Yes, EFL were lobbying this week, FSA were lobbying, everyone was but as positive as the pilot schemes were - everyone has been pausing to see if and how far things are rolled back today, nationally.
 
He talks a lot of sense and those figures look rather worrying for some clubs.
Thanks for posting the link Uncle (y)
 
So if Middlesbrough had say 2000 streams on Saturday v QPR and QPR had 2000 home streams - all the money would go to QPR and Boro had paid to travel down etc and possibly stop in London?

It would be the same but role reversal for the return fixture, although that would be contingent on the ban on fans lasting all season....

They should total all income for each league for each round of matches and share it equally - a bit like TV money
 
Perhaps streaming revenues could be shared collectively to help the smaller clubs? EPL could also contribute from TV revenue....wont hold my breath on this one like:)
 
Great stuff. Can you imagine Steve Gibson being that communicative?

MFC won't even tell us details of transfer fees these days..............
 
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