Should we consider. Jam is get 24k including 6k Dons fans. If we staged Hertz, Huns and tic home games there what do you think crowds would be, 30k, 35k, 40k?. If we budget at 30k for 5 home games the extra turnover compared to full houses at ER could be 5 x 13k fans at ave £20 =65k x20=£1.3m. Subtract 300k for rental/ security that's an extra 1 million bottom line per year. Over 3 seasons an extra £3 million could buy us:
£1 mill to fund indoor full size pitch at East Mains PLUS £2 million to fund top players and keep them enabling a Europa league challenge. A notional £700k per year is £14k per week that could top up current wages of 4 top players to around 7/8k per week. Could help keep Super McGinn or fund higher level new players. Speculative I know but what are thoughts?
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10-09-2017 07:05 AM #1
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Hibs to play at Murderfield
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10-09-2017 07:10 AM #4
No. There's a bit more to Football than just money.
Hibs play at Easter Road, on which a decent wedge has been judiciously spent on a complete renovation during my lifetime so it's not a tip like Tynecastle
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10-09-2017 07:13 AM #5
As the song says "at Easter Road we play"
Every gimmick hungry yob,
Digging gold from rock and roll
Grabs the mic to tell us,
He'll die before he's sold.
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10-09-2017 07:49 AM #6
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Having watched some of the game on Alba, it is a cracking pitch, I think its one of the hybrid type.
Don't think I would ever consider it for our home games, but has to be a venue for Cup Semi-Finals?
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10-09-2017 08:04 AM #8
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I know they would never dare ask the Uglies to play any semi or final away from Glasgow!!!
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10-09-2017 07:53 AM #9
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fill in the corners
Rather than Murrayfield, we should be giving careful consideration to filling in the corners at ER. At least a feasibility study could be made. The work could be done in stages, with no great upheaval as at PBS, several English clubs have done so, in the end we could get the 30,000 capacity,
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10-09-2017 08:01 AM #10
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At the very most filling in the FF / East corner with seats is as far as we will ever go, which would probably bring the capacity up to 22,000 or thereabouts and that would be more than enough ..... I look forward to the day Hibs get round to filling in the corners and extending the roofs of the FF and south to make the stadium the enclosed arena it can and should be, but for me its a question of atmosphere not capacity and from that point of view 22,000 is the very most we will ever require.
As for Murrayfield ............ we played Barcelona in front of 24,000 there and it convinced me forever that so far as being a football stadium is concerned its a very good rugby stadium.
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10-09-2017 07:58 AM #15
They are there because they LIED about the status of the mega stand.
Trying to profit from their own mistakes and selling too many ST's to allow them to play in front of 3 stands.
They knew this all along.
We have our own UEFA/FIFA compliant stadium.
24,000 at game with 8,000 Dons fans means 16,000 yams turned up.
Bearing in mind they have 15,000 ST and gave away tickets so less than 1000 walk ups fir the yams.
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You may get more for the big games but that would be only because you can get more away fans in.
Overall I think if Hibs moved there within 6 months the crowd for non cat a games would be the same as at Easter road but with rent to pay!Cougars!!!
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Terrible idea, we play at Easter Rod, lets concentrate on filling up that and look further than just trying to earn a few extra quid.
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10-09-2017 08:08 AM #20
I said on the other thread but how are Hearts allowed to make money from increased attendances due to their own bad planning?
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10-09-2017 08:15 AM #22
What the hertz do today we most certainly will not do tomorrow. It would be a path to ruination if ever we did.
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Murrayfield isn't cheap to rent, when the American football was there they left to go to Hampden because it was costing around £65K to rent per game, Hampden was half that price and that was 20 years ago, prices have increased in that time.
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10-09-2017 08:19 AM #24
Hearts will not have made money from yesterday.
Owning one stadium and renting another is not good business.
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10-09-2017 08:21 AM #25This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteEvery gimmick hungry yob,
Digging gold from rock and roll
Grabs the mic to tell us,
He'll die before he's sold.
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Cynic in me says that they looked at Murrayfield as another way to wring more cash out of their supporters/customers. 16000 home fans adds up to the same as 384,000 locked out at Tynie. If it backfires and costs them, well that will be poetic justice. Murrayfield's owners might want to check the bog signs and towel rails are still in place after they leave and aren't being hawked as authentic momentoes.
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10-09-2017 08:22 AM #27
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We'd also be giving away much of the "home advantage" against our 3 biggest rivals.
No thanks.
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10-09-2017 08:25 AM #28
Other than keeping the rest of us entertained why would anyone want to follow a yam business, football or financial model?
Let's not forget the real reason they're at Murrayfield and it's looking like they're not going to be buying many seats with the "profits" in light of the numbers.
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