Is it Wednesday already? It must be time for some midweek musings, then...
Well, that's one finalist all but decided: Coventry won 5-1 in Edinburgh last night in the first leg of their KO Cup Semi, which makes tonight's second leg at the Skydome something of a foregone conclusion...to the point where one of my season-ticket holding friends has sent me a text today asking if I'd like to go and see Cloverfield with them, as it's likely to be far more interesting that watching two bored teams play out a meaningless game. When someone who doesn't miss a game and even made the trip to Sheffield for the quarters would rather go and see a bad monster movie than a semi-final, even when the price is slightly reduced, you know a competition has problems...
The British KO Cup. Feel the passion!
Auditors? Why not?: After yesterday's post, a comment mentioned that perhaps an independent audit of clubs finances would be a better way of doing things. Maybe it would. But that wouldn't allow for the public release of the figures so that everyone could see just where the money was going and just who is spending what-which is the whole point of things in the first place. It's easy to do...you just put them in a news item in the Elite website, in a simple list. "Wage bills. Basingstoke, £x,000. Belfast, £y,000, Cardiff, £z,000....." But of course I'm going to be told that this is unrealistic. Why? Because the people who will decide on this are the same people who have a vested interest on people not knowing if they're cheating the league by breaking the cap...the owners. The EIHL is a boys club, with three or four powerful owners dominating by force of personality/money/influence on friends.
Open-ness. Apart from wages, clubs need to tell people why they make decisions. If ticket prices go up, there should be a concrete reason, rather than just "operations" which is a nice vague term that anyone can use. PR-speak is not enough any more for the vast majority of fans, because they'll simply turn round and say "cover-up".
Discipline for the league should be an open process, not something where the EIHL board make up the rules as they go along.
And can we please stop certain clubs trying to shove stuff they're selling right down your throat?
Ouch (warning-these links are pretty graphic-not for the weak of stomach): The NHL, and indeed the whole hockey world, was rocked this Monday as Richard Zednik gets his throat slit by a skate. Thankfully, he's OK and is recovering in hospital, but stuff like this reminds you that those things on hockey players feet are bloody dangerous if they come up in the wrong way...ask Clint Malarchuk. Maybe that also explains something to you about why part of the hockey code is "never, ever target a goalie" and also why, if you've played and accidentally caught the oppostion goalie and then had half the opposition team pile onto you, just why they did so.
I'm not going to give a sermon about this because I don't wear a neck-guard when I play. But you get close to it when you see stuff like this...
And on that downbeat note-keep keeping your eye on the puck...
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Regarding putting prices up on tickets...can I ask a question?
When your electricity bill goes up year on year what does the electricity company tell you?
If your rent were to go up this year would your landlord explain why?
It's called inflation...for every ticket price that might be put up there would be a cost a club has to pay which has also gone up. For example the car rental probably cost more this year than last, the players house rents go up year on year, the rink rent goes up each year. When asked why it's because of inflation..their costs of maintaining, cleaning the arena has gone up etc
It's the way life goes, things get more expensive the person above you has costs which have gone up and the person above them have costs which have gone up.
It's life...if you want a club to say ticket prices have increased and the reason they give you is inflation that probably because it's true and when looking at the business plan and you need to charge X to cover the cost of Y you would then charge X amount more.
It's pretty simple. Why does the price of Milk go up every year? Because the farmer they're buying from has put their prices up.
Or would you rather the club say we've put ticket prices up because we can't afford our costs because that's what you would want to hear even if it isn't true? What kind of a business plan would that be?!!!
I don't understand what you want...are you wanting the club to turn round and say we need more money because we're in trouble? What if a club just has a solid business plan and covers it's costs by planning ahead?
You talk about Bison being honest but they've obviously had problems and kudos to Tomas for telling everyone where the club stands.
But what if a club is stable enough to just do it's job without issuing a pr to say you know what we're slightly down on our budget this month that we were the last month?
Do you not think when the Blaze were in Solihull and faced similar problems they weren't honest with the fanbase? If you think that you would be wrong as they were.
Many clubs in the league would have nothing to say which is sensational or stretching the truth they just have a solid business plan to keep the team functioning in the league and there really is nothing more to say.
As an aside...part of that plan is to sell merchandise at a cost of X to cover the cost of Y (shop rental, rates, power bills etc) so if they want to tell the customers that they have new merchandise in so that people know and can then "make the choice" to go and buy said merchandise they are fully armed with the facts.
Or would you rather people just guessed what was in stock?
It's called Marketing! It's actually the reason the Blaze compete at the level they do or would you rather they didn't market their products not pay the bills and play in a lower league?
You give people the choice to buy a new line of hoodies by informing them that we have them.
I suppose Next wouldn't do so well if they didn't advertise their latest spring range and just let people guess what they had in stock?
How exactly would that help their business run?
I do genuinely see what you want and why you want it but what if there is just nothing to say? What if people have questions in general they are free to ask them in person or by phone email?
What if we just do what we currently do and hold a few fans forums a year to give people a chance to ask questions? (We've had one already this season and you didn't attend? Did you listen to the questions asked on the radio out of interest?)
What if there is just nothing interesting to say?
What then?
Good on you Sally!
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