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Not the most interesting ever but some decent snippets about budget (going up about 10%) and a direct question about Coley Parry (we haven’t got anything to worry about…apparently…) only half an hour

Thought The Lo Down were no more

Always enjoyed it more than Outlook and Gilso’s show

Was this the one with the big fat guy and the simian looking one that used to do songs?

Hoover Attack wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2024 2:02 pm Was this the one with the big fat guy and the simian looking one that used to do songs?

Not sure one of those I am/would rather be.

But no

One of them looked like Dean Cox and one ate sandwiches. It was the better podcast

Little fact, I created the two best orient podcasts of all time

Why do you do it?

Selflessness really. A longing to give back something,
I guess

Coming into them all cold, my suspicion is it’d be easier to make the best orient podcast than the worst

We took the approach of burning out and then fading away after making about 40 episodes. Can’t believe some are still going 200 eps in

Season tickets up 5% and a new tv deal in place creating extra revenue but the budget only up 10%

Lovely stuff.

BiggsyMalone wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2024 5:55 pm Season tickets up 5% and a new tv deal in place creating extra revenue but the budget only up 10%

Lovely stuff.

Guess the hunt for new investment is going quite slowly then, particularly if we're circling the wagons around Parry.

Interesting that he talks to Richie after every game and that they are all going in a retreat next week to talk business.

BiggsyMalone wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2024 5:55 pm Season tickets up 5% and a new tv deal in place creating extra revenue but the budget only up 10%

Lovely stuff.

We have to make the loss manageable. Its not a benevolent society.

LittleMate wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2024 9:08 pm

BiggsyMalone wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2024 5:55 pm Season tickets up 5% and a new tv deal in place creating extra revenue but the budget only up 10%

Lovely stuff.

We have to make the loss manageable. Its not a benevolent society.

Ah yes, all those ‘losses’

BiggsyMalone wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2024 5:55 pm Season tickets up 5% and a new tv deal in place creating extra revenue but the budget only up 10%

Lovely stuff.

10% I think is a very decent increase. Nearly as much as train drivers wage

Nige neatly swerved the Coley Parry situation.
We all know he made an investment into LO, that’s not in question.
What is in question is is he able to fund his share of the annual losses as an 18% shareholder? Ie stump up for 18% of the losses?
That’s the real question.

BiggsyMalone wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2024 5:55 pm Season tickets up 5% and a new tv deal in place creating extra revenue but the budget only up 10%

Lovely stuff.

Red flag talking about not being able to get a ticket for less than $200 (which is bollocks btw). Can see some steep increases going forward

Rich Tea Wellin wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 7:05 am

BiggsyMalone wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2024 5:55 pm Season tickets up 5% and a new tv deal in place creating extra revenue but the budget only up 10%

Lovely stuff.

Red flag talking about not being able to get a ticket for less than $200 (which is bollocks btw). Can see some steep increases going forward

What does this mean? $200 for what?

Apparently he said that in Boston you can’t see any entertainment for under 200 dollars, as a kind of “therefore chill your mittens about price rises, c***s, you don’t know you’re born”

There's a consistent theme across American investment in British sport where they think we massively underpay for the 'product' compared to what they can charge in the states and could be fleeced for much more. There's a reason so many dollars are pouring into English football at the moment, the exchange rate has become very favourable to yanks and they smell an opportunity to make a lot of money out of a league they think is still commercially underperforming compared to what it could be.

I think Travis and Teague broadly 'get' the club, but the other owners are almost certainly going to be a lot more hard headed about getting an eventual return on investment and minimizing losses in the meantime. Think that tension will probably be easy ish to ignore until the question of a new ground really comes to a head. That's going to be an incredible amount of their money gambled on the chance that it takes us up a level and makes us more attractive to sell, or more capable of a tilt at the prem in the distant future.

CEB wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 9:08 am Apparently he said that in Boston you can’t see any entertainment for under 200 dollars, as a kind of “therefore chill your mittens about price rises, c***s, you don’t know you’re born”

Is that really the case? Or is it just that he’s out of touch with the ordinary man?

Boston Red Sox tickets are on sale for $18 though

https://www.mlb.com/redsox/tickets/sing ... ame=746962

Long slender neck wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 10:13 am Boston Red Sox tickets are on sale for $18 though

https://www.mlb.com/redsox/tickets/sing ... ame=746962

Celtics and Bruins will be less than $200 for a regular season game too in certain parts of the arena. Probably Patriots too.

New England revolution $24

Travis talks a lot of bollocks sometimes.

Long slender neck wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 10:13 am Boston Red Sox tickets are on sale for $18 though

https://www.mlb.com/redsox/tickets/sing ... ame=746962

He probably just means the hospitality seats.