I agree we need to stick with the club but feel there is now a devide developing between pearson and the fans and comments like today will not see the disgruntled fans returning.i'm just preying we do pull a magic season out of somewere to halt this slide.

radio Humberside interview 19 minutes into sports talk plenty of food for thought for happy Clappers, grumblers, protaganists, Radford in or outers, merger yeh ers and nay ers etc Worth a listen http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j& ... DXRX1HLgFw

radio Humberside interview 19 minutes into sports talk plenty of food for thought for happy Clappers, grumblers, protaganists, Radford in or outers, merger yeh ers and nay ers etc Worth a listen http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j& ... DXRX1HLgFw

seems all the more bizarre that Pearson should give up (if he did resign) a very well paid job with Leeds when he is complaining about putting more personal money into the club.
Should also have had more to say about extending Yeamans and possibly Fekas contract and the nonsense signing of Washbrook which would have saved a few bob or paid for a quality wing or centre which we are truly missing

My view entirely. If we really are in such a state there have been truly incomprehensible decisions made in recent months which will have significantly worsened things. Why commit to high value, long term deals for players if the money isn't there to pay them? The person making these decisions is either an idiot or a liar

A drop in attendances of 1k per year for 4 years adds up to at least £2.5m in income. A tidy sum.
He didn't say these new guys are not affordable, but a key income stream is not generating the kind of money needed to maintain this level of investment over the longer term.

A better product on the pitch will increase the walk up gate next season and generate more pass sales in 2017.

He should have appointed a decent coach then and the attendances wouldn't have dropped. Pretty poor blaming the fans for the situation we're in which is all of his own making

imo I believe we have made good signings for next year, pearson has but a lot of money in and ok has made some dodgy calls,we have a team to challenge for 5 or 6 and maybe top 4 who knows, if that happens the crowds will start to improve imo

These are based on our home SL matches, we haven't had a play-off game since 2013 so I've not included them in the averages.
2011 161,557 agg, 13 matches Av. 12,427
2012 154,515 agg, 13 matches Av. 11,886 (+8,862 PO game)
2013 151,355 agg, 13 matches Av. 11,642 (+4,970 PO game)
2014 143,891 agg, 13 matches Av. 11,068
2015 156,467 agg, 14 matches Av. 11,173
Total 'lost' fans by comparison to the aggregate of 2011 is strangely exactly 40,000 (7042+10202+17666+5090), if you want to then take off the extra fans from having play-off games that's 26,168 fewer home fans over 4 years.

Based on your £2.5M & 26,168 fewer fans Adam Pearson has lost an average of £95.54net for every single fan from home (league & PO) gate money which can't be right because average gross income per fan over the 4 year period is at most £18 (taking into account juniors and lower season pass costs in previous seasons), however you have to take off the wedge of money that SMC takes makes the actual net income to the club per fan very much less.
I think someone once mentioned less than £10 but I've no idea how the deal works, but whatever it is, over 4 years the amount in lost income from fans through the gate is nowhere near the £2.5M you've stated, 5 times less if we're being v.generous so this massive loss of income doesn't seem to be quite as bad as you're trying to make out.

Either way he has to do something to encourage the fans back and stop making antagonising statements that puts the onus/blame squarely onto the fans, having a pop at those deciding to keep their money in their pocket due to the rubbish on the pitch is decidedly not the way to do it.

Is there such a thing now everyone has to buy a ticket?