The Hotel Factor

[petered]

Originally Posted by MichaelP

No matter who the manager has been for the last 15 years + . Overnight stays don’t seem very successful when you look at games we have stayed in hotels for.

What I couldn’t get was the team travelled down on Monday for a game on Tuesday evening.

It used to be that if we had a game in midweek we wouldn’t bother with Hotels but if it was a weekend game and involved a lot of mileage a hotel the night before would be a given.

Now even at the cheapest calculations if you take into account the accommodation and food that all staff would need it’s a big part of the yearly spend.

Say you have 2 players to one room. = £50 for the room x 8 rooms for a squad of 16 players that would come to = £400

Then you of course have management so say Manager / coaches / Physio etc say another 4 rooms = £200

That comes to £600.

Plus meals and drinks could quite easily have not much change from £1,000 from match preparations as opposed to travelling on day and that’s based on the cheapest accommodation food possible booking in advance.

If you then x that be say = 15 games = £15,000 !!

Now if we were successful then it could be argued money well spent but when more often than not it isn’t . Then the money would be much better spent somewhere else?

Alright Michael. Welcome. Bit of a baptism of fire for you pal. You'll get used to it.

[blackbrookred]

Originally Posted by MichaelP

No matter who the manager has been for the last 15 years + . Overnight stays don’t seem very successful when you look at games we have stayed in hotels for.

What I couldn’t get was the team travelled down on Monday for a game on Tuesday evening.

It used to be that if we had a game in midweek we wouldn’t bother with Hotels but if it was a weekend game and involved a lot of mileage a hotel the night before would be a given.

Now even at the cheapest calculations if you take into account the accommodation and food that all staff would need it’s a big part of the yearly spend.

Say you have 2 players to one room. = £50 for the room x 8 rooms for a squad of 16 players that would come to = £400

Then you of course have management so say Manager / coaches / Physio etc say another 4 rooms = £200

That comes to £600.

Plus meals and drinks could quite easily have not much change from £1,000 from match preparations as opposed to travelling on day and that’s based on the cheapest accommodation food possible booking in advance.

If you then x that be say = 15 games = £15,000 !!

Now if we were successful then it could be argued money well spent but when more often than not it isn’t . Then the money would be much better spent somewhere else?

Maybe the club should ask for a refund?

[blackbrookred]

Originally Posted by MichaelP

There is a theory that team bonding/morale can be improved with overnight stays yes I get that. Just the suggestion of travelling on day rather than spending the night.

The other matter which I have not mentioned so far is that the team could travel up the night before the weather could take a turn the following day then the game gets postponed so would mean another hotel stay for the rearranged game.

Oh God yeah, it would bankrupt us if that happened.

[mattw]

Originally Posted by MichaelP

Sir Alan, No matter who the manager has been for the last 15 years + . Overnight stays don’t seem very successful when you look….

Do an FOI mate on hotel stays then compare vs results and present to the board once you get a reply. By board it can either be this one or the football club, I don’t mind.

I kinda lost interest when I got banned from using the internet at work for asking the Trundlemania mail group what kind of beetle Brian Flynn most looked like and elicited a load of replies when on holiday and the it dept deemed my mailbox to have “unusual activity”

What ever happened to old Statto?
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[Percy Sugden]

And Atticus Finch?

[-luke]

Originally Posted by TheRealWelshWayne

As previously mentioned, there was no evidence the email was sent. Happy to meet up on Saturday.

Sorry to Newport red for spelling.

Fight, fight, fight...

[benwilliams]

Originally Posted by Teifi Red

Indeed and we still don’t know if the claim of losing more games whilst having an overnight stay is actually correct

The evidence is circumstancial
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[Back of the Kop]

Originally Posted by Percy Sugden

And Atticus Finch?

Yes where the hell is Atticus. Some of his rousing speeches prior to big games were legendary on here.

Amazing how such posters leave, never to be seen again

[Foxy]

Originally Posted by Back of the Kop

Yes where the hell is Atticus. Some of his rousing speeches prior to big games were legendary on here.

Amazing how such posters leave, never to be seen again

Indeed. Great poster. I didn’t always agree with him, but worth listening to.