SteveTreacle
Vital 1st Team Regular
If programmes were not making money then the club would not be producing one.
I do wonder whether the club want to drop the producing and selling of hard-copy programmes, but have seen the backlash from other clubs who have done it and are trying to do it by the back door and bit by bit.
They sold out very early on Saturday despite it being a pretty small crowd and they are wasting no time or resource on selling them and they're being sold in the club shop or with refreshments, which meant on Saturday the queues for them were massive. I didn't bother and the club lost my £3. They also lost another tenner plus as the beer queues were massive too. The new co chairman will need to do some work on balancing saving money from reduced staffing to how much money is being lost on matchday with people not bothering to queue for programmes, drink and booze.
Back to the point though, I yesterday got an email saying that an online programme was available. I wonder whether they'll produce fewer and fewer paper programmes and promote an online programme and ultimately deliver the message that the online programme is proving more popular than the paper one, so they're dropping the latter (which may well have already been decided already and regardless).