I was thinking how important to the community our club is. Then as usual I widened and questing my thinking firstly asking if it is really that important. There isnt much to come to Barnsley for and its a focal point. Im sure it is an employer directly and indirectly. Im sure many of the BFC staff wouldn’t stay Barnsley if the club folded. How much revenue is raised due to having the club. Seems restaurants and bars don't prosper much and as police drive away fans away even less so. Emotionally is clear, but commercially how important is the club to the community?
I would think The Mount and Oakwell Sandwich rely heavily on the spend from football fans on match day. A few other pubs in Barnsley will have increased turnover on match days, but two of those are Weatherspoons pubs so it's not necessarily local businesses. I wouldn't have thought it's all that far reaching.
Got to agree with all this. Lot of places in tarn would suffer even worse takings after the nightmare of covid. Home games are probably some of their best takings? The Mount would suffer, so would the chippy. Through no fault of their own. Adventure capitalists won’t care about that though. Why would they? That’s the very nature of investing. It would be down to the kindness of people to help their own. For a change!
Before Craft Union took over the Mount it was my local. The landlord once told me that the 20+ home games are the annual profits. The rest of the week was just break even business.
Not just about revenue, it’s also the general well- being of theCommunity with things like Reds in the Community programmes, amongst others
Town center pubs are always alot busier on matchdays especially big games courthouse, chennels etc next season they will be quiet.
The Dove is rammed on matchdays. Walk past on a non matchday and there's no one in. I bet a very large proportion of their takings are down to BFC home games.
