Leeds in the past

omnes Paviores wrote: <span style="font-family: monospace;">So Leeds announced their financial issues in April. They then make their first move in a rebuild by appointing Martyn Wood the Hull Ionians Director of Rugby which obviously caused issues at HI's. </span> <span style="font-family: monospace;"> </span> <span style="font-family: monospace;">Having probably spent their bail out money and with only 4 days to go to the new league campaign they have decided they need to raise more cash to wash down the drain.</span> <span style="font-family: monospace;"> </span> <span style="font-family: monospace;">Below is an extract from an email sent today by Leeds to a stalwart Hull Ionians member. </span> <span style="font-family: monospace;"> </span> <span style="font-family: monospace;">Who do they think they are. And the previous creditors (players) still await their 15p in the pound</span> <span style="font-family: monospace;"> </span> <span style="font-family: monospace;">Good Morning,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;"><br style="font-family: monospace;"><span style="font-family: monospace;">Hope you're keeping well.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;"><br style="font-family: monospace;"><span style="font-family: monospace;">The Yorkshire Carnegie 2019-20 home league campaign gets underway this Sunday and we really want you to be involved.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;"><br style="font-family: monospace;"><span style="font-family: monospace;">We have a variety of options available to support the club and individual players and I've attached full details of the player sponsorship, matchday sponsorship and LED advertising opportunities, as well as the corporate season membership option.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;"><br style="font-family: monospace;"><span style="font-family: monospace;">I've also attached further details of the 2 big corporate games, which will include hospitality in the amazing new Emerald Suite, entertainment and will be a brilliant way to entertain customers, or friends and family for just £65 + vat per person per game.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;"><br style="font-family: monospace;"><span style="font-family: monospace;">We also have a special lunch with refereeing legend Wayne Barnes coming up at Emerald Headingley Stadium, on Thursday 21st November, see details attached. This entertaining afternoon, hosted by John Bentley, is not one to be missed! Let me know if you'd like to book places.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;"><br style="font-family: monospace;"><span style="font-family: monospace;">Look forward to hearing back from you and hopefully see you soon.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;"><br style="font-family: monospace;"><span style="font-family: monospace;">All the best,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;"><br style="font-family: monospace;"><span style="font-family: monospace;">Carlie</span>

Good to see that conspiracy theories have reached the East Riding. If someone has received an email it's because their address has been captured by Carnegie at some point in the past and they haven't so far chosen to decline marketing emails. I would imagine that this resulted from one of the several occasions when we have used Ionians' excellent facilities for on the road games.

As I understand it, those games provided a decent amount of extra revenue for our hosts but, as with their compadres in York, Scarborough, Huddersfield and various other places, made no difference whatsoever to the attendances at Headingley.

Mr Fishwick I intruded on the posting of predictions of week 1 of The Championship for which I have apologised.  A word Leeds find difficult to use for all they have done since last April

omnes Paviores wrote: 2. Leeds came along to sell the opportunity that we would benefit from a large crowd. But for that we had to provide certain facilities that would eat into any crowd gate money. In particular the oppositiion fans would pay to enter but the majority of the  Leeds fans would gain free entry as pass holders  3. Bar takings where we were convinced by Leeds would be good. Wrong, all those pass holders on free entry left on final whistle because they were driving and therefore bar takings only equaled a value of a typical HI's 1st XV home game

CPK, I believe Hull Ionians hosted the game on the same day they had a home league game. I don’t know the financial details but understand for the effort and organisation employed it wasn’t successful.

ah! that makes sense to a certain extent

Well it doesn't make sense to take it to a club who already have a home game I know Huddereld YMCA did a couple of games andI think the extra revenue from gate and bar certainly would have outweighed a few Pie and Chips.