Swedish league 2025 Mon/Tues 16th/17th June

[arnieg]

Piraterna have the begging bowl out, threatening to withdraw from Elitserien if they don't raise £120k by the end of the month.

[Ghostwalker]

7 hours ago, arnieg said:

Piraterna have the begging bowl out, threatening to withdraw from Elitserien if they don't raise £120k by the end of the month.

Their main symptoms has been low attendance which in turn is because of ongoing track problems the past couple of seasons. Track also haven't been curated or prepared properly for a few seasons. Before meetings track preparations have begun too late/too close to the start of the meeting. Track has therefore not been good and quite dusty (according to meeting reports).

This season Piraterna's first home meeting (against Smederna) was aborted because track was unsafe (reports of large sheets of the track coming loose. Piraterna's second home meeting was aborted halfway through. So lots of spectators have stayed at home. I had quick look for attendance for piraterna the latest three seasons and the high note for attendance was about 2400 and the lowest about 900, not really economical sustainable attendance.

However after the problems after their second home meeting they brought in a grader and another vehicle to begins work the the track, but perhaps too late?

What the real cause is I don't know. Lack of volunteers with proper interest/knowledge or unable to commit to the amount time needed? Lack of knowledge/pondus in the board? I don't know.. Perhaps a bit of all of those?

IMO Daniel Davidsson (team manager) has done a very good job building a team with small budget
and unlike previous times with clubs have money difficulties Piraterna have in my opinion not overextended/ signed too many fancy names for too much money. On the contrary Daniel Davidsson have done a goodjob getting a pretty good team together with small means.  

 

Edited 19 hours ago by Ghostwalker