So if we've currently got 1000 fans paying an average of £10 each = £10000 a game through the turnstile. (No idea whether that is realistic or not)
Next season 650 fans paying average of £8 each = £5,200
Then you've got to look at how much less business the CSH will do and the guys in the food cabins.
It's going to be a serious drop in income.
The only thing potentially still bringing in the same level of income will be the extra curricular stuff in the CSH.
Sobering times
There are about 300 season ticket holders, so as of now the average figure of 1000 paying on the day is about right (our average home League attendance is currently 1305). Whether £10 per person is a realistic figure I don't know - I suspect it may be a bit on the high side.
If the powers that be want to see anything like 700 fans in total (i.e. including season ticket holders) per home game they are going to have to price 'competitively' to say the least. This year's gate figures are inflated in particular by the 2000+ gates v Stockport, Salford & FCUM, which won't happen again in a hurry. People won't pay over the odds, as they have done this season, to watch dross any more - the going rate 'on the day' in the EvoStik is £10 (adult) & that's where Alty need to pitch it next season.
Incidentally, season ticket holders actually pay more per game this season than last - prices didn't change but the number of home games went down by two; something else that should be remedied by some sort of compensatory pricing next season.
It is indeed going to create a very serious gap in income & needs to be borne in mind when expectation levels for 2017-18 are considered, although gates of 700 would still be way ahead of most if not all of the rest of the division.
As to the departing Vice-Chairman - I didn't know the gentleman personally but he did seem to cut at best a distant figure. I don't doubt that he did useful work for the Club but he didn't appear to mix with the supporters at all.