Maver 100k match

[TF_dave smiff]

Maver 100k match.

Is this event even going to run? Surley Phil Briscoe has had to book and pay for 120 pegs at all the venues. most have sold less than 20 tickets.

It looks like he could be 5-6k out of pocket just on unused peg fees.

I cant really see this event running next year. (Or even this year).

[TF_andynorth2003Participant]

sorry, can you repeat that.. lol

[TF_matt haines]

i think there is a few factors, i think a lot of people will leave it late to buy there tickets once the numbers start to get low on venues you wanna fish then they will soon sell out! larford now sold about half! unlike fish o you dont have to commit or sort your fishing out months in advance which for me is perfect! plus you do not have to fork out for say 6 tickets at once you can buy 1 a month! again great for me! at the end of the day i know phil and maver have put a lot of time and effort into running this event and am sure it will be fantastic for our sport! ive bought a couple of tickets and nearer the time when i know work and family commitment i shall be buying more!

[TF_dave smiff]

Thats all very true, but can you really see most of the venues selling even 50% of the tickets?

[TF_GALPS]

ive booked for 2 matches, printed my tickets and left my card details for the money to be taken yet they havent taken the money?

Any ideas?

~think ~think ~think

[TF_proper tidal boy]

personally i think this is a non starter for what its worth

[TF_matt haines]

in theory yes! most matches now are between 20 and 25 quid to win prob £200 max so people who fish sat and sunday stake £50 to win a max say £400 if you win 2 days so £50 to fish 1 match where if you win you will collect for winning that! plus a chance to fish for a max £100000 so personally i think its worth it!! so come on lads get your tickets and lets hope the event gets bigger and bigger!

[TF_dave smiff]

You make it all sound so good matt.

But you are sponsered by maver!

There doesnt seem to be alot of talk about this event, if people really thought it was going to be this “great” event then more tickets would have been sold.

I personally think it might not happen.

[TF_matt haines]

whatever happens someone will win £50000 at least! i personally thought there would of been more tickets sold by now but like i said i think there will be a rush near the end. everyone has there opinion on the event and mine is a personal one and nothing to do with my sponsorship, Like most people out there the cost of living and economic down turn has had an effect on sales i for one would fish them all if i could afford it! lets hope i qualify at larford! good luck to all those who enter hopefully i can get a baby sitter for the first match at viaduct

[TF_proper tidal boy]

matt you can blow mavers trumpet as much as you like or as loud as you can for me its deffo a no no

[Anonymous]

I believe the matches will be well attended although i doubt that every qualifier will be a sell out. Its a guaranteed £50,000 remember but could be as much as £100,000 to the winner! Im sure Maver except that in the first year they might struggle to sell every ticket as Fishomaina did in there first year. However, as an advertising tool for Maver products. Probably worth a loss in the short term for the over all benefits to the company. If you add those who already have tickets to those who will get tickets once a little bit of advertising has taken place on the forums and in the angling press when we get closer to the dates will increase numbers. You can also add on almost all the regulars who fish the opens on those venues every week.

[TF_dave smiff]

If maver pull the plug on the event, nobody will be winning 50k. PMSL PTB.

I bet matt only pays £43 for his larford tickets!

[TF_matt haines]

ha ur joking ent ya! i have to pay to fish and for a cup of tea like everyone else!

[AnimalParticipant]

Why do people always poo poo new ideas when someone trys to get them off the ground.

Ok it hasnt gone as planned but that doesnt mean its not going to happen. If more anglers supported it maybe more people would be talking about it.

I do know they have secured press coverage and tv coverage for highlights of the final.

And i aint sponsored by anyone because i am not good enough.

[TF_sumo]

I cant understand it myself, with fisho people are moaning that u have to join Angling Trust at £25 notes and then are not guarenteed a ticket at £25 a pop , with this you would be virtually guarenteed a ticket on the venue of your choice for a guarenteed 20k more than fisho to me its a no brainer . The other factor is people are always slagging the manufacturers off for not putting anything back into the sport. If Maver get TV coverage the tickets will fly

[mo-can do]

I ain’t a fan of Phil briscoe….

But I see a lot of anglers sponsored by maver
He does seem give something back that way.

And someone will win atleast 50 grand.

He won’t back down, it’s not in his nature.

[TF_MarcRodger]

Good on Phil Briscoe for the maver match this the sport needs people like Phill for trying to take the sport to a new level,~clap This is a msg to the people that try and knock this, why don’t you take up train spotting or something it’s boring i bet all you do is fish a feeder and call yourself a angler. support your sport or F### OFF

[TF_neil g]

I personally cannot believe this is happening,we have 338 anglers applying for the Fisho Tickets which is brilliant For Lindholme Lakes and i appreciate that.
However this is a 300 peg match this year to qualify for 1 place ,yet you can fish which up to press is a 25 peg match with a chance to fish for £50,000 i bet poor Phil Briscoe is pulling his hair out,because i would ( if i could).
Why fish a 300 peg match for £30,000 and not a £50,000 match with 25 in are you all idiots.
The match will go ahead and you all only have 10 days to buy a ticket for Lindholme because the 28th is the dead line.
The final has secured tv coverage WHATS DIFFRENT
It proves to me that all the people that come on here and other forums and complain that Fishing does not get the reconision it deserves ,i can see why not

~think ~think ~think ~think ~think ~think

[TF_daveroberts]

Firstly, someone will walk away with 50K. The plug will not be pulled. Anyone who has ever met Phil Briscoe will know that.

Secondly I haven’t seen any of the countries top anglers openly doubting the competition. There are those of us who want angling to reach a level of professional competition. At the moment we are self funding with some help from companies like Maver, Preston and Matchroom. Even the Uk champs, which is the closest we have to a professional tour, is funded in the majority by the anglers.

The effect of someone picking up a cheque for 50K will have a massive impact for the future of this Competition and Match angling in general and may be in the future the tickets will be less expensive but I’m happy to have a go at the price it is for now.

Unfortunately the people who are having a pop (who are unlikely to enter anyway) will now want the event to fail so they can say ‘I told you so!’ I suppose life is full of people who want to succeed in very different ways. It’s a shame we are up against this sort of attitude.

[TF_neil g]

Alot of people on here and in the fishing faternaty know who i am and for years i have been coming up with ideas etc to try and get a Big Match up and running,by getting fisheries to donate there pegs for free,getting companies to help out and thinking i could get anglers to support another Big Match.
Phil and i do not really know Phil or even sell his products in my shop has put his name and money on the table without any backing and launched this match and all i here his
It will Be Making Money.
SHOW ME WHERE AND I WILL EAT MY HAT.

One thing for sure it has surely quietened me down for good that is for sure,people say you run a big match with your name behind it anglers will support you YE YE they are right.

Excuse the grammar and spellings ,i have tears in my eyes.

[bodgeParticipant]

I full agree with what dave roberts says. from a purely selfish point of view, i hope they dont sell out. Id relish the chance to fish a 30odd pegger to try and qualify for 50k. of course thats greed talking and I would love to see it sell out. I think attitudes will change when someone (me hopefully) lifts a cheque for £50,000 or possibly £100,000. when that picture hits the headlines, well, you know the rest….

[TF_S.shalla]

This match this concept is miles better than fisho in many ways and thats half the point and reason it came about im sure! Also the people moaning / knocking the event probably used too moan about not getting fisho tickets, joining A.T just for fisho then not getting any tickets or just one (everthing is in your own control in ticket allocation)! Nothing for 2nd place (there is in this? 2nd place in a fisho qualifier is gutting im sure) , not enough people qualifying etc (8 more) plus the 2nd place match ,

This event was started too TRY too bring fishing too a higher level, and in doing so will also force fisho/matchroom too move the prize money up with the times! 5 grand over 17 years ?? come on!!

being able too buy them at your own leisure.. 1 a month, 1 a week when ever you choose, even beeing able too pick which ones that suite you knowing when you press the comfirm button its yours! will only open this up too more people with less fortunes than others surely?

The maths speak for them selves on this match if only half the tickets sell @ say £40 after daytickets thats £57,600 ???

IT WONT FAIL! and we should be applauding phil briscoe and maver uk for doing this! Not knock them, moan, make allegations without facts!

people wont part with money until they have too! OR IN TODAYS current CLIMATE until they can do! And after the willis worms farcical its understandable too be cautious!

MAVER GIVE A LOT BACK TOO ANGLING! PROBABLY IN THE TOP 2 COMPANYS IN THIS COUNTRY THAT DO! SO STOP KNOCKING AND START SUPPORTING!

[TF_gloves007uk]

care to expand on that?

@S.shalla wrote:

And after the willis worms farcical its understandable too be cautious!

[TF_baitchefParticipant]

I’m not fishing any. In my opinion its all wrong. Cheep and chearfull is the way to go if you want a big participation.

If you look at the county champs you will see that there are quite a few match anglers. I think the key is to somehow run a competition alongside this, whereby somehow you bung and extra couple of quid onto your usual bet at your usual fishery and somehow it gets pooled together nationwide. Lerading to a couple of regional qualifiers and then a final.

[TF_S.shalla]

@gloves007uk wrote:

care to expand on that?

@S.shalla wrote:

And after the willis worms farcical its understandable too be cautious!

and thats obv whats happened!!! was trying too give examples why people werent too fast too the gates!

but with a huge company and Phil briscoe guaranteeing the money,

and simple maths backing that there wont be a need too really? or at worst case scenario bumping it up to £50,000

[TF_gloves007uk]

@S.shalla wrote:

@gloves007uk wrote:

care to expand on that?

@S.shalla wrote:

And after the willis worms farcical its understandable too be cautious!

and thats obv whats happened!!! was trying too give examples why people werent too fast too the gates!

but with a huge company and Phil briscoe guaranteeing the money,

and simple maths backing that there wont be a need too really? or at worst case scenario bumping it up to £50,000

people slated the idea when willis worms tried this hence it never got of the ground it wasnt a farce it was some thing new that people didnt take too
due to certain people trying to pull it apart which in the end they succceeded hence it folding.

[TF_S.shalla]

@gloves007uk wrote:

@S.shalla wrote:

@gloves007uk wrote:

care to expand on that?

@S.shalla wrote:

And after the willis worms farcical its understandable too be cautious!

and thats obv whats happened!!! was trying too give examples why people werent too fast too the gates!

but with a huge company and Phil briscoe guaranteeing the money,

and simple maths backing that there wont be a need too really? or at worst case scenario bumping it up to £50,000

people slated the idea when willis worms tried this hence it never got of the ground it wasnt a farce it was some thing new that people didnt take too
due to certain people trying to pull it apart which in the end they succceeded hence it folding.

i was on about what happened too it and how it was ruined (maybe not worded right) that was the farcical, not how it was ran or the intentions it had too be a big match! but now with a big company/ tv and media coverage and phil briscoe who will im sure make it happen and the £50,000 minimum will be won!

[TF_gloves007uk]

fair point know where your coming from mate ~clap

[TF_S.shalla]

maybe my grammar, punctuation: and explanations are not 100% but my belief and backing of the event
As something new and positive and very much value for the money for what you are paying!, that is finnaly heading matchfishing in the right direction that was needed for a very long time!

[TF_dave brittain]

After the continual frustration of applying for 8-10 Fisho tickets and generally receiving less than 50% of the tickets I’ve applied for the Maver Match this offers a welcome diversion and a match that I feel has the potential to out shine Fisho once it gets off the ground.

The only constructive critisism I will offer is that the match should have paid the £50K out for places 1-10 with a £500 apearance fee for the non framing finalists. If the event had been formatted in this manner I feel more anglers would have applied for tickets however it’s early days yet and we’ll have to wait and see what happens.

As for the cost if you sit down and do the maths of what it costs to fish a match and what you actually win at the end of the day you’ll find that on most 20-30 peggers your cost will be £40-£50, (pools, petrol and bait), and if you win chances are you will get £120 so that’s roughly a 3-1 return.

With the Maver it may cost you £100 by the time you have paid everything but the return will be 500-1 and if many of the matches only sell 30-50 tickets as many are predicting you won’t get a better chance of winning.

I hope the event is well supported and grows to become one of the premier events of the calendar. I’m certainly looking forward to it and although some of the earlier matches may not be well attended I feel that as it warms up and the qualifiers start more people will take the plunge

[TF_Nigel.]

I spoke to Phil when he was arranging this, as he has booked a round here at Barston.

And my thoughts are that’s its too dear, i think it should have been £25 per match, and £50,000 for the winner. (1/2 what it is, £50 and 100 grand)
It still would have been bigger than fisho at 50 grand.
UK Champs is different, its 80 top anglers fishing at £80 per match, but that’s only 80 anglers.
Fish o is over 2000 anglers (£27) and Match this is 2880 anglers.
Finding 80 anglers to pay big money to fish for major money (for each round, each section, and top 10 overall) is a bit different to trying to find 2 to 3 thousand!
To find 2 to 3 thousand, you need to be cheaper, i think £25 and 50 grand would have been spot on.(cheaper, sell more)

Phil is a friend of mine, i told him my thoughts, i wish him all the best with it, there is no way he will back out, his word and his name are more important than the money!

Good luck, everyone says they want big matches, this is the biggest ever, and only 12 days left to get in that 28 peg first match at Viaduct.

In fact i was 4th there in a Fish o qualifier a couple of years ago, i might dust my gear off and get a ticket for that!

[TF_Stevie H]

Well Dave and Nigel, I guess I will be seeing you at Viaduct on the 2nd. I also have a Fisho ticket for the week after and a Maver ticket for the 30th as well there 🙂 Will be a busy month travelling back from Belgium.

I do believe that there is porbably a cost issue with the price of this match, but as has been said numerous times here, Phil is trying to bring competitive angling up the level that, imo, it should be at.

Look at the success of our international team. Surely the likes of our multi gold medal winning anglers should be compared to their fellow gold medal winners of other sports at world level.

Angling, by the press/media etc. etc. has always been classed as a hobby and not a sport and I think that for the future of our ‘sport’ we need to raise the bar a little and, for that to happen, we need to fully support anyone who tries to assist in this, not knock events like this.

[TF_BacseyParticipant]

If i can get someone to look after the boy im getting a ticket for the 2nd at Viaduct,i love the venue and would also like to add support to what should be another excitng event,i think £30 would have been easier to swallow but again i want to support what Mr Briscoe is trying to do and hope people will get behind it.

[TF_baitchefParticipant]

Er not being funny or anything but I don’t think he is trying to raise angling, isn’t his priority to sell the maver brand?

[worm drowner]

Well I’m having a go.

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