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Discussion in 'City Talk' started by Idlebantam, Feb 9, 2020.

  1. Fordy117

    Fordy117 Just call me Mr Flip-Flop!
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    Hopefully, them wheels stay off
     
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  2. Fordy117

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    I wouldn't care. The owners are looking to move the club forward and finding investment to do things.

    If Mr Rupp isn't going to put his hand in his pocket then he needs to do the same.
     
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  3. Rogered Tart

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    It's potentially a massive club, only less than 20 years ago they were in the champions league semi finals. But like anything it comes at a cost. Their downfall mirrors ours on and off the field. If Radrizzani or whatever he's cal
    'I wouldn't care' doesn't pay the bills.
     
  4. WilsdenBantam

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    No doubt. However they’re on the cusp of the premier league, we’re 4th division crap. Their training ground will pay for itself should they get promoted.

    And that’s without going into how much more in sponsorship and ticket sales they bring in than us.

    Unless we get a sugar daddy we just can’t compete with a club like that, and even mentioning them in the same breathe as us is unreasonable and unrealistic.
     
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  5. Fordy117

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    Lincoln, Plymouth, Walsall, Scunny we can complete with and all have invested in a training ground.

    We have our sugar daddy in Mr Rupp!
     
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  6. WilsdenBantam

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    We don’t though he has no interest in football and no interest in investing in football, until he gets a reasonable offer and clears off it’s a mute point.
     
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  7. Bronco

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  9. The Granby Mullet

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    There was a game Saturday morning going on when I wandered past and got the train about 11:00. Looked about that age as well.
     
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  10. borderlescott

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    How is it backward thinking? It is called controlling a budget. You have to prioritise.

    The facilities are not the same now as they were 20 years ago. If you cared to read my post I actually referenced that they have been upgraded at various points.

    With fans like you in control we might have 'forward' thinking owners but we'd go bust. Building and owning our own training facilities would be great.........in an ideal world.......unfortunately the real world is about balancing budgets.

    When Rahic took over he tried to cut our wage budget and we've since been relegated into League Two with a squad containing many players on hefty league one wages. If you think any club in that sort of situation has the amount of money needed to improve our facilities you are living in cloud cuckoo land.

    Get real.

    Any money we have right now would go into re-balancing a lopsided squad.
     
  11. Aaron Baker

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    I agree with a lot of the budget stuff.

    However, a justification of...

    "They were good enough for Jewell and the Premier League survival team so they are good enough for the League Two cloggers"

    Is clearly backwards. Just because they were good enough 20 years ago (if they indeed were) doesn't mean they are now regardless of level. Times have moved on.
     
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  12. Hoochy-Min

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    The Premier League team used to train on the uni pitches at Thornbury near the barracks. Used to play headers and volleys on one of the spare nets when I should have been at college.
     
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  13. ConnecticutBantam

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    Wonder how much we pay the school in rent to use the facilities.

    I am also willing to bet the facilities used are better than most league two sides. 4G, Grass Pitches, Cafeteria, Gym and Pool all at a centralized location. What more is needed? The fact the grounds are shared is surely the only argument, not the standard of said grounds.
     
  14. Bronco

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    It was never an issue until Grayson used it as one of the reasons for not taking the job.
     
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    A few months back I was on the greenway near Cleckheaton one afternoon when I heard voices coming from the nearby Liversedge FC pitch. I went up and lo and behold some youth players in Bradford kit were playing. I enquired as to what it was and was told it was the u-18 playing Barnsley. If I had known about it before hand I would certainly have watched the match but City do not publicise when/where the youth teams are playing.
     
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  16. How

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    Not sure how many have seen but Mcburnie money set to rise to 3.2 million that city will receive. 3.2 million! Yet we have zero to show for it.
     
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    Just mentioning this on Twitter over dinnertime. Scandalous really. Rhodes the penny pincher strikes again. That deficit needs clearing as always.
     
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  18. How

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    That sort of fee we will probably never see again for at least 5 years come in for one of our players. It might take ten years for our combined fees received to beat that figure. It is massive for a club in league two and probably a very definite one off. Yet it’s gone to line the owners pockets it all recent meetings are to be believed.

    the Fa cup quarter final run and the capital one cup final appearance will never happen to a league two club ever again I wouldn’t say. So when are we as a club going to think further down the line and see the benefit of these once in a blue moon type of income seasons? Ie set that money aside for a new training facility, a new pitch with under soil heating for example?

    under the current owner it doesn’t look likely at all
     
  19. Dratsab taf

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    Havent we had the majority of it already? Cleared the overspend last year and some back to rupp to cover this years spend.

    Id imagine its only the "staying up" bonus we are yet to receive and of course any further goal related add ons if they applicable still.
     
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  20. How

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    Still to receive just short of half a million from it should sheff Utd stay up. Which is looking likely.

    Couldn’t the owner cover some overspend and let’s say 2 million of this money be ring fenced for a project?
     
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