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Tony Wilkinson Squad PlayerP.L.22/23 Entrant P.L.23/24 Entrant Supporter P.L. 20/21 Top 10Stop hovering to collapse... Click to collapse... Hover to expand... Click to expand...Storck, Rogered Tart, Silverbantam and 6 others like this.
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A lot is made of the training facilities but it isn't a valid excuse for the lack of success on the pitch. They were good enough for Jewell and the Premier League survival team so they are good enough for the League Two cloggers. They have been upgraded over time. In an ideal world, yes, we'd have our own facilities, but when have we been financially stable? Even under Rhodes and Lawn we had to sell players or bank on a cup run to get by. We still don't own the ground either.
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Anyone with at least £5 mill to spend on buying and developing a training facility step forward please.CRASS, Old Grey Fox, Budgie and 5 others like this. -
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Lets face it, Rhodes and openness have been complete strangers for years,
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Bloody pansies. They’d have just carried on regardless back in my day. Bloody players nowadays. Don’t know they’re born.
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On a similar basis, buying the ground and sorting the pitch properly are investments in the critical infrastructure of the club. Assets that sit on the balance sheet and grow the value of the club.
He clearly doesn't want to do it. Which is fine, in a sense. But then, if he realizes he's bought into something he didn't understand, sell up and move on.Stop hovering to collapse... Click to collapse... Hover to expand... Click to expand...Nottsy, Onside, Fools Gold and 2 others like this. -
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We aren't in a position to build our own training facility or ground, in truth we never will unless this mythical saviour appears in real life and not in a dream. Having listened to the price of football podcasts it's clear where football is heading and we ain't part of that. Same with owning Valley Parade or building a new ground, the money just isn't there in the lower leagues to justify state of the art facilities, you'll see more and more clubs in league 1 and especially league 2 go the way of renting facilities as the cost differences between the top two division becomes prohibitive to gaining promotion and consolidation after this. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see this club with their own set up rather than renting a schools facility but let's be realistic. This is Bradford, one of the poorest areas in the country, a league 2 club with a cash strapped Council and local authority.
The facilities are good enough for the aspirations we have.Keefly Bantam, Park bantam, Bronco and 2 others like this. -
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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.Allotment Bantam, borderlescott, Bronco and 2 others like this. -
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And that’s without going into how much more in sponsorship and ticket sales they bring in than us.
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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.Hulmebantam, Bronco, BradfordBanter and 1 other person like this. -
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If we had an owner that wanted to push the club on, looking to the future and invest in stuff it might have been a good time to start looking at getting our own training base - that we own. An asset. But I doubt that will happen.
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