Plans and Vision

personally who cares has long as you apologize or amend after ......if pulled up.... its easy to misread I am usually doing my job and moving and selling three house sorry so its easy done... thats not meant to be arrogant I am just selling two to do my forever home up. Any way whats next ?

 

May I be the first to say...
"Feck off out of our club Faithful"

 

This didn't even make sense Kevin.

 

1. We have to break this mentality of us being over a barrel. Its a problem that needs to be solved, and merely shrugging the shoulders and maintaining the status quo won't cut it. So, its less about whether the buy-back is a fair 'asking price', and more about whether it stacks up against the cost of another lease. Enough is enough, we have to find solutions, and that may come at a cost - buts its a cost that adds value into the club, rather than the Flamingo Land Pension fund.

2. Its about accepting that doing things properly and giving you the best chance of success, brings a price tag. I mention travel as an example - I don't know its the case, but are we making our travel arrangements based on the lowest possible cost rather than what's best for success? Are we minimising overnight stays because its cheaper, even if that impacts on readiness and recovery etc. Its just one example, but we need to invest in all aspects of setting ourselves up for success instead of cutting corners.

3. Style is about a set of principles that you stick to. You still need flexibility within that. For example, either you embrace a still that priortises technique and a measured, slower paced build up of player - which will hone the type of player you sign, or maybe you focus on being more direct and physical. I've got no idea about Gillingham and tbh, I couldn't care less. But unless you have a sense of what type of football you want to build your club around, the recruitment and coaching will always be haphazard, and you're always starting from scratch with each new manager.

 

As in other walks of life you get what you pay for.

 

Er....what?

 

Faithful, Bazball is a great example of what you're talking about. Going all in on this has created some bloody exciting cricket, more test wins than for many a year and a fresh crop of players who play with confidence thanks to backing from the management team. Yes, there have been mistakes and *@?$-ups along the way, but Baz, Stokes et al have introduced a philosophy that seems to thrive on learning, continually making tweaks, admitting they're not always right but believing in the outcome.

 

More than anything, I believe fans just want to see reasonable ambition, and a plan. A modest but tangible aspiration of wanting to move forward, and how we're aiming to do it. Because you'll never land on a plan that everyone agrees with. We all have different views on tactics, football style etc. But if the club committed it's approach to fans, and demonstrated alignment to how we recruit and make decisions against that plan, you earn the right to ask for patience from fans, and it becomes easier to back the club during times when the plan seems to struggle.

 

Everything is for a sale, at a price. No one else is going to pay to use the ground, so that's the bit of leverage we have, and need to use.

It's a problem that we've had long enough to plan for, and it needs resolving. Simple as that. We have a very wealthy owner, and simply rolling over for another lease and moaning about how the rent holds us back, is not good enough.

 

The council could assist with some compulsory purchase orders to free up adequate land if we were serious about building a new stadium near to the city centre

 

Don’t get me started.
This whole topic boils my piss when people insist we’re over a barrel. We’re not, absolutely not.
We don’t currently need 25000 seats

 

i think we might have done this one before but first of all, where are we going to play? Lets decide that and take it from there.

 

We won't need an 18k stadium at this rate.

But in any event, we have, what 3 years left on the lease? So we need to get cracking. It's time enough to build a stadium. Even if we had to share somewhere for a year, there's odsal, Elland Road, Huddersfield.

These are all challenges that can be overcome, but as ever as a we seem to shrug our shoulders and give up.

It's a material issue, and it's the responsibility of the club to resolve it properly, rather than sleepwalk us into another sh*tty lease agreement.

PS, I guarantee that if it were in conjunction with a modern and exciting new stadium, anyone willing to go to VP for games currently would absolutely swallow a season of home games at Elland Road.