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Now that new EU tax laws have come in this month, I think I'm going to have to pay around 30€ import tax on this bloody thing! Does the handwash represent the UK leaving the EU - cos that's how it's going to feel when I pay those charges to the post office

 

https://www.bradfordcityafc.com/news/2021/april/mydis-touch-base-with-the-bantams/

New club sponsors.

 

I like the logo, it should replace the current badge.

 

I’ll probably sign up. Scarf looks good. At first I thought it was an official beer until I realised it’s a tube of hand sanitizer.

 

Sounds like it’ll be a side room off the physio’s treatment room.

 

The deal breaker here is your name on the one-off 4th shirt.

 

Well this gives those that want to another chance

 

What a daft idea thinking people would pay more just because they have more. Just because I may have more money than the guy down the road doesn't mean I'm gonna go into Tesco and pay more than him for my groceries.

 

Good to know, rock on

 

This is a competitive, capitalist industry based on supply and demand and quality of product. We need to act accordingly, which includes offering as much quality at reasonable value, with different options for different customers/supporters.

Commercially, we do look to be improving.

 

Park suggesting a daft idea? Surely not.

 

We couldn't get any worse. I know for a fact behind the scenes was pretty much non existent, no KPIs or targets to be met. Always made me laugh when I read comments on here that 'but Morecambe have done well with the lowest budget', like improving your income streams somehow doesn't matter. Always exceptions to the rule but generally the better budget your manager gets the more chance you have of being successful and that applies to any business not just football. And at long last we have a CEO who understands thay acting like a charity is no good for long term development.

 

The fighting fund was one of those ideas that fools think is a good idea but ultimately never works. Would you go to John Lewis and pay £500 for a £400 TV? No, neither would anyone else.

 

Why is it hilarious.

I read @StaffordBantam making a poor excuse for Rupp the other day and hear Sparks say the club wants to be sustainable.

How long have I being saying the club needs to improve off the pitch? Rupp can speed up that process by buying assets in which the club can use as a commercial gain but he doesn’t.

Rupp is a poor excuse of a football owner but no way fans should be paying more to a bloody fighting fund. Mugs whoever did or does.

 

I suppose fans have no choice but to make silly assumptions when it comes to the budget.

I get fans wanting the playing budget to be increased, but the constant carping about season ticket prices being too cheap isn't a good solution in the short, medium, and especially the long term.

There is zero guarantee there will even be an increase in income, although I suppose the increase to £198 with a pay-per-month-at-no-extra-cost direct debit system makes it more likely - but even then you've still got absolutely zero guarantee that even if we DID have an increase in income, it gets allocated to the playing budget. Sorry, if you're not holding the purse strings it's really silly to assume the playing budget will be allowed to be increased.

The powers that be at Bradford City will have an idea of the amount they want to spend. Some clubs have a principled system of not paying individual players above a certain amount; some will have a sensible, guaded system of not over-reaching on contracts in any single year in case a bumper season in terms of ST sales isn't met again the next year, or the next.

Who's to say the increased cost of season tickets doesn't go towards hot water or player facilities or new shower heads or new headed paper for the office.

If the club are saying "The cost is £149", it's presumably because they've figured out that that's what they need from their 10,000 or whatever fans.

Those fans then saying "No, the cost should be £199 so we can sign more or better players" isn't necessarily going to bring in more or better players. It's just a wild assumption based on absolutely nothing anyone at the club has ever said.

 

Agreed 100 %.