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when rent was last discussed on here I had a dog around and our rent seemed similar to other clubs. I was expecting it to be more

 

Name that dog...!!

 

Waffle

 

Our bargaining chip is who else would want to rent a 25,000 seater stadium in the centre of Bradford? The Bulls can't afford it. No other customers. Getting the land ready for construction for housing or other use would be costly.
If City wanted to play hardball they could always threaten to play elsewhere - see Coventry and so on.
As I said, the tenant and the owner of the ground both need each other.

 

Bradford ain't playing anywhere else, i'll guarantee you that. Its whole ethos and business structure is bulit around cheap season tickets. If people are only gonna pay £149 for a season ticket they ain't gonna fork out considerable time and money to visit another ground miles away. And where would this mythical new rentable ground actually be? It has to hold 15,000 minumum, the nearest venues are Leeds, Burnley and Huddersfield. Leeds and Burnley would laught themselves daft at such an idea, Huddersfield have 2 sports already at the John Smiths stadium. Believe me, Gibb holds most of the cards as he actually owns the only viable piece of real estate that Bradford could use as a ground. It ain't like a tenant of a shop or warehouse who can argue to the owner of the building that they can find a suitable alternative. Bradfords only real alternative was Odsal, now a decaying cesspit. And Lawn tried that trick about 10 years ago and it wasn't happening then. The reality is Gibb calls the shots here, he bought that right when he purchased the ground.

 

People don't know business if they think Bradford hold as many cards as Gibb. Only way City would benefit financially is if Gibb felt sorry for us, but then purchasing VP was an investment that is beneficial to some pension fund if i recall ( you'll put me right on that one). Our only bargaining chip is the threat of building a new ground which ain't gonna happen, we just have rely on the good will of Gordon Gibb that he doesn't whack the price up rather than down.

 

There's another way of course, and just as likely

Bradford host the Olympics

 

Gibb holds all the cards because we have a CEO who doesn't want to be here and an owner that doesn't really want us. How can we plan for the future with that set up?

Put a forward thinking person in the hotseat with 8 years planning time to sort an advantageous situation out and see what can happen.

 

If the guy rumoured to be taking the hot seat is correct then I think you may get your wish, the next CEO in my opinion has either got to have had words with Rupp or is having words with Rupp about the long term future and what Rupps thoughts are with regards investment, unless he is coming into the club with a view of the future funding the club himself with external investment.

 

Spill the beans Bronco !

 

Rhodes sold the ground cheap to Gibb and we have paid through the nose ever since

 

What choice did he have?

 

I didn’t know that was ever an option Dennis. I remember in another of our financial crisis in 2011, the one where Lawn bluffed about taking us to Odsal, we sent Jack Tordoff to see Gibb and propose a lower the league lower the rent proposal and Gibb turned it down flat.

 

I honestly think that at the moment Gibb needs us as much as we need him. Not in either of our interests to piss the other off.

There is no decent alternative home for city at the moment so we need to be here.

That said, there is surely no return in ripping down VP and putting up anything else:
- Poor area for resi,
- Poor access for warehousing,
- Nobody would build office space in this climate,
- Shopping etc surely saturated in Bradford already,

Gibb needs us here paying rent.

 

Any rumours yet about the new CEO , I’ve still a feeling it will be Ryan Sparks.

 

It would make a pretty decent wedding venue I'm sure!