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  1. bantam65

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    I bet he had hot water to wash his hands with.
     
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  2. Fordy117

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    Well something has to give on the stadium sooner or later.
     
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    #410 Fordy117, Apr 3, 2023
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  3. Dennis

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    I wouldn't be holding up either the Coventry rental deal or the Rotherham ownership arrangements as ideal despite their better league position.

    Coventry had to move miles away from Coventry when they had the argument in SISU over their £1.3m rent and spent several years on the road. They moved back when SISU went into liquidation and became a tenant of Wasps for about half the original rent. They were later served an eviction notice by Mike Ashley, who became the new owner of the CBS stadium when Wasps themselves got into difficulties. Coventry and Ashley negotiated a short term tenancy last year but only until the end of the current season. It remains to be seen how those negotiations on a new tenancy are resolved. But Ashley will certainly be playing hard ball.

    Rotherham's stadium holds a little over 12,000 and ultimately cost £20mill to build and refurbish! Fortunately for them, the local council put some money in and it became a community owned asset. All non-footballing activities are under the control of the Council. Would we want a deal like that for a new stadium and would the local council even be willing to invest ratepayers money into a new etadium?

    I'm not sure I'd want to emulate either of those clubs so far as their stadium arrangements are concerned.

    I don't believe there is a simple solution to our situation. We certainly don't hold all of the cards. In fact, the only one of any substance we do hold is the option to extend the current lease arrangements. Whatever might happen, it's good to hear that Ryan and Gibb are speaking after so many years of silence with JR.
     
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    Basically the Pension Fund and City both need each other. It is good that relations now seem to be cordial. Hopefully that will lead to successful negotiations that suit both parties.
     
    #445 Allotment Bantam, Apr 4, 2023
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    Oh god - here we go again:(**headbang
     
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    ...shame really, just as you were starting to warm to Edin:)
     
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    #19 Campbell's soup, Jul 9, 2018
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    Xenophobia much?
     
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    Simon Parker just tweeted he's spoke to both Gibb and Edin and story is on it's way.
     
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    #50 Thelittlegerman, Jul 9, 2018
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    "just had very interesting chat with Gordon Gibb who tells me he is considering launching a takeover consortium @officialbantams along with Jack Tordoff.
     
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    #54 Interested Bystander, Jul 9, 2018
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    MONTH AGO -Edin out!. NOW -we don't want to do that. Some on here don't know know their head from their Arse.
     
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    One thing is absolutely true in this. Derm Tanner is a very good and shrewd journalist and if this was tweeted on his own account rather than a fake one, then it has substance
     
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    I note the comment, ‘...but my love of the club has never gone’.

    Just a very small and dead straight question, but how has that ‘love’ translated into action?

    Has anyone seen Gibb at any Bradford City game since 2004?
     
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    #104 Phantombantam, Jul 9, 2018
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    Two things on that

    1. It doesn't give him the moral right to play hardball, when he subsequently didn't get his way
    2. Maybe we'd have done what AFC Wimbledon have, although I wouldn't have like it as the time. My point is that fallow 2004 to 2011 period was largely down to his actions

    It's amazing that anyone thinks he would be good for the club. Ask yourself where was he before in buying the club? He now sees the green shoots of a financially viable option (quite feasible that Rupp etc, will never get any praise at time as we might only appreciate what they've done for the club when they've gone) and wants in

    Never shown any interest in the club before - but now he wants in, its apparently fine because he's not the current lot

    Thank goodness no-one on these boards is anywhere nearer to running City
     
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    That would depend on if we had other sponsors waiting to come in. I do agree with you that there is a myth in football that owners chuck their own own money in the club. Do they bollocks, when they do they want it back and then some, thats why they are business men. They don't get rich by giving money away. As Kevin alluded to, it all goes against offsetting your tax liabilities anyway.
     
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    I think he was never given the credit he deserved.

    Gibb always stated he would have nothing to do with City while Rhodes was still there.
    He always stated that City never needed to go into administration at that time the club could have continued trading, it was Rhodes who put BCFC into a second admin.

    Gibb's pension fund has been paid back many times over since August 2003 and will continue to do so on a 25 year lease. Do the sums yourself at £370,000 pa when he paid £2.5m for the ground then.

    Really don't get your statement of "He now sees the green shoots of a financially viable option". It Doesn't make sense as he can happily sit back for another 10 years and watch another £3.7m go into the pension pot.
     
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    Just read about Jack's crash at Apperley Bridge.

    Hope he is alright. He is a Bradford legend after all.
     
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    Whilst personally welcoming interest from Gibb and Tordoff, I am a bit apprehensive on how unsettling this maybe to all connected to the club, not least our new head coach Michael Collins, who is surely under enough pressure to get off to a good start to the season given the flak the board got for appointing him.
    Seems a bit strange and unprofessional on how Gibb has hinted at his possible intentions through a local journalist, at such an early stage. We all love gossip and rumours, but surely the time for going public, would be if actual negotiations were under way. The way it reads, no approach has been made to Rupp or Rahic and Rahic seems to hint that any such approach would be unwelcome anyhow.

    Be interesting to see how this pans out in the coming weeks and months.

    Glad to hear Jack Tordoff is okay after rolling his car today in Apperley Bridge by the way.
     
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    Lets take this a step further.
     
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