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You are partially correct, Tyneside. There were 2 of us on the Main Board who were avid fans and Season Ticket holders. We still are, I think 25 yearers. We both got promoted to the Board at the same time, my colleague Martin Ackroyd was F.D. The bit about GR is not correct as far as I recall, what was the case was that every year Martin and myself made representations as to sponsorship but the answer was always..."fine but what do we do about the Bulls, Park Avenue and other clubs where we are being approached because we have stores there". In the end it was always the case that better to not do anything than upset some, plus at that time we were not the biggest in our sector and certainly not national and we had to watch our money as we were spending big on expansion.
As a sort of compromise we did sponsor some games and took tables at some events, all down to us respecting the work Alan and Chris Gilliver did at the club.
Our only major sponsorship was when we acquired Safeway in 2004 and inherited their massive deal with the Scottish F.A. but when that contract expired we did not renew.
Other deals have been minor, connected to and part of other things, for example ad boards at Falkirk after I bought the old ground, 2 year deal allowed to expire. There were several others like that but minor.
The over riding rule was that we were in too many locations so to avoid upset, do nothing.
I don't know if that is still the case but suspect the Board of today has no BCFC fans among its' number, David Potts the CEO is an avid Man City Season Ticket holder and Jon Burke the Company Sec. is a Leeds fan, other than that, who knows.

 

Yea they will be grimm.

 

Did he mean Aldi?

 

Ahhh you maybe wrong on that one I bet he is in there most days looking for dinted tins of beans to see if he can get a few pence off

 

You must be joking
The man of mystery who owns properties in Barbados and Spain wouldn't give the club benefit of his much self acclaimed business acumen never mind sponsor them
He looks down on small businesses like Morrisons because they are poorly run
Imagine the team running out with "Fordy International Plc" emblazoned on their shirts

 

Doubt a man of @Fordy117 's status acknowledges the existence of a low cost provisioner, let alone know of it's location.

 

Houses abroad? To misquote Grandad off Only Fools, what’s he got? A Wendy House?

 

Give the lad some credit he been busy sorting his new Merc out :

 

Gambling firms will be banned from sponsoring shirts very soon so I’d suggest your pal looks elsewhere

 

I think this very wise of Morrisons. I was a big fan of Panasonic back in the day but as soon as they started sponsoring Huddersfield they never got another penny off me.

 

Morrisison look after themselves.

I heard that they threatened to leave Bradford if they didn't get their way on the head office development.

They oppose many things involving Tesco's I believe but there is a reason why Audi are near a Morrisions...Think about it.

For me poor excuses not supporting your local football team! Poor.

 

Oh FFS I've spent half an hour trying to figure it out

 

Edited for you

 

Got that bloody tune in my head now. Thanks!!

 

Does that mean you don't practice what you preach....... Now there's a surprise .
Not quite the person you claim to be.

 

Stunner in her prime

 

Will be back shortly with his next batch of "Fairy Tales"
You can bank on that