Most liked posts in thread: Mark Lawns comments in T and A today

I think you've posted the wrong link. Could you post the one EdwinB is on about please where Lawn is belittling the club?

 

Thanks

Can't see what Edwin is on about clearly isn't attacking the club in any shape or form

Having a go at some fans on social media though but that's nothing new

 

You’re talking crap.

 

Lawn did nothing wrong selling to R & R. They offered a price that was accepted. Not his problem how the club is run after although I would expect it pisses him off to see where the club has ended up.

 

So a club that has successfully operated above a 12k and 15k capacity for a number of yearwis going to build a stadium that potentially only holds 12k?

Great stuff.

 

Is this Fordy who constantly bleats about lack of ambition?, what a joke. 12,000 in L1 never mind Championship, at least you get first prize for laugh of the week.

 

He’s not belittling the club. He is honorary life president at the club according to the article!

he’s having a go at people on social media and the like creating rumours of discontent at the club.

he makes a good point tbf. Twitter is a completely toxic platform and very little good comes from it. Facebook isn’t much better. There is some real drivel posted.

As Lawn said, in the past such thoughts would be laughed off in the pub, but nowadays every Tom, Dick n ‘Arry has a voice and a platform to speak on these newer platforms - yet a lot of it is gibberish.

 

It wasn’t a risk free investment, football club twice in administration in a couple of years, could easily have gone the other way and lost them money.

Anyway at the risk of being repetitive, the pension fund owns the stadium, their trustees have a legal duty to get the best return for the fund. Giving away a £4-500k a year income for free probably isn’t within their remit.

 

In what way did he belittle the club?

 

Fair cop to Lawn good honest straight talking interview, not sure where this dig at the club is?? In fact he seemed very defensive of Rupp, Sparks and Adams and as a fan like the rest of us realises it’s going to take time under Adams to get us where we want to be, out of this awful league. Unfortunately people might just have to accept it’s a two year job, I’d rather that than sack him this season and start again with no guarantee of success anyway.

He was also spot on when he said ‘Fans say they want people to be honest but they really don’t.’ The amount of times this gets used as a stick to beat someone with is unreal, not talking just at this club but throughout football. One minute people say there’s not enough characters in football, then those that are, are gobshites etc.

 

I thought a lot of what he said made sense apart from the figures he quoted on rent, but he is six years out of the loop. I didnt read him as belittling the club. Far from it. I think he was actually backing up Sparks (and Rupp).

 

He's a City fan, as is his family. Why would he "belittle" the club he and his family supports in public?

 

He’s backed Sparks and Adams saying he’d have made the same decisions.
He’s confirmed that there’s no interference from directors and that managers make all the decisions on players.
He’s also confirmed that the VP rent is a major problem and hard to sustain whilst allowing a competitive playing budget.

 

Take on here for example, talk of Adams quitting/sacked, the furore behind Crankshaw leaving etc. And youre right about Twitter, can give you a right laugh but be equally toxic at the same time. Crikey he was even mentioned on here as belittling the club when you won't find a bigger Bradford City fan than Lawn. That said I don't agree with all he says in the interview. Not sure why we keep going back to old boys from the club, let's move forward FFS.

 

Nothing wrong with what he says. Shame he wasn't as robust when deciding who to sell to.

One gripe - whoever we have in charge, doesn't seem willing or able to find solutions to these apparently existential issues, such as needing to finding a massively higher rental cost than others. OK - what are you doing about it? I don't tell me there's nothing that can be done.

 

Feeling good thank you

 

Quite right Mike. Trustees have a Fiduciary duty and failure to exercise it can result in jail time. As a point we are not the only EFL club with this level of rent, there are others who have lower income levels through attendance numbers. Example Oxford who are not even allowed to generate income from catering when I last knew. It all goes to the Landlord who wanted a further rent increase for building a stand on the fourth side of the ground.

 

Not just any emotional tie which of course is important but it wouldn't be a 24000 seater as we have now, probably something on the lines of 10000 max...which would be unsustainable in my opinion..