Putting our money where our mouth is

Light industrial or houses in a really affluent part of Bradford. ??? won’t bring much return , you are right

Absolutely, the “add ons” , such as food, drink, shirts, hospitality make huge profits for the club too!

It’s amazing how some just post without thinking it through.

 

Your first sentence suggests you are a very selfish person, saying you would be happy to increase prices and that would be a good way to reduce our home attendances, a great way to build a club limit your potential going forward, I'll ask again are you a businessman.
Your second sentence is not as easy as your suggesting and has been explained to you several times, but if we did find some football club prepared to take us all things being equal we still have to pay rent until our present deal runs out.
And thirdly we were hardly plodding along until we got bought by Rahic & Ruin we were actually in contention for promotion, so hardly plodding along in the basement.

 

Coventry had around 4,000 season ticket holders at the time due to protests against the ownership, so what capacity they had is totally irrelevant as they could fit their season ticket holders into the ground although that also alienated even more and they didn’t even sell out sixfields and soon moved back. Stupid idea to alienate customers if you’re a business man you should know that.

 

Only a few bitching about the rent a situation as many have explained is hardly the millstone round our neck some are suggesting, we may not like the fact that Gibb/pension fund made a good investment 20+ years ago but as a club we have to deal with it in the best way we can, I believe Julian & Mark buying the shop helped reduce our rent.

 

Not according to their own CEO they're not
https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sport/football/football-news/best-deal-ever-coventry-city-20054025

 

Sounds very much like what Ryan is hoping, to sell the hospitality out each home game and give a better selection of food & drink to fans to purchase to fans before and after the game.
And looking at the hospitality area to the left of where we sit it looked to be very successful yesterday.

 

Where?
Park Avenue, Eccleshill, Thackley? Too small.
Odsal? Shit hole that won’t meet EFL standards
Everywhere outside Bradford would be viable for a season at most whilst a new ground was built. It’s a non-starter.
There are two options, stay at VP or build a new stadium. FWIW I favour the latter but realistically it’s not happening. Gibb knows that, Rupp and Sparks know that.

 

Me too whilst we have 25000 seats to fill.
But your point was the Shay isn’t big enough. It is if we charge £300 for a season ticket and sell 8000. The ground would be full with probably a better atmosphere than at VP currently where the only noise comes from 10 fans in the corner.

 

For clarity, I wasn’t suggesting defaulting on the lease. It was more of what do we do when the lease ends in 7 years if we are still plodding along in league 2 with the VP rent holding us back.

 

We haven’t dealt with it the best why we can hence why we don’t own it

 

Increase ticket prices!!!!!! How very dare you. There will be unrest amongst the masses.

 

You don't know negotiating judging by your posts.

 

Good theory but do you honestly think we have 5,000 people who would buy that bond at £1,000 a pop ?

 

mot is much reduced from the £1.3m paid once upon a time. Think it is about £100k rent plus maintenance costs but they still don’t have full control of match day income or any non match day income

 

apparently they ran out of custard so replaced it with a bottle of wine

 

Wasn't the issue that they objected to the council selling to the Rugby club and the RC then getting all the ground revenue? I'm not 100% sure but I think more of the "backing down" came from the football club because the RC couldn't give a shit if Coventry City were tenants or not.

The football club have no cards at all that would make Wasps want to back down, or need to.