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Roger has a point - in many respects, they have no obligation to care what happens after the point of sale. I get that.

Equally, we're assuming that Rhodes has a care for the fortunes of the club.

I think you misinterpreted my original post. My point really, is simple. His judgement of who he entrusted to run the club last time, was awful. It needs to be better this time.

 

Surely that was a stroke of luck? I think my view point as a buyer would be that if I had proof funds and was paying a good price like they did for City and I wouldn't have the previous directors telling me how much I need to invest as a requisite for purchase.

 

I don't get this and i find it easy for some people to say.

Every step of the way it was known that Edin wasn't the money man. That was always clear and it a point Edin made it clear he put all his money in.

If Rupp wanted and wants to take this club forward plus buy assets he can because he can afford too. He can easy afford to LOAN the club 1.5m.

I don't believe his intentions were to take us forward at all. Edin has gone and the excuses are still there!

Rupp is as guilty as Edin for where we are right now.

 

Pompey wasn't pure luck though, Eisner bought it on the conditions laid down by the 2,300 shareholder members of the Pompey Supporters Trust who had each put a £1,000 in to by it out of admin in 2013

 

The majority of purchases are between businesses, however as you point out PST were able to negotiate terms. The assertion by the poster that it was pure luck is nonsense.

 

I'm not sure you are understanding what I'm saying......

 

I'll repeat.... I'm not saying that the fact that the money was invested as pure luck. It was a requisite when he/she purchased so needed to be done.

I'm saying that they were lucky to find a buyer that would take a club on and be told they must invest x amount of money by previous share holders directors.

Not complete nonsense at all....

 

Probably the City itself....

 

The growing demographic of Bradford has no emotional attachment to the city or its sporting clubs. We can stick our head under the duvet and pretend otherwise or we can face up to it and ask why? No one has really had the balls to challenge it, shame because its a potential goldmine right on your door step.

 

Hope your our new CEO.

 

A great post, but wringing every available pound fails at the first hurdle when fans grumble at the mere mention of £149 being too cheap. You can't expect to pay about 8 quid a game but want to dine at the Ivy. It's the biggest potential revenue raiser at the club.

 

I've never understood the rationale of a standard ST price wherever you sit

 

I'd say you'd have to go some to find a club as crazy as Bradford were after that playoff final defeat. The results papered over not just cracks but widening chasms as Rahic went into full retard mode behind the scenes. I don't think Rahic knew how many people were leaking story after story of a guy literally on a suicide mission. Thankfully he's gone, hopefully with a good dose of karma, but his legacy unfortunately remains for the foreseeable future.

 

Druridge Bay was nice IIRC. I came third in a sea angling competition off the rocks at Newbiggin I think it was. Good times, before I got married and bought a a house, I had a few quid on the hip and would be staying at the Marriott at Gateshead with work paying.

 

A bit further south, I lived in Whitley Bay for a while in the mid nineties. Bonkers. Queuing up for the pubs to open on a bank holiday at 10am. Steve Stone used to join us on the razz when he was up visiting his parents from Nottingham. Different breed up in that part of the world.

 

BMW 5 series? Top of the range Mercedes surely!

 

It may be a shit-hole but it's our shit-hole. It hasn't always been like this. It was once a wealthier city than L***s. Maybe one day it will rise like a Phoenix and then BIG money individuals will be falling over each other to buy the club.

 

Oh aye. Fat chance of either frankly.

 

Alf Hookam