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Post by sumo on Apr 23, 2018 14:06:59 GMT
you should not expect a large cash injection into the playing budget.
Just in case he pulls the plug, and we end up with a wage bill we cannot afford again.
The infrastructure of the club must be a priority in my opinion, a ( 3g pitch to help revenue in the future ) and ground improvements
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Post by Hannibal on Apr 23, 2018 14:10:52 GMT
you should not expect a large cash injection into the playing budget.Just in case he pulls the plug, and we end up with a wage bill we cannot afford again. The infrastructure of the club must be a priority in my opinion, a ( 3g pitch to help revenue in the future ) and ground improvements We had a cash injection into the playing budget this season and a lot of good that did. |
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Post by chesterken on Apr 23, 2018 14:15:02 GMT
you should not expect a large cash injection into the playing budget.Just in case he pulls the plug, and we end up with a wage bill we cannot afford again. The infrastructure of the club must be a priority in my opinion, a ( 3g pitch to help revenue in the future ) and ground improvements We had a cash injection into the playing budget this season and a lot of good that did. Full undercover facilities for the disabled home and away end would be a good start. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2018 14:23:30 GMT
Looking forward to another tier on the main stand  |
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Post by lookingin on Apr 23, 2018 14:29:23 GMT
My big worry is the wording "investment "?
We have lots of sponsorship plans, were we could give them something in return?
As to were this money goes? I think it all needs to go on the player's budget. Next season isn't one for building infrastructure. Next season is one for putting the best team on the pitch. One we can afford and get behind.
Our plan as a club next season should be to get people back to the stadium on match day.
There is a lot of talk about a 3g pitch. These pitches are not cheap to put in, and do not last forever. A large amount of the money that will be raisedfrom renting the pitch. Will be put aside for the pitch to be relayed.
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Post by eportblue on Apr 23, 2018 14:30:50 GMT
Looking forward to another tier on the main stand I can’t agree the other 3 stands will look daft, it has to be all four or nothing. 😉😂 |
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Post by eyeswideopen on Apr 23, 2018 15:04:07 GMT
Looking forward to another tier on the main stand I love a Subway me... |
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Post by histsci on Apr 23, 2018 15:27:04 GMT
In terms of investment, the only sensible thing I can see is helping to fund a training ground with a 3G. There is match funding available, and it would be used regularly. For the investor to make money you would have to rent it out to the wider community, but that would be in keeping with our ethos.
Looking forward to the Subway.
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Post by dmcnally on Apr 23, 2018 15:40:43 GMT
3G pitch with an on-site Subway and we're all happy.
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Post by Deva Chanter on Apr 23, 2018 16:04:35 GMT
My big worry is the wording "investment "? We have lots of sponsorship plans, were we could give them something in return? As to were this money goes? I think it all needs to go on the player's budget. Next season isn't one for building infrastructure. Next season is one for putting the best team on the pitch. One we can afford and get behind. Our plan as a club next season should be to get people back to the stadium on match day. There is a lot of talk about a 3g pitch. These pitches are not cheap to put in, and do not last forever. A large amount of the money that will be raisedfrom renting the pitch. Will be put aside for the pitch to be relayed. It is precisely this attitude that has led the club to the brink of extinction - a series of different boards have had that very attitude at the start of every season. The 'investment' can just gets kicked down the road for another season. We have chased success on the pitch at the expense of all other parts of the business. People are so quick to forget that once you put the emotion and the football aside, this club is a pretty large business. And what happens to businesses that refuse to invest when the sun is shining? All of the most successful businesses are constantly re-investing some of their income back into the business. It is how they remain a step ahead of their competitors and grow. This club is supposed to be different and yet we just do the same things as every other club - spend every penny we have chasing increasingly difficult to obtain success on the football pitch. We've seen an absolute chronic lack of investment in the club's infrastructure since we reformed and we're now starting to pay the price and once that gets mixed with the almost total desertion of sensible financial controls and management which we have seen this season, it becomes a near fatal concoction. Let's dare to be different. We need to lose this short-term attitude and start thinking long-term - the sacrifices we may have to make now will help to build the platform on which this club and business can thrive way beyond this generation of supporters. |
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Post by Oaks Blue on Apr 23, 2018 16:34:28 GMT
My big worry is the wording "investment "? We have lots of sponsorship plans, were we could give them something in return? As to were this money goes? I think it all needs to go on the player's budget. Next season isn't one for building infrastructure. Next season is one for putting the best team on the pitch. One we can afford and get behind. Our plan as a club next season should be to get people back to the stadium on match day. There is a lot of talk about a 3g pitch. These pitches are not cheap to put in, and do not last forever. A large amount of the money that will be raisedfrom renting the pitch. Will be put aside for the pitch to be relayed. It is precisely this attitude that has led the club to the brink of extinction - a series of different boards have had that very attitude at the start of every season. The 'investment' can just gets kicked down the road for another season. We have chased success on the pitch at the expense of all other parts of the business. People are so quick to forget that once you put the emotion and the football aside, this club is a pretty large business. And what happens to businesses that refuse to invest when the sun is shining? All of the most successful businesses are constantly re-investing some of their income back into the business. It is how they remain a step ahead of their competitors and grow. This club is supposed to be different and yet we just do the same things as every other club - spend every penny we have chasing increasingly difficult to obtain success on the football pitch. We've seen an absolute chronic lack of investment in the club's infrastructure since we reformed and we're now starting to pay the price and once that gets mixed with the almost total desertion of sensible financial controls and management which we have seen this season, it becomes a near fatal concoction. Let's dare to be different. We need to lose this short-term attitude and start thinking long-term - the sacrifices we may have to make now will help to build the platform on which this club and business can thrive way beyond this generation of supporters. I wish you were on the board back in 2010. |
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Post by The Swansway on Apr 23, 2018 16:34:47 GMT
Hasn't the Subway in Sealand Road just closed? Can't be coincidence can it? 😃
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Post by norwegianblue on Apr 23, 2018 17:14:57 GMT
Looking forward to another tier on the main stand Why not another tier on the West Stand? Or the cheaper option of free sunglasses upon admission to the East Stand? |
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Post by chesterken on Apr 23, 2018 18:49:02 GMT
We could use some of it to help build the academy what better legacy for the investor than Chester Joe Bloggs  Academy, just an idea but it would show what he had done for the club for years to come. |
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Post by superman on Apr 23, 2018 19:05:59 GMT
The potential investor may well have their own idea or indeed stipulate where the money should be spent. We will never get unanimity on here or across the membership and if it is left to the board well they haven't got a collective clue! Let the investor decide, it is their money after all and be grateful whatever the decision is. Or perhaps we should just turn it down!!
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Post by chesterken on Apr 23, 2018 19:26:38 GMT
The potential investor may well have their own idea or indeed stipulate where the money should be spent. We will never get unanimity on here or across the membership and if it is left to the board well they haven't got a collective clue! Let the investor decide, it is their money after all and be grateful whatever the decision is. Or perhaps we should just turn it down!! Turn it down, wash your mouth out with kryptonite Superman😀 |
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Post by superman on Apr 23, 2018 19:53:35 GMT
Well if the donor is some right of centre type some on here will have an ideological melt down and want to turn it down on principle!! Me, if there are no strings then it could come from my old mate Lex Luther for all I care!!
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Post by Harry Lime on Apr 23, 2018 19:57:21 GMT
My big worry is the wording "investment "? We have lots of sponsorship plans, were we could give them something in return? As to were this money goes? I think it all needs to go on the player's budget. Next season isn't one for building infrastructure. Next season is one for putting the best team on the pitch. One we can afford and get behind. Our plan as a club next season should be to get people back to the stadium on match day. There is a lot of talk about a 3g pitch. These pitches are not cheap to put in, and do not last forever. A large amount of the money that will be raisedfrom renting the pitch. Will be put aside for the pitch to be relayed. It is precisely this attitude that has led the club to the brink of extinction - a series of different boards have had that very attitude at the start of every season. The 'investment' can just gets kicked down the road for another season. We have chased success on the pitch at the expense of all other parts of the business. People are so quick to forget that once you put the emotion and the football aside, this club is a pretty large business. And what happens to businesses that refuse to invest when the sun is shining? All of the most successful businesses are constantly re-investing some of their income back into the business. It is how they remain a step ahead of their competitors and grow. This club is supposed to be different and yet we just do the same things as every other club - spend every penny we have chasing increasingly difficult to obtain success on the football pitch. We've seen an absolute chronic lack of investment in the club's infrastructure since we reformed and we're now starting to pay the price and once that gets mixed with the almost total desertion of sensible financial controls and management which we have seen this season, it becomes a near fatal concoction. Let's dare to be different. We need to lose this short-term attitude and start thinking long-term - the sacrifices we may have to make now will help to build the platform on which this club and business can thrive way beyond this generation of supporters. A lot of good points in that post. It is difficult though to put aside the first team football. We are a Million pound business with one main product. If you don't also invest properly in that product, you no longer have a Million pound business. Good short, medium and long term investment would be correct. Short term is the first team. That stabilises the business. Without that we don't have much of a business. Medium term is the Youth side and Infrastructure. Long term is the infrastructure and reinvestment. |
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Academy, just an idea but it would show what he had done for the club for years to come.