Post by utg12 on Dec 10, 2018 13:59:31 GMT
Problem is we're comparing Rovers with clubs who've got owners like Lansdown who's prepared to invest millions in their own clubs. I'm pretty sure the believer's on here were telling us, non believers, Weal's evolution model was far superior in the long term than Lansdown's!
Let's hope DC's given the ALQ's, if it was a full blown Board meeting, with some home truths and explained to them if they don't intend selling the club they need to share their long, or short, term vision with fans, or expect a big decline in season ticket sales and attnedences next season as fans lose interest.
No we aren’t.
Plenty of teams with owners and clubs with less income, with smaller fanbases and in lower leagues have twice the facilities as us. Half of L2 clubs for a start.
You could shave £1-1.5m off our bottom line for a start by reducing the paid board and hangers on that do nothing, letting the offices in Chelsea go and having a good look at the value of some of the back room team.
I wouldn’t be so mad about it if the money that we were losing was giving us a return somewhere else. But it isn’t, it’s being frittered into the dustbin on people that are quite frankly, inept, useless and completely feckless in their ownership and leadership.
How about you take the additional £2m loss the ALQs are running up and divert that into a longer term strategy for investment in a training ground.
In 4-5 years that would have paid for your training ground. The office in Chelsea would pay for £1.25m of it.
Or are the owners and others completely blind to that kind of logic.
Hey, stop being sensible.
What we you on about? What's wrong with a well paid Chair, especially when there are 5 board meetings to run in over 2 years. CEO? Yes, of course he's worth it. He has a programme page to write every fortnight.
Players on higher wages than other clubs? Don't be silly. Weve never been famous for paying more and expecting less. We've never been an easy ride.
Attendances are massive compared to previous years. Hospitality is now full most of the time. Income gone up a lot via DC's success. But let's slag higggs and others off rather than AQs.
All of TG improvements paid for by sponsorship and he's paid nicely on commission.