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Post by tommym9 on Sept 21, 2016 10:21:55 GMT
I thought their bid to buy the club and have it community owned failed last year, but it seems they are back and VERY close to their target: www.bigbathcitybid.org.uk/They need circa £42k in the next 8 days to hit their target. I'll chuck them a tenner quite happily for letting us share their ground! |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2016 9:51:52 GMT
Just donated a tenner - they need just under £40k now.
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Post by youmadethatup on Sept 22, 2016 14:35:27 GMT
Bath city face the same issues as BRFC do their facilities don't allow them to maximise their potential. They have a big ground for national league south but to be sustainable they need their major asset the stadium to be an income provider 52 weeks a year. A community owned club will offer a future based on living within their means and being part of the city. For the club to prosper they will still need outside finance partners. They should have a target of league one football as their goal.
Good luck to them , the more west country teams higher up the football ladder the better for all local clubs.
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Post by lpgas on Sept 23, 2016 11:01:22 GMT
Bath city face the same issues as BRFC do their facilities don't allow them to maximise their potential. They have a big ground for national league south but to be sustainable they need their major asset the stadium to be an income provider 52 weeks a year. A community owned club will offer a future based on living within their means and being part of the city. For the club to prosper they will still need outside finance partners. They should have a target of league one football as their goal. Good luck to them , the more west country teams higher up the football ladder the better for all local clubs. Which translates as we are not going to spend anything, but we still need people to give us cash to keep going |
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Post by youmadethatup on Sept 23, 2016 17:51:41 GMT
Bath city face the same issues as BRFC do their facilities don't allow them to maximise their potential. They have a big ground for national league south but to be sustainable they need their major asset the stadium to be an income provider 52 weeks a year. A community owned club will offer a future based on living within their means and being part of the city. For the club to prosper they will still need outside finance partners. They should have a target of league one football as their goal. Good luck to them , the more west country teams higher up the football ladder the better for all local clubs. Which translates as we are not going to spend anything, but we still need people to give us cash to keep going They will probably have to have an ongoing scheme for raising funds to ensure they still remain afloat. They obviously,like BRFC will need investment on a scale bigger than locals spending some pocket money if they are to develope. Does the current Twerton park offer a financial solution...unlikely unless sold |
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Sept 23, 2016 17:54:24 GMT
Wonder how much Bath Rugby have benefited from freebies from the council over the years, compared to how much the football club has benefited.
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Post by lpgas on Sept 25, 2016 11:09:38 GMT
Wonder how much Bath Rugby have benefited from freebies from the council over the years, compared to how much the football club has benefited. Barnet gave Saracens their ground. Would not allow Barnet FC to extend their ground by a few metres; closed down Edgware Towns ground and sold it for housing: have been trying to do the same for Hendon FC for the last ten years, but it's under a covenant, and they are literally waiting for one very old protester to die. That's the rugger bugger Tories for you |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2016 17:32:45 GMT
Wonder how much Bath Rugby have benefited from freebies from the council over the years, compared to how much the football club has benefited. Indeed - can you imagine the Council ever allowing Bath City to play on The Rec, paying only a peppercorn rent for many years, and then to develop a stadium on the publicly owned land? I think that the sale of Twerton Park will have to be the way forward, maybe they could ground share with the rugger buggers? |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2016 18:14:29 GMT
Bath City have now passed their minimum target to trigger community ownership - current total is £300,203.  |
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Post by tommym9 on Sept 27, 2016 8:26:15 GMT
Great news!
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Post by countygroundhotel on Sept 27, 2016 8:53:08 GMT
Wonder how much Bath Rugby have benefited from freebies from the council over the years, compared to how much the football club has benefited. Indeed - can you imagine the Council ever allowing Bath City to play on The Rec, paying only a peppercorn rent for many years, and then to develop a stadium on the publicly owned land? I think that the sale of Twerton Park will have to be the way forward, maybe they could ground share with the rugger buggers? The ownership of the Rec is a lot more complicated than the above political rant portrays with the land now held as a charitable trust after the council took ownership in 1974, a long time after Bath had started playing on it. But all that aside isn't one of a council's role to commercially invigorate it's area? And the council and Bath rugby club have made Bath and the Rugby club almost one and the same entity and undoubtedly brought in a lot of cash for the businesses of Bath, much like Rovers did in the Twerton area when we played there. PS in no way does the above statement condone or encourage the support of Bath Rugby Club |
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Post by oviedista on Sept 27, 2016 9:27:44 GMT
It would be sad to see them leave Twerton as for all its limitations as a league ground it has great charm. The approach from where I used to get off the bus also had a real old fashioned football experience about it - crossing the river and under the railway and seeing the flood lights above. For a City like Bath it felt surprisingly gritty and industrial. I guess development is severely limited.
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