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Pretty good response Clarkie - frankly some of Beds missives are double dutch like the one below; that is, typically rhetorical with generally at least 2 question marks chucked in. Perhaps GPC can analyse Beds quote below; not by inserting the personal "I" in lieu of the royal we... please!
Stay away from question marks...eh?
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As I've said before I would love to be proven wrong and things will get done thats going to at long last give us a chance to grow and compete with neighbouring clubs.
Do you mean Coventry, Luton, Stevenage and MK all below us one way or the other. At least 2 of those Clubs are in precarious position.
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In my opinion we are just customers who pay every fortnight for a product, sometimes we like the product we have purchased, sometimes we don't.
Apprently there are many reasons why people pay for tickets. Many of the loyal fan base purchase on emotional attachment. Therefore to some extent product quality is irrelevant. If football fans were just people buying a product AFC Wimbledon would not have come back from the dead. At the end of the day someone is thinkng about spending millions on the stand. They are not going to do it on a whim. If it’s done right every option would need to be considered, evaluated and costed whilst keeping in mind what you actually want the development to achieve. If it was your money what would you do? What you wouldn’t do is chuck it up on impulse, I reckon KTs 3 to 4 year anniversary before something starts, if it does at all?
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I saw the BBC article about the 1.1M cash injection but won't believe anything until I see it.
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For goodness sake Doc we are NOT going down you heard it here 1st (I damn well hope that does not come back to haunt me)
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Do you mean Coventry, Luton, Stevenage and MK all below us one way or the other. At least 2 of those Clubs are in precarious position.
League positions can never be taken for granted, therefore all teams must expect fluctuating fortunes, its what makes the game great. But having the opportunity to give our club the chance to compete with the likes of Cov luton mk and also posh and oxford both on the pitch and in match day ticket sales/ corperate income and other revenues raised during the week. Other than little stevenage, I can safely say we lag along way behind the others which should be rectified as a matter of urgency.
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League positions can never be taken for granted, therefore all teams must expect fluctuating fortunes, its what makes the game great. But having the opportunity to give our club the chance to compete with the likes of Cov luton mk and also posh and oxford both on the pitch and in match day ticket sales/ corperate income and other revenues raised during the week. Other than little stevenage, I can safely say we lag along way behind the others which should be rectified as a matter of urgency.
As supporters we know we’re not going to the Prem or sustain a high league level with the ground as it is, as you say. So the standard of our ground stirs up a fair bit of emotion for us. The trouble is Beds is we ain’t owned by supporters. We can’t sell the ground out at the moment, so as an investor, chucking millions on raising the capacity is somewhat unattractive. If you have any sort of business accumen you need some sort of plan for a return on investment? In all the arguments you’ve made for redevelopment I don’t see anything as an investor that would make me part with my money. All I see is lots of clubs with white elephant stadiums. God knows what the motivations were for some of them. I suspect an impending court case will shed some light on some of the perks that may be available to those of a certain disposition? We would need to be regularly selling the ground out before I would even consider investing to the levels you suggest. Don’t get me wrong, as a supporter there is nothing I would like more than a stadium to be proud of that offers potential. As an investor not a chance would I do anything until the capacity impacts on revenue, which it currently doesn’t.
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Apprently there are many reasons why people pay for tickets. Many of the loyal fan base purchase on emotional attachment. Therefore to some extent product quality is irrelevant. If football fans were just people buying a product AFC Wimbledon would not have come back from the dead. At the end of the day someone is thinkng about spending millions on the stand. They are not going to do it on a whim. If its done right every option would need to be considered, evaluated and costed whilst keeping in mind what you actually want the development to achieve. If it was your money what would you do? What you wouldnt do is chuck it up on impulse, I reckon KTs 3 to 4 year anniversary before something starts, if it does at all?
Selective quoting? Thought that you were better than that. Including the next sentence would have removed your need to write most of that: "If we don't like it enough times then we stop buying it or like the majority of us we keep buying it anyway".
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Selective quoting? Thought that you were better than that. Including the next sentence would have removed your need to write most of that: "If we don't like it enough times then we stop buying it or like the majority of us we keep buying it anyway".
fair point, I wasn’t trying to be selective, just trying to keep it short, apologies. To some extent I was sort of trying to re-enforce and elaborate on your view rather than offering an alternative. Apparently not very well either by all accounts?
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As supporters we know we’re not going to the Prem or sustain a high league level with the ground as it is, as you say. So the standard of our ground stirs up a fair bit of emotion for us. The trouble is Beds is we ain’t owned by supporters. We can’t sell the ground out at the moment, so as an investor, chucking millions on raising the capacity is somewhat unattractive. If you have any sort of business accumen you need some sort of plan for a return on investment? In all the arguments you’ve made for redevelopment I don’t see anything as an investor that would make me part with my money. All I see is lots of clubs with white elephant stadiums. God knows what the motivations were for some of them. I suspect an impending court case will shed some light on some of the perks that may be available to those of a certain disposition? We would need to be regularly selling the ground out before I would even consider investing to the levels you suggest. Don’t get me wrong, as a supporter there is nothing I would like more than a stadium to be proud of that offers potential. As an investor not a chance would I do anything until the capacity impacts on revenue, which it currently doesn’t.
Sixfields as is will only ever average between 80 and 90% capacaity in all league 1 games, buts thats a decent effort in such an tiny archaic ground with 1980s facilities, ie none. So you cant bash the Northampton public for filling it to such high capacity. So expecting the magical 100% sell out game after game, 10 to 20% more to turn up every game to watch a lower league 1 side, sat in the poorest front row seats in rain and wind is just fanciful but conveniently in the past over looked to avoid investment in the infrastructure. You also used the phrases 'wite elephant stadium' and "premiership football" of which not one person expect or want, so change those to a modest 12000 capacity stadium with corperate facilities large supporters bar/ 7 day function room to give a more sustainable club that can grow its product to one that can challenge in league 1 with some championship dreams and ambitions to give long standing and many newly attracted supporters to a more professional setting, raising expectations of more than just survival out of league 2. You do realise any redevelopment can be done in stages and financed by serveral means without the need of the present consortium spending a penny of their own money? so waiting for our fans to sit in the rain filling the poorest seats in the stadium is not the bench mark for progression.
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League positions can never be taken for granted, therefore all teams must expect fluctuating fortunes, its what makes the game great. But having the opportunity to give our club the chance to compete with the likes of Cov luton mk and also posh and oxford both on the pitch and in match day ticket sales/ corperate income and other revenues raised during the week. Other than little stevenage, I can safely say we lag along way behind the others which should be rectified as a matter of urgency.
You think we are well behind Coventry? They are in the league below us. They have an investment firm as their owner, the fans hate them They been plummeting down the leagues The rent on their stadium was so high that they chose to play in our 'conference standard' stadium for a season. The population of Coventry is approximately 50% bigger than Northampton. Their average league attendance is not. How exactly are they ahead of us? you are deluded...
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League positions can never be taken for granted, therefore all teams must expect fluctuating fortunes, its what makes the game great. But having the opportunity to give our club the chance to compete with the likes of Cov luton mk and also posh and oxford both on the pitch and in match day ticket sales/ corperate income and other revenues raised during the week. Other than little stevenage, I can safely say we lag along way behind the others which should be rectified as a matter of urgency.
Article from September stating that Cov will be kicked out of the Ricoh ground at the end of this season. Of course the Ricoh is now actually owned by Wasps Rugby. https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-city-18-ricoh-games-13674115Oxford Utd are tenants in their own ground, which is owned by their estranged former chairman. They get very little or none of the matchday revenue associated with the fixtures held there. Negotations to purchase the ground have been going on for years. http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/15024914.Oxford_United__could_look_for_a_new_stadium__unless_sale_agreed_soon/Milton Keynes are effectively a highly successful Doubletree hotel with a football team attached. They are nowhere near well funded enough to sustain Championship to PL football, and the chairman continues to delude himself that the PL is possible. At some point reality will bite. Luton's new ground at Power Court is stuck in local council rigmarole, and they still don't have planning permission (to my knowledge). https://www.lutontoday.co.uk/sport/football/luton-town/sweet-hopeful-that-frustrating-power-court-delay-will-be-over-soon-1-8230256Are you seriously telling me that those clubs are better off than NTFC, who have a chairman with a consortium willing to fund the completion of a stand that would otherwise have been left derelict, and all that is holding things up is final lease paperwork from NBC?
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Are you seriously telling me that those clubs are better off than NTFC, who have a chairman with a consortium willing to fund the completion of a stand that would otherwise have been left derelict, and all that is holding things up is final lease paperwork from NBC?
If recent rumours are to be believed the consortium aren’t stumping up the money so KT and his Oxford money man are funding the completion of the East Stand.
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If recent rumours are to be believed the consortium aren’t stumping up the money so KT and his Oxford money man are funding the completion of the East Stand.
Which is fine - but the point is that had they not rocked up and funded it then the stand would be sat there empty with no seats in it, let alone potentially finished.
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Sixfields as is will only ever average between 80 and 90% capacaity in all league 1 games, buts thats a decent effort in such an tiny archaic ground with 1980s facilities, ie none. So you cant bash the Northampton public for filling it to such high capacity. So expecting the magical 100% sell out game after game, 10 to 20% more to turn up every game to watch a lower league 1 side, sat in the poorest front row seats in rain and wind is just fanciful but conveniently in the past over looked to avoid investment in the infrastructure. You also used the phrases 'wite elephant stadium' and "premiership football" of which not one person expect or want, so change those to a modest 12000 capacity stadium with corperate facilities large supporters bar/ 7 day function room to give a more sustainable club that can grow its product to one that can challenge in league 1 with some championship dreams and ambitions to give long standing and many newly attracted supporters to a more professional setting, raising expectations of more than just survival out of league 2. You do realise any redevelopment can be done in stages and financed by serveral means without the need of the present consortium spending a penny of their own money? so waiting for our fans to sit in the rain filling the poorest seats in the stadium is not the bench mark for progression.
Firstly I don’t think anyone would expect it to sell out game in and game out. However, fairly regularly would be a reasonable motivation to invest, but it doesn’t. Secondly where do you get this 80-90% from? The figures I’ve seen for 2016-2017 have our average gate at 6218 and our capacity at 7798 that’s about just less than 80 so forget bringing 90% into it. It only sold out once against Man U (no surprise there) with about 3 others being a few hundred short. Finally where do you get bashing the Northampton public from. I am just looking at it from an investment point of view? You appear to do all your thinking with your heart which whilst admirable doesn’t align with most investors who will think with their head. Therefore I think the dream ground we would all like to see will in all probability remain a dream. I hope I’m wrong Beds I really do, as long as the club doesn’t pin its future on a big stadium and then fail on the back of it?
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Sixfields as is will only ever average between 80 and 90% capacaity in all league 1 games, buts thats a decent effort in such an tiny archaic ground with 1980s facilities, ie none. So you cant bash the Northampton public for filling it to such high capacity. So expecting the magical 100% sell out game after game, 10 to 20% more to turn up every game to watch a lower league 1 side, sat in the poorest front row seats in rain and wind is just fanciful but conveniently in the past over looked to avoid investment in the infrastructure. You also used the phrases 'wite elephant stadium' and "premiership football" of which not one person expect or want, so change those to a modest 12000 capacity stadium with corperate facilities large supporters bar/ 7 day function room to give a more sustainable club that can grow its product to one that can challenge in league 1 with some championship dreams and ambitions to give long standing and many newly attracted supporters to a more professional setting, raising expectations of more than just survival out of league 2. You do realise any redevelopment can be done in stages and financed by several means without the need of the present consortium spending a penny of their own money? so waiting for our fans to sit in the rain filling the poorest seats in the stadium is not the bench mark for progression.
I suggest that you should have a rest from this thread and also from mentioning about the Redevelopment on any other thread. You just keep repeating yourself; achieving the square root of nothing in the process, aside from boring the pants off everyone else. Must be boring for you as well or is this your only gateway to the outside world? You have been invited to email KT, some have emailed and received a response immediately whilst you continue to refuse. Is that because in your banal world of Redevelopment that you like to spout off about doesn't like dealing in facts? Come back when the Redevelopment actually starts, then you can give us a running commentary on how well the club are doing (or not as the case may be) using your vast experience of these things.
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BedsCobb
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You think we are well behind Coventry?
They are in the league below us. They have an investment firm as their owner, the fans hate them They been plummeting down the leagues The rent on their stadium was so high that they chose to play in our 'conference standard' stadium for a season. The population of Coventry is approximately 50% bigger than Northampton. Their average league attendance is not.
How exactly are they ahead of us?
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I deliberately left Cov city in the mix to see how quick it would be jumped on by those who see others failures as a reason for us to continue or stagnation. As we've established league positions and fortunes change and in covs case suffering crap owners but still find themselves in the fa cup 4th rd, holders of the checkatrade trophy and in the promotion hunt out of league 2, whilst we have a relegation fight to look forward to. Deluded? No more realistic.
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I deliberately left Cov city in the mix to see how quick it would be jumped on by those who see others failures as a reason for us to continue or stagnation. As we've established league positions and fortunes change and in covs case suffering crap owners but still find themselves in the fa cup 4th rd, holders of the checkatrade trophy and in the promotion hunt out of league 2, whilst we have a relegation fight to look forward to.Deluded? No more realistic.
I still wouldn't swap our last 5 years with theirs
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If the best we can hope for is 10 boxes fitted into the east stand and nothing else, then yes we are way worse off. If these clubs mentioned were to kept in a tiny ground for the next 20 years, I would agree but they're not so highlighting some previous/ current problems that will get sorted is not a reason we should give thanks and continue rotting in a tiny unfit ground as you're suggesting we should do.
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Which is fine - but the point is that had they not rocked up and funded it then the stand would be sat there empty with no seats in it, let alone potentially finished.
those seats paid for themselves after just 2 games and it still took 3 months of the football season to put them back in.
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Firstly I don’t think anyone would expect it to sell out game in and game out. However, fairly regularly would be a reasonable motivation to invest, but it doesn’t. Secondly where do you get this 80-90% from? The figures I’ve seen for 2016-2017 have our average gate at 6218 and our capacity at 7798 that’s about just less than 80 so forget bringing 90% into it. It only sold out once against Man U (no surprise there) with about 3 others being a few hundred short. Finally where do you get bashing the Northampton public from. I am just looking at it from an investment point of view? You appear to do all your thinking with your heart which whilst admirable doesn’t align with most investors who will think with their head. Therefore I think the dream ground we would all like to see will in all probability remain a dream. I hope I’m wrong Beds I really do, as long as the club doesn’t pin its future on a big stadium and then fail on the back of it?
nit picking eh😂 not taking into account our awful recent run of poor home results? Are you suggesting 12000 capacity to be a big ground? Why do you think less people would visit a more professional atmospheric stadium with better supporters facilities? Surely a good reason for many more to visit. All figures relating to the current Sixfields have to be taken into context..its an embarrassment to our town. Even for a selfish perspective, who would prefer a decent stadium to spend their Saturday/tuesday evenings at. If thats nearly everyone, then something needs to be done.
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