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ossy kid

22-05-2019 15:32

Re: Mortgaging the family silver

What a great thread this is, everyone pulling the same way, almost total agreement. The only thing I can't understand is some doubts about going in to the championship, why would it cost any more? We would get better gates, earn more money from the F.A., visit different grounds, I don't see any down side, certainly the players wages may be higher but some may be happy just to play in a higher league, as Cash says, I'd take it for a season and enjoy the experience. As for the ground being sold, makes no sense.

Outback Ozzy

22-05-2019 16:15

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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris (Post 1228460)

The lowest average home gate in the Championship last season was Rotherham United with 9,880. Even if we had a full house for every home game (which we wouldn't have), our average home gate would still only be just over half that. How long would we survive in the Championship in those circumstances, even with the fillip of a one-shot payment from selling our ground?

What, I wonder, were the Crazy Gangs average home gates before they became the plastic Dons? Remeber, they played at Plough Lane and yet they managed to get to 1st Division (Premiership) and win the FA Cup. It is possible to survive and, yes, even get promoted to the EPL, but would we, the supporters, be happy?

BTW, my thoughts on this subject are, we must never sell the ground etc for what could prove to be a folly

Spartacus2nd

22-05-2019 17:07

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Andy stated a few weeks ago that if we got jnto the Championship he'd give Coley a million to pull up a deckchair with him and wait for League 1 to start again!

Championship is worth £7m instead of £700k in tv cash, he douldnt give a monkeys if we had crowds of a thousand or sell outs. To us its a fortune and would entirely finish our ground AND put a good wedge towards the following season L1 push if we came straight down.

If we went up it would be another happy accident like the last 2 title wins! But i wouldnt spend a deliberate penny chasing it

cashman

22-05-2019 18:07

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Originally Posted by Spartacus2nd (Post 1228478)

Yeh nailed it correctly there mate.;)

Haggis316

22-05-2019 20:17

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Who is going to pay a lot of money for land with a restrictive covenant on limiting it to football stadium use?

monkey hanger

23-05-2019 08:20

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Originally Posted by Haggis316 (Post 1228486)

Who is going to pay a lot of money for land with a restrictive covenant on limiting it to football stadium use?

thats fine if it remained like that but when there,s money flying about you could see the restrictive covenant being removed if the brown envelopes are big enough.

ferret man

23-05-2019 19:36

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Originally Posted by Chimer (Post 1228435)

Yes, because the club will (hopefully, and especially if it owns the ground) outlive Andy :eek:, and his heirs and successors might :confused: not be so well inclined towards Stanley.

Hope you have made your will out Andy.

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