Kairdiff Exile wrote:I'm not convinced, but there we go. Our crowds seem to have hit a plateau, and our marketing efforts to build on them have also hit a wall. Relying on away teams to bring a good number with them doesn't strike me as a great financial strategy. And the point with owning one's own ground is that for cash-strapped lower league clubs, it allows you to maximise non-matchday revenue; not something that overly troubles the oligarchs at Man City et al, but pretty important for the likes of us!
Happy to accept I'm glass-half-full, but in financial matters I find that's generally a wider approach to have!
The day that I consider us as being smaller than Fleetwood with their criminal of a chairman and all the cash he has laundered up there, will be the day I throw in the towel.
I'd like for us to own our own ground because of the security it gives us, but without a massively stubborn and strong-willed ownership it will end in tears. The reason is that football as a business is operated at a loss across the board; therefore the time will come when an owner will borrow against the asset to appease impatient supporters.
Any new ground needs to be more than a football stadium, it needs to be earning seven days a week. Otherwise it won't work.