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Post by Dick on Mar 8, 2024 13:13:44 GMT
This is going to go down like that OceanGate submarine. "If purchased by 11.59pm on Friday April 26, an Adult (aged 24-64) will pay less than £11 per home match, working out at just £249 over the course of a 23-game home league season at the University of Bradford Stadium.
A Senior (65+) and a Young Person (17-23) will both be charged less than £10 per game at £219, with a Youth (12-16) paying less than £7 per game (£159). The early bird rate for a Junior (11 and under) season ticket has been slashed to £19, if purchased before 12.00am on Saturday April 27, meaning they will be charged just 82p per game."www.bradfordcityafc.com/news/2024/march/season-tickets-to-go-on-sale-on-monday/"By keeping unavoidable price increases to a minimum, we are able to continue efficiently managing club finances and maintain a self-sustaining yet ambitious playing budget, while also providing affordable, value-for-money football for both new and existing fans, with Junior prices slashed in efforts to support families and ensure the younger generation of supporters can enjoy affordable football at Valley Parade."This club will NEVER survive at a higher level, even League 1, if it doesn't change how it operates from this 'self-sustaining' approach, which is somewhat of a misnomer.
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Post by Hobhead on Mar 8, 2024 13:17:48 GMT
More money in the pot is just more money to waste.
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Post by Dick on Mar 8, 2024 13:24:46 GMT
More money in the pot is just more money to waste. Show me we won't piss money away like we have done for years. On things like ripping up manager contracts and abysmal signings. Show me there are some plans for some action on the big concerns for the club such as owning the stadium, VP rent renewal in 2028, owning our own facilities, the disgusting pitch, investing in player and youth player development... etc Show me the owner has some interest, ambition and vision for what he wants for this club. Why did he even bother buying us in the first place? I would love to spend on a season ticket, go back in the Bantams Bar as I did years ago, spend on merch... but I don't trust the people in charge. The fact that Rupp can never be arsed to show his face, or even just open his fat mouth for a soundbyte anytime, especially now, shows you what he thinks of us and the club. Does nothing to make you feel valued as a fan or fanbase after all the shite we've had in nearly 8 years of his 'proud custodianship' and people have had it with him.
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Post by tetchyarse on Mar 8, 2024 14:16:39 GMT
That page on the club website wanking on about the rise in national minimum wage is the most financial information we’ve ever seen from Rupp.
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Post by Hobhead on Mar 8, 2024 16:00:43 GMT
The increase will be a handy excuse for the dip in numbers.
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Post by Mossley Bantam on Mar 8, 2024 16:12:32 GMT
Gone from a top 3 budget, to a top 7 to maintaining 'am ambitious budget'.
Take it it'll be lower next year then.
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Post by Dick on Mar 8, 2024 16:53:02 GMT
Gone from a top 3 budget, to a top 7 to maintaining 'am ambitious budget'. Take it it'll be lower next year then. I'll remember how ambitious it is when Chesterfield and Solihull come up and shit all over us next season.
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Post by goddeano on Mar 9, 2024 18:50:34 GMT
Well atleast they've dropped the "one last heave" promo video shite. Cats truly out of the bag now. The current strategy is clearly to hang on maintaining the position until somebody pays Rupp's asking price or inflation gets the club up to his asking price and they're being upfront that everything is just to maintain. Statement makes it clear increase is only to cover increases in operating costs. Don't know whether I prefer the honesty or loathe the rolling over and accepting it. I see many are still totally stuck with their heads buried in the sand though.
Anyway. I once again wont be coughing up. I'll go to games I like (which has been a grand total of two this season) and in theory if the club starts flying I'll pay them much more than I would have done via Season Ticket.
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Post by Dick on Mar 13, 2024 8:25:08 GMT
I'd left before the end but I've read as soon as the whistle went an advert for season tickets went up on the big screen.
Tone deaf. It's a Bantams thing.
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Post by bantam147 on Mar 13, 2024 9:59:50 GMT
We really are dogshit.
I know that's a particularly insightful or value adding comment, but I'm making it anyway.
Dogshit.
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Post by hammstrasse on Mar 13, 2024 13:19:38 GMT
Some mental hospitals appear to be missing a few members today as idiots take to twitter to claim it's in no way down to our CEO being clueless and that you don't need a plan to move forward, it just happens regardless of the clowns pulling the strings.
I really wasn't going to bother last night till my mate gave me a call.
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Post by Mossley Bantam on Mar 13, 2024 17:18:56 GMT
Stay up and don't go bust.
While other clubs invest in their future and leave us behind....
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Post by Neshead on Mar 18, 2024 12:29:09 GMT
Stay up and don't go bust. While other clubs invest in their future and leave us behind.... As someone has previously mentioned, Coventry were an utter basket case a few years back, having to play at Northampton due to falling out with the ground owners. Now I know it's not a like for like comparison as they are traditionally a far bigger club than Bradford. But the comparison remains that one club decided it wanted to move forward and are now an established championship club and in the semis of the fa cup while one remains shitkicking in league 2. But such is the mindset of our fans I honestly believe some would have resented us doing what Coventry have done, simply because it wasn't off the back of sustainability. That they'd rather remain a league 2 club as some sort of weird badge of honour. Someone please tell me what the point is of our club right now. The owner and CEO literally admitting we are there just to make the numbers up. We aren't a sleeping giant, there is no ambition either from the cuckold fan base or it's ownership.
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Post by keithcollins on Mar 18, 2024 16:44:28 GMT
Heard from a club source that the pitch overhaul done a few years ago is still not paid for. It was done in installments and we are still paying it off. The pitch is not a priority this summer and minimal work will be done on it come the end of the season.....Whatever that means!
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Post by Lethal Jizzle on Mar 18, 2024 16:54:21 GMT
Heard from a club source that the pitch overhaul done a few years ago is still not paid for. It was done in installments and we are still paying it off. The pitch is not a priority this summer and minimal work will be done on it come the end of the season.....Whatever that means! It means we don't have a pot to piss in yet again
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Post by hammstrasse on Mar 18, 2024 17:00:02 GMT
Heard from a club source that the pitch overhaul done a few years ago is still not paid for. It was done in installments and we are still paying it off. The pitch is not a priority this summer and minimal work will be done on it come the end of the season.....Whatever that means! I'm wondering if Sparks bought some magic beans and planted them in the pitch and the current state of it is because Spark doesn't see the beanstalks he was promised.
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Post by sedg on Mar 18, 2024 19:46:44 GMT
Heard from a club source that the pitch overhaul done a few years ago is still not paid for. It was done in installments and we are still paying it off. The pitch is not a priority this summer and minimal work will be done on it come the end of the season.....Whatever that means!
Brilliant. Rupp gesturing over Sparks in the office. "Yar yar, Ryan, we do we av 97 emails from Klarna eh?"
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Post by hammstrasse on Mar 19, 2024 9:12:16 GMT
Wonder what the tagline for the player of the year awards night will be.
"We don't accept Mediocrity at this club, we celebrate it!"
BCAFC Play of the year awards only £75 per person........
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Post by rahicscissorbudget on Mar 19, 2024 13:13:48 GMT
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Post by hobbes on Mar 20, 2024 0:11:09 GMT
One thing that gives me immense (like, really immense) satisfaction is knowing that Sparks will have sat there tonight knowing how fucked he is. How once this shitshow is over he’ll never get another job at the same level. He’s fucked this up big style and it couldn’t have happened to a more deserving cunt.
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