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Post by Neshead on Dec 28, 2017 15:16:45 GMT
This coming from reading a James Mason thread on twitter regarding on and off field improvements, what can the club realistically do to make game day better. Plenty of ideas from supporters but how much of a difference will it make? I like the idea of expanding the merchandise available but it has to be done with profit in mind. People banging on about retro shirts and real ale, that's not where money is made. The pitch is an obvious problem but all boils down to cost, should ticket prices go up to fund improvements? It's the only real income stream that can make a tangible difference to the budget. Everything about the club can be improved but what should be a priority?
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Post by Attentive Onlooker on Dec 28, 2017 15:35:13 GMT
Food and drink in the ground. Shit, impossible to get served and runs out before the end of half time. Non league standard at the minute.
The away end isn't up to standard either. How much income do miss out on by having no alcohol for sale and what amounts to a snack caravan to serve food from?
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Post by bantam147 on Dec 28, 2017 15:37:56 GMT
How to improve game day?
Buy better players and win more games. I don't give a shit about the ale. I can drink in my local before I come to the ground.
Sort the fucking team out.
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Post by Neshead on Dec 28, 2017 16:09:57 GMT
How to improve game day? Buy better players and win more games. I don't give a shit about the ale. I can drink in my local before I come to the ground. Sort the fucking team out. A real ale bar would have them flocking in. Could make the club tens of pounds in profit.
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Post by Hobhead on Dec 28, 2017 16:12:47 GMT
The space under the main stand is fucking huge. On matchdays it's packed with gompers milling around with nothing to tempt them to part with their cash other than painted ladies selling raffle tickets, the odd pie stall and some warm Carlsberg in plastic bottles. You could do a lot under there and it's just a yawning, concrete box.
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Post by Dick on Dec 28, 2017 19:02:21 GMT
I always liked the idea of buying a couple of the buildings around the ground and turning them into like a bar, restaurant, hotel, gym etc - what some other clubs do.
Problem is the ground is in a cunt of a location - apart from matchdays the majority of the locals aren't going to use a bar, and the area is such a dump no one would want to travel there to use any other facilities such as a restaurant or a hotel. It's too far away from the city centre and too grim to make people want to go in that direction.
Its going off topic but to make the most of such venutures we'd have to move ground (which personally is something I would love us to consider).
While the amounts made from sorting out the godawful bar service in the stands wouldn't amount to much realistically, if it was sorted and was declared that so much of it goes towards this or that - a new player, the youth team etc. - then it might be taken up a bit better.
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Post by Lethal Jizzle on Dec 28, 2017 20:08:57 GMT
Sort the pitch and put the money in the team. If you can't cope with not using a bar or tea bar for 2 hours you've not had a good enough drink before hand. I've not bought anything from them ever it's over priced and look shocking. We go to watch the team and we should be watching the best team we can buy
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Post by Hobhead on Dec 28, 2017 20:28:27 GMT
I've not bought anything from them ever it's over priced and look shocking. And therein lies the problem. We pull all these extra bodies in with cheap season tickets and we either make next to nothing extra for our efforts or somebody else makes the money from City's captive audience. If we're going to entice people down with cheap matchday tickets it's madness to let others profit as a result while we make nothing. We should milk the tits dry.
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Post by Fat Ade on Dec 29, 2017 8:40:52 GMT
This coming from reading a James Mason thread on twitter regarding on and off field improvements, what can the club realistically do to make game day better. Plenty of ideas from supporters but how much of a difference will it make? I like the idea of expanding the merchandise available but it has to be done with profit in mind. People banging on about retro shirts and real ale, that's not where money is made. The pitch is an obvious problem but all boils down to cost, should ticket prices go up to fund improvements? It's the only real income stream that can make a tangible difference to the budget. Everything about the club can be improved but what should be a priority? I have never understood the obsession with the idea of a “worth while” bar at the ground, it will be overpriced and under used! They definitely need to look at upping the season ticket price but I would like them to do that in parallel with spending some of their own money over and above what has been brought in from sell on clauses etc. As for where they should spend it, the pitch is a priority for me, the first team next and then look at putting a lick of paint around the place!
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Post by Dick on Dec 29, 2017 8:54:47 GMT
If we're having a whinge about the state of the facilities we go in the bantams bar. In addition to all the usual shit about the state of the food and drink, queues with a waiting time of 20 mins were forming almost an hour before as the gas had gone in one of the beer pumps.
There was no running water in the toilets, my dad uses the disabled toilet and has told the club several times it's been broken for about a month and no one has done anything about it.
Usually they have stewards watching the outdoor stairways, but at HT they had gone awol and a load of fans had no trouble sneaking in.
People were moaning on twitter, one person made himself look a bit of a dick by saying 'I pay £100 more for this' - fuck me you're not spending £5k on a train season ticket - and it is a bit shit really. It's probably the typical Bradford stubbornness that puts people off moving elsewhere.
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Post by Neshead on Dec 29, 2017 9:30:55 GMT
If we're having a whinge about the state of the facilities we go in the bantams bar. In addition to all the usual shit about the state of the food and drink, queues with a waiting time of 20 mins were forming almost an hour before as the gas had gone in one of the beer pumps. There was no running water in the toilets, my dad uses the disabled toilet and has told the club several times it's been broken for about a month and no one has somebody anything about it. Usually they have stewards watching the outdoor stairways, but at HT they had gone awol and a load of fans had no trouble sneaking in. People were moaning on twitter, one person made himself look a bit of a dick by saying 'I pay £100 more for this' - fuck me you're not spending £5k on a train season ticket - and it is a bit shit really. It's probably the typical Bradford stubbornness that puts people off moving elsewhere. It's stuff like the above that really fucks me off. There is no excuse for it, especially when the club has been informed. Shows a complete lack of professionalism The fiasco with the scanning equipment is another shining example of "what do you expect for £149?" I know when we went corporate with Ricc a couple of months ago the food was decent enough and it was enjoyable but the whole place had a worn down tired feel to it.
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