05 Jun 2024 11:17:56
As with most things if you are not improving you are actually moving backwards
WWFC needs to improve it's match day offering.
Being nostalgic for the old days is great but cup of bovril and a pukka pie just don't cut it anymore.
We want / need a first class stadium that can accommodate supporters watching a real premiership team challenging for honors.
We don't have that, we have mediocre team in a mediocre stadium.
Walking through the underpass after the game shouldn't be the highlight of the day.

1.) 05 Jun 2024
05 Jun 2024 12:28:27
I think your missing my point nando. The club, and the mol I agree should be functional in the modern world. What I am suggesting is that it should be catering for its core supporter, the next generation of supporters first and foremost, not the remote come now and again, when we're playing a 'big' team, warm weather fan with the finances to afford to do so. The ideas of hotels and comfy restaurants are not required by the majority. The club needs to put the youngsters first allowing parents to be able to take their offspring to games from home.
Financial income obviously is essential through the club, but not the club being the attraction that brings paying guests to hotels and diners at the expense of true regular fans.

2.) 05 Jun 2024
05 Jun 2024 12:34:44
I would settle for them repairing the holes in the centre circle banner.

3.) 05 Jun 2024
05 Jun 2024 13:17:51
The more profit they make on hotels, the more money they will put onto the club.
They've put £131 million into the club in the last 5 years. So £26 million per year, according to Swiss Rumble. I think they're allowed $35 million, or has that changed?

4.) 05 Jun 2024
05 Jun 2024 14:09:58
Absolutely right Abbey! Big hotels and Michelin star restaurants are all well and good but it counts for nought if we lose an entire generation of local fans to the big clubs! This whole debate started about the ticket prices and whilst discussing other revenue streams is interesting all it seems to be doing is deflecting from the original point!
As Judah rightly pointed out you can call it progress all you want but if we lose an entire generation of fans because of an ill thought out ticketing price rise then all the hotels in the world won't make a difference!
We are a local club, always have been always will be; with that being the case then huge price rises (in some cases as high as by 190%) just won't work! Like I said in my original post, huge increases on kid, elderly and disabled tickets ain't progress it's mercenary! Worse than that I'm afraid it also represents how ENTIRELY out of touch our owners are with the realities of our club and the local area generally! ?
FYI Handsome Fosun are allowed to spend a lot more than that provided it's on infrastructure/the stadium. Their lack of investment on that front has nothing to do with FFP and everything to do with not wanting to deliver/spend on one of their many broken promises! ?

5.) 05 Jun 2024
05 Jun 2024 14:25:50
Get the team/ground that fans will want to watch, let the the local fans to afford to support, house the now and thens when we've established something. It's a horse and cart, which comes first? My main gripe is the costs and comparisons. We're not like fore like in so many ways and overcharging won't help anyone long term. The circle banner? What happened to the covid banners? I was going to say use em again over empty seats but the image of nuno neves mouts seiss etc can't be used can it. Anyone know where they've stored those?