Fans Advisory Board meeting

[Des Little]

The 30k waiting list is clearly utter bullshit. If they had an inkling that 30,000 new people genuinely wanted to buy a season ticket, they’d be starting the rebuild with their own hands today. Complete horseshit.

[dorsetvillian]

The corporate in a new North Stand will be purpose built and appropriate.  The LG and TV are botched add ons.

[Risso]

If we spend £100m +  on a couple of players in January, I’d rather that than expansion.
The team comes first, right ?

We can't spend endlessly on players because of FFP.

We CAN spend what we want on infrastructure improvements, as that is not in the purview of FFP.

Oh, and the reason their answers in that meeting suggest they would rather spend it on players is EXACTLY to provoke responses along the lines of yours (not having a go at you) - it is "just suggest we're spending the cash on players instead, that'll shut them up".

Also, basically saying “sorry chaps, you can’t have a new stand AND new signings” in the week we announce a new infrastructure investment partner who you’d imagine were brought in to provide funding for stuff like new stands, is treating everybody like idiots.

[London Villan]

The corporate in a new North Stand will be purpose built and appropriate.  The LG and TV are botched add ons.
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The corporate in a new North Stand will be purpose built and appropriate.  The LG and TV are botched add ons.

The project has been cancelled.

[Percy McCarthy]

The 30k waiting list is clearly utter bullshit. If they had an inkling that 30,000 new people genuinely wanted to buy a season ticket, they’d be starting the rebuild with their own hands today. Complete horseshit.

We know that 30,000 don’t genuinely want to buy season tickets, but it’s not ‘utter bullshit’. It’s a list of 35,000 people who say they want to buy a season ticket. If it was utter bullshit me and my two kids would have one (or three) by now.

I’d be interested to know if anybody here has moved up and by how many?

[PeterWithe]

I'd imagine that at least part of the reason that some people are on the ST waiting list is the perception of ambition that we have been giving off since the new owners came in, Heck is fucking that up. I'm sure he was a big part of getting the new investors in so he's not going anywhere soon but he's not been impressive.

[London Villan]

The 30k waiting list is clearly utter bullshit. If they had an inkling that 30,000 new people genuinely wanted to buy a season ticket, they’d be starting the rebuild with their own hands today. Complete horseshit.

We know that 30,000 don’t genuinely want to buy season tickets, but it’s not ‘utter bullshit’. It’s a list of 35,000 people who say they want to buy a season ticket. If it was utter bullshit me and my two kids would have one (or three) by now.

I’d be interested to know if anybody here has moved up and by how many?

My lad moved by 2000 last summer. Now 16000

[Percy McCarthy]

The 30k waiting list is clearly utter bullshit. If they had an inkling that 30,000 new people genuinely wanted to buy a season ticket, they’d be starting the rebuild with their own hands today. Complete horseshit.

We know that 30,000 don’t genuinely want to buy season tickets, but it’s not ‘utter bullshit’. It’s a list of 35,000 people who say they want to buy a season ticket. If it was utter bullshit me and my two kids would have one (or three) by now.

I’d be interested to know if anybody here has moved up and by how many?

My lad moved by 2000 last summer. Now 16000

Cheers LV. I had to drop from 29,000 to the bottom to add my daughter.

[Brazilian Villain]

The 30k waiting list is clearly utter bullshit. If they had an inkling that 30,000 new people genuinely wanted to buy a season ticket, they’d be starting the rebuild with their own hands today. Complete horseshit.

We know that 30,000 don’t genuinely want to buy season tickets, but it’s not ‘utter bullshit’. It’s a list of 35,000 people who say they want to buy a season ticket. If it was utter bullshit me and my two kids would have one (or three) by now.

I’d be interested to know if anybody here has moved up and by how many?

I'd agree with that. There also people like and my uncle and me who'd probably go halves on one if they were available but aren't on the waiting list.

[Dante Lavelli]

The 30k waiting list is clearly utter bullshit. If they had an inkling that 30,000 new people genuinely wanted to buy a season ticket, they’d be starting the rebuild with their own hands today. Complete horseshit.

We know that 30,000 don’t genuinely want to buy season tickets, but it’s not ‘utter bullshit’. It’s a list of 35,000 people who say they want to buy a season ticket. If it was utter bullshit me and my two kids would have one (or three) by now.

I’d be interested to know if anybody here has moved up and by how many?

I'd agree with that. There also people like and my uncle and me who'd probably go halves on one if they were available but aren't on the waiting list.

The people that would normally give up their ticket are now selling to people like you.  that is exactly what the club want, a season ticket is something  to be handed down in your Will not given away because you can’t be bothered one season. They (rightly) want having a season ticket to be privilege that’s not given up easily.

[dave.woodhall]

I absolutely do not trust Heck, Hatton or any of these fucking shysters.

That stuff about the north stand is pathetic.

Also saying we’re not selling out by a couple of hundred individual seats scattered around the ground is incredibly misleading.

Exactly.
In a 42,000 seating arena 200 not being sold is as close to "sold out" as you will ever get. Similar unsold numbers apply to almost every stadium in the world, so yes quite pathetic excuse.
I do have a very bad feeling about Heck's appointment. New strategy could be to get the team into Champions League and then sell the club and Heck is here to make that happen with minimum investment from now on.

If they can get us into the Champions League with minimum investment I wouldn't be all that fussed what they do afterwards.

[Villan82]

Since the day Heck walked in he has acted like a little dictator on the new badge, corporate in the Holte and now the new North Stand.

Something smells very fishy.

Just as we are going places on the pitch things seem to be all over the place off it.

[VinnieChase84]

Re 30k waiting list. It is true. However: tons of anonmalies with it. People are duplicated on it for  starters and loads from abroad based (who would they realistically buy one?) true number nearer the 12k mark

[eamonn]

I bet most of the unsold seats are hospitality too. That is probably the reason. The investment in the North Stand was focused on doubling the hospitality, which in turn, generates the big returns. If they can’t sell what we have now, then adding another 2000+ won’t generate the required revenue.

Maybe they can't sell what they have now because the corporate offer for the North Stand is not compelling. That would have changed in an all mod cons new one.

[PeterWithe]

Are they making the link that they cant sell all the 'corporate' stuff in the Holte, the LG and VV, so there can't be the demand for it in the new North so they aren't building it? That can't be it surely.