Can't we have something like this?

So there you go making assumptions. If i were to make an assumption i could say your attitude comes across if i don't agree with you then i should f**k off. However i do think we should have a bigger scoreboard and i do believe that it has money making potential. I have discussed my point with many on here who know my opinion. However my main point, to make it clear, isnt that you need money to make an opinion. My point is that to make a real difference to this club, to buy a big screen and also, better players, bigger salaries, more investment in the ground, we need someone who is prepared or allowed to spend their money, sit on the board and make it happen. Its clearly not you and its clearly not me, so our options whether they come across as positive or negative will be just that.

 

Given that Cheltenham's scoreboard was paid for by the fans, is your original question not a rhetorical one?

Yes we can have a scoreboard like theirs (though I suspect in overall size there is not much difference to ours).

Why don't you start a collection?

 

Guess that puts a whole new spin on the debate. Now would i have put £50 into a crowdfunding for a new Screen - Yes i would.

Looks like the Cheltenham community did good.

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/scoreboard/

 

I have asked the question to be put forward at the fans forums and slo meetings a few times. The idea of fans paying for one is something that I've been fully behind. Bit hard though when the important costs for things are kept under wraps and at times inflated for reasons unknown.

 

That's what my original post was getting at. It's why I've mentioned crowdfunding several times

 

But don't you think that's a bit **** though? Because we aren't millionaires then we should just accept mediocrity and shut up and be thankful.

 

Well if we the fans are to purchase one, then it may be up to us to determine how much it would cost.

I suppose what we would first need is the club's permission.

 

Im not saying and haven't said shut up. Im saying voice an opinion, in fact i was trying to voice my own too. The point i made was that our opinions are just that without action. Im a passive voicer of options regarding BFC too. I haven't started a Crowdfunder or provided any investment other than a couple of ST's and game day spend. I am a big big believer that challenge is important and driving the direction of any business including our club. One point though i tried to make is unless a millionaire or two does come along and join the board or buy the club then we have to be thankful, whilst not satisfied, with what we have.

 

Why would fans need to fund something that would cost £60k for a business which has received £25m in transfer fees in the past 11 months.

 

Existing one? The one now ?

We must make something then if they are displayed on the board?

My second point was other clubs don't have them - how do they survive without them?

 

They don't, and didn't. The club decided to pay for one. Not my cup of tea, but they did.

 

The board that was there before used to include the match sponsor, we don't make any additional money from the new board compared to the old board

The vast majority of clubs have large screen boards, the few who don't generally have reasons why they cant

 

Premiership:
Bournemouth: big screen
Arsenal: big screen
Brighton: big screen
Burnley: big screen
Chelsea: big screen
Crystal palace: big screen
Everton: big screen
Huddersfield: big screen
Leicester: big screen
Liverpool: no room to put it. Plans to install one with a stadium expansion in the future.
Manchester city: big screen
Manchester united: looked into possibility. Roof structure not strong enough to support a suspended board and unwilling to reduce capacity to place one in seating area.
Newcastle: big screen
Southampton: big screen
Stoke: big screen
Swansea: big screen
Tottenham: big screen
Watford: big screen
West Bromwich: big screen

 

So basically you aren't happy with the new scoreboard. Fair enough.

There can be many things that people suggest be bought with someone else's money.

One extra person behind the bar at half time would be mine.

 

So we do make money - you said we don't make any money. Would argue with vast majority ... clubs probably make more money from advertising boards around the pitch.

 

We don't make any money as a direct result of having bought a new scoreboard. Any company logos that appear on it are incidental and are simply logos of companies sponsoring other things who have them repeated for a brief moment on the new board.

Clubs make more money from selling football shirts then they do shorts. That doesn't mean you don't bother selling shorts

 

So we don't make money - why make a big fuss about it then - what commercial use does it compared to advertising boards

 

We don't make any money from our current small board as it is too small for that purpose. Due to the size and inability to show replays adequately it does not attract the attention of supporters enough for companies to part with their cash. A bigger board with the ability to adequately display video WOULD generate revenue. I'm not sure why people are struggling with that concept to be honest. Perhaps I am explaining it badly?

I'm not sure what your advertising boards comment refers to

 

Advertising boards make us money - are on view for more than a few minutes.

I'm not sure why you struggle with the concept that some people genuinely go to watch the football and aren't that bothered to be honest.

Never once been to Anfield and Old Trafford and thought do you know what would make it better a big screen ....

 

Who said that I struggle with the concept that SOME people have no interest in a scoreboard?

My point is that large screen scoreboards generate revenue regardless of whether or not you personally look at them.

As I've previously said we make money from shirt sales. That doesn't mean we should stop selling shorts.

What an absolutely bizarre argument. 'we make money from advertising boards so we shouldn't have a scoreboard making money as well'.