Letter from club - West Stand closed until further notice

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  1. Dys

    Dyson Well-Known Member

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    Some drama queens on here.

    The stand is f.cked so it's closing. I can't imagine it's gonna drive that much of a revenue problem shifting 1,000 people into the other two main stands. Very few will get refunds & it becomes cheaper to manage.

    Be reight.
     
    Dyson, Oct 7, 2021
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    No, it was Peter Doyle.
     
    JLWBigLil, Oct 7, 2021
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    Bizarre how there's still nothing on the club website or official Twitter account...
     
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    They do seem to have taken the Sheff Utd tickets offsale though.
     
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    New ground required. This one is knackered and inaccessible.
     
    orsenkaht, Oct 7, 2021
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    This smacks of absenteeism... and I mean from our owners, not the Council.

    How can such a situation arise in October? Surely surveys should be carried out in the off season to avoid disruption to fans and staff at short notice?

    Who knows whether it may be that the upgrades needed may be relatively low cost but that the Chien/Conway lot are simply not prepared to put money to it. And there's no way it should come from Council tax.

    It's a sorry mess that seems as though it would be avoidable if the right people took responsibility.
     
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    Logistically it makes a lot of sense. The stand needs demolishing but of course that won't happen. So it will likely just sit looking terrible for years to come. Given the issues around the ownership of the ground ect I cam see why some are worried/excited its a prelude to moving away from Oakwell.
     
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    I’m looking forward to the iFollow coverage being broadcast from a hovering £29.99 Argos drone.
     
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    What an utterly ***** match day experience this will make. One side of the pitch with no one in and 2k sat in a stand made for 5K+ let’s be honest the whole club seems to be in absolute turmoil at the moment. Betwattled

    In fact can’t we just not let crowds in our form might pick up again then.
     
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    If the directors or press no longer have access to their seats I am offering Grace Hung and Laura Woods seats either side of me in the family stand (I will leave my kids at home)
     
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    I'll be surprised if it ever reopens.
     
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    It won't open again.
    They can't even resolve to mend the scoreboard & opt for a big stopwatch on the half way line, never mind sorting out who will fix a broken 130 yr old stand.
    Can't mek it up & things will just get worse until they sit down & sort it out.
     
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    It won't, not until it's rebuilt anyway which won't be anytime soon.
     
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    This has put me in a bad mood. Guessing we’ll all be crammed in somewhere? Can’t wait to be sat on the bottom row of the ponty or something.

    Can’t really argue with safety concerns but I can be annoyed for a bit.
     
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    I'm a bit concerned about the future of the club at the minute.

    The West Stand was never going to last forever, so this was coming. But the problem is that the owners will never rebuild it. We're going to be looking at an empty stand for 10 years, slowly falling to bits and making us look a joke.

    The ownership dispute means that nobody will pay for the rebuild.
     
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    Reminiscent of the season in the 90s when we were shafted by the Taylor report.
     
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    This is misleading.

    Doyle set up Barnsley Holdings, which owned the land and assets and also the football club. Whilst you could argue they were structurally separate, they were all held by the same ultimate parent holding company - the aforementioned Barnsley Holdings. One ultimate owner of both the football club and the physical assets.

    Ridsdale and Cryne bought the job lot, the Holding Company which included the football club and the land and assets, and it was they who then chose to effectively split the ownership by further on-selling the bit of it worth all the money - Oakwell, the academy and the surrounding land - to the combination 50/50 ownership between the Council and Cryne, thus meaning that they were, for the first time in history, under different ownership control.

    Argue semantics and motives all you like (Patrick stated at the time that the aim was to put the stadium and assets in safe keeping to prevent development), but it was Patrick Cryne who decided to be the first to have the stadium and land in effectively separate ownership.
     
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    If you want to destroy something (stadium), run it down and your customers will (As has happened here) start to look elsewhere (new stadium).
     
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    Or just to devalue it significantly for negotiation purposes
     
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    Ah well.

    We've got to be thankful that they at least told the Customers eventually.
     
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