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I think it would be great to name a stand after Rimmo. It would be a fitting thing for a great contribution to our club.

 

I don't really disagree. Though our own shortcomings are possibly more in focus than those of others.

The kind of things that would improve the match day experience are important, whether you care or not, they are also the things that are inevitably low down the list of priorities. Hillsborough,before example, is much more dilapidated and in need of sorting than Oakwell but their new money men have done nowt to sort it.

I do think the whole 'business' thing is smoke and mirrors. Football clubs are not run as a business. Even the majority of the bigger clubs have a turnover equivalent to a nid sized Tesco. A cost risk analysis would probably say that a scoreboard would be a poor investment. But in the context of listening and responding to fans of a sporting club it may be a different analysis is needed.

The bigger picture is still more important we need to focus and regroup go forward on a different model that reflects us not apes others. We the supporters will always be the true custodians of the club. This is often forgotten. We should be valued. We will be there when the players have gone and the manager and probably the owner. We are the sons of Rev Preedy still entertaining ourselves with the football to stop us nasturbating. That should be celebrated surely...

 

I'd rather nobody got a statue or stand named after them. That way people can't go on and on about how someone else deserves something. Plus it stops things happening like our teetotal founder having a bar named after him and John Stones too after barely playing a few dozen games for us. One a 'Barnsley FC Mount Rushmore' most would agree with Tiverton Preedy, Patrick Cryne and Danny Wilson. But the final spot you would have dozens of names thrown out as worthy.

 

Any statue should be of Mr Rimmington for his service to the club. It would be nice if it was done while he is still with us for him to see rather than when he isn't and the club bow to the inevitable clamour by fans to do something when its too late.

 

Spot on mate

 

The money men at Hillsborough are ironically installing one of the best scoreboards in the country as we speak

 

I don't think many would agree with Patrick cryne as a statue to be honest

 

This is the problem. As you say the turnover may be no greater than a midsized Tesco, but the expenditure on players wages alone make it impossible for a club to run cost effectively, which is why the majority are being bankrolled by millionaires. Ours included.

It's easy to list the thousand and one things wrong with a football club without looking at what the current set-up is actually costing.


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No one would argue that this club could be run better. Improvements need to be made. However the problem is, that there seems to be no motivation for the club to make the changes that you've listed a few posts further down.

Painting and decorating the concourse and the awnings outside the stadium have been long overdue, however it's something that isn't going to increase revenue for the club, nor is the current situation going to stop fans from coming.

The club need ways of increasing revenue at a seemingly low cost. Ideally, we need more supporters. I feel the easiest way of doing this is to pro - actively get involved in the community, pretty much like they did in the summer with the kit launch, free tickets for the u21's game, and rightly or wrongly, the trips to people's houses. The club should feel like a club again, rather than a business. I don't think it's too much to ask the players, who are earning far more than any of us could ever dream of, to give a few hours a week to go out to the people of Barnsley, to bond with the community, in an attempt to drum up some support.

I know the simple answer to gaining more support is lowering ticket prices. However again, there is no motivation for the club to do this as lower ticket prices in the past have not resulted in an increase in attendances. I do feel however that if we did charge £20 a game and say a tenner for concessions, and the club made some effort to push this, then over the course of time, we could see some increment in attendances. One idea I reckon could work, is having ticket prices at say £23 each, or 2 for £35, and 3 for £45. All for the same game. Encouraging people to take other people with them. Just an idea.

We could do with reaching out to foreign people living in the town, have people visit the workplaces and social clubs. Bradford have a decent sized following of foreign fans. Surely some of them are football fans living in the town, yet I've never head any other accent inside the stadium. I know if I was living overseas, I'd follow my local team.

The age old scoreboard debate. I'm still surprised that we haven't got a new one. I do think it is one of the things which will pay for itself in sponsorship. Surely the club know this.

Out of season events. There's 3 months of the season where the club seemingly make no money. Why not try get some events on down at Oakwell. Doesn't even have to be on the pitch. There's more than enough room down the side of the East stand for a stage and comfortable standing for a few thousand people. Plenty of parking in the main car park, behind the north stand and on the hill going up to the metrodome. Even if it was on the pitch, What damage would be caused a couple of weekends after the season is over? Surely sufficient to be repaired before the season restarts.

Advertising. More of this needs to be done. A Tuesday night game against Bury doesn't sound too appealing to me either.

Problem being money. Some of the above would require us to operate outside of our stringent budget. Our structure seems to be what we pride ourselves on. Unless we begin to operate outside of it, I can't see us doing much of the above. But it's a risk, one which the club are rightfully cautious to take.

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a scoreboard is number 3457 on the list of stuff Hillsborough needs. I'm pretty surprised they pass safety regs given how dilapidated bits of the ground are.