>>I don't think that the stadium should be a place for car salesman or Jehovah's Witness conferences, as per Bates and his 'diversified income stream' shit.<< OK, so just leave that massive bricks-and-mortar asset standing unused for 340 days of the year. Who cares if car dealers or crazy cult corner pays the club money to use a conference room on a wet Tuesday in February when we're not playing? It's a good source of revenue. Can't you see that?
>>My Bates comment is completely accurate - you supported most of the projects he ran whilst sucking money out of the football club. You can't just change sides now he's gone. It's just the way that things work, I'm afraid.<< No, your Bates comment is not accurate. My comments were as relevant to GFH, Risible or Manny Cussins. I was talking about the BUSINESS of running a Football Club. Using a skill set called "Objectiivity", which is clearly beyond you. Irrelevant who's in charge. At the time we were stuck with Bates as chairman. Nothing much we could do about that, was there. Though I do recall you coming up with one idea. Just as well it was on this list, not Twitter or Facebook, as the finest lawyers in Monaco would have found another source of revenue - you. >>I'm sure that there are other sources of funding available to build conference centres and loss making radio stations and restaurants.That funding still needs to be paid back out if the one main source of income for the club - match going fans and player sales. See the last ten years. Perhaps you should support Vodaphone, Virgin or Sainsbury's?<< Are you just being wilfully dim? If you borrowed money to build a conference centre, you should be working to a business plan, where the revenue from the conference centre would pay off the money you borrowed over a set period. After that you're generating profits to plough back into the core business. Can't you grasp this? It's nothing to do with the personalities involved. Just strategies for running a business. _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected] John 'Grampa' Sykes Rest In Peace old lad 28th Oct 1938 - 12 Nov 2013 MARCHING ON TOGETHER
