Boycott Or Not?

[chaddyrovers]

23 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Most years though, any Championship owner will incur a loss. Its par for the course and many people/groups are clearly willing to do it as you can see across the league. We seem to be the only club whose fans cherish the fact that ours do something they have no choice in, and misinterpret or at least suggest its something they choose to do.

Its all depends what type of new owners you would get and people would be very wary and uncertain which would be natural until you know their background, their plans for . Like I would be against someone like Mike Ashley owning us. I took interest in who Sheffield Wednesday preferred bid would be and the groups interested in the club. 

23 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

A club run properly could definitely reduce those losses, we now seemingly have another rookie idiot in Yasir Sufi overseeing that area. Selling the club would naturally cause a spike in interest in terms of ticket sales anyway, which could then be improved further by a competent man overseeing the commercial side. Venkys have never found anyone.

Yes you could lower ST prices and match day tickets but your money from them would be roughly the same, yes a better atmosphere in the ground and given that Sodexo runs the concourse outlet, you wouldn't get additional revenue from them or the foot outlets outside the BBE either. So bring in more sponsorship to the club is the biggest way

[JHRover]

1 hour ago, chaddyrovers said:

Its all depends what type of new owners you would get and people would be very wary and uncertain which would be natural until you know their background, their plans for . Like I would be against someone like Mike Ashley owning us. I took interest in who Sheffield Wednesday preferred bid would be and the groups interested in the club. 

Yes you could lower ST prices and match day tickets but your money from them would be roughly the same, yes a better atmosphere in the ground and given that Sodexo runs the concourse outlet, you wouldn't get additional revenue from them or the foot outlets outside the BBE either. So bring in more sponsorship to the club is the biggest way

Interesting. So you would oppose Mike Ashley owning us - a man who had Newcastle as one of the most profitable and financially stable clubs in the country, and due to his financial management attracted the Saudis to buy them, and would rather continue with the current disgrace where we - somehow - continue to lose an 8 figure sum every year as we circle the plughole to oblivion and the club decays.

There is a big inconvenience to the 'who would buy us?' brigade - there's zero evidence to support those claims (except that people don't - and won't - ever publicise interest in buying something that isn't for sale - yet there is plenty of evidence that shows that Championship loss making football clubs ALWAYS attract new owners. Some good, some bad, some rich, some not as rich - but clubs change hands with regularity and I think you could count those that rival Venkys for appalling mismanagement on one hand. 

Edited 3 hours ago by JHRover

[chaddyrovers]

20 minutes ago, JHRover said:

Interesting. So you would oppose Mike Ashley owning us - a man who had Newcastle as one of the most profitable and financially stable clubs in the country, and due to his financial management attracted the Saudis to buy them, and would rather continue with the current disgrace where we - somehow - continue to lose an 8 figure sum every year as we circle the plughole to oblivion and the club decays.

Yet Newcastle fans hated Mike Ashley as owner and here 10 reasons why they did

https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/newcastle-united-mike-ashley-worst-moments-owner-fan-supporter-relationship-joe-kinnear-alen-pardew-alan-shearer

Our club shop would be Sports direct outlet like what happened at Rangers FC

 

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/rangers-sports-direct-partnership-ends-21962650

Maybe think about this one again. 

[London blue]

I'd rather be owned by a Mike Ashley than be the sports washing public front of a tyrannical middle Eastern state.

Judging by your thoughts on eligibility to host the World Cup Chaddy, I'm assuming you'd be more than willing to turn a blind eye to major human rights infringements if it meant throwing some blood money about?

[JHRover]

17 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Yet Newcastle fans hated Mike Ashley as owner and here 10 reasons why they did

https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/newcastle-united-mike-ashley-worst-moments-owner-fan-supporter-relationship-joe-kinnear-alen-pardew-alan-shearer

Our club shop would be Sports direct outlet like what happened at Rangers FC

 

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/rangers-sports-direct-partnership-ends-21962650

Maybe think about this one again. 

We had Sports Direct running the Ewood shop when the Walker Trust owned us. Don't you remember the Lonsdale days?

To be honest if the biggest worry is the state of the club shop it's not a big issue

Personally I'm not really interested in what Newcastle fans think. If he'd have splashed cash like they wanted the Saudis probably wouldn't have been interested in buying them as a loss making/debt ridden club. 

I don't need to think about it again. I can say without any shred of doubt that I'd welcome a proper businessman with a brain like Mike Ashley over the poison that has ruined Blackburn Rovers. If that means having 'sports direct' boards around Ewood rather than mouldy 'Venkys' ones fine by me.

Edited 3 hours ago by JHRover

[Upside Down]

3 hours ago, JPTSwindon said:

My issue with boycotting is I just can't see an alternative (rich) owner on the horizon.  We aren't a sleeping giant, our catchment area is crowded and for all Venky's failings they have sunk £230m+ in for absolutely no return which will worry potential investors.

Now, if they were refusing to sell to a serious, rich owner then fair enough (which in some clubs cases is what was happening).

To stay at this level we need circa £20-£30m to stand still - I just can't see alternatives at the moment.

I'm sorry but you're taking bollocks here. 

We're one of only SEVEN clubs to have won the league since 1992. 

Founder members of the football league, tenth most successful club in the country.

We haven't had 20-30 million for the last few years and would have finished in the playoffs at least if it wasn't for the owners deliberately sabotaging any and all chances of it happening. 

After 15 long years of venky destruction we can still shift 9000 massively overpriced season tickets. The support is there.

The losses are only as big as they are due to venkys actions. Besides, every other championship club is in the same boat regarding this.