The Big Reset

We can only progress from what the facilities are now. Both a new ground and stadium are important equally for different reasons and the same in attracting quality players in the future.

The training ground is easily the less cost and could be started while the final plans are prepared for the stadium. Both could be finished in a time scale of 2/3 years so we will have to wait until the consortium take over.

Mentioning the consortium has anybody seen any new tweets etc. from them ?

I would be surprised if the consortium don't have (even early stage) plans for a new training ground at an appropriate loaction somewhere down the A180 corridor.

Getting rental money in at the stadium was mentioned above.

The days of securing lucrative long-term rental contracts are gone, or severely diminished.  

We have to look at other income-streams.  I am sure that the consortium have the skills and contacts to achieve this.

I think that with these three , things will have been put in to action on all departments  starting with the playing staff . It does not take an idiot to know that the product on sale has to be good and  fit for pourpose to attract fans / customers , unlike the last idiot that only thought of saving and just getting through. we dont know how any thingis going to be financed , but you can prob bet that they wont need to get in to bed with the wrong type to get a few bob

I hate to say this, but I'll say it anyway and dodge the red crosses.

Maybe we need to look at the L*nc*ln Plan?

Quoted from malkamalka

I hate to say this, but I'll say it anyway and dodge the red crosses.

Maybe we need to look at the L*nc*ln Plan?

Only someone with the mentality of a school child would give a red cross to a suggestion that we learn from successful clubs.

So I expect plenty of red crosses coming your way malka

Absolutely nothing wrong at looking at other clubs, especially those that are similar in stature to us and taking the good bits and creating a plan from that.

Lincoln were a million miles away behind us the year we got promoted yet but the end of that season they were in front of and they’d only just got promoted that season...

Quoted from TownSNAFU5

Getting rental money in at the stadium was mentioned above.

The days of securing lucrative long-term rental contracts are gone, or severely diminished.  

We have to look at other income-streams.  I am sure that the consortium have the skills and contacts to achieve this.

Totally disagree.

Preston North End. They were planning to build their fourth and final new stand. The basic stand would have cost £6m of which they could get grants from the football foundation for £1m. So they would have had to find the other £5m.

If PNE had borrowed £5m at 4% over 25 years they would be repaying just over £26k a month or £315,000 a year.

But they built an NHS health centre into the stand. It raised the overall cost of the stand to £10m, meaning they needed to finance £9m instead.

£9m at 4% over 25 years is just over £47k a month or £566k a year. But the NHS health centre generated an initial rent of £368,200 per year.

So by building the health centre their repayments went from having to fund £315,000 a year (for 25 years) to having to fund £200,000 in year 1 and then reducing as rent inflation increased their income from the stand.

Inflation since 2008 has averaged around 2.5%, so the rent might well be in the region of £495,000 if it has matched inflation. i.e. they are now having to find just £71,000 a year to meet their mortgage when income is substracted. They are not far away from the Stand self funding itself and when it's all paid up in 2033 they will be making a tidy amount of rent from a fully paid for stand.

Quoted from KingstonMariner

Only someone with the mentality of a school child would give a red cross to a suggestion that we learn from successful clubs.

So I expect plenty of red crosses coming your way malka

Don't know how to tell you this but school children have brains that absorb information and enhance their knowledge. Unfortunately the others you mention totally lack anything between the top of their heads and soles of their feet.

They get their kicks out of red cross's which seems to enlarge their ego in the cavity left empty by the brain and fulfil their empty destiny in life.

Quoted from aldi_01

Absolutely nothing wrong at looking at other clubs, especially those that are similar in stature to us and taking the good bits and creating a plan from that.

Lincoln were a million miles away behind us the year we got promoted yet but the end of that season they were in front of and they’d only just got promoted that season...

Agree completely we should be looking at other clubs and where income generation and community programs are concerned other sports.

Kind of related but I think it’s barmy that the authorities don’t let lower league clubs have 5G pitches, no postponed games, can be used every day of the week by the community and other sports to generate income and surely has to be better for the passing game than a lot of the poor surfaces we see.