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I'm betting that most people's reaction when it's announced will be "who?" That's probably what we want though. Quietly competent investors who will grow the club as a business rather than just chuck money at it and pray. Like you say, it would be a big improvement over the last ten years

I do love Hillsborough's character, and even if (as we probably need to) we were to rebuild three sides of it over the next decade or so, it would still be Hillsborough. It would be sad for the city to lose a site that's been hosting football since 1899, and it's not like anyone would build anything exciting or culturally enriching in its place. Anyway - regardless of whatever else we do, I'd want us to keep the clock and finial from the current South Stand. That clock is a 120+-year-old piece of football history and predates the entire stadium - it came with us from Olive Grove!

Membership has always given a flat discount per match rather than a percentage off, hasn't it? This is just consistent with how it currently works. £5 off per match.

Should be a thing that the new owner has an eye to fixing in any refresh of the ground, this. Particularly as we all know the West Stand needs a complete rebuild. We need to be able to host the likes of Sunderland on a Saturday and also the likes of Exeter in midweek. It's daft that we have to put the latter in a cavernous space like the West Stand Upper and means we almost never get to use our whole stadium.

The biggest creditor is Chansiri who is widely rumoured to have wanted to retain a minority stake in the club as part of any sale. So he probably DOES want "maybes and possibles" - a chance of some upside that means maybe he loses a bit less money in the end. (HMRC no, they'll want the cash they're owed. Any other clubs, players and agents we owe money to, we'll have to pay back in full. Are there even any other significant creditors that don't fall into one of those categories?) Also, the administrators wouldn't have to be a party to any contract that had future payments in it. That's a contract between the buyer and the other parties involved.

Well said. I was going to make a similar point. I would be surprised if all the bids for the club are a single upfront cash payment. Some of them might involve quite a complex schedule of future payments and bonuses. At that point there's no objective "highest offer" because it requires predicting the future, and putting a present value on each offer is something the administrators' professional judgement can influence - as long as they're assessing every bid against the same criteria and in good faith. The administrators' judgement of who they think will pass the EFL's "fit and proper" test is somewhat subjective too, and might be stricter than normal given the EFL has one eye on aligning their decisions with the new regulator. So while the administrators are acting in the best interests of the creditors, they do have some wiggle room to make sure that the new owner is also a credible buyer with a credible plan for the club. We're actually lucky, because if it was still Chansiri selling the club it would be his judgement instead of Begbies Traynor, and we've seen how well that has worked out over the last ten years!

Considering that 27k of that is in the home end, it's cracking support!

If you think rich folks don't make decisions based on emotions then I have a few things to teach you about human nature! They're not walking calculators. They'll care about how buying the club makes them feel, and they'll use gut intuition as well as hard numbers to decide how much they're willing to bid for us.

I think the point of cheaper tickets is to make it more affordable for new or casual fans and get them into the habit of going. The issue with Chansiri raising prices again and again wasn't that it hurt total revenue in the short term - if it did that, he'd have stopped doing it. The issue is that he was squeezing a dwindling number of fans for every last penny they could afford just to get into the ground. I've long said that the cheapest tickets should be cheaper (especially for students, kids, young families, etc.), the most expensive should be more expensive, and there should be more and better ways for people to spend longer in the ground and spend more money on the day.

Right. I'm going to do my best Delia impression here. Obsessing about the total attendance and blaming our fans for it is really daft - especially when the biggest factor dragging it down is how many (or few) Norwich are bringing. Seriously. Take a big breath in. Hold it. Breathe out. Done that? Now focus on what we can do, which is to make this match a celebration and show everyone in football what's so special about Sheffield Wednesday. Celebrate who we are - still together after one man spent ten years trying to break us. Celebrate that we humiliated Chansiri and - right now in this moment - we have real Wednesday fans deciding what's best for the future of the club. Celebrate that we have something to look forward to again. Celebrate that there's twenty five thousand of us who'll turn up on a Wednesday night in November even if we're nailed on to be relegated. Or more. Tell everyone. Bring your mates. Have a party. Most importantly, spend 90+ minutes making some chuffin' noise and (hopefully) celebrate that first home win of the season. Let's be 'avin you

I do care much more about the competence of the new owners than about how much cash they're prepared to throw at us. If Chansiri had brought in a CEO and directors who knew the game and had a plan to modernise the club and just let them spend his money instead, we'd probably be in the Premier League with facilities to match. Can we get someone with money and brains this time? That's the dream.

I'm surprised the ref didn't insist on this.

Was just thinking this. I think we're in the weird situation where any of our three kits would clash with WBA's home one!

If I'd waited five minutes I could have quoted these numbers instead! Over a thousand sold today is smashing work.

Please keep the updates coming! I'm baffled that anyone is complaining about these numbers. Regardless of whether we sell every last seat, this is already a turnout to be proud of. I for one have been enjoying the remarkable things my fellow Wednesdayites have been doing for the club over the last week and I'm going to keep doing just that, thanks!

The South Stand / Grandstand is fine for a good few years yet. It surely just needs to be refurbished internally. It's the other three that need either replacing or major structural changes.

I reckon we'd be better off replacing one stand at a time rather than relocating somewhere temporarily. We'd still have 20k+ capacity at any one time, probably double what we'd have if we were to use, say, the New York Stadium or a temporary ground. We do need a new training complex though. And we do need to pull down and replace the Leppings Lane end. The state of the stand and its unwanted history aside - if we can reconfigure it so we can be more flexible about how much space we allocate to away fans, it could increase our home capacity quite dramatically. Particularly if we put seats back in the northwest corner and give it a roof.

I reckon a LOT of people who work for the club are finally getting to implement the ideas they've had bottled up for ten years because our lunatic owner insisted on making every decision himself. The administrators have been given SO many easy wins that Chansiri could easily have done himself, simply by getting out of the way and letting people do their jobs. Whoever ends up buying us is getting something really special.

I find this hard to believe. It goes against everything we know from ten years of experiencing Chansiri.

I dunno - a new shirt is very much an optional purchase in the way that a match ticket isn't, and the club needs every penny to pay wages at the moment. Also you don't want to make everyone who's paid full price for one already feel like a mug. To be fair to everyone you'd have to at least offer them a partial rebate like they're doing with the Norwich tickets. Future merchandise definitely needs to be more reasonably priced though. As we've seen, if fans feel like they're being ripped off, they'll just buy a cheap imported copy!

Selling out the ground on a Wednesday night in November when we're in 24th place and on -6 points would be a bloody massive message to any potential bidders about the potential in this club. I believe we'll do it too.

I think someone at some point got in Chansiri's ear and told him that the club needed to be using modern revenue management tactics like hotels and airlines do in order to maximise ticket revenue. In theory that's great - make some tickets more expensive for those who can afford it, make some cheaper for those who can't. You make more revenue in total and more people can afford to go overall. Of course, he made a complete hash of it and just made it confusing and unaffordable for everyone, not to mention impossible to plan financially. I reckon a bigger gap between the cheapest and most expensive seats in the stadium - not to mention hospitality options that more people actually want to buy - would have served the same purpose. Maybe some new categories of concessions aimed at typically low income groups too - you'd get a lot of goodwill for that. The monthly subscription option is an excellent shout too. Fits in with how most people's household finances actually work.

The boycotts are some of the most effective collective action I've ever seen. Chansiri ran the club into the ground and the only thing keeping his regime going was him jacking up prices in the belief that fans would keep paying. The Trust called his bluff and showed him what "bad customers" we can really be. Well done to them, and well done to everyone who followed where they led - and also to everyone on here who's been calling for a boycott for years. You were right.

Clearly it should be "Wiggles." Or "The Wigster." Or "His Wigness."

I know we'll need new owners eventually but it's bloody marvellous having actual Wednesdayites speak for the club again after all this time. I hope whoever buys us is taking notes. This club is going nowhere without its fans, and the administrators actually understand that in a way that Dejphon never could even if you tried to explain it to him for another ten years.