OwlsItGoing

I’m sure some Man City fans would’ve thought the same or Everton fans, but I bet they all love their new grounds now, hillsborough is limited not enough space to expand and very very out dated. Yes other grounds have had disasters before but none to the level of hillsborough. To this day any time some happens the disaster is brought up to this day they’re still going to court for it. Look at when Newcastle fans kicked off the other season, even though there was nothing wrong with the stadium and it’s was all made up, articles still kept going back to the disaster and the safety certificate had the maximum allowance of fans reduced.

Problem with hillsborough even if redeveloped is that it would still have the disaster as a big black cloud looming over it, if anything ever goes wrong at hillsborough the disaster is always instantly on the minds of everyone. If we want to develop and run more financially viable we need to move to a new state of the art stadium that’s cheaper run, preferably not on a flood plane and one that can host a wide range of events. We can’t keep living in the past. If this is our chance as a club to finally join the 21st century we must grab it with both hands and run with it otherwise we will fade into obscurity.

That’s the problem tho with the EFL, its rules and such are decided by the clubs and when they say clubs what they really mean is the other 71 owners of the EFL.

What is this obsession with George Hirst why is it whenever he scores someone has to post about it? It’s weird move on.

That maybe true however it drags it out costing nutcase more money. Also doesn’t change the fact that the value of the land is nowhere near the value of what he paid for the stadium or any loan against it. Hes screwed either way without the club renting it.

I’m sure a willing buyer would have gone through all this multiple times over before purchasing the club and at the end of the day (not sure on the legality) if he can sell the stadium again to himself and then kick us out, who’s he going to rent it too. Sheffield city council can make it very difficult for him to use it for real estate even then it wouldn’t we worth that much it’s on a flood plane after all. We might be without a stadium for a few years but we’ll just move onto a newer stadium with better facilities.

Sheffield fc are supposed to be getting a new stadium plus they could never afford the rates and wouldn’t even fill a stand with supporters they’re only in 9th tier of English football and Sheffield doesn’t have a rugby team big enough to justify using hillsborough.

What the hell do people expect the EFL to do. The EFL is made up by the clubs, clubs vote on what policies and such. The people at the EFL are bound to the rules that all the 92 have voted on and agreed to like FFP for example. They can’t do anything right now because they don’t have the authority to do so if they could I’m sure they would. The crap thing is the only way to punish terrible owners is by punishing the club as that’s the only way they can get at terrible owners.

I just can’t see why anyone would buy the club in the state it’s in. We have 0 chance of staying up as we have lost key players that we won’t be able to replace and we’re about to get points deductions out the wazoo. For instance with the missing payments to other clubs I believe it’s 5 points per club we’ve missed payment to (might be wrong not sure). So the club isn’t really a championship club it’s a league one club. Why pay £40 to £50 million now when in a years time you can pay £20 to £30 million it makes no business sense to buy the club in its current state. It’s just all so depressing.

Well clubs there are multiple ways transfer fees can be paid it depends on the agreement between the clubs. Clubs can agree to pay in instalments and the selling club can say use total value of the transfer in that year even tho they are being paid in instalments

Ok but if it was a usual thing wouldn’t Rob have said something similar to what Joe crann said the other day about the activity at company house. Again I could be wrong and fair enough if I am but this seems far from usual. The council hasn’t mentioned the lane have they.

Not every year from the council. I could be wrong however, but if it was a normal thing why would Rob be reporting it.

Are people really saying it’s a nothing statement???? If the stand was fine and up to standard they wouldn’t have said a word. Have we had statements from the council since we moved into hillsborough in 1899 no. Pretty obvious that there’s problems with the north stand.

It’s because they would’ve been kicked outta European league had he not sold his stake that’s all I believe.

They’ve had some trouble lately TUG. Last year Reb lobster that they owned was placed into admin until it could be sold.