19-10-2021, 09:05 AM
(18-10-2021, 10:32 AM)DeepBlue Wrote: The other thing the PST could not do was medium size investement in the ground. At the time of the decision to sell a 3m requirement was looming just to keep the ground open. That was beyond the capability of the fan ownership model
I'm not sure about that Deep. The last time I saw Ashley, he was crystal clear that the £5m upcoming expenditure that Catlin dropped on us as "unexpected" in the run up to the vote (and one can only assume this was important in convincing a majority to approve the sale), was already factored into the club's budget. Perhaps not item by item, by certainly in general terms & amounts.
Moving on from that though, I'm not sure how we would have survived the pandemic, but I'd view that as a separate matter. Nobody, not least the Eisners, was including such a thing in their calcs. One other thing on the pandemic and funding, while there could be a view that without the Eisners, we'd have gone bust because of Covid, it is surprising that no other clubs in div 3 or 4 have gone bust as a result of the pandemic. So, maybe as one of the few, pre-Covid profitable clubs, we might have survived, albeit with a financial lean needed on the shareholders or perhaps the bank. You never know, as a fan owned club perhaps those of us in the fortunate position to be able to, might have stumped up their season ticket cash in full for 2020 & 21, just to help keep the club going.