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| Quote ="rover49"I have put a lot more than that into my club when we were going bust, so yes, I would but I am fortunate to be able to afford it, some fans cannot but still love their club as much as the millionaire benefactors do.
I have sympathy with the ordinary Bradford fans, but less so with the mis-managers of the club, after all it will be twice in my living memory that Bradford have gone this way and had to be saved by fans dipping into their pockets.'"
Ditto I have bought shares in rovers when they were in dire straits and i still have the shares and am proud i have them
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| Quote ="Starbug"Can somebody point me in the direction of this Wakefield resurgence?'"
M62 jcn 29, turn south then take the M1 jcn 41 head towards the city centre and take the Doncaster road out of Wakefield.
you will notice the ground, with new stand, on your right hand side.
Back to the thread, it would depend on the circumstances.
Giving £100 to save your club, on the face of it, is a simple yes, but having been through a similar experience with Wakefield and with some of the detail that came out after the event,
definitely no.
All that may happen is that the donation may buy some time but, ultimately, it will not facilitate the changes that are required to take the club forward.
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| When WTW were in this situation just over a year ago, they asked supporters to donate; I opted not to give cash to the incumbent BoD who had created the mess in the first place, but to put the money aside, ready to donate to a supporters trust or similar consortium that might resurrect the club from administration. I would have done so too but with Andrew Glover's arrival, it wasn't needed.
So no - in the circumstances that WTW and now Bradford find themselves in, I wouldn't; they don't need painkillers, they need an amputation.
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| Quote ="Mild mannered Janitor"I think you have hit the nail on the head. if the £1m does materialise at Bradford that would cover there short term cash-flow problem. But it means the same people who put them in this mess are still in charge. Would it be delaying the the inevitable?
It needs a clean sweep in the board room with a new management making business decisions and not being the RL version of Peter Ridsdale.'"
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| No I wouldn't and although I applaud people who would I also think that they would need their head examining.
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| I'd hang on to my money until I had satisfactory answers to the [url=http://littlegrubbers.blogspot.com/2012/03/questions-rfl-and-bradford-need-to.htmlthese questions[/url
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| Why would anyone in their right mind give £100 to a business that clearly heading for administration in the very near future, in exchange for nothing other than a warm sense of self satisfaction?
If the current Board of Directors didn't consider what would happen to the borrowings they had secured against the ground lease when they sold it, then they're clearly not fit to hold office.
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| The issue isnt whether I'd donate £100 to try to save the Bulls, its whether I'd donate it now. Whether it would be just be putting off the day of reckoning. Whether it wouldn't be better to let the current legal entity to go bust and then pay my £100 towards starting again.
The problem is that the club can only ask the fans to dip into their pockets on this scale once. £500k might not be enough to save the current company (I really dont know, the club haven't yet released enough information for me to form a judgement). If the fans hand over that £500k and it doesnt work then its very unlikely that they'll fork out a second time.
Whereas if the company does go bust and then I'm asked to contribute towards a new start then I'll probably be willing to contribute a lot more than £100. Because £500k should be enough tto get the club off the ground (even if it starts in NL1).
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| You would have to be mad to give them the money when they have put the club in this position, I was behind Ted at Wakefield but under no circumstances would I have given a donation to help him have another go at doing the same. #saveyourcashnotbulls
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| =#0040FFIf I truly believed that the people running the club could have done nothing to prevent it from happening and provided they also had a long term business plan in place with enough evidence to suggest it would not happen again a few months or years down the line then I would consider it and even then I would not be sure.
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| Quote ="Andy Gilder"Why would anyone in their right mind give £100 to a business that clearly heading for administration in the very near future, in exchange for nothing other than a warm sense of self satisfaction?
If the current Board of Directors didn't consider what would happen to the borrowings they had secured against the ground lease when they sold it, then they're clearly not fit to hold office.'"
This.
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