Millers>Spireites, on 06 February 2012 - 07:10 PM, said:
Shaun, why are you (and plenty others on here) so pathologically stupid? The Council aren't paying for the ground. We have the option of a £5m loan from RMBC if required (which at present we are not intending to use). The remainder (your basic arithmetic abilities should just about cope with this), the vast majority of the c£17.5m funded stadium comes from private funding, with a small amount coming from Football League grants.
The Rotherham Regeneration project is NOT going to run out of funding at any time. It is a project of vast capital. £5m, whether used or not, would not touch the sides on this project. RMBC serves its metropolitan borough of approx (latest census) of 256,000 people. It's an absolutely huge town. Even the urban population makes it one of the bigger towns in England, but with the Metropolitan areas included, it's one of the ten biggest towns in the UK! If you think £5m is a lot of money given the revenue from RMBC, you sadly are very misguided.
Similarly, all this "RUFC do not pay their bills" smacks of poor, rural education. I'm preaching again until you sheepskins get the message into your thick mutton skulls, but here goes; RUFC Ltd is a limited company, which is now owned by a completely different holdings company. In fact, none of the people that took us into administrative problems last time are at the club. Furthermore, certain previous figureheads are banned from getting involved with football clubs ever again. Our current Board are probably the best Board in the bottom division. I'd say we're in the top five in the lower two divisions in terms of beng on a sound financial footing and steady investment. No way will we get into any problems with these guys at the helm; regardless of whether or not you want to admit it. We've been averaging 3,700 playing out of town in an athletics stadium. No other club in this league and most above (certianly not your tiny selves) could muster that incredible support. This is a long-term plan. If we can get any sort of momentum going into next season, expect us to absolutely dwarf your crowds. And I mean that with all sincerity from the bottom of my heart. Previous histories of both clubs, past attendance figures of both clubs and populations of both places dictate that on an even footing, we'd blow you out of the water. I suspect, despite your cute brave face, you know this too.
As for the two grounds, well they aren't even comparable. You can mock the name all you want (defying the vast marketing potential of such a name rather than committing to some local internet provider that probably employ about 30 members of staff), but it's only a name. It got us the attention we desired on the global stage, whilst having tangible links to our great, historic town. I dare say the b2Net can hardly boast the same importance?
All petty one-way name-calling aside, in terms of the stadium itself, I mean come on? Must I even have to justify this. As a point of order, I showed my unbiased Uni friends both stadiums to gauge an idea. They generally thought yours was fine for an unambitious, fourth division club looking to get by whilst ours was a build fit for the Championship. And it's not even finished! There is a reason ours is costing £17.5m and yours cost, what, £10m? It's not that we have been mugged off. It's just that it's going to be much, much better. Some of the internal things planned for this build are out of this world, and no club has ever been this bold in terms of separating themselves from the pack.
Now let's be brutally honest, the reason you start a weekly topic about the NYS is down to nothing more than jealousy. Because you've ended up with a Shrewsbury/Colchester/Chester/Scunthorpe. You know, a little lego build somewhere outside a the centre of your small villages. Yet our vast, urban town has ended up with a state-of-the-art super stadium smack bang in urban Rotherham.
And it hurts. Clearly, it hurts!
5 million, How much do you think are left after the council new build of offices ? which you should maybe look into or shall I tell you ?
shaun1866, on 06 February 2012 - 08:10 PM, said:
5 million, How much do you think are left after the council new build of offices ? which you should maybe look into or shall I tell you ?
And our ground is always going to be superior to yours because it has chesterfield fans in it and not webbed handed individuals living in a dive
This post has been edited by shaun1866: 06 February 2012 - 08:12 PM
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