Comparisons with Burnley FC

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Topic is the difference Dave Baldwin the CEO of Burnley has made to the club.
IMO this is what a good CEO can do. He joined Burnley in 2014.
'In 2015 the board got planning permission for the Barnfield Training Centre. This was whilst Burnley were still a Championship club. The commitment was made with no way of knowing if they'd ever get back in the PL.
It opened in March 2017, spans 775,000 square ft. allowing every player from youth team novice to first team veteran with England caps to train at the same location.
Barnfield cost £12.6m but is crucial in terms of future legacy . They now have Cat 2 Academy Status but the facilities are Cat 1.The PL have to audit everything before it can be upgraded.
They have four hybrid pitches all costing more than £1m each, one has under soil heating, and one is floodlit, so players can train all year round.
Two fulltime chefs, a nutritionist, and a sports scientist.
The club has also invested heavily in non-football operations, most visible in its community programme. Started with just three staff, now employs 130 full time staff and its a self-sustaining model not reliant on benefactors or football related revenue streams
'It's not a box ticking exercise, it's about delivering programmes which have a positive and tangible impact locally'
Burnley FC in the Community invested £3.15m across the town and neighbouring districts last year. Engaging with 27,215 individuals and involving 9,000 youngsters in its Premier League Stars project.
The club is also investing heavily in its historic ground, upgrading the old stands and spending £8m on the project.
Burnley FC had a turnover in the last financial year of £138m.
What have we to show for our time at the top table ?

 

**** all, apart from 2 ****s who we seem unabe to get rid of.

 

Not much, some fantastic memories and that's about it.

The rancour, bitterness and lost fans go some way to cancelling them out.

From 2001 to 2014 we were on the way up, then we just about plateau'd till 2016, when we started to decline and no one knows how far we will descend or how long it will last.

Worse for some of the naive bedwetters on here, is the threat that the next owners will be more woefully inept at engaging with the fanbase and local stakeholders to build bridges ( or re-open walkways). Be careful what you wish for there are some truly **** owners out there.

The club has gone back to about 2006, happy to just about hold its head above water and be in the second tier. But back then, we had unity, optimism, an ambitious owner who led from the front, and who rallied support to our bandwagon.

Now all that stuff lies in tatters, and it's a major job for someone to reconstruct it all- to build a vision, to share it and convince the ever fickle and sceptical Hull public to buy into it once more.

Every month that goes by sees the club losing its memory of the roadmap we once had and what enabled to us to from the fourth tier to the PL.

 

A grass field and portacabin in Cottingham.
We borrow the facilities at Bishop Burton.
An indoor arena stolen from the local community, with a pitch which is allegedly too small to meet FA regs.
The youth teams play on the university ground which has no stands or facilities (happy to be corrected on that)

 

The Allams came in claiming they wanted to give a gift to the City of Hull, they said they wanted to leave a legacy. When they came in, they were heroes, they could have still been if they’d stuck to any of the things they’d said.
Now their legacy is a club that’s been ripped apart & thrown on the floor, like a toy by a spoilt little brat!
The problem is, if they hadn’t done the things they did, they really could have been the heroes they wanted to be!

 

This just goes to show what good management and having sensible people owning the club can do. Whereas, we have clowns in charge.

 

Would not disagree with any of the above..Just goes from bad to worse..I’m proud of the manager his staff and effort of the players...Nige..if a decent offer comes in just **** Off..You owe these two cretins absolutely nothing!,

 

Apart from giving him a job when no one else would?

 

Remember people saying that in 2010/11 season when Bpool went up.

Holloway tactical genius unlike Phil Brown, frugally well run club not like City etc.

Well how did that turn out for the Lashers?

 

You can never legislate for an owner being a bent bastard.

 

Or an arrogant one who will accept no criticism and who is petty and vindictive.

 

Well run club, though 5 first team keepers at the moment, expect 2 to go in the summer, one being Hart ....