CTWD response to the OSC declining a joint statement to the FA

[PLT]

This is the crux of part of the reason for my change from Hull City is investable.

Part of the reason is the damage done by the name change debate. Actually from both sides. Owner vs Supporter not by the way Owner vs CTWD.
No matter what the truth is Assem Allam has done a Ratner.
But if he had bought and expanded the KC, developed West Park and Walton Street and still got us into the PL (with the help of Steve Bruce) the problem would just have moved on by around three or four years.
The row would have changed into what is and what is not a community asset for the stadium, imagine having bought your council house and putting an extension on it just to find that you can only sell it back to the council? Imagine putting in a plan to build a five star hotel and retail outlets and finding that you have to spend more on the infrastructure of the area than the site could ever be worth. Or worse still that another project that does not need the infrastructure spend is planned just a mile or so away.
The gamble of buying the club would have hit the buffers.
We cannot fill the stadium now, because football, Hull City or Assem Allam do not attract supporters in Hull unless its a big match.
The overseas market could be the one area that we can become attractive, but not in shirt sales or branding but in another innovative means of bringing investment in. Only trouble is that I don't think Assem Allam knows just what it is yet.

But regardless of all that, we still don't make enough money locally. Our crowds are tiny for the size of our catchment area. People like blaming our attendances on the local economy, school holidays etc but the fact is we don't have enough fans because we don't bring new fans in. The club don't market themselves to new fans. Only people who already follow the club on Twitter or go on the OWS see any of the club's news.

 

[Stuart Blampey]

But regardless of all that, we still don't make enough money locally. Our crowds are tiny for the size of our catchment area. People like blaming our attendances on the local economy, school holidays etc but the fact is we don't have enough fans because we don't bring new fans in. The club don't market themselves to new fans. Only people who already follow the club on Twitter or go on the OWS see any of the club's news.

This is a massive massive subject as to why we don't get bigger gates, the historical reasons and what we can do to alter that.

There is a huge amount that we as a club (sorry it's not a business or a brand) can do to grow our support.

It baffles me why we focus on know nowt far east folk when we could have a virtual monopoly of football fans from Scarbro to Goole and maybe even North Lincs.

 

[mauled1904]

This is a massive massive subject as to why we don't get bigger gates, the historical reasons and what we can do to alter that.

There is a huge amount that we as a club (sorry it's not a business or a brand) can do to grow our support.

It baffles me why we focus on know nowt far east folk when we could have a virtual monopoly of football fans from Scarbro to Goole and maybe even North Lincs.

We're averaging 23997 per game, there's only another 1000 that can fit in! Do you think this may be the reason he's not targeting local people and looking for investment from elsewhere?

 

[originallambrettaman]

We're averaging 23997 per game, there's only another 1000 that can fit in! Do you think this may be the reason he's not targeting local people and looking for investment from elsewhere?

We could do with a waiting list, to encourage the East Stand expansion, an area as populated as ours should easily be able to manage 30k+.

 

[Stuart Blampey]

We're averaging 23997 per game, there's only another 1000 that can fit in! Do you think this may be the reason he's not targeting local people and looking for investment from elsewhere?

No.

He's already shown himself to be utterly clueless in Marketing our club and has alienated the vast majority of our supporters and non affiliated locals by his belligerent bluster.

Adam Pearson doubled our gates.

It can be done again if the ground was big enough.