Ok, so we now know GFH do not have cash to buy players. The galling loss of Woods to Leicester highlighted this. However, there is a way to help our club. Leeds fans need to fill Elland Road every game, and this will raise cash very quickly. Man City, Newcastle...great examples of supporters of teams when outside Prem still filling the ground and supporting the club both in voice and financially. We can easily get 35000 per game, and just imagine what that would do to the coffers and the team on the pitch. Even Rangers, playing at such a poor level, still fill out Ibrox because their supporters know that is the best way of helping to rebuild the club. I have lifted my personal embargo now that Bates has sold, and although I'm not entirely happy, it is now time to show my support for my club rather than sit and moan while it declines. The ONE thing that makes a club is its support, because the fans are the club. We can make a difference, and now is the time to step up and help Leeds United as best we can. I hate how people laugh at us, enjoying our struggles and watching our support abandon the club. Well, if I'm the last supporter left in the stands then so be it, but now I'm going to fight for my club by helping them, and that means putting my money into the club rather than going to the cinema or the pub. MARCHING ON TOGETHER!!!! A 35,000 gate at an average of say £25 per ticket = £875,000 per game. That's a lot of money for our club!!
I'm not sure the loss of a player to the richest club in the division has exactly highlighted anything.
It highlights the fact that Leeds cannot compete financially IN THIS FCUKING DIVISION YOU NEGATIVE JERK!!!!!!!
R em ember Newcastle were only one season out of top flight. Easy holding on to crowds. Would they have attracted any more than 20k after 8 years like us though
Eire, Newcastle not just last time out, but before that. And City fell to third tier so three seasons out. What I'm saying is NOW is the time for Leeds fans to come together and get behind the club, show the world what proper support means.
No other team in this division, barring possibly Cardiff, can compete financially with Leicester; that doesn't mean there are only two teams who can compete financially in the division.
I get your point but Newcastle kept nucleus of team and were worth watching. There's not much to attract the crowds back with. Reduced tickets will bring a few, but with standard of football dire at every game now, it's hard to sell that idea. It would also help a little if gfh were to come out and state all extra revenue from gates would be reinvested in squad and put rumours of multi million debts to bed. We've still lots of sceptical fans
Newcastle in the days of Keegan the player. Simon, my point is that we keep banging on about being a BIG club, so our support should lift us beyond clubs in this division with the money 30k plus gates will bring in. Then there's the positive impact on sponsors, and players WANTING to come to Leeds because of the support rather than the club's legacy of being great in the past. Also, a packed Elland Road will surely lift our players on the pitch as well. I just want to see all this negativity go away now and our stadium being filled with noisy supporters, and money coming in to help the club. Best of all, it may also attract a moneybags billionaire to buy out GFH, which after all seems to be Haigh's strategy - cash in asap.
We were almost there two seasons ago. The crowds were on a steep incline with the attractive attacking football we were playing, with a squad that was only a couple of top quality defenders and a bit of focus away from being title contenders. It is purely about the momentum of the club, and we currently have none. The team isn't helping by playing god awful football every week. Get a couple of classy wingers and start playing to our strengths and that may change.
I see exactly where you are coming from Wolfie. We did exactly the same when Bates took us into admin and we went in to League 1. The club needs to show promise and to offer a product that deserves our support - after all, football is an entertainment business. I have banged on about it for many years - a slow strategy that is plain to all to see that we are building a club that plays football. We've not seen it yet, all we see is the short-termism that has failed for the last decade. Yet that is what the fans want - instant improvement. As I said, I know what you are saying, and I applaud it. But I have no confidence yet this board knows what it is doing
It's doing my head in reading Woods all the time, you'd think if our fans wanted him that badly they'd know his name!
Woods/Wood....who cares? He's not at Leeds and that's all that matters. Football is first and foremost a RESULTS business - ask Nigel Adkins and Robbie Di Matteo. If your club is getting results and challenging at the right end of the table, great! If the team can also manage to play attractive, pass them to death football whilst achieving results, awesome! Results are what matter. Results get you to/keep you in the Prem/Champs Lge, and this brings in the money to build an attractive, entertaining team if that is the club's strategy. Footballers are paid silly money, which is the cause of all the financial problems, because their agents demanded Hollywood salaries because they claimed their players were in the "entertainment business", and as such they desreved to be paid in line with entertainment industry stars. How many players can you name out of all in the Prem who are actually entertaining to watch? Football needs to change how players are paid, and go back to the majority of wages being performance related rather than a fat contract that ensures they don't feel the pain when they lose.
If gfh had real money or real ambition, their next moves are obvious. Get Nigel Adkins in now, give him an immediate budget of 5 million with additional finance in the summer. None of that will happen of course cos they are skint. Cant believe, people cant see that yet
