Bournemouth sale by end Oct

[East Kent Saint]

To Las Vegas consortium , soon be all star elevens and World Super league .

[STEVEADAMS]

Vegas knights nhl owner seems very keen and all happening according to reports. Wonder what he sees with Bournemouth to be honest they’ll  never be much bigger.

[InvictaSaint]

17 hours ago, STEVEADAMS said:

Vegas knights nhl owner seems very keen and all happening according to reports. Wonder what he sees with Bournemouth to be honest they’ll  never be much bigger.

The Nevada desert is huge. Plenty of space there for Bompey to expand. 

[The Kraken]

19 hours ago, STEVEADAMS said:

Vegas knights nhl owner seems very keen and all happening according to reports. Wonder what he sees with Bournemouth to be honest they’ll  never be much bigger.

Left of a line from Liverpool to London is a massive catchment area to be exploited.

[Secret Site Agent]

8 hours ago, The Kraken said:

Left of a line from Liverpool to London is a massive catchment area to be exploited.

Is this the line to see her Majesty's Coffin?

 

[Lord Duckhunter]

On 17/09/2022 at 04:14, STEVEADAMS said:

Wonder what he sees with Bournemouth to be honest they’ll  never be much bigger.

The BCP area has a population closing in on 200k, (I believe Poole is the biggest town never to have had a football league club). In the 25 years I’ve lived down here there’s definitely been a shift with less and less people travelling up to Saints, this trend has increased significantly since their spell in the top flight. More and more people I meet and discuss football with consider themselves Bournemouth supporters and although most are a bit 2 club nods, in my opinion 25K is realistic in a new ground. Without doubt they  could definitely sell high end hospitality if boxes existed. Their ground is ripe for housing development and pretty expensive properties at that. So if they could find somewhere to rebuild it’s definitely feasible. 

There is room for growth and money making opportunities, and it’s not ordinary punters through the door that make owners money anymore, its being in the Premier league and the TV monies involved and to a lesser extent the hospitality/hotel opportunities that accompanies premier league football. I can certainly see why someone would want to get involved. The council are also pretty skint & allegedly corrupt, so the same old NIMBYS May be bypassed where development is concerned. 

Edited 18 September, 2022 by Lord Duckhunter

[whelk]

Bournemouth won’t be in the PL next season. 

[JRM]

Interesting debate on American ownership in the Premier league, they definitely seem to be taking over with Chinese ownership on the way out, could be dangerous if the Americans want to make changes to the game like that idiot in charge of Chelsea, super league, no relegation etc 

[SaintsLoyal]

Not just the clubs being taken over by yanks, the big player agencies are all being sold to americans as well.

[Dellman]

2 hours ago, SaintsLoyal said:

Not just the clubs being taken over by yanks, the big player agencies are all being sold to americans as well.

The yanks have an eye for profit, nothing else bothers them. Tradition will be out, novelty will be in. The Chelsea guy has started. They may meet more resistance than they expect.

[Dark Munster]

3 hours ago, JRM said:

Interesting debate on American ownership in the Premier league, they definitely seem to be taking over with Chinese ownership on the way out, could be dangerous if the Americans want to make changes to the game like that idiot in charge of Chelsea, super league, no relegation etc 

Yes please. As long as Saints are one of the permanent 20.

[Dellman]

No thank you. What is the point, where is the competitive challenge, where is the excitement if the results don't actually affect anything?

[whelk]

6 minutes ago, Dark Munster said:

Yes please. As long as Saints are one of the permanent 20.

Fuck off

[Dark Munster]

4 minutes ago, Dellman said:

No thank you. What is the point, where is the competitive challenge, where is the excitement if the results don't actually affect anything?

Well some do like the excitement of rock climbing without ropes!

30+ years ago relegation for a club our size wasn't a disaster. 20 years ago it nearly was (we got lucky). Now it would probably be catastrophic.

[STEVEADAMS]

16 hours ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

The BCP area has a population closing in on 200k, (I believe Poole is the biggest town never to have had a football league club). In the 25 years I’ve lived down here there’s definitely been a shift with less and less people travelling up to Saints, this trend has increased significantly since their spell in the top flight. More and more people I meet and discuss football with consider themselves Bournemouth supporters and although most are a bit 2 club nods, in my opinion 25K is realistic in a new ground. Without doubt they  could definitely sell high end hospitality if boxes existed. Their ground is ripe for housing development and pretty expensive properties at that. So if they could find somewhere to rebuild it’s definitely feasible. 

There is room for growth and money making opportunities, and it’s not ordinary punters through the door that make owners money anymore, its being in the Premier league and the TV monies involved and to a lesser extent the hospitality/hotel opportunities that accompanies premier league football. I can certainly see why someone would want to get involved. The council are also pretty skint & allegedly corrupt, so the same old NIMBYS May be bypassed where development is concerned. 

Thanks for the interesting response 👍

[Whitey Grandad]

9 hours ago, Dark Munster said:

Well some do like the excitement of rock climbing without ropes!

30+ years ago relegation for a club our size wasn't a disaster. 20 years ago it nearly was (we got lucky). Now it would probably be catastrophic.

I could live with it.

[alehouseboys]

20 hours ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

The BCP area has a population closing in on 200k, (I believe Poole is the biggest town never to have had a football league club).

Tbf the BCP population is closer to half a million so maybe they see potential. And it is a pleasant part of the country even if a large chunk of the demographic are coffin-dodgers!

https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/22838/bournemouth/bournemouth/poole/population

Edited 19 September, 2022 by alehouseboys

[egg]

20 hours ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

The BCP area has a population closing in on 200k, (I believe Poole is the biggest town never to have had a football league club). 

It's up there, but I think it's probably Warrington.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

14 hours ago, JRM said:

Interesting debate on American ownership in the Premier league, they definitely seem to be taking over with Chinese ownership on the way out, could be dangerous if the Americans want to make changes to the game like that idiot in charge of Chelsea, super league, no relegation etc 

Simon Jordan was one making that point the other day. If there are enough US based owners to vote through the changes. 14 isn't it? I see 9 clubs with little US flags beside clubs. B'Mouth would be 10. Even if 1 is 10% for Man City, you never know if a non US one or two, could be swayed. Burnley, Swansea and Norwich have, or are expected to have US investment, from the clubs below.

Fortunately the Super League response will have at least shown owners what the reaction would be. But then, they'd have to be thick not to have seen that coming, and went along with it anyway.

[JRM]

56 minutes ago, Holmes_and_Watson said:

Simon Jordan was one making that point the other day. If there are enough US based owners to vote through the changes. 14 isn't it? I see 9 clubs with little US flags beside clubs. B'Mouth would be 10. Even if 1 is 10% for Man City, you never know if a non US one or two, could be swayed. Burnley, Swansea and Norwich have, or are expected to have US investment, from the clubs below.

Fortunately the Super League response will have at least shown owners what the reaction would be. But then, they'd have to be thick not to have seen that coming, and went along with it anyway.

That's right, motions need to be voted through by 14 of the 20 clubs to pass. Can see more Americanisation of the English game and don't think it will be a good thing, this comes at a time when govt were looking at football reform, the Qataris and Saudis don't seem to be in it for profit so they might vote against changes. 

Can still see one game a year played in Vegas and B teams playing in league one disrupting the pyramid happening 

[AlexLaw76]

3 hours ago, JRM said:

That's right, motions need to be voted through by 14 of the 20 clubs to pass. Can see more Americanisation of the English game and don't think it will be a good thing, this comes at a time when govt were looking at football reform, the Qataris and Saudis don't seem to be in it for profit so they might vote against changes. 

Can still see one game a year played in Vegas and B teams playing in league one disrupting the pyramid happening 

It will partly ruin, what is the most watched/successful sport/league on the planet - where as, the US sports leagues are not.

Edited 19 September, 2022 by AlexLaw76

[swannymere]

The Chelsea owner has been talking about all star-star games, more frequent kit changes and i'm sure at some point quarters rather than halves will be brought up. Facts are these, more PL fans live outside the UK than in it, tradition doesn't matter to them, they just want to win.

[Dark Munster]

Apart from no relegation <grin> there is one other Americanization <sic> that I would like, and I think this has come up before when we’ve complained about time wasting with fake injuries, and big clubs getting Fergie time if not winning. Have the clock stop when the ball is not in play. Have the match exactly 60 minutes long (which is roughly how much time it’s usually in play) and stop it for injuries and other stoppages. 
 

As long as they don’t deliberately pause play for bloody adverts of course. 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

5 hours ago, JRM said:

That's right, motions need to be voted through by 14 of the 20 clubs to pass. Can see more Americanisation of the English game and don't think it will be a good thing, this comes at a time when govt were looking at football reform, the Qataris and Saudis don't seem to be in it for profit so they might vote against changes. 

Can still see one game a year played in Vegas and B teams playing in league one disrupting the pyramid happening 

Great. The teams we're looking to oppose the changes, are the ones looking to use it for sports washing. 🙂

Not that we'd be selected team, but I can think of a number of Saints performances where we all agree what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas, and never speak of them again. 🙂

2 hours ago, swannymere said:

The Chelsea owner has been talking about all star-star games, more frequent kit changes and i'm sure at some point quarters rather than halves will be brought up. Facts are these, more PL fans live outside the UK than in it, tradition doesn't matter to them, they just want to win.

I'm trying to imagine there being more kits. Perhaps kits for positions. We have one for the goalkeeper, so why not for defenders...sorry defence and offence in this new world. JWP gets to wear a special teams jersey. But only for free kicks, when he swaps over from his captain's top. All kits will have scrolling adverts across them, of course. 🙂

[STEVEADAMS]

On 19/09/2022 at 19:40, AlexLaw76 said:

It will partly ruin, what is the most watched/successful sport/league on the planet - where as, the US sports leagues are not.

 

On 19/09/2022 at 22:23, swannymere said:

The Chelsea owner has been talking about all star-star games, more frequent kit changes and i'm sure at some point quarters rather than halves will be brought up. Facts are these, more PL fans live outside the UK than in it, tradition doesn't matter to them, they just want to win.

FIFA, UEFA and the FA I think would have something to say.