What SISU should do next? (1 Viewer)

[skybluetony176]

Primary shareholder of our hedgefund (mgi - Derek Richardson) attends our games and from reports is very enthusiastic, and his wife and daughter watch the development league games (which is above and beyond call of duty). Now I'm sure they're still well and truly in it for the money, but there is a love for the sport and the team as well.

Did he have prior links to Wasps or the sport of Rugby? Maybe he's just good at PR, something else are lot could learn a thing or two about.

 

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[Jack Griffin]

That's the bit that plenty of people overlook. Clearly their hedgefund is better at getting stuff done than our one....but they are still just that - a hedgefund.

Their overriding motive is no different to SISU's at the end of the day.

I don't disagree with your punchline, but the end does not always justify the means. There is more than one way to achieve an objective.

 

[Jack Griffin]

Confuses the hell out of me I thought they just owned 23% and it use to annoy me that SISU didn't just factor in purchasing the 23% as part of any purchase.
I have heard indirectly from someone from Compass that the Ricoh deal is very insignificant for them.

It probably is, Compass are a huge company.

 

[The Reverend Skyblue]

I predicted 18 months ago about a London baesed rugby team coming to the Ricoh so I am on a roll, so here's my next prediction,

by next September Wasps will have new owners, as the current bloke who though a multi millionaire is not seriously seriously loaded, but does have a great product now to sell on and make a good profit.

these new owners of Wasps will target us and unite two sporting clubs under the one roof and bring in proper stadium event teams to run the non matchday eventing.

i am thinking someone like Red Bull, but I don't think it will be them as I think they are trying to get into some other sport currently, I can't quite remember what, but a Red Bull arena hosting the Red Bull Wasps, and us, and hosting music and all the other stuff they could do would truly full fill the potential of the Ricoh,especially with e new train station opening

just my opinion and can be ripped apart if you feel I am talking shite., but I really feel this is just the start of the story regarding the Ricoh

 

[Steve.B50]

Personally I think the only thing that they can do is sit down with our new landlords and thrash out a rent deal for a minimum of 10 years that will work for the club in any league.

Wasps need us here to make ACL work. They only play 16 odd home games a season so the club is in a stronger bargaining position than it ever has been IMO but they need to be talking about a longer deal than 2 years plus 2 years with maybe the extra year Fisher has been mumbling on about.

Agree, they need to sit down and have an honest and open (hard I know) meeting with them. The Wasps need us in that stadium.
Problem being the reputation Fish and Co have does not do them any favours.

 

[justvisiting]

i am thinking someone like Red Bull, but I don't think it will be them as I think they are trying to get into some other sport currently, I can't quite remember what, but a Red Bull arena hosting the Red Bull Wasps, and us, and hosting music and all the other stuff they could do would truly full fill the potential of the Ricoh,especially with e new train station opening

They are looking at English football clubs apparently as Leeds were heavily rumoured a couple of weeks ago. They did deny wanting to buy Leeds but not that they were interested in getting a team over here. They've bought Leipzig in Germany so they're not afraid of building from a lower division. All their other teams have had a complete rebrand though, which is almost as bad as franchising a club out of its original area in my book.

 

[skybluetony176]

They are looking at English football clubs apparently as Leeds were heavily rumoured a couple of weeks ago. They did deny wanting to buy Leeds but not that they were interested in getting a team over here. They've bought Leipzig in Germany so they're not afraid of building from a lower division. All their other teams have had a complete rebrand though, which is almost as bad as franchising a club out of its original area in my book.

Re branding the club that invented re branding. Interesting.

 

[wingy]

Re branding the club that invented re branding. Interesting.

Well almost !!

 

[The Reverend Skyblue]

They are looking at English football clubs apparently as Leeds were heavily rumoured a couple of weeks ago. They did deny wanting to buy Leeds but not that they were interested in getting a team over here. They've bought Leipzig in Germany so they're not afraid of building from a lower division. All their other teams have had a complete rebrand though, which is almost as bad as franchising a club out of its original area in my book.

have they bought Rasenballsport Leipzig, or locomotive, as I follow German footie a bit, the team I follow is dynamo Dresdon who have fallen to the third tier, just my luck again as you know they used to be one of the bigger teams there.

i can see a firm like Red Bull getting very interested in having a stadium hosting two teams a rugby and football combo.
would the RFU allow name changes to something like Red Bull wasps ?

i can see this happening with either Red Bull or another corporate giant

 

[justvisiting]

have they bought Rasenballsport Leipzig, or locomotive, as I follow German footie a bit, the team I follow is dynamo Dresdon who have fallen to the third tier, just my luck again as you know they used to be one of the bigger teams there.

i can see a firm like Red Bull getting very interested in having a stadium hosting two teams a rugby and football combo.
would the RFU allow name changes to something like Red Bull wasps ?

i can see this happening with either Red Bull or another corporate giant

I agree, it's a corporate's dream. A newish stadium, a rugby club and a football club. Covers all demographics. Could be sensitively handled with respect for the heritages of the teams involved but more likely everyone gets a rebrand and the soul gets sucked out of them all.

RB Leipzig is officially RasenBallsport Leipzig to get round regs restricting commercial involvement in German football (new commercial involvement anyway, Bayer Leverkusen have been around long enough to be exempt). They play at the Red Bull Arena and the badge is the Red Bull emblem so the implication is that they're actually called Red Bull Leipzig. They were created from a small local team near Leipzig, so Lokomotive are still there. A bit like them taking over Nuneaton and rebranding them Red Bull Coventry, then moving to the Ricoh.

Apparently they looked at Dynamo Dresden and Lokomotive Leipzig first but were put off by fan violence and a relatively unsuccessful recent past. On the whole, not much to recommend them as owners except finance and likely success but if that was the only important thing in football we'd all be Man U fans.

 

[skybluefred]

What sisu should do next.,Clear off and leave CCFC and it's fans in peace so we can rebuild our Club
and make it famous once again.