Gruntfuttock wrote:
What a silly thread this has turned into , with lots of symantics and "Technically" I am sure you are all very knowledgable people but it doesnt matter how "technically" we owe money on the stadium or to who , the plain fact is that Saints decide how to use it , they take the gate reciepts , they earn from many revenue streams the stadium generates , SAINTS do , not the council, not any other entity , SAINTS!! so de facto we own the stadium
Agreed.
My only problem with our stadium arrangement is not that we don't 'technically own the stadium. It is that we don't decide everything that goes on there like you can. We don't have a club shop, we can't use all the facilities at will. We can't have a proper club shop on the site. We don't get the money from the kiosks.
Anybody trying to make out we have some sort of better deal than saints in this case is deluded.
We recover from this through our rent being less than the running costs of a stadium.