FAO JN

"I couldn't give two f_cks, to be honest!"

That should be let not key drat.

It's the lack of communication and lack of transparency that really gets to me fuel my instinct that all is not well. I am highly suspicious and skeptical.

The silence is indeed deafening!

I hope he does so...... Go and watch and be more interested in the rugby 7's again instead of ruining CUFC.

What a crying shame we appear to now have our own silent version of the Oystons. All people want is a well run transparent community football club, where all one needs to worry about is the football on the pitch without the politics. Shame on you AJ & JN.

I would rather have Sepp Blatter and Jack Warner running the club than those two. AJ has pumped money into the club, but it was his and others incompetence that necessitated it. JN is hanging on for dear life so he can keep his FA perks and freebies.

Good......he has a great opportunity to prove us all wrong and bloody communicate...however we all know that this is not about what's best for the club and its supporters, it's about JN retaining power and FA involvement, thinking of himself first. 

Is there any formal process that allows us to push Nixon out?? Because the new season will be upon us in no time. I don't really have an issue with AJ as such, he has kept the club afloat and deserves more (that said he has treated the symptom with his own money rather than the cause) the cause being not maximising the revenue potential of the club, poor organisation and marketing, poor ticket sales and offering marketing, poor off field revenue ideas and PR, the joke that is getting a drink on match days or Wolves fans being directed to the premier inn by stewards to eat and drink before the game as we didn't have staff on in the away end to man the bars etc before the game. All poor stuff really that even non league clubs are better at than us. The fact that we are a remote club should work in our favour, long trip for away fans who just want to watch a match on the TV, get some lunch and have a few beers before and after the game. Our hospitality for fans is shocking for a captive market. What do we do to keep the punters behind for a few beers, perhaps a meal or entertainment after a game?.......if we do anything, where is it marketed. Providing our details when we purchase tickets is gold mine data, text us, write to us, use Social media, use the data to generate revenue. Oh, I forgot, we are talking about an old boys club here who think selling a few pies should be enough.....and we know where that has got us. Other clubs generate more revenue with lower gates and lower priced tickets than us, that just shows the miss management of our club.

did he contact your boss? never heard you mention it before

Never mind his FA perks, some 'mystery developer' has probably got JN by the b0llocks. Nice little sum could be coming his way if he oversees the move away from our home, to some field in the middle of nowhere near Kingmoor. Why else would he be hanging about? For a free trip to Portugal and a cup final ticket? Doubt it.

I'd love it if the new ground was at Kingmoor park...and that has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that it's my neck of the woods and within walking distance 

They should take a leaf out of Walsall's Saddlers club, excellent welcoming place for home and away fans.

I'm not too worried about the trip there, easier for me anyway with the bypass and all that.  The trouble I have with it all is that we will no longer own our ground, we will be at the whim of some soulless corporation and it will destroy us.  Any new stadium will be the cheapest available option, it will be as horrible a place to go as Brunton Park (but for different reasons), and it will be too small for us to progress.

Staying where we are is an option, it just is not one that is being looked at.  A huge problem at the current ground is that the only real repairs carried out since after the flood have been sticking plaster applied haphazardly by Steve Pattison, as and when things fall to bits.  There has never been any sort of refurb plan in place and as a result we have been left decades behind.  The stadium is a disgrace, but it certainly is not beyond the realms of possibility that it can still be used to stage football games.  It needs a schedule of improvements, and this sort of plan, alongside a Blue Yonder plan, both properly costed need to be presented to the fans.

That will not be done of course, because the best way for these two robbers to get rich is to flog off the family silver and ride off into the sunset.

The problem mate, is that when questioned about any of this, they just say it would cost too much to repair Brunton Park.  There is no costed plan saying how much it would cost, there is sometimes a ridiculous figure plucked out of thin air though, which is designed to make Blue Yonder look more appealing.

It might well be worth the club putting some investment into making Brunton Park a state of the art venue with conference and other facilities close to the centre of a city, with decent links to the M6.  There might be opportunities for, say, a decent Sales and Marketing manager to sell the club as a venue for all sorts of things, if the facilities were anything like decent.  In fact the whole thing might even be able to be cost neutral or even make a profit.  Have they looked at it in that way?

No need to answer, they haven't.

Well mate, you'd do corporate stuff first, get the conference and hospitality etc stuff in place first have that looking brand new and up to scratch and even looking a bit 21st century, then you could grab some income from that to help carry out the rest of the improvements over time, they could even ring fence any new income generated to go towards paying for the rest of the required improvements.  It needs to be the place to go in Carlisle for corporate functions and conferences, it is situated absolutely perfectly to do this.  I have no idea what level of income could be generated from this sort of thing, and I'm assuming there would certainly need to be loans as well, but perhaps that would be a bit better than not owning the stadium.

There would then need to be some sort of plan and structure in place for the upkeep of the stadium.  Just look at the big hotels in the Lakes.  The ones who have a continuing programme of works to keep them up to date are the ones that are always full (I know of one with an occupancy rate of 80% a year), and those that don't keep their renovations up to date struggle.  Whether we like it or not, Carlisle United are in the hospitality business, and people are not prepared to put up with crap these days.  This is why income from all possible streams, not just attendances id drying up.  Stand still and you'll get trampled all over.