Maybe the club is not sustainable.
A lot of fans seem to think the ticket costs are too high or not worth it for what’s on offer.
The club apparently loses a lot of money anyway, even though crowds are at good levels for the second tier.
I don’t know how well the corporate side is supported by the business community but we dont have many boxes compared to other similar sized clubs.
It‘s like a lot of things in this area - golf clubs struggle to attract members whereas clubs in other places have waiting lists. Teesside Airport. - put the politics to one side there are posters on here who would rather travel to Newcastle to save £20. We have big anchor retail stores closed and empty in Middlesbrough due to lack of footfall. No doubt plenty of other examples.
We don‘t have anything which the Teesside public is 100% fully behind and prepared to sustain for the long term.
But if money is so tight, it is what it is.
No Championship club without Parachute Payments can sustainably challenge for promotion. They will all lose money and require a benefactor.
I struggle to see how you can say the Teesside public are not behind. The crowd average is over 27k man.
What we have is an owner who has clearly drawn a line under things.
He's almost the cleared the £250.3m loss he has led the club to make since he became owner. His £107m debt to equity conversion means he has injected £197m into a Club he already wholly owned.
He is still owed over c £42m in remaining Group Undertakings (loans) which if in the Championship he will never see again.
He has clearly had enough. The loss last season after his tax adjustments was £4m, which was covered again by Group Undertakings.
That is his choice and fair enough for him to call a halt to massive funding.
So long as he accepts he will slide to eventual relegation and he will be faced with starting again or losing control of his "precious".
Selling whoever he can, whenever he can and treating his supporters/customers with utter contempt is a route I didn't think he would go. The club is unrecognisable from a year ago.
I wonder how many will be standing and singing he's king in a year's time?
I'm a Boro fan, always will be, but not a Steve Gibson fan