Brandywell Stadium Development

[dcfc_jp_1989]

If DCFC own the stadium now do they charge other's for using it.

We don't own it yet but if (hopefully when) we get a lease we can sub-lease to other user groups & I would imagine that yes the money would come to us & not the council

[stevebradley]

If DCFC own the stadium now do they charge other's for using it.

We don't own it yet but if (hopefully when) we get a lease we can sub-lease to other user groups & I would imagine that yes the money would come to us & not the council

I doubt the council will be handing the stadium over without some sort of agreement re the costs and access rules for existing/longstanding users e.g. Stute, Foyle Cup, D&D. So I doubt there'll be much money to be made for the club out of this yet.

[marcoloco]

You make very little renting out an empty stadium, after costs.

You make a bit of money selling out a 7k stadium for friendlies... especially if you can add hospitality.

Need to compensate for the lack of European football this season so I wonder if any decent team is willing to risk their players on that pitch?

[dcfc_jp_1989]

If DCFC own the stadium now do they charge other's for using it.

We don't own it yet but if (hopefully when) we get a lease we can sub-lease to other user groups & I would imagine that yes the money would come to us & not the council

I doubt the council will be handing the stadium over without some sort of agreement re the costs and access rules for existing/longstanding users e.g. Stute, Foyle Cup, D&D. So I doubt there'll be much money to be made for the club out of this yet.

Yeah it seems that the club are aware of all this. In regards to Foyle Cup its currently used all day every day for mini-soccer & then one or two 11 v 11 games at night, if it does eventually become a hybrid pitch I wonder would the club be objecting to the mini-soccer & only agreeing to the 11 v 11 games during the week & all Saturday finals

[magspat]

If we don't own it yet how are we going to get a share of the 36 million pounds pot ,was that not the reason we are getting it because the council would have to pay 40% of fund we get if they still owned it seems complicated sure the application for money would granted in the summer which is not far away not much time to decide who owns it.

[dcfc_jp_1989]

If we don't own it yet how are we going to get a share of the 36 million pounds pot ,was that not the reason we are getting it because the council would have to pay 40% of fund we get if they still owned it seems complicated sure the application for money would granted in the summer which is not far away not much time to decide who owns it.

We don't need the lease until stage 7 of the project which is the tender process. The club were able to go ahead & submit the bid because there was a commitment from the council to enter into a lease of more than 25yrs, there is a corporation act from 1918 that needs repealed before we can do that but for now all we needed was a commitment from council. The actual lease isn't needed just yet

[attack!attack!attack]

Bert Martin was on the podcast with Simon Collins & Kevy McLaughlin & said the new North Stand will be used as a seated stand with a capacity of 1,750. Why? If we can get 2.8k standing in it, surely that is the better option? ‘Safe standing terrace’ should be fully utilised, otherwise we’re leaving 1k tickets unsold (I know it’s presumptuous that we’ll sell that many, but for big games we will).