Tom Gorringe - The Business of Sport

[Dr. Winston]

Well worth an hour or so of anyone's time. Some really interesting stuff in here.

 

[magicdaps10]

Good watch that.

The irritating guy in the shorts, he was quite switched on despite looking like a wally......his reactions gave a hindsight to certain answers from Gorringe.

Very interesting listening.

 

[magicdaps10]

Buying the stadium is a big thing and it looks like it's being discussed and purchase wouldn't effect PSR.

 

[Pacemaker]

Good interview and interesting view from behind the scenes

 

[Dr. Winston]

Buying the stadium is a big thing and it looks like it's being discussed and purchase wouldn't effect PSR.

Infrastructure investments aren't counted towards PSR so yes, potentially we wouldn't have to make "rent" payments to the council any more.

Having the ground not owned by the club does offer us a certain protection however and the prospect of that no longer being the case should be treated with caution. There have been several cases of clubs having problems with their home stadium being sold or manipulated out from under them.

 

[magicdaps10]

Infrastructure investments aren't counted towards PSR so yes, potentially we wouldn't have to make "rent" payments to the council any more.

Having the ground not owned by the club does offer us a certain protection however and the prospect of that no longer being the case should be treated with caution. There have been several cases of clubs having problems with their home stadium being sold or manipulated out from under them.

What would be more beneficial, owning the stadium or continue renting?

 

[Dr. Winston]

What would be more beneficial? Knowing that we've always got a place to play or having to decamp to Parc Y Sgarlets because of dodgy ownership?

There are pros and cons to most angles in this.

 

[Neath_Jack]

Listening to Mr Gorringe talk gives me a semi. What an articulate switched on young man he sounds. I reckon we’ve got a good one here.

 

[Swansea93]

Listening to Mr Gorringe talk gives me a semi. What an articulate switched on young man he sounds. I reckon we’ve got a good one here.

I was extremely apprehensive when he was appointed originally due to the Bristol Rovers fans opinions but the more I hear him speak gives me a much better impression of him.

 

[AusinIsOurHero]

I was extremely apprehensive when he was appointed originally due to the Bristol Rovers fans opinions but the more I hear him speak gives me a much better impression of him.

Different people thrive in different environments.
It seems the set up and the owners are allowing Gorringe to do that.
Imagine if we'd had these owners when the likes of Birch was here...

 

[ThurrockJack]

What would be more beneficial, owning the stadium or continue renting?

While you can never be 100%, I'm almost certain the council aren't going to boot the club out, unless they stop paying rent.

For me the benefit in ownership would be in expansion, but since we can't fill the stadium regularly currently i'd say any money earmarked for buying the stadium would be better spent elsewhere.

 

[magicdaps10]

While you can never be 100%, I'm almost certain the council aren't going to boot the club out, unless they stop paying rent.

For me the benefit in ownership would be in expansion, but since we can't fill the stadium regularly currently i'd say any money earmarked for buying the stadium would be better spent elsewhere.

Council would certainly know better to boot the club out.

Benefits would be the extra revenue from letting the stadium out for extra events such as concerts, weddings and so on plus the leasing would be instantly taken off our expenditure.

Let's see how things go, it all sounded good but words are just that and actions are the real statement and the early signs are encouraging. We were sold the dream under Struel and that ended with egg on the face so I would hope that most fans although encouraged wouldn't be that naive to get carried away.
As said, we are a working class area and we don't take well to bullshit or broken promises(not that I am saying that's their intentions).

 

[tardylum]

In interviews with the executives they usually get no push back and talk in cliches so end up saying nothing interesting.

For this reason, I found Gorringe incredibly impressive in this interview. The one in the shorts was sceptical about a lot of things and pushed back or interrogated a lot of his answers with a refreshing bluntness. Gorringe handled it very well for the most part. He is clearly a very smart person who has a strong grasp on the business, the plan and what is needed going forward.

I agreed in a few moments where 'Shorts' picked up on some things that sounded too good to be true. The social media followers comment about Snoop and Luka seemed like stretching the truth a little too far. If you applied that same logic of any person related to Swansea counts as our social media reach, then other clubs could also claim much inflated reach especially Premier League clubs. All of this goes into my earlier point about how much more impressed I was because Gorringe had actually been pressed on some answers critically rather than just lobbed softballs. That is much harder to do and to still look competent rather than just listing out a lot of pre-planned lines.

Great news on the stadium, I had no idea what a disadvantage it was to not own it ourselves and if we sort that then we can spend so much more instantly. Hopefully some more investors will have watched the interview and been impressed and will want to be a part of it.

 

[monmouth]

Sounded like a typical CEO, which I guess is a good thing!

Personally I’d rather the stadium stay with the council, but I’d never have bought out stadco. Not that I know enough about the realities for that to be much but a visceral reaction.