The thing is, Tom, that stadium is what it is. It's pretty much done. We can't turn the clock back.
No matter how strongly you feel about how it shouldn't have been built due to our financial situation, that doesn't mean that it won't benefit us massively in years to come by allowing us to help us generate significantly additional revenue in the future. There's been talk of scrapping it in here which is nonsense.
It is possible to acknowledge that both positions are true.
Not asking to turn the clock back at all, but if we could, I bet a fair few would opt for that right now. My only point was that there needs to be recognition that the stadium and our finances do no exist in separate bubbles. The stadium dominates our current financial and operational situation.
I've never said that it shouldn't be built, just always had reservations regards the glaring holes in the financial model, which was always totally dependent on the costs/debts being covered by the owner.
There are also no benefits if any additional revenue is more than eaten up by the debt, or worse still if we are relegated or we go into administration as a result of that debt.... that's the definition of a white elephant.
That isn't what we were promised!! There was never any mention of these risks. Only vague assurances that costs would be covered by our owner. This was then replaced by costs would be met till Christmas 2023, when in reality, he was already loading the club up with high interest debt (to minimise his losses) before the summer, which was only half-way through the build. Which again, only reaffirms the financial folly aspect.
This is what happens when the owner's and the club's points of no return do no coincide. We applied the same type of scattergun economics to stadium and team building and we have seen the result.
As I said, our only hope is that Dyche performs minor miracles and that Moshiri loses his shirt and we don't lose our club. If our new owners can service, restructure or absorb our final debt.... then, and only then will we see any benefits as a result of BMD.
