The pitch...
Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2014 5:17 pm
Looked dire yesterday and that's before the rugger buggers dig it up today. Not great considering IL chucked £50k at the problem a few months back.
Haven't you answered your own question - Primacy of tenure?tomoufc wrote:Very interesting report about London Welsh. So it seems that the problem they have at the Kassam is that we have primacy of tenure. I say good luck to them, in a nice way, not the way Kassam seems to. It's would certainly be preferable to have a good sporting facility in Witney, rather than another sainbury's supermarket, which appears to be the option should the move not go through.
One interesting consequence is that there'd be an additional stadium in Oxfordshire with decent capacity and facilities. One of the problems with our current situation is that we can't use the leverage of having an alliterative home available, to get Kassam to reduce his asking price. Not that a move to Witney for us would be anything other than terrible. But I just wander if it might alter the dynamics somewhat? Probably more important is that Kassam would get less rent from only having one tenant again, which apparently has an affect on the price of the stadium, and who would want to be secondary tenants now, having witnessed the experience of LW?
One final thought: if LW have the money to build an develop a new stadium, why don't they have the money to go for a joint bid with us for the Kassam?
No, in fact if LW and OUFC jointly bought the stadium, then all existing contracts could be torn-up, including primacy of tenure, meaning that LW could stay at the Kassam, enjoy the benefits of joint ownership and have equal rights to tenure (or however you would phrase it).slappy wrote:Haven't you answered your own question - Primacy of tenure?tomoufc wrote:Very interesting report about London Welsh. So it seems that the problem they have at the Kassam is that we have primacy of tenure. I say good luck to them, in a nice way, not the way Kassam seems to. It's would certainly be preferable to have a good sporting facility in Witney, rather than another sainbury's supermarket, which appears to be the option should the move not go through.
One interesting consequence is that there'd be an additional stadium in Oxfordshire with decent capacity and facilities. One of the problems with our current situation is that we can't use the leverage of having an alliterative home available, to get Kassam to reduce his asking price. Not that a move to Witney for us would be anything other than terrible. But I just wander if it might alter the dynamics somewhat? Probably more important is that Kassam would get less rent from only having one tenant again, which apparently has an affect on the price of the stadium, and who would want to be secondary tenants now, having witnessed the experience of LW?
One final thought: if LW have the money to build an develop a new stadium, why don't they have the money to go for a joint bid with us for the Kassam?
You can't have equal primacy of tenure - that's the whole point of having the rule. It basically boils down to "if there were a clash of fixtures, who would have first dibs on the stadium?". At the moment, the answer to the question is OUFC.tomoufc wrote:No, in fact if LW and OUFC jointly bought the stadium, then all existing contracts could be torn-up, including primacy of tenure, meaning that LW could stay at the Kassam, enjoy the benefits of joint ownership and have equal rights to tenure (or however you would phrase it).
It is not either OUFC or LW or Kassam that requires or offers primacy of tenure, it is a requirement of both the football and rugby authorities.tomoufc wrote:No, in fact if LW and OUFC jointly bought the stadium, then all existing contracts could be torn-up, including primacy of tenure, meaning that LW could stay at the Kassam, enjoy the benefits of joint ownership and have equal rights to tenure (or however you would phrase it).slappy wrote:Haven't you answered your own question - Primacy of tenure?tomoufc wrote:Very interesting report about London Welsh. So it seems that the problem they have at the Kassam is that we have primacy of tenure. I say good luck to them, in a nice way, not the way Kassam seems to. It's would certainly be preferable to have a good sporting facility in Witney, rather than another sainbury's supermarket, which appears to be the option should the move not go through.
One interesting consequence is that there'd be an additional stadium in Oxfordshire with decent capacity and facilities. One of the problems with our current situation is that we can't use the leverage of having an alliterative home available, to get Kassam to reduce his asking price. Not that a move to Witney for us would be anything other than terrible. But I just wander if it might alter the dynamics somewhat? Probably more important is that Kassam would get less rent from only having one tenant again, which apparently has an affect on the price of the stadium, and who would want to be secondary tenants now, having witnessed the experience of LW?
One final thought: if LW have the money to build an develop a new stadium, why don't they have the money to go for a joint bid with us for the Kassam?