Quote isaac1="isaac1"Bulliac.
=#FF0040Thats just my point. Aiming for 7500 sales and budgetting for are two very diifferent terms.
On the Asian fans thing. Omar became an associate director and was instrumental in City having Zesh Rehman as captain a couple of seasons ago. His intentions were (and still are as far as I am aware) to get more Asian kids interested in the club and supporting it! Without on field success it hasnt happened.
I drive through Manningham and Girlington everyday. Areas of our city that have been targetted by OK and City for years, and that are ethnically made up of a high Pakistani and Bangladeshi population. I see Man UTD, Chelsea, Real Madrid and Barcelons shirts in abundence. I see very few Asian people at Bradford City. This is really a chicken and egg thing! we need to be successful before we can afford success. The same would be the case of areas around Odsal that have a higher percentage of Asian population.
If Odsal staged a 20-20 cricket match featuring the best Indian and Pakistani talent, it would be full to the rafters. There is little interest in RL from most Asians, compared to other sports. getting Odsal used as a wedding venue, or as a meeting place is more realistic if you are targetting the Asian demographic.'"
I felt that was your major point, hence my support, 'cos to be honest I quite agree.
Targetting the Asian audience is clearly a no brainer, and I agree that success is the major driver, just as it would be for any new support, but ultimately it needs the new support to identify with the club and feel they have a stake in its success to keep the hard won fans interested. In this regard, to be honest, I see the wearing of shirts like Man U, Chelsea and Barça to be more a case of people buying popular, high profile leisurewear than any particular sign that they are keen on football, so I feel the lack of Asian fans at VP is more that they don't, for whatever reason, feel engaged with the club, or maybe the sport itself, rather than any feeling of they like football but won't go to City.
Maybe drawing them in with another sport first might work, to some extent, but just like the lads in the 'big name' shirts who don't turn up at VP, I suspect there is a general lack of engagement with the sports and that is going to be the hardest thing to change.
