Theres nothing to say Albion couldnt be though, a "brand" name/well known club. We have to accentuate our strengths. Only club, atleast for this season, from the West Midlands in the premier league - huge. Oneof the founding members of the football league - foreigners love history, lets play on it. Even the fact we have the word Albion in our name could be a selling point being that it conjures up images of a mythical past.
Totally agree, every word spoken. But a buyer would like to see what he is getting for his money. We could become all the things you say, but we aren't now,and it's now a buyer is interested in.
What he would see at this minute is a club that averages 25k for an home game, a third tier main stand and a team that has yo yoed and flirted with relegation for the past seven years.
Those are the cold hard facts that a buyer would investigate. What would i be getting for my money?
The Stan Cullis stand at Molineux still doesn't hold as many as the Brummie, but it looks impressive, and it is impressions that sell a business.
If Peace had gone ahead with his vision for our ground, a new West Stand and filling in the Millenium and Woodman corners then our stock would have risen considerably,whather or not we could fill the ground, it's all about impressions and imagination.
But at the end of the day that would have cost him money, the same as any half decent players we have been "eyeing" and "tracking", and we all know how much Mr Peace loves his money.
Don't get me wrong,there are far worse chairmen than ours, but thats their clubs problem not ours, i just don't look at him through rose tinted specs the way some of our fans do thats all.
I do understand where a lot are coming from, the dark days when we hadn't got two pennies to rub together, wolves fans gloating, because Jack had bought them.
I don't want those days back ever,but they could return sooner than we think with Peace's sheer stubborness and a price totally unrealistic. That's my grouse.