What if.....
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Without the club (or at least one able to pay rent), the stadium would be knocked down and redeveloped as housing. Meaning we'd have to ground share (though I doubt City will want us at CPF) or find a pitch elsewhere. Probably start in the Hellenic League or so. Starts getting serious at Conference South level in terms of funding, but can be done I suppose.
Absolute worse case scenario the debt level gets too high and we fold.
Then yeah go and do it all again as long as oxford uniteds somehere in the name we try and keep the badge+ always play in yellow and blue I would watch them in the hellenic league along with a few thousand others. Which should be enough to get us back to the conference on crowd revenue.
I wouldnt trust the council to let us buy a football pitch sized patch of grass and put a yellow hand rail round it though. Let alone build a stand with 500 seats a clubhouse and floodlights.
Then yeah go and do it all again as long as oxford uniteds somehere in the name we try and keep the badge+ always play in yellow and blue I would watch them in the hellenic league along with a few thousand others. Which should be enough to get us back to the conference on crowd revenue.
I wouldnt trust the council to let us buy a football pitch sized patch of grass and put a yellow hand rail round it though. Let alone build a stand with 500 seats a clubhouse and floodlights.
Its an interesting question given that we have two teams in the city. Would people, and therefore investment, naturally gravitate to the team playing in the higher league? City are what, two promotions away from league football?
Don't get me wrong, I am Oxford United through and through and would naturally back that project however I could. It'd be interesting to see if the general football going public would though. City would have a massive opportunity to market themselves as the best standard of football, and United may struggle to get that floating fan base back.
That also leads to investment. With a large fanbase we'd walk early leagues, however at some stage you reach a level where say hypothetically you've lost 2,000 fans to a potential league City side, then all of a sudden your a small to mid size conference team. That league was hard enough with a large fanbase and decent budget. All phoenix teams seem to hit their level, which is usually lower than anyone expects. Wimbledon seem to be the exception to that rule, but they have massively punched above their weight with a team that is a mid league two side really.
Don't get me wrong, I am Oxford United through and through and would naturally back that project however I could. It'd be interesting to see if the general football going public would though. City would have a massive opportunity to market themselves as the best standard of football, and United may struggle to get that floating fan base back.
That also leads to investment. With a large fanbase we'd walk early leagues, however at some stage you reach a level where say hypothetically you've lost 2,000 fans to a potential league City side, then all of a sudden your a small to mid size conference team. That league was hard enough with a large fanbase and decent budget. All phoenix teams seem to hit their level, which is usually lower than anyone expects. Wimbledon seem to be the exception to that rule, but they have massively punched above their weight with a team that is a mid league two side really.
Merge with Oxford City.
City get to keep the Oxford part of their name and United keep the United bit.
City get to keep the blue part of their colours and United get to keep the yellow.
Thereafter the new club will be known as Oxford United and play in yellow and blue.
City get to keep the Oxford part of their name and United keep the United bit.
City get to keep the blue part of their colours and United get to keep the yellow.
Thereafter the new club will be known as Oxford United and play in yellow and blue.
what with OUFC current chairman having funded 'Citys pitch,
and all but OUFC first team home games, OUFC youth, OUFC ladies etc, taking place at Court Place Farm
and Oxford UNITED ladies have yet to commit to WPL next season, which, maybe,leaves the door open
for a combined United and City ladies team to apply for WPL....if you have tendencies to be suspicious......, like me
How would City with 500 crowds ever get into the football league? You need a million pound playing budget to get out of the conference, they can’t afford a budget now to challenge to get into the 5th tier.
There natural level is a league below where they are now, where ours is probably about where we are now as things stand.
Fair play to them, I think Oxford is comfortably big enough to support a competitive football league club and a competitive good non league club, but they are no threat to us and there will never be any rivalry, even if a few of there fans think there is, we operate at different levels and have different aspirations.
There natural level is a league below where they are now, where ours is probably about where we are now as things stand.
Fair play to them, I think Oxford is comfortably big enough to support a competitive football league club and a competitive good non league club, but they are no threat to us and there will never be any rivalry, even if a few of there fans think there is, we operate at different levels and have different aspirations.