voyeur
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Yes me. Anyone who asks the Massive to give £100 each to pay the taxman is fine by me.
And this also gets me my ton.
Brilliant - what a shame for them! Puts being asked to put money in buckets outside the ground for a striker into perspective. Sort of.Yes me. Anyone who asks the Massive to give £100 each to pay the taxman is fine by me.
And this also gets me my ton.
Good postI think perhaps we are one of the clubs caught up in a sort of 'corridor of uncertainty? Not enough fans attending to finance a strong push in th Championship, no big money owners/investors attracted to us like Bournemouth or Wrexham. But enough fans and investment to get into the Championship and flirt with the bigger richer clubs. Working to find and develop players and create a togetherness that allows us to mix it with them, some of the time at least. It may just be a matter of time before Derby, Bolton, Pompey return to tier 2. As they recover from financial mismanagement.
All of the Prem clubs bar Luton ( they have hit the jackpot though with no Oyston theft likely) and a lot of the Championship clubs now have a much higher level of finance than us. Most have appreciably bigger fanbases too. 14 cubs are averaging over 20000 this season, and only one is below 15000. Could we average over 15000 in the Championship? Maybe, at a push. We'v been close in the last decade, thanks to Holloway and cheap season tickets. We can do bottom half of that division if we get our shit together, but we can also drop out if we don't. We are not that different fron PKE or Rovers, really, of course. A bridgeable gap.
Perhaps SS will build the club into a more attractive asset. Finished ground, good training facilities, bigger fan base. In the meantime, we are in that corridor, with the money and the noise, Watford and Stoke on one side, and the financial prudence, Exeter and Lincoln and peace and quiet on the other. I guess the likes of Barnsley, Rotherham, Charlton, Posh and Wigan are in the corridor with us.
He's bought a club in the wrong area hasnt he .As if 1000s of Yorkshire folk are going to hand over £100 to pay someone else's taxes.
Your 2nd paragraph is the important one. Being an owner of a football club is meat and drink to the hard of thinking. Either you understand that and ignore the gutter filth or you drown in it. I'm confident that Simon Sadler has a thick enough skin to survive the pond life.The more I see of the way our own fans are behaving recently (Social Media stuff mostly) the more I can sympathise with owners who essentially decide to pull the plug on funding. It is a tough one though, because you are allowing what is likely a very small percentage of fans to spoil it for the majority and some owners might be looking for an excuse to shirk their responsibility.
On balance I would probably fall on the side that any owner ought to know what they are getting themselves into and have a thick enough skin to understand that they will get some flak if things aren't going well. That said, I also think we need to do something to tackle the whole Social Media free for all (across the board) and start making people far more accountable for their actions.
It is almost impossible (in my view) for the EFL to respond effectively to a set of issues like these with the powers they currently have, which tend to be reactive in nature and quite closed by design. They were snookered the moment they allowed him to pass an O&DT.
A tad OTT Peter this is a fans message board he isn’t talking directly to Mr Sadler and in the main is very supportive of him.BFCX3 i always think anyone who calls people by their surname is showing disrespect ,his name is Simon Sadler ,why not call him that, i worked for a guy who owned a quite big timber merchants ,his name was Roger , but some employees called him Rog, i maybe old school but think people should show respect a little more ,after all the guy has done for this club in his short time tenure, the least we all should do is call him by his full name.
Lost or milked be the questionEh?
Have you seen the accounts? They've lost about £20m every season for the last 5 years, that's a very funny description of an earner.
£25m wage bill (none of that to the owner) on £11m turnover for 2021, TBF they've brought that down massively for 2022, but even then £12.5m out of £16m turnover isn't going to leave much left for anything else.Lost or milked be the question