It's not a classy send off matey. We, as fans should rise above all that '**** off ****e' It hasn't all been bad under their ownership and they have left the club in a better state then any other previous others which is why we have attracted decent ( fingers crossed) buyers and not a bunch of chancers which has been the case in the past. It's been said before but the Healys always gave us a wide berth because they saw what happend to previous owners when it turned sour. I have heard the Needler family are still seething over the way their families massive involvement with the club ended. People remember all that ****. Personally I think it takes a bit more and goes a lot further if we remember the good times and move on.
They started with £30 .million in debt, they ended with £30 million in debt, they started top half of the championship, they ended bottom half of the championship, they started with 20k attending they ended with 10k attending - some real highs and some real lows but the worse thing they did was divide and destroy the fan base, their customers with petty vindictive behaviour - fans will always support success no matter who's in charge but fans will never forgive bad behaviour
Sorry Urika - I appreciate my daft mood doesn’t necessarily transmit through my posts. I’m aware of the David Lloyd tennis ball protest - just think it was a good one. Perhaps we can take one out of the Real Betis playbook and throw cuddly Eeyore’s at him. Or Crayola’s? I’m not fussy - I just like to throw things.
And in the middle the club reached heights none of us thought possible. It could have been better and it could have ended us a far lot worse. Going over old ground here but a lot of you forget, and possibly were not even born, when previous owners treated the fans like ****. Let it go, move on, there's is nothing to be gained by re fighting old battles and opening up old wounds.
Our 'glass ceiling' was well and truly shattered before the Allams darkened our door. We achieved 'the height' we never thought we'd reach under earlier ownership. I remember those earlier owners. I was there. The Allam's have done nothing but look after themselves and their own money, telling lie after lie along the way and deliberately treating us fans (and others) as mugs along the way time & again. As local businessmen it's amazing they would even have dreamt of acting like they have done, and that they've got away with what they've got away with. They deserve all the **** they get, they've deliberately treated us like **** and they should be left in no doubt that they are detested (in relation to 'our' club), from which they can **** right off and then **** off again. It could and should have been oh so different, but it wasn't. They have nobody but themselves to blame for any continuing **** they rightly get.
Oh damn, this could scupper the takeover..... he might now realise how far from London airports we are??
As for breaking through the 'glass ceiling' before they arrived, I agree with that but it was done on tomorrows money and couldn't be sustained, we'd have gone bust.....again. Yet May 24th 2008 was still one, if not the best day, of my life so far. As for previous owners, I felt exactly the same as you do about the Allams about Chris Needler, Martin Fish, David Lloyd and the Sheffield Mafia. Who all left the club up **** creek without a paddle and ****ing great big hole in the hull. Move on, life's too short to be filled with so much bitterness. When you hear Chris Needler slant on the club these days about his time in charge even he doesn't sound so bad. It's football and we are what we are.
Or the day after Tuesday or the day before Thursday as my Sheffield Fowls hating mate always referred to it as.
Agree, whatever the bitterness is about. Anyway, if the new owner is the decent chap everyone seems to think he is he'd not be impressed by a vitriolic display by fans at the departing Allams.
I'm not filled with so much bitterness. I'm fine. I just despise the Allams (in relation to our club). Bad, sad times for sure under CN and MF (out) but I wouldn't for one minute put them into the same bracket as the Allams. It unfortunately went pear shaped quickly with Lloyd, and the Sheffield Mafia appear to have been close to crooks from the start; both very very different to the Allam's actions & behaviours (with their continual lies, deception, vindictiveness, etc etc). Yes, we need to move on, but we should not forget nor somehow gloss over / forgive. They have been utter ****s for the most part.
Hopefully they wouldn't be so stupid and full of self importance to feel the need to be there. Oh, err, hang on ..
