If you're so skint perhaps we can help by giving you a couple of million for Snodgrass to come to leafy Norwich and re-acquaint himself with the brilliant Howson and improving Johnson? Just think about all of the goldfish you could buy to re-stock the Ridsdale board room tank with the fee and the saving in wages. Can you see Snodgrass being sold whilst he is worth sometihng or just sitting out his final year and going on a free in 2013? I know that he is repeatedly being linked with us and I imagine that Howson (I can't believe you sold such a good player - you should have moved heaven and Earth to keep an academy product) and Johnson will be pretty positive about the lifestyle and football out here in the sticks. Obviously if you have any other top-notch youngsters please feel free to e-mail their details to [email protected]. Hope you have a better season as Leeds are a proper club with great fans and you should be up in the Prem with us.
excellent post, NoB-oy Its not the fact you post well on a cormputah forum that amazes me, its that you post at all, Narritch boi in the vain hope you might actually want a serious discussion, I agree with you on letting good players go - it shows a club leadership devoid of ambition
Could happen but can't see it being at Villa - they were the worst team I saw at Carrow road last season with no cash to spend, a remote owner looking to cut the wage bill and a poor, ageing squad and fans with expectations based on their success in the 80's. I could seriously see them struggling to stay in the division unless they pull something out of the hat. You don't have to look to hard to see that even big clubs can fall on hard times if not managed properly.
Nice attempt at the accent and general stereotyping. Bit sad after me playing nice and not resorting to references to flat caps, whippets, ferrets and Yorkies being dour misers. Sadly (other than Norfolk) Yorkshire is pretty much my favourite county and I have had many brilliant nights out in Leeds so I'd be a bit of a hypocrite to criticise. I do find it genuinely baffling that you are currently a virtual feeder club to a smaller team like us and I hope that you do sort yourselves out and get back up but I'd still like us to nick Snodgrass. I do agree that it shows a lack of ambition when you let the cream of your team walk out due to "a lack of ambition" - the trouble is when your best players start going the rest then have an excuse and a line to use to mollify the fans.
We are at PhD level on excuses and spin, here. If you are baffled, imagine how we feel. And don't take offence, I like Narritch so much I married a girl from there. So that means you and I are definitely related! (Dammit, did I just let another stereotype slip out? ) And .....Is there something wrong with flat caps, whippets, ferrets and Yorkies being dour misers? We are rather proud of all that, especially the miser bit.
I suppose your stereotypes are a bit easier to wear than ours plus it's easy to buy a flat cap but even in Norfolk it's bloody hard to find 11 fingered pairs of gloves and diving shops always go bust as there is no point selling flippers to a population with pre-webbed feet and gills.
The gene pool must have increased massively then I'm currently sat with my flat cap on, with my ferret and whippet at my feeet counting my coinage! I'n't life great!
how are leeds struggling to make a £400k offer for a player? we are being linked with players 10x that price bracket? we have similar attendance levels and presumably income levels so something seems to be going wrong at leeds.....
Because we have Bates in charge but.... Rumours starting that there is a transfer embargo while a takeover bid runs it's course, that is what we are all hoping and rumours are gathering momentum every day.
oh yea, and your ticket prices are like double ours.....why dont leeds have a fan takeover, surely leeds have the finances to spend £1m, £2m on players if you have 35,000 every week.....
I don't think you know anything about lufc and you are adding no value swamp But your ****e club is still in the same league league as us despite all the spend. You will not be able to do it after this year because of the fpp rules
We should have a fan takeover, but there's simply not enough money for it to happen. Our supporters' trust has 5-6,000 members, making it the 5th or 6th biggest in England I believe, but that's on a free membership basis. Unless we get some extremely benevolent new owner in who's willing to give the fans a slice of the club at a cut price, it's unlikely we'll ever mobilize to take control of the club that's rightly ours. Same with every other club in the country. The initiative should come from the bottom, but in a day and age where football fanbases are no longer united and connected, it will need to come from the suits at the top... and that will clearly take some real time and persuasion if we're to stamp out the greed that stands in our way. So one hopes that realistically we could get a local bloke in who cares about the city, the club and the supporters, and who will work their arse off to get us back to our RIGHTFUL place in the Premier League. As long as it's not another Bates who sees us as a plaything or some epicanthic who sees us as a marketing exercise, I'll see it as progress.
In some ways, that's quite defeatist Jerel. 7 yuears ago, prior to Bates coming in, I set up a simple website and emailed a letter to every LU Supporters Club I could find, asking them their opinion of trying to find 30000 LUFC supporters who would put in £1000 each as a bid to buy the club. There was huge interest, but it was only a start. But the "then" Supporters Trust - the LU Supporters Club led by Ray someone? - rang me and told me I was standing on their toes and diverting possible help and focus from their preferred bid, which was with Lord Sainsbury (who is, incidentally, still around I believe). It can be done if someone puts a mind to it. Getting the 30000 is key, getting them to pledge £2k each is key, working out a watertight escrow method of gathering the money which would be returned to its rightful owner if no bid was successful is key, and determining who would run the club is also key. With those bits in place, it can be done But the main key bit once that is in place is that you have to have a strong financially prudent strategy in place that you only spend what you have, and you concentrate on building the brand and the image and the team in all you do, and you put a long term plan in place to build the club from the youths internally. As long as everyone knows that, and we reduce prices to bring everyone back, and tell them we are not the club of old, but our future is bright, it might just be 10 years away, I think we could rebuild a great community club
Crikey Elmo, more keys than a gaoler! Seriously though, I commend you for your previous effort, and perhaps you can get together with LUST to resurrect it. We don't have to do a takeover on our own, remember - we can be part of a consortium. Don't tell the missus, but I'd be happy to invest. (Want to keep her anniversary present secret).
WJ -I get the feeling LUST are already well on their way in discussions with interested parties to get them into LUFC and to reassure them that the fans would back them 100%
