How can anyone justify paying a single player £300k a week when we have people living in poverty and have to use food banks to survive. Its down right disgusting that this should be allowed to happen and it will only lead to further increases to support your team. Football is not a working mans idea of enjoyment anymore as you would need a weeks wages just to take your family to a match like my dad did with me. This is one of the reasons i shall not be renewing my ST after 54 years of solid support and i know one or two doing the same, football in general has got far too greedy and by me putting money into the system means im enabling it to happen. I love football and i love the swans but i don't love what it has become and what more it will become in the future, I refuse to be a part of the destruction of the beautiful game....No player deserves thousands of pounds a week for playing a game and someone has to pay for that and we get charged £35 to watch 90 minutes of football....Well enough is enough as football wont be getting another penny from me starting next season once my ST runs out....
I agree DaiJackBastard the prices are OTT we live in South Wales, not South-West London. We need to extend the Liberty whilst decreasing the prices, hopefully (the former, at least) will be done sooner rather than later. EDIT - Please don't bail on us though, we need the passionate fans behind SCFC.
Well I came on here thinking that the 300,000 a week was Huws payment to Michael till the 4.5 million is payed off , I apologized when I realised what the thread was about and somehow my post disappeared , imagine !
It is obscene but no-one is forced to contribute to their wages. Public sector troughers and non-jobbers annoy me more as people are forced to pay for them.
Anyone who pays Sky Sports a subscription fee is responsible. Don't pay for Sky Sports and Sky's business is cut by about a third....with the knock on effect being someone else buys the Premier League rights, most likely for a cheaper price (as they have less competition)...meaning there is less money in football. If, even with Sky out of the picture, the auction results in an equal or greater amount of money being shelled out on Premier League rights....say BT pays even more money to secure the rights. You just need to boycott whichever products BT are helping to sell off the back of being able to offer live football coverage....say their landlines and Internet connections. This will never happen as ultimately human beings are driven by self interest in the short term. Of course it would be more beneficial to us as fans if we all thought long term and organised ourselves to boycott paying for TV coverage of football for 4/5 years (This would take organising by intelligent leaders and patience and discipline by intelligent masses ) as ultimately the product would end up cheaper for us and without the disgusting wages for young men who are not very bright and don't do anything useful for their fellow man...really. The people at the top of the pyramid making all the money can count on the masses not being capable of this. End result. We pay through the nose to watch some young men playing a game...but we get good quality TV coverage and lots of it. The players and those working within the game cream off what they can....merely a by product. The Capitalists stay at the top of the pyramid and ultimately are in control. So Dai, If you don't like it stop paying it (the TV money, not the season ticket).
Yeah but look how many servants he can employ . gardener , chauffeur , nannies , personal assistants , all paying taxes back into the system .
Players are not the problem, and if you were offered £300k to play football you would take it. I know I bloody would.
NQAT. And I challenge your ban request because that 'lad' was giving it the big one you don't fall out of a stand by accident. He'd have been the type of tw@t who smashed our toilets & TV's. The following comment was a bit harsh though, I retract that I although I hope he was hospitalised for a short while, without any long term effects. You know and everyone else knows what CCFC fans are like, ask Newcastle!
Unfortunately Kieran the ban stands, I know things get heated, and insults fly, but what you said was OTT. Any wish that a fellow football fan dies is just not appropriate. I had the same outrage when a Cardiff fan mentioned the Rotherham incident. I however could not ban him, as its not my board, but I won't tolerate that sort of stuff. As for him supposedly being a twat, we don't know who he is and I will not judge. He may have been an innocent who fell, we don't know. And we know what a minority of Cardiff fans are like, we have a minority ourselves, which I hope that you are not part of, there is banter, then there is just being plain stupid, but that does not give us the right to post disgusting comments about all of their fans.
You're right Dai, but the fact is that many people are willing to pay the prices asked to attend matches. Swans matches are mostly sold out, so people can afford to go. If they didn't have enough money, then they wouldn't go. Many can also afford to follow them away from home. I don't see what it has to do with class though. You don't have to be working class to enjoy football. Many middle class people follow football.
£300,000 wouldn't last long.That's only £30K a year for 10 years, or even 8 after inflation. Not so bad for someone very old, but for a young person it's nowhere near enough to retire on.
