We were saddled with an enormous debt after relegation the first time. The Allams have guaranted the debt not paid it off. They've spent money on the squad, the manager the infastructure etc They trusted SB in his first season, it went well. They trusted SB in the second season, it was a disaster recruitment wise. All of us thought it was brilliant at the time. It wasnt. Contracts have been reduced but still too ****ing high for the Championship. We've continued investing in the Academy, its one of the few ways to increase revenue - by selling a prodigy. We dont have other income streams so they put the ticket prices up. I dont like that, no one does. But i understand why they did it. .
You do realise that if you put the prices up 10% and your attendance drops by 10% as a consequence, then you raise no more money, you just have less support? Raising ticket prices this season has reduced attendances and in stadium revenue, it's cost us money, not generated it. ****ing genius.
In my words? I haven't said that. It is the Allam apologists who come out with that one because their hero says so. I have decided not to go. Mainly because of our chairman. Why should I be envious of someone who was told not to go?
Dunno where you've got the idea I watch games on Sky or BT. I bet I still see more City games than you while boycotting home games.
All good points. But the decision to put prices up wasn't because we didn't have other income streams. It was because if his insistence we needed to change our name not being given the go ahead.
Yes, I know so. You could add a couple of unnecessary commas, if you wish to emphasise your age, or you could add a few irrelevant paragraphs to make the same point less succinctly.
You have. I'm not an Allam apologist. "Mainly because of the Chairman"? What was your excuse before you could use that one? Who was told not to go?
Before I could use that one? I had a season pass up until last year. Was there in the days we only had 3,000 and when we were run by a bunch of rapacious crooks. Yet I enjoyed those days more, mainly because it was my club, crap,as it was, and the day out was better. Not to mention we weren't considered irrelevant.
"But Allam told the Independent: "They can die as soon as they want, as long as they leave the club for the majority who just want to watch good football." Quite clearly Allam didn't want supporters of the CTWD campaign in in the ground.
It was nothing to do with the Allams when you chose not to go last Boxing Day "No, I won't be there. Nothing to do with expense, I can afford it easily, nothing to do with any anti Allam stuff, or having to go to the in laws. But don't let that stop you getting all stroppy because someone speaks the truth." In June this year you were happy to declare that you, like others would pick & choose the games you were going to this season. So again nothing to do with the Allams. Although your written English does leave a lot to be desired. (Mine's not perfect & I make mistakes, but I don't make it my hobby to put down every poster who may make written errors). "I can't get to all games. Meanwhile Inwill, li,e a lot of others are going to do, pick and choose my games." So I'm simply asking that today you're using the Allams as an excuse not to attend games but pre-season & last season they weren't a problem. What was the reason last season for choosing not to attend when it wasn't the Allams & why has that reason changed? Using the Allams now appears a little convenient. What happened in the past is irrelevant. You're words, not those of an Allam apologist. If you're choosing not to support the club now, for whatever reason you choose this week, it gives you little leeway to call out a current, long term supporter, who travels long distances to support City, & chooses, for legitimate reasons, to not attend games in December. It's looks like a boring & pretty ****ty attempt to suggest Pro-Allam supporters are not loyal. You on the other hand used to be a long term supporter but chose to end that & in your own words "What happened in the past is irrelevant".
That's "badly constructed"? You think Lambo has only one? "Agendum is a word now so common in the plural that its plural form agenda is now generally taken to be a collective singular form, with the special meaning of a list of tasks which are to be done." (Wiki) You've been unusually grumpy these last few days. Piles playing you up? Try Anusol.
As I understood it, AA paid off the original creditors with a loan from Allamhouse at 4% p.a. The mistake the club made was not to increase season ticket prices for 2013/14 (first season of second spell in PL).
