Darlington's Administrator has sacked interim Manager Craig Liddle and the remaining playing staff !!! There is a Wednesday deadline for the game against Fleetwood to go ahead on Saturday. Good grief...........thats a bit final isn't it.............how do you come back from such draconian action like that. You can't say the Administrator is sitting on the fence...........good job we didn't have him.
Thank you for posting this Plym, I was about to post something similar. Very sad, thoughts with the fans. I hope they somehow manage to get out of this mess but it doesn't look good.
I don't wish it on anyone whoever they are. But we also know that it is only a matter of time before a club bites the dust completely. Been saying this for ages now and it will happen and will be one of a few who will follow. Very sad but unfortunately true I'm afraid. Until the madness goes out of football with it's over stretching and creative accounting this will continue. What I do hope for is that the Football League wake up and do something about it. They are supposed to be the Governing body after all.
It makes you think how close we were at the time but blind faith kept us thinking we will be ok and thankfully we were ..... think its going to take a Prem team going under and then maybe just maybe the FL will take action !
Well it almost did with Portsmouth didn't it but all they could think of was docking points at the time. They must be the least effective leadership since an Italian General in WWII. If we ignorant peasants can see it how come the learned great can't. or don't want to maybe.
I think its easier at the moment to turn a blind eye as it would cause them an awful amount of work amending rules etc ...... I went to the DJM meeting last Monday and they are usually sooooo boring but I had a good laugh for a change .... its already in the FA rule book and if it comes in any child in grass roots football next season that isn't English will have to get international clearance to play kids football ..... political correctness gone wrong lol
That's my point really. They can come up with a load of **** rules about very little yet every important matter just gets put in the cabinet and forgotten about. They will be like the Italian skipper of the cruise liner, run the whole thing aground then bugger off before anyone else can get off.
Its in every business across the world, fat cats who dont mind drawing their salary but like to do as little as possible to earn it !
Gat-Po There you go again. That's total ****. Firstly and primarily, it's about idiot FANS who demand that instant success be bought for them. Haven't we seen that even at Argyle only weeks after we nearly went under with some fans slagging Brent off for not putting his hand into his pocket to buy new players when we can only drag in 6,000 in on a Saturday? Secondly, it's about lily livered administrators who allow club owners to adopt business practices that would NEVER be sanctioned in real businesses. The classic case at the moment is at Manchester City, where there is NO prospect of a 40,000 stadium ever paying back the obscene sums that are being spent, partly paid for by a cooked-up stadium sponsorship deal. It's NOT in every business in the world. Even banking is subject to rigourous regulation and bonuses are at least theoretically based on performance, even if the regulators do fall asleep now and then. No, this is about football, alone and disgracefully.
"subject to rigorous regulations" "even if the regulators do falll asleep" No it's not in every business in the world but there are great similarities to banking and football in some ways. Both lots of employees get great rewards for failure. Both overstretch which is what caused the financial meltdown in the world and will cause the clubs to meltdown in the future. So it isn't just in football that this happens is it.
I read somewhere this week that one of the bank bosses could be getting a 10 million pound bonus ..... talk about being rewarded for the recession we are currently in caused by who was it again ?????
I heard this today GAT, someone suggested he should buy the queen's yacht actually I don't see why she can't buy her own soddin' yacht, she's hardly a pauper is she
You two will be raided at dawn and taken away for questioning..............if it's anything like the telly........... they half make a mess of your front door. What me guv..........I don't know them............ never seen them before honest guv..........don't know why there asking me for a character reference..........what BoBo..........who the hell is BoBo.
And Ye you will deny me thrice before the cock crows................. You know who your mates are don't you. I agree with you she could afford her own bloody yacht and an air fare or two like the rest of us. They wonder why shabbily dressed hippy types occupy tents outside the Houses of P and revolt in Cities? There are £10m worth or reasons right there. I don't think it is a case of jealous people picking on big business as such it is more like big business gives people every reason to pontificate with it's own publicity and stance. I love the reason Banks give for the size of bonuses. "If you want the best people then you have to pay them to stay or others would attract them away". These are the best people who F****d up my savings then. Savings being the thing I went without other things to have and worked bloody hard for.
I was watching a programme the other day who said that members of the "Weymouth Yacht Club" (Members ties have a W with an anchor below it ) genuinely don't understand the hostility felt towards them and do not believe they did anything wrong ..... can't work out whether their head is buried in the sand or up their own arses
What did the Weymouth Yacht club do........Gat-Po............are they all bankers or stockbrokers or something similar ? Bit worrying old sensible getting all biblical with us..........are you sure that that wasn't a friendly neighbourhood crow that you regularly feed ? nothing like a good bit of early morning door breaking down........saves on your alarm clock not working.
