The big clubs don't want inward investment: they want to increase their sales/revenue/customer base. AA just wants someone rich to buy the cub off him cos he is out of his depth or financial comfort-zone. He is therefore pimping our club to the unsophisticated know-nowt monied moguls who might be daft enough to sink countless millions into a club with a cute cuddly name. (Let's hope they don't stop at Castleford Tigers or Bradford Bulls en route for the meeting and get sidetracked....) No other club is pimping themselves in this crass way. Plenty of other clubs have secured investment in a sophisticated tasteful away, even Sheffield United and Leeds. See, it can be done even without a daft name. It's pretty clear that our club was marketed better in League 2 under Adam Pearson, we had a growing fan base, proper club shop, transparent and open management, a club that interacted with its fans and got back almost universally positive responses. That feeling was infectious and pulled in the missing thousands. A strong base was built. But we've now gone backwards off the pitch: the club shop is selling mainly garbage (and a narrow cheap range of it), supporters feel alienated, the soul of the club is currently AWOL , we struggle to sell out games when we often sold out our ground in Lg 2 and when you go to a Prem Club as modest as WBA you see how much better that club is managed (off the pitch), it's embarrassing. That's when you realise that if as a club the people running it can't get the simple stuff right like pleasing the core support, and incrementally building on it, what chance do they have in the wider world where no one has heard of us or gives a **** about us? We're in a spell of unprecedented success at our club yet the current owners commit blunder after blunder making themselves look buffoonish in the eyes of the football world. Whatever happened to 'repairing the roof while the sun shines' in terms of our fan base ? The lack of expertise, empathy and insight is shocking. Anyone who thinks this renaming crap has a sound basis in marketing theory or in football fan psychology must be mental.
Thanks for your excellent response; there is nothing to disagree with, but how sad to think, this is what he means by running like a proper business.
In the last two or three months I have decided I don't want my club to be living on the never-never in an unsustainable cycle of borrowing and repaying. The unrealistic levels of inward investment have spoilt us all and made beggars of us, we need to get on some kind of even keel again. We don't want to be like the Viv Nicholson of the Premier League, a fur coat and no knickers club who do things tackily to the amusement of other clubs. Ticked off the all the boxes now, so relegation is not the end of the world Not really bothered who owns us as long as we get some kind of equilibrium and steady management back, like Adam Pearson with more money.
lol when will CTWD announce they're working with him? Oh and no, I do not want him anywhere near my club. Dr Allam might have made some mistakes, but he's made them while trying to do the best for the club. AP will be on the lookout for AP.
Agree on everything except Adam Pearson, but I might be a bit harsh on the smarmy get. PL is not the be all and end all. It is never money that kills a team, it is blind ambition; the quest for money to fund it just obscures the truth.
What's his PhD in, btw ? Hitler made some mistakes while trying to do the best for Germany. AA had several decades to get involved in HCFC when we were **** and didn't want to know. He would have needed far less money to ingratiate himself when we were in League 2. Odd that such a great businessman and philanthropist never helped us when we needed it most.
Even the slippery CTWD Leadership refer to him as Dr. Have you complained to them about it? Hitler? ****ing hell, you really are a twat. Never helped us when we needed it most? You think he's trying to ingratiate himself with us? Wait, you're a clueless twat. Or a pathetic WUM. Or both in fact. Yeah I'm gonna go with both. It baffles me why you're allowed to post your ****e on here, yet others like Yannick and Tubby who are pretty harmless get hit by the banhammer.
Some people get upset by the slightest thing. Maybe it is the inferiority complex brought about by being under the thumb of the little woman at home who dictates when they are allowed to go to City games?
lol even by your appalling low standards, that is a pathetic lickspittle response. But totally expected.
As it's already been invoked I do have a question about Godwin's Law. For it to make sense it should only apply when used out of context. So if for example when the stewards decided to be ****ing idiots against Palace they turned round and said "we just do as we're told" would it be invoking Godwin's rule to compare their defence to the one used by Nazis after the war? It's clearly an extreme comparison, but the principle is that everyone can choose not to do something if they think it's wrong, so making out you didn't it against your real wishes isn't appropriate, which was the gist of calling the stewards a bunch of ****s that day.
If you are uncomfortable with Adolf, try Stalin's Russia or Martin Fish's HCFC- they all did their best, so it's OK.....
Some mistakes!!! Silly ****. Writing off the ****ing holocaust as a silly mistake. You pathetic needy attention seeking turd. Christmas dinner for one again eh.
I completely understand the point of your posts, and I completely get you. All of the decent folks on this board dislike you. You seek, as pointed out by Chazz to diminish the evil and awful nature of the Holocaust, you seek, along with Erik (who you seem very similar to) to push a racist agenda. You are of course, not beneath posting other vile crap, but racist and offensive seems to be your forte. You seem to think its acceptable to attack Dr Allam at any opportunity and as you lack normal society morales, you don't stop at anything, racist, offensive or otherwise. You think you're clever with sly little questions and snide comments, you think you're the master of the one liner. I've no idea what you have on the Mods or if you're mates with them through CTWD or something, or your membership of CTWD guarantees zero comments from the leadership of that group (just don't post anything offensive about Cardiff, or they'll drop you) but they refuse to do anything about you at all. Only good thing about that is, they are seen to sanction your behaviour which one day they will rue. I hate to break it to you, but your stupid little comments aren't too clever to avoid a ban, they're just ignored or accepted by our erstwhile mods/CTWD. You would almost certainly not be allowed to post on other clubs forums, but I guess that's the price we pay on here for what we do have, which apart from you, Erik and a couple of other EDL mouthbreathers is generally pretty good. You're very welcome.
You've hit the sherry early this year mate, either that or a teenage lass has hacked into your account. Now. Where are my answers?
I am really getting pissed off with your total disregard to people that have a different opinion to you over the name change. AS far as you are concerned Allam can do no wrong. Allam has put money into the club as a loan at a bloody interest rate that the mainstream banks can only dream of so is therefore making a bloody fine income from the club. He came to this country 40 odd years ago to escape the oppressive Nasser regime only to be the head of one at Hull City in 2013. Anyone that opposes what he wants is totally disregarded whether it is the local council for NOT giving him the KC or the fans for NOT agreeing to his name change.The man is no better than the dictator he supposedly came here to escape.
To be fair, when you're talking about £70M you're not looking at normal interest rates, you're looking at investment rates and people would expect a decent return if they were putting that amount in. The interest we're paying will be lower than that rate even if it seems expensive compared to our 0.01% current accounts.
