I've always thought that the fatal blow to our club was the sordid deal between Roland and ESI. Sandgaard got plenty of abuse too but he didn't deserve it. His motives were genuine, just made bad decisions.
Roland was undone by a few different things. Firstly the change to the FFP rules, which meant he couldn’t compete without putting huge amounts of money into the club, which he’d always said he wouldn’t do and as he is a successful businessman I can understand. Secondly, employing Meire in a vital job that she simply wasn’t qualified to do. Thirdly, his failed network experiment which saw players imported into us that we didn’t want and the managers didn’t need. Despite all that, when we look back at the team that won promotion under Bowyer, it is a million miles away from the one we have today under our new ‘billionaire’ owners and ‘professional SMT’. We are going nowhere but down under this lot. The levels of gullibility elsewhere are truly astounding. The idea that we will bring in top quality players in January or next summer is laughable. Just look at the record of who they have brought in so far. And then add in their statements about reducing annual losses by millions each year. While other clubs are still allowed to put in millions above and beyond the SCMP rules (look at where Ipswich are having done that for about three years), we and other clubs like us will not progress. And because we are a ‘big’ club we have bigger expenses so the effect on us is worse. For clubs the size of ours you simply cannot gain success without spending lots of money.
While it's true that Roland eventually saw the light and just let Bowyer get on with the job, he still bears some responsibility for our plight. He could have sold lock stock and barrel to the Aussie consortium when they were prepared to pay his asking price before he increased it. Instead he offloaded the club to a bunch of crooks, who set about plundering the club. Basically, every owner in living memory, and that predates Roland, gets fed up with pouring money down the drain. No reason to suppose SE7 will be any different.
It all started to go wrong when we decided to pinch 'Boot-face" Dowie from Palarse. That was Richard Murray's bright idea I assume. It's been downhill from there.
No coincidence that Dushitelet sold the club and not The Valley. I foresee future owners buying the club and relocating us. Yellow teeth will like that so he can redevelop the land. Unless we can get owners that throw the kitchen sink at us we are f*****.
The way the club was sold off to crooks, but Roland was allowed to keep the ground should never have happened . That’s on the EFL, FA, government, whoever it is that allowed that to happen. After that we are basically f*cked, unless as Elfs says, we somehow end up with someone so rich that they can just buy the ground and SL back at the same time that they take over the club. But really, why would anyone ever do that ?
I’m going to do an extra line on the Euro lottery tomorrow ….. then I’ll pretty much be the person they’re looking for
The yanks need to get rid of Scott for a start, then have a total rethink on strategy. Atm things are getting progressively worse.
It’s been obvious from even before they took over that this lot would be a disaster. It has been confirmed ever since. You cannot have success on the pitch if the aim is to reduce your losses by several million each season. It just doesn’t work. Methven clearly had the yanks over with promises he was never going to be able to keep and meanwhile his mates are coining it on huge salaries for delivering failure. The only people gaining out of this are Methven, Scott, Rodwell and anyone else who has gained employment while the club goes down the toilet. The puppets were warned but they thought they knew better.
I've seen this theme referred to previously but I'm not particularly ITK about this dort of stuff. But why oh why would you buy a League One football club with the intention of cutting costs? If you want to save money, plan A is straightforward- don't buy a football club. If you buy one,expect to spend a lot. If you plough on with the cost cutting, you devalue the club as it slides down the league's, so not a very sensible bit of business.
And that’s the rub. Charlie obviously sold some line to the billionaires that we could succeed on the pitch and get promotion while still cutting costs. If we did get promotion quickly then they could potentially sell at a huge profit, but the SMT obviously needed some investors who didn’t understand how football works in this country. Hence the US billionaires who are too busy with other projects to get involved directly themselves. It doesn’t matter to Charlie, Scott and Rodwell as they are all now enjoying big salaries which they didn’t have before. If the club goes down the toilet, they still get those salaries and it is the big investors who lose the money. Its win/win for them but everyone else loses.
I take it I am right that 4000 miles away are the guys who do the sackings whilst Mary, Mungo and Midge 'protect' each other. The shelf stacker supported the Belgians and is supporting Charlie and gang. The guy from whales needs to put our minds at rest on what is going on, by his own words he has regular communication with them.
Only Mary can sack Midge. Midge can sack Mungo but not Mary, but only if Mungo and Mary agree. Mungo can only sack himself but not Mary and Midge. No one can sack Mary. Mungo can veto Midge being sacked.
How long until SE7 realise they've been had? Then will they simply pull the plug the way Slater/Jiminez/Cash did?
It’s GFP who’ve been had. SE7 did the having. Personally I’m hoping that GFP realise what’s happening and sack Rodwell and Scott as soon as possible and sideline Methven from any decision making. Then they can invest proper money into the squad and do an Ipswich. Just an optimistic hope, but the alternative is more and more decline under the three stooges.
In advance, sorry for the lavotorial coming up. This lot are a bunch of pricks who are now ****tng themselves because they have ****ed things up so far. The yanks are now asking questions and now we are shooting after the horse has bolted. We have brought players into a struggling team, who is to say they will be a success? Scott, Methven and Rodwell will very nervously think this has been 'a good day at the office'. **** 'em! Rant over.
