Footballers can earn 100K a week because fans want to watch footballers perform. No one wants to watch doctors or vets going about their jobs.
We could pay doctors 100K a week but income tax would need to be about 60% of earnings.
Could not agree more Blood! I absolutely loathe Amazon so refuse to shop with them! Seems Pulis gets hammered more from those who don't go to the matches than those that do! Don't get me wrong, there are many things, I don't like about Pulis! A better manager to KEEP us in the premiership comes at a huge cost as does quality players - that's down to Lai!
We have had the thrills - a decent player who is a huge gamble from an injury perspective so now it's down to the usual cheap cheap cheap!
My biggest gripe about losing the love from football is the huge revenue coming in, stupid salaries, and clubs giving feck all back. Lai gave everyone a free West Brom scarf imported from his homeland - WOW!
How can a thick player earn 100K a week and a doctor/vet earns this in a year if lucky by spending most likely 100K on uni/accom costs throughout their 5/6 year degrees!!! Mental, and then some players can't be arsed to sign a kids autographs!
Don't get me wrong there are exceptions like Defoe who has given up a great amount of time with Bradley that he did not need to do - so well done to him and others!
Football now is all about GREED so having a go at Pulis through all his faults due to peanuts to spend is the tip of the iceberg!
Footballers can earn 100K a week because fans want to watch footballers perform. No one wants to watch doctors or vets going about their jobs.
We could pay doctors 100K a week but income tax would need to be about 60% of earnings.
Wrong - more and more people are turning away from football! I remember when you could not get a ticket for a match and FA Cup matches were sold as soon as tickets came out!
You don't even need a season ticket as there will be tickets at every game! Truth is - clubs don't even need supporters anymore with Sky money!
So on that basis, anyone who thinks Lai will want to spend more money this year is deluded. For Lai to see us mid table again, with patching up the holes on little cash - it's a success to him!
Will Lai or the Board give two ****s to the fans - will they hell! Lai and the Board must be wetting themselves with laughter with some supporters blaming Pulis!
I was including people who subscribe to Sky both here and around the world to watch matches, not only those who attend. It is this money that has taken the supporters out of the grounds and totally ruined the game.
The one thing Lai is overlooking is the fall in cash if we are relegated and don't bounce back.
I've renewed my ST, and because he's been a bad lad. my Grandson's as well .
Has anybody received their new Style Card yet?
No still waiting tony. I've been a bad boy and man for the last 60 years, floating fans don't you just love them. There the ones you will tell Gary meg son saved the baggies.yes he did very well with what he had.NO the 8or9 Thousand fans who turned up week in week out saved the baggies. Somebody tell me differently no thought not.
Sorry Chris perhaps floating the wrong word,what I meant was the ones who only like the good times. I'm not knocking megson .in fact I was a big fan of his. Very few recognise without the faithful few theres no football club.loke the club up the road who came very very close.
If we relied on that sort of fan the place would be empty! Since 1968 the only good times have been the Promotion years, not a single trophy of any note won.
78/79 was great but nothing came of it.
I wouldn't call myself a floating fan, more a retired one. Last season was the first time in my life I didn't attend a match (I was there when I was 6 months old so I'm told) whilst the previous 3 seasons had seen my attendance drop rapidly after giving up my long held season ticket. I have chalked up over 1,000 games live, but the big money more than Pulis's tactics is what has ruined it for me. Much better when recruitment meant scouring the lower leagues for talent rather than throwing silly money at overseas players.
Look at the players bought in during the 60s and 70s. Here are a few:
Jeff Astle
John Kaye
John Osborne
Clive Clark
Joe Mayo
Cyrille Regis
Laurie Cunningham
Prior to these Derek Kevan & Ronnie Allen.
You can't take the club out of your blood but you can take the fan out of the Hawthorns. I used to be out 7 hours when attending a home game, leaving my wife on her own, prefer to be with her now and disappear upstairs for a couple of hours to watch the games on streams.
Been there, done it and moved on (sort of).