Originally Posted by
frogmiller
No matter how much money a club has it'll spend it all!
No matter who is in charge of a club the supporters suffer more than any player, employee or manager!
Having the fit and proper test for chairmen is a great idea as long as there is a queue of people wanting a club!
We've had good people keeping the club alive at their own personal cost because they have been fans of the club. We've had chairmen who have squandered the clubs money for self gratification and stature and we've been bleeding lucky with the one we have now.
The massive prize of the Premiership is too easy to get to nowadays especially if you have the cash to get into a club, pay overhyped wages on players and can afford to buy the clubs ground for £80m to keep within the rules of the game.
You have clubs buying players on a pay you next year scheme, you have the scheme run at Leeds where it was finance companies that owned the players and the club was paying over the odds as well as stupid wages. Leeds have yet to recover.
Everyclub in the Premiership will suffer hardship is they are relegated unless the offload all of their players on big money salaries.
Some players are still paid by their previous clubs long after they have left, managers and their staff are regulary paid a wage long after they have failed in the role they were employed to do.
All of this is a drain on what should be seen by most supporters as community clubs. I feel the TS has brough Rotherham United back into the community in lots of ways! It's a lucky break that our club had a decade or so ago.
I hope that every club will have their own version of TS but there will always be the idiots that gamble the soul of each community club for their own pleasure and not give two figs what will happen to it once they have left after screwing it up.
My heart goes out to all of the supporters but there is a way back after the dust has settled and they have a clean sheet again. Wimbledon and Newport are great examples.
I wish them well!