Reply With QuoteBut what are you going to do? Play badly next season so we don't get promoted?
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Yes he saved us but life moves on.
How many people live there jobs/marriage like it was 10 years ago or whatever it is.
Through no fault off his own he just can't afford the championship yet the manager/the players are the fall guys.
It's like asking you to compete for a contract but been 30 million short
And Yet your expected to get it
We are a top league 1 club
But not a championship club
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But what are you going to do? Play badly next season so we don't get promoted?
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I doubt very much that he finds anything funny at the moment. Probably wondering why he bothered in the first place saving the club. I would be.
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We're around 60th in the country by capacity, so a top L1 club is a push by that measure. We've had a few years of anomalies where we've bounced between a division we should struggle in and one we should struggle to ever reach. That won't go on indefinitely, and I suspect with the number of players out of contract in the summer, next year reality will bite. If net worth is anything to go on, TS can afford to fund a top L1 team, but as his army of defenders on here point out, why should he part with his money (not as if he's old, looks in relatively poor health, could ever survive if he diminished his nest egg by a few mil). He's clearly not committed, and/or he's clearly not good enough to run a club at that level. No shame in that, he's done very well in what he's made his money in, but that doesn't qualify him to be a good football chairman (aside from the absurdity in which most of football exists, where wealth is the way in). If any chairman cared about their club really, they'd find ways to protect their investments and move to a 49/51 ownership system like in Germany. They'd extend the ground rather than find reasons not to. There wouldn't be a hint of nepotism around the place. But hey, this is not a normal, real world scenario, it's football. Unfortunately, there's no mechanism to change any of this without a Euromillions win, or if anyone else finds a niche in a lucrative (and partly tax payer funded) industry and is subsequently happy to shell out their cash.Originally Posted by welovebooth
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I suppose you missed the thread the other day then with our accounts on? The amount of people who bang on about spend without thinking about income…His choices are sustain minor losses and keep the club sustainable, or rack up a load of debt in the hope that we get, what, top half for a couple of seasons? And then what? We’re not gona suddenly magically double our fanbase or stop being a target for other clubs to poach our best players. When clubs much bigger than us go down and stay down in League One after spending a lot, it just doesn’t make sense to make crazy gambles.
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Which also included the season,which nobody mentioned and which I assume would have been difficult to navigate from a financial point of view and TS got criticised for using the furlough scheme which he was perfectly entitled to use.yes sometimes we don’t get a lot right and lack professionalism but in some respects we do it the right way..
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That's the paradox Fire. If in 12 months time we are in the top 6 everyone will be clamouring for promotion but 7 seasons in the Champ tell us we would be all clamouring for another season of struggle and strife. You couldn't even argue that it would be brilliant to pit our wits against all the big clubs like we were saying in 2014 when we got promoted at Wembley.We've spent that many seasons recently in the Champ that playing all these ex Premier League clubs is no big deal any longer.In fact I know a few supporters who go to many away games who are missing away days at Cambridge,Accrington,Burton,Lincoln et al. They are fed up of visiting 1 concrete bowl after another!
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But what's the point of winning matches in league one NOT wanting to return to the Championship?An opportunity to establish ourselves in the Championship has been squandered through lack of ambition.We were told earlier this season a Director of Football was to be brought in.At the time I thought that's what we need ,someone with some experience and knowhow from another club to offer new ideas.What do we finish up doing?Once again the cheap option.Nothing will change!!
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Decent DoF and championship managers won't come because there's not enough money for them to spend/waste, depending to people on here.
There's not many Managers in the Championship what haven't been sacked at least once.........So who would people have liked here instead of IR???
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There's an entire thread about that.
https://boards.footymad.net/showthread.php?t=38315540
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