Radio Sheffield

[kempo]

I know you read this site so get this interview done early next week.

Get Rob to do it and get tough with TS and press him for clear answers and facts.

If he declines to answer ask him what is he hiding and why?

Stop making excuses and listen to your listeners....You are all good and interesting journalists in my view but stop the love in with TS and get some answers.

[PeteWaller]

Organise a Fans' Forum on air and let us ask the questions your journalists won't

[rileyev.the.third]

More chance the presenters on Radio Owls are going to be saying £300'000 is a good offer for Danny Ward and the Millers should accept the offer, giving him the chance to progress his career at a massive club like Wednesday.

They have previous for it!!!

TS wont be telling Radio Sheffield anything!!

Anyway if he does its going to spoil the agenda for loads on here, what are they gonna do then?

[leedsmiller]

Anyway if he does its going to spoil the agenda for loads on here, what are they gonna do then?

Wait to see his words put into practice.

[a123]

Anyway if he does its going to spoil the agenda for loads on here, what are they gonna do then?

Depends whether he sells a vision that is believable and deliverable, rather than the aiming for the stars bull that Radio Sheffield always allow him to spout unchallenged.

That's why there is so much negativity against him on here at present, he says one thing and does exactly the opposite which over time creates the impression that you can't believe a word he is saying.

[rileyev.the.third]

I'm just missing something me, I must be.

Watching Rotherham since 1980 I've witnessed this what's happening before and it doesn't worry me. We do the same everytime we get to this level. We are not anywhere near big enough to compete at this level and never will be, the support just isn't there. The only way to break this cycle is for someone super wealthy to buy the club like the guy at Bournemouth. Lets face it though, that's extremely unlikely.

Look at Barnsley, they are having a good season and have probably got a bigger budget than us, they have brought players through their academy and sold them for big money though, this is what's enabled them to do that. Having said that they will struggle to maintain the challenge season on season and will end up struggling just like us.

I honestly think the club is in good hands. I agree TS must get some help in making the football related decisions but as far keeping the club on an even keel I think we have the best man for the job.

There are some people that probably think we should gamble and spend more than we can afford to compete at this level, I don't.

If someone wants to invest to take us to the next level, fair enough.

Don't fancy having to get the buckets out again thanks very much and furthermore I doubt we'll have to while TS is in charge.

What does surprise me is there seems to be a lot of long standing dyed in the wool Millers really concerned about our current plight, maybe that's fans changing like the game in terms of money has changed so much, I don't know. Its not like they haven't been here before. We had the total lack of investment by KB for 20 years, then 2 absolute jokes of ownership before TS bought the club.

Like I say I may just be missing something but some of the stuff on here is akin to what I'd expect from fair weather fans who wont come to support the team in L1 etc or younger fans who didn't support us through what I would call much darker days. That clearly isn't the case though as many have supported the club longer than me.

Oh well, it will all come out int wesh!!!!

[Yak]

Riley

I couldn't have put it better.

Some on here slated Evans when he was here and now want him back.

If TS leaves then a lot will probably be glad and then want him back if things don't go to plan.

I think TS does need to make a statement but looking at it on here not many would believe him anyway.

It's amazing how many say I've been watching the millers 40 years bla bla so what.

If that's the case then they should realise where we're at in terms of financial restraints.

Where were half the fans yesterday???

[frogmiller]

With Booth we knew what he was and how he ran the club. When the TV money came into the Championship back then he didn't spend it as we had hoped. The TV deal wasn't paid to clubs as promissed which lead to us being in a better position than if it had been if we'd spent it before hand.
Not long after the club was taken over by Millers05 and the long awaited main stand was rebuilt and never finished.

Dennis Coleman and the Italien took over at the 11th hour. If anyone has ever spoken to Dennis then you'll know what happened and what he had to do. You'll also know how close we were from going under and make the connections between what happened later on was partly because of how close we were to going under.

That really doesn't matter now but fans will look at them days of employees robbing the club of entrance fees and how sacks of money were taken from one office to another without the proper paper work with fear. The thought of going back to them days are too grim to dwell on.

Today we have Tony Stewart who was sought by the council to take over the club. No one knows except the parties mentioned what promisses were made but it sure as hell worked. Rotherham United were brought out of a terrible position and were reborn. The town has benefitted from the take over. Tony Stewart has benefitted from the take over and the fans have benefitted from the take over.

Why do we feel we deserve answers now?

Because we feel we're being taken for mugs! We have been sold empty promisses! We have no idea what the hell is happening and in this age of social media it's easy to find when we're being told untruths.

We have a new stadium and Championship football but RUFC owns nothing! Could we be looked upon like a franchise?

[leedsmiller]

We're all Millers, we all recognise the constraints and limitations, many of us have seen previous, perilous situations which is why nobody would advocate spending beyond our means. But that's not to say we shouldn't hold the Chairman to account, should accept being kept in the dark and should avoiding questioning why progress has changed so rapidly to stagnation and regression.

We're all suffering the same agonies and frustrations but, being human, we deal with them in different ways. If some choose to accept our current plight as inevitable, consider the Chairman to be infallible or think challenging the decision-making progress is out of order, so be it, it's their prerogative. Not everybody is so like-minded - but the differences should make for healthy debate without acrimony.

[mellowmiller]

I'm just missing something me, I must be.

Watching Rotherham since 1980 I've witnessed this what's happening before and it doesn't worry me. We do the same everytime we get to this level. We are not anywhere near big enough to compete at this level and never will be, the support just isn't there. The only way to break this cycle is for someone super wealthy to buy the club like the guy at Bournemouth. Lets face it though, that's extremely unlikely.

Look at Barnsley, they are having a good season and have probably got a bigger budget than us, they have brought players through their academy and sold them for big money though, this is what's enabled them to do that. Having said that they will struggle to maintain the challenge season on season and will end up struggling just like us.

I honestly think the club is in good hands. I agree TS must get some help in making the football related decisions but as far keeping the club on an even keel I think we have the best man for the job.

There are some people that probably think we should gamble and spend more than we can afford to compete at this level, I don't.

If someone wants to invest to take us to the next level, fair enough.

Don't fancy having to get the buckets out again thanks very much and furthermore I doubt we'll have to while TS is in charge.

What does surprise me is there seems to be a lot of long standing dyed in the wool Millers really concerned about our current plight, maybe that's fans changing like the game in terms of money has changed so much, I don't know. Its not like they haven't been here before. We had the total lack of investment by KB for 20 years, then 2 absolute jokes of ownership before TS bought the club.

Like I say I may just be missing something but some of the stuff on here is akin to what I'd expect from fair weather fans who wont come to support the team in L1 etc or younger fans who didn't support us through what I would call much darker days. That clearly isn't the case though as many have supported the club longer than me.

Oh well, it will all come out int wesh!!!!

It's was 1956 was when I first started following the Millers and I thought I'd probably seen every possible situation in the intervening 60 years including medieval toilets at Millmoor, administrations, collection buckets, buy a brick, points deductions, moving out of town for 4 years, moving back to town into a magnificent modern stadium, back to back promotions and the joy of winning at Wembley.
So, if you'll forgive me Riley, what I think you're missing is that the new stadium and promotion to the Championship should have provided the club with the perfect platform to make the incremental progress that Tony Stewart talked about.
The finances coming into the club from significant TV revenue, higher class sponsorship and increased season ticket sales will never have been greater for a club of our size and yet there seems to have been no coherent strategy to take advantage of this wonderful opportunity.
I agree we have seen much, much worse situations than the current one but what is happening to our club now is so disappointing and the lack of communication with supporters is simply unacceptable.
Tony Stewart saved the club and dragged it kicking and screaming into the 21st century but all that good work is slowly going down the toilet as we lurch from one crisis to another and the chairman is nowhere to be seen.
Good leaders always shine when things get bad so I guess we'll see what Mr Stewart is made of in the next few days.