Fan letter to Ashley from Paul Nicholson

[ranat22]

"answering as if i was ashley"



stick to shyte stories aboot ya nana wilf FFS

[toonlegend]

"answering as if i was ashley

sounded more like you were answering as p'boro

[ghostrider]

"answering as if i was ashley

sounded more like you were answering as p'boro

[pboromag]

seems to me ghost is answering using common sense

to many people expect to much

ash hasnt ever said he would spend millions or even billions

we all know what we get with ash

he has made mistakes but so did the mckeags and the two numpties who sold it to ash

when i see this constant bleeting about an owner of a club i think for god sake get a life talk about the players ,talk about the team i think most of our fans are more obsessed with who runs our club than what happens on the pitch

when i look at cardiff reading forest sheffield sides,leeds,and many any more who have been in the big time are big clubs and arent anywhere near where we are and yet i dont see their fans bleeting like stuffed pigs

he has made mistakes he hasnt any more money he wants to give to the club

get over it
stop filling you young kids with ideas of how good we were used to be or should be
and get them in the ground on their feet singing and chanting and not sitting down like they are at school watching a film that they will be getting questione on later

we have never been that great for the big part of history for most of our times

so why whinge now because allegedly rafa didnt get what he wanted or expected

[toptoon]

seems to me ghost is answering using common sense

to many people expect to much

ash hasnt ever said he would spend millions or even billions

we all know what we get with ash

he has made mistakes but so did the mckeags and the two numpties who sold it to ash

when i see this constant bleeting about an owner of a club i think for god sake get a life talk about the players ,talk about the team i think most of our fans are more obsessed with who runs our club than what happens on the pitch

when i look at cardiff reading forest sheffield sides,leeds,and many any more who have been in the big time are big clubs and arent anywhere near where we are and yet i dont see their fans bleeting like stuffed pigs

he has made mistakes he hasnt any more money he wants to give to the club

get over it
stop filling you young kids with ideas of how good we were used to be or should be
and get them in the ground on their feet singing and chanting and not sitting down like they are at school watching a film that they will be getting questione on later

we have never been that great for the big part of history for most of our times

so why whinge now because allegedly rafa didnt get what he wanted or expected

There is a half way house in the argument. The only part of that letter which I didn´t like was the call to back Rafa "unconditionally" in January. Very few owners would (nor should) do that with their managers and that showed, in one sentence, that the person writing the letter is not being reasonable. That sentence spolied the letter, for me.

We need to be practical and not reel off a wish list every 2 minutes. Ashley needs to go because he is not prepared to invest sufficiently in this business and the business of running a football club is not compatible with his style. Ashley values us at twice the price of Southampton - he needs to re-evaluate this. There are many aspects of the club that make us attractive to buy - the manager and finacial stability, fan base, etc. Get the price right, Ashley, and do us all a favour.

[pboromag]

There is a half way house in the argument. The only part of that letter which I didn´t like was the call to back Rafa "unconditionally" in January. Very few owners would (nor should) do that with their managers and that showed, in one sentence, that the person writing the letter is not being reasonable. That sentence spolied the letter, for me.

We need to be practical and not reel off a wish list every 2 minutes. Ashley needs to go because he is not prepared to invest sufficiently in this business and the business of running a football club is not compatible with his style. Ashley values us at twice the price of Southampton - he needs to re-evaluate this. There are many aspects of the club that make us attractive to buy - the manager and finacial stability, fan base, etc. Get the price right, Ashley, and do us all a favour.

but what is sufficiently
surely you cant put a figure on it as we may have only spent a few million in this transfer window and al the players could come good
however if we spent 140 mill it doesn't guarantee us anything

we are not a great buy

there is little in the way of improvement to be made except for spending hundreds of millions

the fan base cant increase we sell out every week

financial stability created by ashly
the manager appointed by ashly

unless you have someone on an ego trip we are not a good buy

to spend 400 mill on a club when players are going for half that is a great price so I think ash has us undervalued

but with us whinging at every opportunity if say deutsha bank came in and wanted to rename the stadium kraut park or the likes they would be arguing with the fan base from day one

you either want a successful club and forgoe a lot of what people love about our club
or you keep with someone like ash

[toonlegend]

"we have never been that great for the big part of history for most of our times "

I would refute that part of the statement as for the first 80 or more years of footballing history

we were that great ! better than the likes of manure, puddles, arsenal, et al

it is only the last 30 years or so that we haven't been "that great" except in flashes.