Quote Originally Posted by thnhouse View Post
Not everything's about the academy
Well, it was the Directors themselves that said the academy was more important than the first team. Its obvious the academy is bleeding huge sums of money and its pretty obvious that if the current Directors are having to put in 'large' sums of money in order to keep that going at £760K per year which has never been sustainable with a club our size and Gradi and Bowler or other members of the Board should not have allowed that to happen when almost every other club in L1 and L2 doesn't have that level.

The plain fact is the money has run out and so has the transfer income and the Hassall affair is just a sideshow to that situation as it would have happened anyway.

The academy gave us some comparative success. It's also given us some comparative failings as well. ie going from 8th in the Championship with 4m from the Ashton transfer to looking at non league and 25 million quid mostly going back into the academy and loans to Hassall. There is only one group of people responsible for that and its the Board of Directors. They knew about the Blackpool situation and did NOTHING until now.

They are only crying about it now and doing something because NOW they are having to put in money of their own and its something I have said on many occasions on here. They all sat on their hands and let it happen and we can have no sympathy for them when they ought to have acted sooner, much sooner...