Quote Originally Posted by NerfHerder View Post
Unless someone high up from inside the club is leaking stuff, I?’m not sure how our budget could be common knowledge? I think this is all from Alan Nixon. Like with everything he says, I would take with a huge pinch of salt.

I suppose we can all see though that the budget is getting smaller and smaller each year. It seems to be drastically shrinking recently though. I wonder why? Owners simply trying to cut their losses or I wonder if they are trying to sell us on.

In terms of Hourihane, my point about him writing off next season and me not being happy with that still stands. I know some are more realistic than others and I often have my red tinted glasses but what is the point turning up if we have no hope? If football is simply played on the balance sheets, why bother playing 90 minutes? Cardiff came to Oakwell a few weeks ago and their finances will massively dwarf ours. For the first 10 minutes, it looked like that. For the rest though, we actually had some fight and bottle and probably deserved the win. Again, Lincoln and Stevenage will not be anywhere near the top 6 in terms of finances in our division yet that is where they are right now. Lincoln will be playing championship football next season and, without knowing for definite, I would say their finances are similar to ours. When we got to the championship playoffs under Big Val, our finances will have been bottom 3 and I know Covid impacted that season but we were right up there on merit, going up against teams that absolutely dwarfed our finances, and we were beating them. Deservedly too. Hunger, discipline, desire and hope.

I am not saying I expect Hourihane to work miracles and have league 2/non league players at the top of the league 1. What I do want though is some hope going into a season and I want a team that will work harder than every other.
All good points Nerth and now we have a statement from Mr Flatman which waffles on and basically says nothing, I want to hear from the organ grinder and not the monkee , I want the owners to make a statement and tell us exactly what their intentions and plans are for the club , so far they have made no comment about Conors outburst which to me speaks volumes , Conor is taking a good kicking from every direction but they stuck a microphone under his nose just after we had lost a match, a match where he had little or no options in his threadbare squad , a match which saw the fans turn on him and he burst out some home truths , people do not want to hear that they want to hear positive spin and they want to hear that the future is bright but he was virtually saying that he has been dealt a bad hand and the dealer is going to deal him a hand next season which could well be worse but the sheer fact that these owners have not responded says it all and Conor was telling the truth , mark my words they will sack Conor before the end of the season, not because of his outburst but because it will pacify the mob and they will be able to sell the season tickets with the promise of a new coach and new ideas to take us forward , the thing is that this happens every year and the sheep will once again have the wool pulled over their eyes, when are the fans going to wake up and see what the root cause of the problems at the club are , they wear suits and sit in the directors box !!!!