clippedgull
Hotdogs, extra onions
So you would prefer League One football at best? Unfortunately we have to live with the corporate machine because that's how we pay our overpaid average footballers.
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Barber and Finance Discussion (separated from match thread)
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So you would prefer League One football at best? Unfortunately we have to live with the corporate machine because that's how we pay our overpaid average footballers.
Publius Ovidius
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To be fair teams do go through this sort of thing, ie have a couple of near misses and then struggle the next few years.
If we are accepting what the board tell us, and we are struggling to keep in the confines of FFP Then I expect no decent signings and we struggle through this season and for a while until the development squad come of age.
So batton down the hatches and hope we sneak a few wins to keep us in the division.
It's going to be a rough ride this year
If we are accepting what the board tell us, and we are struggling to keep in the confines of FFP Then I expect no decent signings and we struggle through this season and for a while until the development squad come of age.
So batton down the hatches and hope we sneak a few wins to keep us in the division.
It's going to be a rough ride this year
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How did the announcement you alluded to yesterday go?
All okay for you, I hope, Gaffer?
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 35,332
this is bollocks. people have critised the atmosphere from day one at Falmer, with the reasonable proposition that is due to the "singers" being disperesed and 20000 new regular fans, many of which are JCLs, families, occasional visiters etc, etc. ok, get rid of all the "experience" stuff if you wish, it wont change the atmospshere a jot. what it will do, maybe, is put off a few thousand of those JCLs and families, which might be the 5k-odd fans that turn haemorrhaging money into a small sustainable loss.
Bloom, Bloom, Bloom, Bloom, Bloom - Barber and Burke just do what they're told and by and large, although some may not like it, do it pretty well. The buck stops with TB - he decided how much of his money to invest in the stadium, the training facility and in the team. He appoints the managers, he decides the budget each year, it's his relationship with the managers which is the key component to their longevity of tenure, he dominates the Board, he decides what the clubs approach to FFP is going to be, he navigates the club to success or failure.
See the Borrusia Dortmund model. Remaining true to your roots and values doesn't automatically sentence you to lower league football.
Publius Ovidius
Well-known member
Was supposed hear today if anyone had gone for VR, but seemly no one did, so between the 5 of us in our team, it will be one of us who goes....we will be told on Thursday! After 14 years working there it leaves a bit of a bad taste in the mouth...not the best age , 56, to start looking for a new job.
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Fingers crossed for you, DtG.
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 35,332
yeah, i recall those days of the Falmer rocking in the year before Barber joined the club. oh, wait...
even if he doesnt care about the club or the fans, the problem of atmoshpere is not down to Barbar. the manager, tactics and players are not down to Barber. we can knock him for the cost of the pies, but i think its most queer people are trying to put the pitch performance at his door. now Burke on the other hand...
Tony Meolas Loan Spell
Slut Faced Whores
Burke with his "list" can do one. Let Sami get who he wants in.
I was so so angry today when I saw Hudds got Grant Holt on loan. What with FFS going on loan up the road WHAT ARE WE PLAYING AT. Two proven champ goalscorers.
Remember kids. The loaning team contribute to wages.
I was so so angry today when I saw Hudds got Grant Holt on loan. What with FFS going on loan up the road WHAT ARE WE PLAYING AT. Two proven champ goalscorers.
Remember kids. The loaning team contribute to wages.
drew
Drew
Southampton are bigger than us and look at who they sold in the summer!
I agree, the drive is what happens on the pitch and that will affect the 'fairweather' fan. However, as a season ticket holder for nigh on 30 years it seems I, and probably many like me, keep coming back!!
Sorry, but what exactly do you know about the soul of the club, or for that matter, what does anyone really know. According to your profile, you have only ever supported the club during the time we have been in a financial mess. The club have over 100 years of history. If the team have to struggle, I would rather watch it from the comfort of a padded seat under cover than at a ramshackle Goldstone or a roofless Withdean!
.. and overpaid army of backroom suits
RexCathedra
Aurea Mediocritas
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
I heard Poyet said it would take Barber two seasons to undo all the progress he had made with the club looks like he was right.
drew
Drew
Barrel of Fun
Abort, retry, fail
Mod edit to return the flow to the matchday drama.
rocker959
Well-known member
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Saw something similar a while back but was unable to paste it , seemed this opinion was shared by many Whitecaps fans.
That's Poyet, who Bloom trusted far too much, giving us £3.25m CMS, a payroll bill largely made up of GP's player wages almost matching turnover and so inevitably generating the £12m accounts losses. The architect of Southampton 8-0 Poyet's team.
He recouped far more back then he spent in his tenure with us. Far more players bought who were a success and then sold on for considerably more than purchased for.
Yes in hindsight CMS was a poor signing but for every CMS, Dobbie & Harley there see at least four decent signings. A 80% success rate in the transfer market is good by anyone's standards.
drew
Drew
Did Poyet source them though, I doubt it. Seems the successes are down to poyet and the failures down to Burke. Absolutely no logic!