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Oh no. Not different opinions. How can a club cope with that?
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So after all the lies and bullshit issued by Swann and now Hilton over the years I really feel sorry for the devoted and loyal supporters that have stuck with the club over the last six years.
So Hilton was supposed to have bought the two plots of land from the NLCC, can we take it that no money has been handed over like all the other deals Hilton has done!!!!, and that the New Stadium is just another pipe dream like the two new stadiums and refurbishment of GP like Swanns bullshit.
Our club I would say, has about a 20% chance of survival, I am sorry to say, but I have stated for the past 6 months what has dsadly come true over the past week, I wish that I could say that I was completely wrong, but at least I got my 70 years supporting SUFC, I feel so sorry for our present fans.
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People assuming that “difficult decisions” which will prove “very unpopular” (but ensure survival) means “kids for free is going to stop and it’ll be £2 a kid” or they might make a few people part-time is absolutely laughable. It’s almost charming.
Those carefully chosen words are designed to prepare you for the worst, which will come crashing through your screens in the near future. They obviously mean that the battle for GP will be surrendered (because WHAM doesn’t ACTUALLY HAVE ANY MONEY – but they won’t ever say that). So we will be playing elsewhere.
Effectively we will have no asset or potential asset of our own – unless you still believe in the ‘acquired land in town’ pantomime nonsense.
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Selling players would be very unpopular ..
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Never quite worked out how we need circa 5,000 fans to put a team together to challenge at the top.
Our average gate this season has been 3,777.
If you add together the attendances of 4 of the top 7 (Spennymoor, Blyth, Chorley and Brackley) it is still 200 less than our total.
FFS Brackley probably the best football team we have played this year survive on crowds under 600.
Must be some very wealthy sugar daddies around at this level.
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Never quite worked out how we need circa 5,000 fans to put a team together to challenge at the top.
Our average gate this season has been 3,777.
If you add together the attendances of 4 of the top 7 (Spennymoor, Blyth, Chorley and Brackley) it is still 200 less than our total.
FFS Brackley probably the best football team we have played this year survive on crowds under 600.
Must be some very wealthy sugar daddies around at this level.
Or other teams paying players realistic wages.
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Or are not in debt up to their eyeballs
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Puppet Board.
No money = no say.1 user thanked author for this post.
Puppet Board. No money = no say.
It’s not always necessary for members of a Board to be loaded with cash, you know? They can bring other things to the table – expertise, vision, a copy of the Radio Times and some chicken sandwiches.
Looking from a generous angle – and presuming for a moment that there is no ulterior motive – it’s a possible scenario that what may have happened with the Chairman is:
He has come in to a very difficult financial situation without truly understanding the scale of it, or realising what a clown’s pie the previous owner had made of the club’s books.
He probably doesn’t have anything like the wealth he has worked to give the impression he had. He has been panicking, feeling the pressure of 3,750 pairs of eyes and lashing out. He’s had too much pride to admit that he has not been paying Peter so that he can pay Paul. Over and over.
He’s assembled a Board as he recognised that he needs digging out of a massive hole. The Board he’s surrounded himself with is assisting with all of the legals, admin and engine-work to scale things right back to meet a level where the club operates by what it can actually generate by itself, plus maybe the occasional ‘top-up’ from him.
This, ultimately, will mean ditching the fight for GP and leave us running as a humble part-time outfit and groundsharing “somewhere”.
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ditching the fight for GP and leave us running as a humble part-time outfit and groundsharing “somewhere”.
Even if the scenario I described above is inaccurate, and there are in fact some highly dubious motives at play, and this whole aggressive gaslighting that has been going on is all some tactical play-out for some nefarious gain or other, then it doesn’t matter now. Ultimately it is going to result in the same thing: No money, no GP, going part-time and playing elsewhere.
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I think that’s a fair assessment, Apollo. If this had happened at the start, I’d say there may be disappointment, but more understanding from more people. As it was we heard all these grand plans of a new stadium, how he had the money to buy Glanford Park and has funded what must be a well paid squad for this level. People raising eyebrows were dismissed as anti-Hilton when raising these points and told to shut up or that they wanted the club dead. Now it feels like a huge let down and loss of trust, given the previous claims and attacks on anyone suspicious, to be told it needs to be cut back severely. I know he said that before, but it was during actions which belied that (assembling a costly squad, promising a new stadium and training ground).
These cut backs may be necessary, and the start of this does start from Swann, but the way Hilton has managed our expectations and off-field matters has been incredibly poor.
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The great shame is that right now the stadium still exists and Swann does want to sell it, albeit seemingly not to Hilton. If in a years time, GP is being turned into flats or whatever else and we are part time, ground sharing at Gainsborough and looking at a future of NLN and below, or totally out of existence, then this period – Now – will be the point it could have been saved, but it will be too late.
In my opinion, getting Glanford Park secured should be the priority, and should have been the priority over an expensive squad.3 users thanked author for this post.
I think that’s a fair assessment, Apollo. If this had happened at the start, I’d say there may be disappointment, but more understanding from more people. As it was we heard all these grand plans of a new stadium, how he had the money to buy Glanford Park and has funded what must be a well paid squad for this level. People raising eyebrows were dismissed as anti-Hilton when raising these points and told to shut up or that they wanted the club dead. Now it feels like a huge let down and loss of trust, given the previous claims and attacks on anyone suspicious, to be told it needs to be cut back severely. I know he said that before, but it was during actions which belied that (assembling a costly squad, promising a new stadium and training ground).
These cut backs may be necessary, and the start of this does start from Swann, but the way Hilton has managed our expectations and off-field matters has been incredibly poor.
The ‘land acquired’ thing was a pantomime to rattle Mr Swann, I am sure. I do not believe there has ever been the intention for a new stadium.
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… the way Hilton has managed our expectations and off-field matters has been incredibly poor.
It has left a nasty taste in the mouth. It’s not how I would expect the Chair of a credible organisation to behave.
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