Top of the League – Yet things seem to be going from bad to worse

[Rene Artois]

Implosion ahead?
These monthly shortfalls of £65k… are they being plugged by donations from the directors or are they loans?
Sponsors withdrawing.
Goat gone.
What next?

[Apollo11]

Rene Artois wrote:

Implosion ahead?
These monthly shortfalls of £65k… are they being plugged by donations from the directors or are they loans?
Sponsors withdrawing.
Goat gone.
What next?

Promotion gone.
Fans gone.

[Rene Artois]

Will ‘we’ (the club) throw promotion. This league is cheaper to operate in than the one above?
Gates wouldn’t be much higher.
Manager would want more & better players.
Players would want more money.
Cheaper to throw it!

[Apollo11]

Rene Artois wrote:

Will ‘we’ (the club) throw promotion. This league is cheaper to operate in than the one above?
Gates wouldn’t be much higher.
Manager would want more & better players.
Players would want more money.
Cheaper to throw it!

Say all of that is true, in what world could a group of suits actually stop a team of professionals with professional pride going out to win the necessary games..?

[Rene Artois]

Remember the 82 WC – the result benefited both teams.

The game was ‘played’ at walking pace after the Germans scored.
From the 1986 WC, the final round of games in each group kicked off on the same day and at the same time.

Board could select a weaker unbalanced team for the manager to play. They could also select a less favourable formation.
The physio could be pressured in to declaring a key player unfit / injured… someone like Whitehall.
If you’ve got a mortgage and need the income from your job – do you resign and walk away or continue to pick up the money?
What if the Board informed the players that the club could possibly go bust if it’s promoted due to the increased financial costs and that they’d be ok at the level it’s currently at.
There’s also the make life difficult approach – we’ve all worked for people like that.
Not saying it will happen but we’d probably never know. Just like we don’t know half of the stuff that goes on in the Palace of Westminster.

[Apollo11]

Board could select a weaker unbalanced team for the manager to play. They could also select a less favourable formation.

Do you seriously think the Board have that sort of input? Do you seriously think someone with Butler’s integrity would suffer this, mortgage to pay or no mortgage to pay?

[Awaywego]

He bowed to the board on his 5 at the back. And yes we don’t know for sure but Michelle did say words would be had if results continued like they were, they did and low and behold 5 at the back ended.

Integrity now where did I here that, was it Keith Hill and fans on here saying he’d stand up to Swann because he had integrity, that worked well in the end he showed what he was about wouldn’t even take a payoff to go, just wanted his monthly salary which finally ended last year.

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Rene Artois

[Apollo11]

Awaywego wrote:

He bowed to the board on his 5 at the back. And yes we don’t know for sure but Michelle did say words would be had if results continued like they were, they did and low and behold 5 at the back ended.

Integrity now where did I here that, was it Keith Hill and fans on here saying he’d stand up to Swann because he had integrity, that worked well in the end he showed what he was about wouldn’t even take a payoff to go, just wanted his monthly salary which finally ended last year.

A concerned word / bollocking is different to someone micro-managing and doing your job for you.

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[Rene Artois]

Apollo11 wrote:

Board could select a weaker unbalanced team for the manager to play. They could also select a less favourable formation.

Do you seriously think the Board have that sort of input? Do you seriously think someone with Butler’s integrity would suffer this, mortgage to pay or no mortgage to pay?

Wasn’t Swann a great ‘influencer’ of his managers during his tenure?

[Northumbiron]

The sun is shining, the clocks go forward on Saturday night and Spring is in the air.

Time to get out more!

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