Have looked at the detail and you are right, the top clubs aren’t giving nothing away. But the offer is better than what the Premier League have proposed so far – nothing!
My fear would be to take the cash in haste and repent at leisure. From what I’ve seen, accepting this deal would just be a case of kicking bigger problems further down the road.
I don’t necessarily agree with you but one thing you can say about a side with Hippolyte in it is that it didn’t concede four at home.
Anyway, my wider point is that some people seemed to see Eisa as a panacea when I think many of us agree that our problems run far, far deeper than one winger.
Who said it would? The problems with the team run deeper than who plays between Hippolyte and Eisa. This became a focus because it was an obvious flaw in the team how Hippolyte was somehow keeping Eisa out of the team, despite offering far less.
A few people gave that impression with their campaigning for his inclusion.
Hopefully he will come good at some point, there’s not much else to get excited about in this squad.
I was being tongue-in-cheek Les, seeing as some people seemed to be claiming his omission was the source of all our ills.
I don’t know about Bishop, I never particularly rated him, but he would stand out like a beacon in this current side. What we don’t have is a tallisman. No one who leads the team. No one who the fans can rally behind. A “bandiera” as the Italians call them, the standard-bearer. I know those players aren’t easy to come by but if even we needed one, it’s now.
I completely agree with you about the “glaring hole in the middle of the park”. That’s where the problems lie, I reckon.
Some aren’t helping each other MM and yes they do exploit this weakness – a Jim Goodwin would be a massive help to these lads.
The situation is NEVER that bad.
From the little I’ve seen, the majority of our problems seem to be in the midfield. Look at the goals we conceded on the weekend – none of the midfielders are tracking their runners, the defence gets overrun and it looks like they’re to blame but they can’t be expected to pick up five or six opposition attackers. Then, going forward, none of the midfielders seem to want to get in the opposition box either. So the forwards look completely isolated and not involved in the game.
The biggest risk this season was starting from new. I understand why that had to happen with the financial problems but given the compressed season and the lack of time on the training ground, trying to forge a team from new is a pretty tall order.
Cash comes before community in Capitalist Britain.
Amen to that. There was always going to be a high price to pay for any bailout and it looks like that price is going to be huge. For three decades, the Premier League has undermined the lower leagues and helped to put us in the position we are all now in. Combined with the EFL’s inability to properly regulate the game, it’s a recipe for disaster.
This article is fine if you ignore the fact that the reason most Premier League clubs still have plenty of money is because of the way that the Premier League has systematically stolen money from the rest of the football pyramid over the last 30 years. Shared gate receipts? No. A league-wide TV deal? No. EPPP? Thanks for training up those youth players, here’s virtually no money for them! Football League Trophy? You don’t mind if we parachute in our youth teams to completely undermine your competition designed solely for small clubs?
Fine, some lower league clubs have wealthy owners but the whole pyramid is fundamentally rotten, part of the blame lies with greedy club owners who have run up debts and can’t cope with a rainy day, but the lion’s share of the blame lies with the way that the Premier League has been doing everything it can get away with to distort the competition since its inception.
As with football, so with life. You see this sort of poor-blaming attitude in life too, ignoring all the things that stop the playing field from being level.
“During an arrest attempt, an officer was assaulted and sustained injuries to his face and damage to his glasses.”
Statement published by South Yorkshire Police. Don’t think it’s really up for debate.
Putting aside the fact that South Yorkshire Police famously always tell the truth in their statements, what is the point in having a courts system if we’re going to just assume that all allegations are true?
Well in a couple of weeks time, they’re going to need the lights on for 3pm kick offs anyway, so evening games would make little difference in that regard.
FFS go get junior brown,still hasn t a club as far as I know,+ he would bring a little bit of experience,just a thought
Yes, we need more signings! Even though we have a squad of 30+, even though we’ve signed 9 players this season, even though the game’s in a real financial mess, we need to sign more players!
I look forward to people demanding Cox resign in a couple of weeks, I’m sure another change of manager will definitely resolve all our problems. Just like the last half-a-dozen changes have.
My memory isn’t what it used to be.
Irrespective of the above, can anyone else remember when Colclough last had a good game? – You know, a 7/10?
Has there been one since he recovered from his bad injury?
The big win over Northampton last season, that’s about a year ago.
No idea if this is our Ryan Colclough but isn’t this the same offence Adam Hammill got done for a few years ago?
Cheltenham and Exeter away the kickoffs have been brought forward to 6pm and 1pm if that is any good to you, you obviously don’t go to Saturday afternoon games in normal times then.
I would do during normal times – for me, it seems weird just to be sat around the house on a Saturday afternoon, precisely because I would normally be out at football or doing something else.
He made the point scunny are a really well run club so if we are affected in this way how bad are other clubs???
He basically said the EFL need to pull their fingers out!!
Who said that? Clarke or Swann?
To be honest, given the club has had minimal income for the last 6-7 months, it’s no great surprise that this is the case, aside from some notable exceptions like Exeter I can imagine most clubs are in a desperate position.
What I find incredibly frustrating is that the game of football has been awash with money for a couple of decades now. Yes, it’s been tighter in the lower leagues thanks to the greed of the Premier League, but there’s still been more money than in, say, the 1980s or 1990s. Yet, it seems that the game has completely failed to put money aside for a rainy day, the old Brian Clough “prune juice” analogy still seems to apply. Basically, we’ve had decades to fix the roof for a rainy day and we never bothered.
Ferrite is becoming the new club guard dog…it appears he’s taken over from the other wally. Any, and I mean any posts of criticism towards the style of play e.t.c “even if coupled with a valid reason” will be immediately shot down and you’ll be moaned at for moaning.
Thanks for your kind words.
I think we’ve got a real problem with expectations as a supporter base, too many of us still seem to be in the “promotion to the Championship” mentality. We need to get real. This is what we are now for the time being. You can either enjoy it and get behind the team or you can moan and look like an entitled Premier League fan. Your choice.
Hard to see how Dales, Olomola, Mooney, Jarvis, Pugh and maybe more are going to get anywhere near the matchday squad if we don’t have a massive injury crisis. Is Cox keeping Eisa and McAtee out of the picture until the transfer window closes?
I’ve been wondering the same, I would have thought that some sales would be crucial but, realistically, how many clubs are going to be making signings now?
The worrisome thing for me was that we could easily have lost that game if it wasn’t for Watson. It’s good Watson had a stellar performance, but we can’t rely on the goalkeeper winning it for us in most games.
Sure but a goalkeeper is one of the team’s 11 players and is allowed to play well. Even better to see Rory Watson finally show some real promise and deliver a match-winning performance. That should be a positive for me.
cassidystash is right. Most see someone like Eisa, for example, as one of our best players and I think it would be rather contentious to say otherwise, so when he’s left out and the replacement/resulting performance is no better then there are bound to be questions from fans. Sure, we’re not privy to training and ideas of the coaches and managers, but we’re allowed to form an opinion based on what we see. We’re supporters of the club, but that doesn’t mean we need to shut off our own critical faculties for blind cheering on of whatever the manager or players do. We should strive to be measured in criticism, and sometimes many aren’t, but I don’t see harm in holding an opinion if argued politely and reasonably enough.
Presumably, you think Cox is not an idiot? So shouldn’t we trust him to make the right decisions for the team? Sure, if things go badly for a long period of time, then by all means question him but doesn’t he deserve the benefit of the doubt for now?
Look, I do get it, we’ve had a succession of managers who’ve been, at best, conservative and at worse outright negative. But people carping on about “attacking football” when we’ve just won one game, the first in 8 matches and only fourth in 16 league games this year, is just a bit premature in my opinion.
I hope you’re right in that things do change, but try to be a bit more forgiving of some who vent, especially after the emotional time of match day. Yes, we don’t have to watch, but given I pay for the games on ifollow, I feel like I should, and I want to pay because it helps the club in these times.
That’s fine but that patience & forgiveness needs to be shown to the team and its management too. Give them a chance.
Remember him missing from less than a yard out once.
Was it the Bedlington Terriers game where he took the ball round the keeper, looked up at the DRE and smiled as the entire crowd shouted “MAN ON!” and the recovering defender took the ball off him?
I’m not doubting for a minute that the club are losing significant amounts of money due to this crisis, but I’d be interested to see exactly what the figures are in terms of matchday sales. Can a shareholder help with last year’s figures?
If you take the above example – 1,250 ifollow passes is £12,500 (bigger clubs will get a lot more). But the costs of holding a match – police, stewards, other casual matchday staff etc is presumably zero.
As I say, I’m not doubting we’re losing a lot – parking, food, programmes, memorabilia etc are also zero – I’m just interested to know exactly what the figures are.
The annual figure for gate receipts is around £1 million.
There will be some costs to putting on games behind closed doors, such as stewards to stop people getting into the stadium area, people to run the ground (lights, cleaning, groundstaff, office staff, etc.) but you would assume fewer costs than a normal game.
For what it’s worth, I don’t think clubs get the full £10 from iFollow, there’s a % for the company that provides the platform.
