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Luke O'Nien

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Merrytwee2.0 said:
When your house is built on rotten foundations, you have to tear it down and start from the bottom. That is expensive and it means you can't always have the finest fixtures and fittings straight away as there is just so much to fix (you might even have to pay more money initially to get rid of the harmful 'asbestos') and you certainly won't enjoy living in it as much as you did until its completely finished - and it may never quite feel completely finished because needs change and things break. The pride through this comes from the vision and the rebuilding, the painstaking time taken, and the hunting for cheap gems, hidden features and restoration of something that was once great, while adding a modern and more efficient infrastructure, learning from what has happened in the past.

Keeping the tradition and the beauty, but taking time to improve and evolve - knowing that it doesn't look pretty while you're doing it - and that some of the ugly props you've bought to keep the roof up won't be there when the walls are finished.

That's highly likely a shit metaphor, but i haven't stopped drinking red wine since I was last on here many moons ago. Apologies. (I've had to re-register too)

But if you enjoy supporting the club, then I think this is the time to really enjoy it, because the last few years haven't been. Ask yourself why you support the club, and then see whether we are closer to that vision today than we were under Short any time after the first year or so... I am, because I love the 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps, prove em wrong, hard graft' mentality that our club represents, rather than a terrible attempt at buying success that we've seen. You can't get away from the money involved in football, and it does need a solid level of finance, but we look like we are trying to build a club of players with good honest character, open transparent leadership and with financial foundations that can be built on. The Asbestos is being removed gradually... I do worry that might take longer than anyone involved would like.
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Thanks Stewie
 

AC Mack said:
I know, right. League One, signing superstars from Wycombe and Peterborough. What a time to be alive.
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If there good players it doesn't matter where they are from. If we'd been searching the league's for the last ten years we may had even more players to develop. Drop the shit face snobbish attitude mate and start thinking football and footballers for us to develop.
 
WildinHetton said:
If there good players it doesn't matter where they are from. If we'd been searching the league's for the last ten years we may had even more players to develop. Drop the shit face snobbish attitude mate and start thinking football and footballers for us to develop.
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Half the England squad came from lower league sides
 
WildinHetton said:
If there good players it doesn't matter where they are from. If we'd been searching the league's for the last ten years we may had even more players to develop. Drop the shit face snobbish attitude mate and start thinking football and footballers for us to develop.
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Another point missed, and insults to boot.
 
vinegar hill said:
Where did you paste that from?
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I didn't mate - all my own, sorry - Just can't believe how unsupportive, SAFC 'supporters' can be sometimes and this is not the time to be unsupportive.

I believe the new business model for success is built on the fact that the clubs support is bigger than the clubs position betrays - and isn't that what we all pride ourselves on?.
If this forum was the barometer for that, I'd have my doubts as to whether many posters cared much more than their own inflated opinions on FIFA/Match Attax(sp) and MOTD from 3 years ago.
 
Wycombe Wanderers have reluctantly agreed a deal with Sunderland for the sale of Luke O’Nien, who will leave Adams Park after three years, subject to the transfer being finalised over the weekend.

The midfielder made 119 appearances for the Chairboys, scoring 16 times and becoming an integral part of the club’s journey towards winning promotion to League 1, which was successfully achieved at the end of last season.

However, with O’Nien’s contract due to expire next summer, the club have taken the decision to allow the 23-year-old to pursue his career at the Stadium of Light, joining the Black Cats for an undisclosed fee.

Chairman Trevor Stroud said: “This is one of the toughest decisions we’ve had to make as a football club board in recent times, but ultimately the sustainability of the club under supporter ownership is our number one priority and the reality of our situation is that we need to rely on football fortune – player sales and cup runs – to achieve our breakeven model. As Chairman, with the board’s support, I had to make the decision for the club and it needs to be said this would not have been the manager’s choice from a footballing perspective.

“Luke has been a fantastic ambassador for the club on and off the field and we’re sorry to see him go, but he has an exciting adventure ahead of him at undoubtedly the biggest club in League 1 and we wish him all the best for the future.”

Sporting director Andrew Howard added: “Luke is yet another success story for the club under Gareth’s management and we should all be immensely proud to see another excellent young talent move on to bigger things. We have to remember that he was a young kid who’d been playing on loan in non-league before he came here, but his attitude has always been first-class and his hunger to learn and improve obvious to everyone.

“Whilst we have worked to try and keep Luke, a club our size will always struggle to keep players against the bigger clubs. He will be a loss to us, and we hope he achieves great things in his career, but now we will turn our attentions to helping Gareth continue to build a squad capable of achieving our aims this season.”
 
Wardley Makem said:
Wycombe Wanderers have reluctantly agreed a deal with Sunderland for the sale of Luke O’Nien, who will leave Adams Park after three years, subject to the transfer being finalised over the weekend.

The midfielder made 119 appearances for the Chairboys, scoring 16 times and becoming an integral part of the club’s journey towards winning promotion to League 1, which was successfully achieved at the end of last season.

However, with O’Nien’s contract due to expire next summer, the club have taken the decision to allow the 23-year-old to pursue his career at the Stadium of Light, joining the Black Cats for an undisclosed fee.

Chairman Trevor Stroud said: “This is one of the toughest decisions we’ve had to make as a football club board in recent times, but ultimately the sustainability of the club under supporter ownership is our number one priority and the reality of our situation is that we need to rely on football fortune – player sales and cup runs – to achieve our breakeven model. As Chairman, with the board’s support, I had to make the decision for the club and it needs to be said this would not have been the manager’s choice from a footballing perspective.

“Luke has been a fantastic ambassador for the club on and off the field and we’re sorry to see him go, but he has an exciting adventure ahead of him at undoubtedly the biggest club in League 1 and we wish him all the best for the future.”

Sporting director Andrew Howard added: “Luke is yet another success story for the club under Gareth’s management and we should all be immensely proud to see another excellent young talent move on to bigger things. We have to remember that he was a young kid who’d been playing on loan in non-league before he came here, but his attitude has always been first-class and his hunger to learn and improve obvious to everyone.

“Whilst we have worked to try and keep Luke, a club our size will always struggle to keep players against the bigger clubs. He will be a loss to us, and we hope he achieves great things in his career, but now we will turn our attentions to helping Gareth continue to build a squad capable of achieving our aims this season.”
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Sounds promising.
 
janey said:
I wouldn’t say it was 80/20 mind.
Do you think anyone is happy being in League 1?
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60 years of following SAFC Jane and all I want, is to see us where we belong, got a feeling Ross is the real deal, the problem is! how long can we keep him? and no. I'm embarrassed that we're playing in this division, we never should sink to this level, it's a credit to the fans that they still follow.
 
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