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A breakdown of trust

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Sam Handwich said:
Agreed. The FPP lads must have sussed Donald out right from the start. And they will have seen that failure to get promoted would turn the screw even more in their favour. Even if Donald manages to pay them back, they get there money back with interest. If not they get the club for a 10m. A cynical person might say this was less about owning a football club, and more about teaching a jumped up, would be high-flyer a lesson in business management.
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Yeah I think that too... but I do wonder what the status of the loan is .. there has been boatload of claim/ counter claim about why the loan was given. The amount of interest to these guys would get back seems like chicken feed

loaning cash to a bunch of clowns seems a sizable risk. Yet they still bumble along shitting on everything with the tinpot antics
 
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The charlatans in charge thought that they would buy SAFC to do a quick flip . Failure on every front has resulted in the sale or loss of valuable sssets. They have been exposed as unable to think or act strategically. Their default position is to manage a club the size of SAFC like Eastleigh.
 
INigle said:
The charlatans in charge thought that they would buy SAFC to do a quick flip . Failure on every front has resulted in the sale or loss of valuable sssets. They have been exposed as unable to think or act strategically. Their default position is to manage a club the size of SAFC like Eastleigh.
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You have to wonder at what point do they realise that the club isn't going to be the cash cow they thought it was ... or maybe they have already taken all the money they're ever going to my writing off the money already taken?

They've self agrandised themselves situng that the loan was an investment in madrox yet its clear they are clowns
 
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prehab26 said:
Very very good. As you know, I have been critical of some of your work, but credit where it is due. Expertly out together and really gets the tone across. Super bit of writing.

This bit

I wouldn’t trust him (CM) to pass the homeless without whipping out a £50 note and igniting it to ‘Firestarter’ by the Prodigy, laughing maniacally at the tortured look on the face of those he deems beneath him.
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Just read it, cheers for the prompt. As you say it is very good, the bit about Donald being a girlfriend when you are on the rebound only to find out she is worse, is a good analogy. I think the whole piece highlights the emotion that goes with supporting this club, but it needs a wider audience. Donald isn’t going anywhere, that bit is fairly obvious, he couldn’t care less how desperate, embarrassed and humiliated the fans are, he is just intent on making up for his losses at Eastleigh and not lose anymore here. He took the risk, pain or gain, due to his incompetence, it’s pain, ergo his risk and loss.
 
Confucius said:
Just read it, cheers for the prompt. As you say it is very good, the bit about Donald being a girlfriend when you are on the rebound only to find out she is worse, is a good analogy. I think the whole piece highlights the emotion that goes with supporting this club, but it needs a wider audience. Donald isn’t going anywhere, that bit is fairly obvious, he couldn’t care less how desperate, embarrassed and humiliated the fans are, he is just intent on making up for his losses at Eastleigh and not lose anymore here. He took the risk, pain or gain, due to his incompetence, it’s pain, ergo his risk and loss.
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Problem is the environment has change drastically... income is depleting fast and the future of the game short term looks challenging. You'd have thought that is protecting yourself against loss requires you protect your primary income from fans.. yet that's seems unimportant. What kind of business model do these pricks have that they think that their crap decisions are actually gonna pay off
 
The Cabbage said:
The trust and finances thing has become the lightning rod for this regime when it should be their lack of competence. I'd rather the local press went in two footed about that tbh.
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It all goes hand in hand. Trust tends to follow when people show they're trustworthy. Trustworthiness is pretty much based on how we perceive others' competence, benevolence and integrity. The owners have shown a distinct lack of all three. It's no wonder they're despised.
 
Would love to see them lose money on the club. They’ve been pathetic from the day they arrived and quite frankly they don’t deserve any respect from the fan base.

They’re con artists that could never afford the football club. They were talking in the first season about how the extra fan support/income would go back into the first team and then they spent the summer cutting costs & paying off the good players (who apparently we could afford to keep).
 
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North Yorks Mackem said:
Excellent article. We need more putting out there by the press. Shame the journos for national newspapers are staying largely silent, but I suppose they need to concentrate on #cans.
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To be fair, why should the burden be on the media to bring your plight to the fore when your supporter base has done very little to do it themselves?

The vast majority have sat on their hands and done nothing while you've plummeted down the divisions for fear of looking 'mag-esque'

We didn't invent protests and it's a massive bone of contention to what result our protests have had but at least they have put pressure on Ashley in the media. Without them we could have been footnotes too.
 
Sima said:
To be fair, why should the burden be on the media to bring your plight to the fore when your supporter base has done very little to do it themselves?

The vast majority have sat on their hands and done nothing while you've plummeted down the divisions for fear of looking 'mag-esque'

We didn't invent protests and it's a massive bone of contention to what result our protests have had but at least they have put pressure on Ashley in the media. Without them we could have been footnotes too.
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Careful, if you speak too much sense you’ll just get immature replies like ‘Mag’ because people have nothing to say back, as it’s all true.
 
Sima said:
To be fair, why should the burden be on the media to bring your plight to the fore when your supporter base has done very little to do it themselves?

The vast majority have sat on their hands and done nothing while you've plummeted down the divisions for fear of looking 'mag-esque'

We didn't invent protests and it's a massive bone of contention to what result our protests have had but at least they have put pressure on Ashley in the media. Without them we could have been footnotes too.
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Only 10k renewed their season tickets.

I think that speaks volumes.
 
Confucius said:
he will get replies like "mag" cos he is one
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Yep; but if anyone had anything constructive to say, they wouldn’t say that and would engage in a conversation with him about it.

But they can’t, because he’s right. 90% of our fanbase do fuck all to instigate change and are more concerned about our neighbours and what they think/what the rest of the world thinks.
Wansbeck Viking said:
Only 10k renewed their season tickets.

I think that speaks volumes.
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10,000 too many. 10,000 people have renewed their tickets without even knowing if they can attend matches ffs.

That’s before you even factor in the fact that many will renew whenever matches become watchable, because their seat is being held.
 
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Unfortunately the national press aren't interested unless you are premier league and in Div one even less so. It's only once what's happened at Wigan that the media gets remotely interested , there's loads of dodgy stuff going on and the EFL have lost control.
 
NickAddicks said:
Unfortunately the national press aren't interested unless you are premier league and in Div one even less so. It's only once what's happened at Wigan that the media gets remotely interested , there's loads of dodgy stuff going on and the EFL have lost control.
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Not true - Blackpool are a clear example of that. If the fans shout loud enough/cause enough disruption, it will be reported on.
 
Alisander thunders said:
Yep; but if anyone had anything constructive to say, they wouldn’t say that and would engage in a conversation with him about it.

But they can’t, because he’s right. 90% of our fanbase do fuck all to instigate change and are more concerned about our neighbours and what they think/what the rest of the world thinks.


10,000 too many. 10,000 people have renewed their tickets without even knowing if they can attend matches ffs.

That’s before you even factor in the fact that many will renew whenever matches become watchable, because their seat is being held.
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You can’t have a go at those who have renewed, there’s a massive drop in those that haven’t.

What would you suggest?
 
Sima said:
To be fair, why should the burden be on the media to bring your plight to the fore when your supporter base has done very little to do it themselves?

The vast majority have sat on their hands and done nothing while you've plummeted down the divisions for fear of looking 'mag-esque'

We didn't invent protests and it's a massive bone of contention to what result our protests have had but at least they have put pressure on Ashley in the media. Without them we could have been footnotes too.
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It's called decades of being shite that's turned people to apathy.
 
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