jimmyhillsfanclub
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Pardon me but I think you'll find we've signed several strikers since Wilsons departure...... do keep up dear.
Are you saying that we have never replaced players sold over the years?
How about the pathetic excuses being made by CCFC supporters on why we are becoming shit and a lower level division 3 club?
At the time it was a good deal, that's what people are saying. 1 season in league 1 scoring goals, probably all the other teams in this division would have cashed in. Add to that Wilson was offered far more money and higher standard of football. It was inevitable he was going to go.
Would we be doing better? Who knows. Wilson wouldn't stop the amount of goals we're conceding though.
Pardon me but I think you'll find we've signed several strikers since Wilsons departure...... do keep up dear.
The problem is not in the selling of Wilson, but in making sure an adequate replacement is secured to fill the void left by his absence.
And I thought I could spout shit on here
Oh dear, dear.
So signing lots of poor strikers....mainly on loan......was replacing Wilson?
Only SISU's Bank Manager could even dream that selling Wilson was good !
Mcgoldrick scored 1 goal in 14 games the season before he came on loan to us.
If Joy Sepalla knew anything about football she would look at where the likes of Bournemouth and Southampton are presently and ask those charged with running our football club and why aren't we somewhere near to where they are. The money pouring through both those clubs would mske sisu and more importantly their investors very happy.
The problem is not in the selling of Wilson, but in making sure an adequate replacement is secured to fill the void left by his absence.
I think most would be more understanding to the logistics of the move if at least some part of the fee would have been invested back in the team.
So if we kept Wilson we wouldn't be doing much better and Bournemouth wouldn't be doing much worse? And I thought I could spout shit on here
If you are still saying that it was a good deal you are either making excuses for those who make the decisions or making excuses for yourself because you said it was a good deal when he was sold. He is knocking them in for fun and setting other players up against much better players. Yet he wouldn't make much of a difference to our results this season?
Damn you sisu.....If only we kept hold of Wallace, Gibson, Speedie, Gallagher, Dublin, Keane.....blah blah fucking blah.....
Really is some pathetic whinging by sad cases on here sometimes.....
Your the sad basket case as you seem content with all the goings on at the moment
How can you ever progress as a team when you just sell all your quality players year in year out?
You wonder why 8k only go to watch..
We regularly had 20,000 plus at the Ricoh when we first moved there.
I know you can't keep every player but we are where we are due to Sisu and their lack of ambition.
I tell you now Sisu are using city to offload all the debt and they will walk away..
Your the sad basket case as you seem content with all the goings on at the moment
How can you ever progress as a team when you just sell all your quality players year in year out?
You wonder why 8k only go to watch..
We regularly had 20,000 plus at the Ricoh when we first moved there.
I know you can't keep every player but we are where we are due to Sisu and their lack of ambition.
I tell you now Sisu are using city to offload all the debt and they will walk away..
You really are pissing in the wind with the morons on here mate.Jesus Christ ecky...no one's content but it's football for crying out loud. You're right, we did regularly get 20k at the Ricoh. Novelty factor. When we were regularly in the top flight, our attendances were 8-10k lower than that. It would be the same if we moved to a new stadium again...a novelty factor.
You could argue that we're in our current situation due to a number of factors but this has been done to death. You'd argue SISU. I'd argue SISU, Richardson and many others but let's not go there again.
Doubt it, but im sure they had a bonus or two from Man U.Did Cambridge moan when Dion was banging in the goals for us?
FFS some on here are still acting as if we are a premier league club, the Wilson deal was inevitable and personally thought £3M was a decent amount. The amount of League One players poached by higher leagues season in season out is ongoing and clubs cannot stand in the way of a player getting a role in a higher league and a better salary. Its a shame we cannot keep these players but FFS we have been selling our best players since before i was born so why are people expecting us to change now when we are at our lowest eb since i can remember.
Its shit where we currently are but i think people need to wake up and realise that we are no longer a prem club or even a championship club and cannot expect us to retain a hot prospect like Wilson.
The lack of ambition at this club is truly atrocious. Its always been our Achilles heel but now we're scraping the bottom of the barrel! When the Villa were our nemesis year after year we talked of survival ,they , on the other hand were not content with being out of the top ten . There is nothing wrong in yearning to be in the top flight and talking likewise but to actively support the selling of your best player in return for a few loans is weak
Callum Wilson playing a significant part in their success now being top of the championship...
Sisu should have kept him for another season to get us out of this dire league.
Their lack of ambition, shortsightedness and the way they operate will see us stuck in this god for saken league for years..
You look at Bournemouth and you say to yourself that should be us!!
Lets compare shall we:
Coventry City - 19th in League 1, owe our owners £44.72m, 2013 accounts show £7.16m loss, don't own our ground but own Ryton.
Southampton - 2nd in the Premier League, owe their owners £32.4m, 2013 accounts show £7.1m loss (excluding transfer fees £8.7m profit), own their own ground and new £30m training centre. Note: have made about £35m profit from transfers over the summer.
Bournemouth - 1st in the Championship, owe their owners £16.2m, 2013 accounts show £15.3m loss (can't find any amount excluding transfer fees but I can see reports saying a large investment was made into training facilities), own their own ground and training centre.
Which club do you think is in the worst position out of those? If either Southampton's or Bournemouth's owners were to sell up there's a good chance they will at least get their money back. Depending on how they are run from the point of the these accounts its also possible for both to run profitably in the future.
The lack of ambition at this club is truly atrocious. Its always been our Achilles heel but now we're scraping the bottom of the barrel! When the Villa were our nemesis year after year we talked of survival ,they , on the other hand were not content with being out of the top ten . There is nothing wrong in yearning to be in the top flight and talking likewise but to actively support the selling of your best player in return for a few loans is weak
Exactly...and Leon Clarke had never hit anywhere near the kind of form he did for us in over 10 years for trying.....win some, lose some.
Us obviously. Never said we weren't. However, the point was made that Bournemouth and Southampton's owners were raking it in. They clearly aren't and are having to throw money to stay where they are.
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Perhaps that the difference between a club regularly getting crowds of 15-16k in the PL at highfield road with one getting 34-36k at villa park.
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So in the games we have lost by 1 goal, he would definitely have scored 2 goals to turn them into wins???
Still think that we have a good squad (if not a bit of a risky one with the loans). The main problem has been the formation (5-3-2), we couldn't score, we didn't create and many blamed the squad. We change up to 4-4-2 and we've beaten Peterborough and drawn with Orient scoring 5 in the process. I could never say a Pressley team will be defensively solid, but watch us take off and replicate the first part of last seasons form in the 4-4-2.
I think its been said before -- sucess on the pitch leads to bigger crowd ,leads to higher gate , and on to more income . If while trying to achieve this you sell your best players your , for want of a better word Fu@ked. Ambition is the key to it all . If SISU dont show any ,at least we can. I still think we could fill the stadium with a good side
Quite, you have to show some ambition at some point and with a club like Coventry with the potential support we could generate if we had a modicum of success, you have to give it a go at some point. SISU did throw some money at it 5/6 years ago but the cash was largely wasted and the wages paid were ridiculous to average players. That experience I suppose has dulled the appetite for 'taking a punt'.I think its been said before -- sucess on the pitch leads to bigger crowd ,leads to higher gate , and on to more income . If while trying to achieve this you sell your best players your , for want of a better word Fu@ked. Ambition is the key to it all . If SISU dont show any ,at least we can. I still think we could fill the stadium with a good side
But we had an 8 match unbeaten run when Reda was playing using 5-3-2, don't get me wrong I think it is shit to watch but it does work sometimes.
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