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A well informed article on 200%
http://twohundredpercent.net/?p=25537
http://twohundredpercent.net/?p=25537
It does make depressing reading Jack but we know whenever we read about our club these days on and off the pitch,we feel down..I long for the day I pick up the paper and read that we are back at the Ricoh and back in the Championship,but that would be too much to ask for wouldn't it ?And even Dynamo the magician couldn't conjure that up !A well informed article on 200%
http://twohundredpercent.net/?p=25537
A long slow painful death for the football club of the 9th biggest City in England.
Tragic.
And the football authorities stand by and watch it happen.
What's even more depressing is that certain posters on here seem to revel in this shite.
The facts we know:
1. The club overspent whilst at Highfield Rd, the murky goings on between 1995 and 2007 have never been scrutinised
2. The option to buy back Highfield Rd should have been taken up
3. The original rent of £1.2m should never have been agreed to
4. SISU's due diligence was abysmal as was Saint Joe and co's due diligence on SISU themselves
5. SISU's choice of Ranson then Delieu (sp) as Chairman and then Coleman, Boothroyd and Thorn as managers was also catastrophic
6. The failure of both parties to re-negotiate the rent in good faith was a disaster
7. The move to Northampton is a disaster
8. The club is absolutely fucked regardless of who the owners are. 107% of turnover on wages for a club that apparently "didn't spend enough" in that season says it all about the state of football
9. These articles bring nothing new to the table apart from allowing the author to pat himself on the back for another article highlighting problems without solutions
What's even more depressing is that certain posters on here seem to revel in this shite.
The facts we know:
1. The club overspent whilst at Highfield Rd, the murky goings on between 1995 and 2007 have never been scrutinised
2. The option to buy back Highfield Rd should have been taken up
3. The original rent of £1.2m should never have been agreed to
4. SISU's due diligence was abysmal as was Saint Joe and co's due diligence on SISU themselves
5. SISU's choice of Ranson then Delieu (sp) as Chairman and then Coleman, Boothroyd and Thorn as managers was also catastrophic
6. The failure of both parties to re-negotiate the rent in good faith was a disaster
7. The move to Northampton is a disaster
8. The club is absolutely fucked regardless of who the owners are. 107% of turnover on wages for a club that apparently "didn't spend enough" in that season says it all about the state of football
9. These articles bring nothing new to the table apart from allowing the author to pat himself on the back for another article highlighting problems without solutions
What's even more depressing is that certain posters on here seem to revel in this shite.
The facts we know:
1. The club overspent whilst at Highfield Rd, the murky goings on between 1995 and 2007 have never been scrutinised
2. The option to buy back Highfield Rd should have been taken up
3. The original rent of £1.2m should never have been agreed to
4. SISU's due diligence was abysmal as was Saint Joe and co's due diligence on SISU themselves
5. SISU's choice of Ranson then Delieu (sp) as Chairman and then Coleman, Boothroyd and Thorn as managers was also catastrophic
6. The failure of both parties to re-negotiate the rent in good faith was a disaster
7. The move to Northampton is a disaster
8. The club is absolutely fucked regardless of who the owners are. 107% of turnover on wages for a club that apparently "didn't spend enough" in that season says it all about the state of football
9. These articles bring nothing new to the table apart from allowing the author to pat himself on the back for another article highlighting problems without solutions
These forum posts bring nothing new to the table apart from allowing the author to pat himself/herself on the back for another forum post highlighting problems without solutions.
What's even more depressing is that certain posters on here seem to revel in this shite.
The facts we know:
1. The club overspent whilst at Highfield Rd, the murky goings on between 1995 and 2007 have never been scrutinised
2. The option to buy back Highfield Rd should have been taken up
3. The original rent of £1.2m should never have been agreed to
4. SISU's due diligence was abysmal as was Saint Joe and co's due diligence on SISU themselves
5. SISU's choice of Ranson then Delieu (sp) as Chairman and then Coleman, Boothroyd and Thorn as managers was also catastrophic
6. The failure of both parties to re-negotiate the rent in good faith was a disaster
7. The move to Northampton is a disaster
8. The club is absolutely fucked regardless of who the owners are. 107% of turnover on wages for a club that apparently "didn't spend enough" in that season says it all about the state of football
9. These articles bring nothing new to the table apart from allowing the author to pat himself on the back for another article highlighting problems without solutions
JOHNSILLETS NOSE, what I think the article does is emphasise yet again how low we've sunk, that it is worse than we realise.
It reminds us, if we ever needed it, that it will probably get worse.
Barring a turnaround on a massive scale, our club won't be back in Coventry next season either. We have poisonous owners.
But, it seems, there is still a majority of fans on this forum at least who still have a 'wait and see' attitude. Letting Sisu dictate the scene. Instead of acting collectively to scupper them. Collectively fans are so powerful. I wish ours would wake up to this. A growing number are showing signs of fighting back but it is not enough as it is.
More of the fans are talking of an AFC, a strategy, a plan, to reclaim CCFC. Too late for next season allegedly, but Sphinx could be installed at the Ricoh. It's not ideal, I know that. But what is the alternative? JR, then a couple of appeals, more ghostly plans for tiny stadiums that will never be built? Locked into debt, clinging to the forlorn hope that the Football League will call Sisu's bluff? Fooling ourselves that a petition, however commendable, will change things.
Meanwhile our club dies a painful lingering death.
Make no mistake, Pressley being here has papered over horrendous cracks. You all know that. The summer will see a mass exodus if we are still in Northampton. Wilson, Moussa, Thomas, Fleck, Christie and others are all ambitious young men. They must hate playing in that empty ground. The manager too, he'll be dreaming of bigger things.
Now there's irony.....at least they can't blame the sea of sky blue seats for home defeats..JOHNSILLETS NOSE, what I think the article does is emphasise yet again how low we've sunk, that it is worse than we realise.
It reminds us, if we ever needed it, that it will probably get worse.
Barring a turnaround on a massive scale, our club won't be back in Coventry next season either. We have poisonous owners.
But, it seems, there is still a majority of fans on this forum at least who still have a 'wait and see' attitude. Letting Sisu dictate the scene. Instead of acting collectively to scupper them. Collectively fans are so powerful. I wish ours would wake up to this. A growing number are showing signs of fighting back but it is not enough as it is.
More of the fans are talking of an AFC, a strategy, a plan, to reclaim CCFC. Too late for next season allegedly, but Sphinx could be installed at the Ricoh. It's not ideal, I know that. But what is the alternative? JR, then a couple of appeals, more ghostly plans for tiny stadiums that will never be built? Locked into debt, clinging to the forlorn hope that the Football League will call Sisu's bluff? Fooling ourselves that a petition, however commendable, will change things.
Meanwhile our club dies a painful lingering death.
Make no mistake, Pressley being here has papered over horrendous cracks. You all know that. The summer will see a mass exodus if we are still in Northampton. Wilson, Moussa, Thomas, Fleck, Christie and others are all ambitious young men. They must hate playing in that empty ground. The manager too, he'll be dreaming of bigger things.
JOHNSILLETS NOSE, what I think the article does is emphasise yet again how low we've sunk, that it is worse than we realise.
It reminds us, if we ever needed it, that it will probably get worse.
Barring a turnaround on a massive scale, our club won't be back in Coventry next season either. We have poisonous owners.
But, it seems, there is still a majority of fans on this forum at least who still have a 'wait and see' attitude. Letting Sisu dictate the scene. Instead of acting collectively to scupper them. Collectively fans are so powerful. I wish ours would wake up to this. A growing number are showing signs of fighting back but it is not enough as it is.
More of the fans are talking of an AFC, a strategy, a plan, to reclaim CCFC. Too late for next season allegedly, but Sphinx could be installed at the Ricoh. It's not ideal, I know that. But what is the alternative? JR, then a couple of appeals, more ghostly plans for tiny stadiums that will never be built? Locked into debt, clinging to the forlorn hope that the Football League will call Sisu's bluff? Fooling ourselves that a petition, however commendable, will change things.
Meanwhile our club dies a painful lingering death.
Make no mistake, Pressley being here has papered over horrendous cracks. You all know that. The summer will see a mass exodus if we are still in Northampton. Wilson, Moussa, Thomas, Fleck, Christie and others are all ambitious young men. They must hate playing in that empty ground. The manager too, he'll be dreaming of bigger things.
great post spionkop.
you are right, the fans have more power than they realise. A 100% boycott of Sixfields would have a massive impact on the FL yet there are still 1500 who are happy to go along and watch a game oblivious to the damage they're doing. You are also correct about the impact Sphinx could have by playing at the Ricoh.
Utter nonsense, especially the Sphinx point.
Utter nonsense, especially the Sphinx point.
great post spionkop.
you are right, the fans have more power than they realise. A 100% boycott of Sixfields would have a massive impact on the FL yet there are still 1500 who are happy to go along and watch a game oblivious to the damage they're doing. You are also correct about the impact Sphinx could have by playing at the Ricoh.
"What colour are we?"
It is a myth.
It is a myth.
Why's that then, because you say so !
No, it's a hypothesis. What we do know is that 1500 people quietly attending each week doesn't have the desired effect either.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you always got.
The non-attending hypothesis has as much weight as the full house hypothesis at the moment, both are untried.
Utter nonsense, especially the Sphinx point.
Yep, that is exactly why.
I agree it is hard to tell, I should have put "I think" at the start I guess as it clearly isn't fact and I didn't mean it to come across as that.
Personally, I don't think a sell out every week or 12 there every week would make much difference to the situation right now.
I don't think the Queen and Barack Obama singing Joy a duet written by John Lennon (somehow) about our plight would make any difference to the situation.
I think we're in limbo until the JR, then who knows. The worst part of all of this is the exposition of the fact that we all knew deep down: fans mean absolutely fuck all in football.
Total crap, go and watch Sphinx then and take the big revolutionary Spoinkop with you.
Exactly, that's why I think sometimes why the fuck should the fans suffer. With people staying away yes SISU may love a few quid but they clearly don't give a stuff about that, the only people actually bothered are the fans so they could be spiting themselves by not watching the team they love. The players probably would prefer to be playing at a packed out Ricoh, but they are still being paid every week so they just get on with their job.
You know what? In all this crap that's probably the best reason to attend Sixfields I've read.
Still not going thoughTo be honest, this whole thing has shook my love for the game. I'm holding out for the JR, then see where we are, but if it's another season like this one I may give up altogether rather than put myself through it all for another year.
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