Along with everybody else I was very excited yesterday reading about the new consortium bid.
But don't think its a forgone conclusion. Many things could scupper or put off all the other bidders before they get to the finishing line.
Sisu have got a lot of critics and I am not sure their recent initiative to talk directly to the fans in forums will be their wisest move. They are likely to be dominated by the "SISU-out-louts". All the more moderate fans will streer well clear not wanting to get involved in a rumble.
I certainly do not think SISU have been perfect owners but at the end of the day they ARE still here and they ARE still paying the wages and keeping the team on the pitch.
For paying the ongoing losses at a rate of £3m a year we should regard them as supporters of the team if not the biggest financial supporter of the team.
Protesters withdrawing their support from the team by threatening to buycot games and not buy season tickets cannot call themselves supporters and such actions will only take the team one way!
Dispite heated feelings against SISU they have managed to put players of the caliber of King, McGoldrick and Clarke on the pitch until now.
If your support is witheld you cannot expect SISU to manage a similar level of funding and the team will inevitably go down! Is that really what you want?
imp:
Along with everybody else I was very excited yesterday reading about the new consortium bid.
But don't think its a forgone conclusion. Many things could scupper or put off all the other bidders before they get to the finishing line.
Sisu have got a lot of critics and I am not sure their recent initiative to talk directly to the fans in forums will be their wisest move. They are likely to be dominated by the "SISU-out-louts". All the more moderate fans will streer well clear not wanting to get involved in a rumble.
I certainly do not think SISU have been perfect owners but at the end of the day they ARE still here and they ARE still paying the wages and keeping the team on the pitch.
For paying the ongoing losses at a rate of £3m a year we should regard them as supporters of the team if not the biggest financial supporter of the team.
Protesters withdrawing their support from the team by threatening to buycot games and not buy season tickets cannot call themselves supporters and such actions will only take the team one way!
Dispite heated feelings against SISU they have managed to put players of the caliber of King, McGoldrick and Clarke on the pitch until now.
If your support is witheld you cannot expect SISU to manage a similar level of funding and the team will inevitably go down! Is that really what you want?
imp:
<br />there's no way we could be losing 3m a year with all the cost cutting. n they may have "bought" these players in, but they did'nt do enough to keep them. if we had dmc and clarke for the last half of the season, they would have got their investment back through promotion. simple business sense: right investment in the right area = success
Ern Clarke was injured and is still a ccfc holdings player
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i mean as a striker partnership :jerkit:
Oh dear Greggo ,There has been no violence at any Protest I've ever attended and there won't be at the Forums ,Get real and get along there ,it was all absolutely well reasoned when we had a face to face last night and resulted in Poor Tim looking like he wanted to be swallowed up into cocoon away from all this.
Why would DMc have stayed here if he was being chased by clubs in the Championship? I am sure the club made him a very good offer, or would you have preferred the club to have spent money it didn't have, which has got us into this mess in the first place? There is only so much you can do to try and get someone to resign, if the players wants to go, then they will go. Just like Keiren Westwood.
i mean as a striker partnership :jerkit:
Did we play with two strikers up front?
Sisu - move out of city and come back in 3 years time to much smaller stadium.
Any other owner - Stay at the Ricoh, in Coventry.
Yeah, Sisu might be the best option.
Along with everybody else I was very excited yesterday reading about the new consortium bid.
But don't think its a forgone conclusion. Many things could scupper or put off all the other bidders before they get to the finishing line.
Sisu have got a lot of critics and I am not sure their recent initiative to talk directly to the fans in forums will be their wisest move. They are likely to be dominated by the "SISU-out-louts". All the more moderate fans will streer well clear not wanting to get involved in a rumble.
I certainly do not think SISU have been perfect owners but at the end of the day they ARE still here and they ARE still paying the wages and keeping the team on the pitch.
For paying the ongoing losses at a rate of £3m a year we should regard them as supporters of the team if not the biggest financial supporter of the team.
Protesters withdrawing their support from the team by threatening to buycot games and not buy season tickets cannot call themselves supporters and such actions will only take the team one way!
Dispite heated feelings against SISU they have managed to put players of the caliber of King, McGoldrick and Clarke on the pitch until now.
If your support is witheld you cannot expect SISU to manage a similar level of funding and the team will inevitably go down! Is that really what you want?
imp:
I like to consider myself to have a balanced view but the title at the top of this page is ridiculous.
..... Protesters withdrawing their support from the team by threatening to buycot games and not buy season tickets cannot call themselves supporters and such actions will only take the team one way! ......
OK, thats your view, but I think its a bit unfair to suggest everyone who takes this line cannot call themselves supporters. Some have followed the club home and away for 20/30/40 years and finally see no alternative than this course of action.
Ah, Mr Fisher, we've been expecting you. :welcome:
OK, thats your view, but I think its a bit unfair to suggest everyone who takes this line cannot call themselves supporters. Some have followed the club home and away for 20/30/40 years and finally see no alternative than this course of action.
The best option has to be chosen from options that are available. If all the other options fail to make it to the finishing line there might be only one option!
On reflection I didn't express it very well in the title!
But I can't change it now!
imp:
In a literal sense, financially supporting the team.
imp:
Hmmm ... the problem is Greg that Sisu are, how can I put it, a tad difficult to deal with and have lost all credibility. If they had continued to pay the rent they had agreed to pay and, even after that, if they had stuck to the rent re-negotiation they (allegedly) agreed to pay then yes, we could feel some pity for them, but they've proved to be somewhat unpredictable. So, they've lost the trust of their landlords and now this crazy ground-move scheme means they've finally lost the fans too.
To be honest I think the whole aggressive short term, hedge fund type way of doing business is totally discredited anyway; it looks as out-dated as a pair or red braces. The crash and all the recent banking scandals have seen to that. It's a shame because, as you say, Sisu has bank-rolled the club through a slump, but look to have excluded themselves from rail and property infrastructure investment opportunity that might have made them a profit in the long run.
For paying the ongoing losses at a rate of £3m a year we should regard them as supporters of the team if not the biggest financial supporter of the team.
Under SISU we have fallen to our lowest footballing position in two generations; with preparation that points to us looking toward a relegation struggle next year, playing to diminutive crowds in another club's stadium not even in the Coventry postcode.
They have laden us with debt, via a complex off-shore company structure the like of which is rarely, if ever seen at this level; and overseen a calamitous financial landscape that's made us - along with Pompey - the laughing stock of the freak show of football finances.
To suggest anything associated with SISU is even moderately better than abhorrent is a signal of just how low we have sunk. Or the work of a disingenuous poster seeking 'bites'
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