They have loved our demise now the boot is on the other foot; HA HA HA

Edited February 17, 20215 yr by Casino

33 minutes ago, Alf Hartigan said:

The mighty Lincoln eh, how depressing

Still not forgiven them for calling that match off as we departed Sheffield Station and we decided to spend 4hrs in the land that time forgot . Worksop.

Birth place of Bruce Dickinson and Graham Taylor. And the only decent bar is on the train station 

1 hour ago, MickyD said:

I’m actually wondering if Bury should feel hard done by that the EFL didn’t take this long to get rid of them.

Nah.  Bury's owner didn't produce proof of funds despite several requests.  Their takeover, which was described as imminent at the time, has still not happened.

Wigan have the funds through to summer, when I expect, sadly, some loon will buy them. 

As good a place as any but high Hope's that Burnley's new owner is going to fuck them over.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56089037

9 hours ago, Duck Egg said:

Nah.  Bury's owner didn't produce proof of funds despite several requests.  Their takeover, which was described as imminent at the time, has still not happened.

Wigan have the funds through to summer, when I expect, sadly, some loon will buy them. 

So long as they have been relegated.....

13 hours ago, Mr Grey said:

We did the main strip, what a shithole is Worksop, It felt like an episode of Life on Mars 😃

Oh , don't worry, we walked all the way to Spoons.

Then nipped to a "recomended" ale pub.

Landlord pulled 3 pints - barrel ran out.  And he had been passed the night before , so hadn't prepared any more beers.

Went in a shite Yates.

Admitted defeat headed back to Station . Found the bar. 36c Barmaid, started supping . 3 hrs later caught train.

6 hours ago, green genie said:

As good a place as any but high Hope's that Burnley's new owner is going to fuck them over.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56089037

Bit shit that really. Sure plenty have looked at Burnley as a model for how a club with a relatively small fan base could carve out a niche for itself in the Prem.

It's just another business now.

6 hours ago, green genie said:

As good a place as any but high Hope's that Burnley's new owner is going to fuck them over.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56089037

I posted earlier in this thread about their takeover. It's bound to end in tears in my opinion.

8 hours ago, green genie said:

As good a place as any but high Hope's that Burnley's new owner is going to fuck them over.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56089037

One of the quotes in there sounded eerily similar to Phil Gartside's "We only owe £10m.  The rest is a loan from the owner we dont have to pay back"

Burnley were a great example of what could be done under a sensible, prudent regime.  It's sad if this deal is due to such cautious ownership no longer being feasible.

So long as they stick with their spending limits they should be fine.

We didn't seem to do that and got stung.

Time will tell.

2 hours ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

So long as they stick with their spending limits they should be fine.

We didn't seem to do that and got stung.

Time will tell.

We overspent when Allardyce was in charge and then he walked because the money had run out.

9 minutes ago, Traf said:

We overspent when Allardyce was in charge and then he walked because the money had run out.

We spent a fortune after Sam left, we should of given it him to spend, maddest fuck up ever in the history of football. 

3 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said:

We spent a fortune after Sam left, we should of given it him to spend, maddest fuck up ever in the history of football. 

At the time he wanted it, there was none to give.

40 minutes ago, Traf said:

At the time he wanted it, there was none to give.

so your saying eddie "didn't" really bankroll the club ?

1 minute ago, victor meldrew said:

so your saying eddie "didn't" really bankroll the club ?

or he didn't like allardyce

1 hour ago, victor meldrew said:

or he didn't like allardyce

Don't think Eddie had anything to do with Sam leaving, the other mon, well that's a different story

2 hours ago, Traf said:

At the time he wanted it, there was none to give.

Where did it come from after sam left? 

4 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said:

Where did it come from after sam left? 

At Christmas, he wanted money the club couldn't give. When the next lump of Sky cash came in the summer, there was money to spend. Sam didn't want to wait, wanted the club to borrow against the Sky cash and sulked when it didn't happen.

There's always money in the future, just not always immediately.

We also sold anelka

Could you imagine the walrus being told he had to do that

25 minutes ago, Traf said:

At Christmas, he wanted money the club couldn't give. When the next lump of Sky cash came in the summer, there was money to spend. Sam didn't want to wait, wanted the club to borrow against the Sky cash and sulked when it didn't happen.

There's always money in the future, just not always immediately.

That makes sense, wasn’t Sam after Alan Smith? Might not of been the best signing but even so given our demise since might of been better giving Sam the money.  

Allardyce was fantastic for us

That cant be denied

Still think the players he left us with werent what they couldve been

It was all too short termist

But that was probably the only way we could achieve what we did

Who knows...great times

1 hour ago, Mounts Kipper said:

That makes sense, wasn’t Sam after Alan Smith? Might not of been the best signing but even so given our demise since might of been better giving Sam the money.  

One Stretford wete in for Smith we had no chance.

Sam claims to have presented a list of 4 names & that any two of them would gave got us into the Champion's League level. But Gartside, & I assume Eddie, said we hadn't the resources & we got none of them.

We were 3rd at that time going into the January window. Sam never got over that & decided the club couldn't meet his ambitions. Maybe he was right. But how much would the club have benefitted ?

But Sam often claims to have been offered this player or that ... Drogba being one he speaks of. However, for all of his successes there were consideable failures. For every Faye, a Blessing Kaku. 

His single biggest failing was not "doing a Southampton" & setting up a strong youth system so we were producing quality and not always buying it.

He's come across as right arse this week saying he'd have got Everton top 4 with his budget. Covering up for complete hash making of his current job

7 hours ago, green genie said:

He's come across as right arse this week saying he'd have got Everton top 4 with his budget. Covering up for complete hash making of his current job

hes made a complete hash of 3 of my accas at least. twat

In should be a criminal offence to criticise Sams time here but his actions  since make it easier.

It is OK Sam claiming he had all these great players lined up. Some of which will be true. But when given a bit of money at Newcastle he went out and spent £6m on Alan Smith. At every club he has been at his story afterwards is how if he had been backed he would have signed certain players (Luca Modric is the Newcastle Drogba). 
 

What happened at Bolton when he was here in terms of players, results and the whole journey was brilliant. He was innovative and exciting. But he has never replicated that success.

I said when left it was a bad day for us and would be for him in the long term. If you could be arsed to go back plenty of idiots on here were glad to see him go. 

 

14 hours ago, Casino said:

We also sold anelka

Could you imagine the walrus being told he had to do that

In fairness I’d want my manager to be pissed off at that.