Madjeski fans

[WoodleyRoyal]

the problem is though, if Madejski wants the buyer to run the club like a business as well, there wont be any changes. To take the playing squad and stadium to the next level will cost millions, and that would be classed as reckless not tight ship like he wants

[Arch]

Friday, good post - you could also add that just because you can doesn't mean you 'have' to respond to every single thread a hundred times!!

They all know who they are! And worse, because of that they seem to think this makes them more qualified!

I wonder how many of us go back to 94 when this all started and now can't be bothered anymore...maybe we should do a poll?!

LOL

isnt this post, and indeed the whole thread just a thinly veiled "stop disagreeing with me"

Yeah it's all about you - 37,000 posts and counting, all of them meaningful contributions - congratulations!

I thought about you the other day when walking down the bread isle in tesco's until I looked again and it said Thick Cut.......

And there it is. The first piece of mindless abuse of the thread. You knew it couldn't be long.

[Man Friday]

roadrunner has said all I'd want to say on this thread. (Apart from I'm always suspicious when threads start off with something along the lines of 'why can't we disagree without getting nasty?' As BW says, it's often a thinly-veiled plea for 'agree with me'. Oh, and how could any Reading fan of more than 2 weeks' standing spell his name incorrectly? FFS!)

[brendywendy]

the problem is though, if Madejski wants the buyer to run the club like a business as well, there wont be any changes. To take the playing squad and stadium to the next level will cost millions, and that would be classed as reckless not tight ship like he wants

dont think hed care- if his price is matched, and he believes the man to be honourable, and a good business man, hel'll sell, and itll be down to the new man to set the plans and budgets he sees fit

[brendywendy]

i gave you my sensible, restrained and considered opinion on the OP thanks.
and i have no idea what my post count, or the inherrant meaningfulness of any post on an internet forum has to do with owt.


but top, top, comedy stylings anyway.

Comedy Stylings???? There goes another rib!

i could say the same m8, but i wont.....

you got all heated and abusive and personal.
and then got more so when i pointed it out.

just let it go.

[Arch]

roadrunner has said all I'd want to say on this thread. (Apart from I'm always suspicious when threads start off with something along the lines of 'why can't we disagree without getting nasty?' As BW says, it's often a thinly-veiled plea for 'agree with me'. ...

It's a lot like where two people are having an equally heated debate and one says "stop shouting." There's really not much you can do except shrug.

[WoodleyRoyal]

the problem is though, if Madejski wants the buyer to run the club like a business as well, there wont be any changes. To take the playing squad and stadium to the next level will cost millions, and that would be classed as reckless not tight ship like he wants

dont think hed care- if his price is matched, and he believes the man to be honourable, and a good business man, hel'll sell, and itll be down to the new man to set the plans and budgets he sees fit

there in lies the problem though there are no honourable people who want to invest in football

[brendywendy]

the problem is though, if Madejski wants the buyer to run the club like a business as well, there wont be any changes. To take the playing squad and stadium to the next level will cost millions, and that would be classed as reckless not tight ship like he wants

dont think hed care- if his price is matched, and he believes the man to be honourable, and a good business man, hel'll sell, and itll be down to the new man to set the plans and budgets he sees fit

there in lies the problem though there are no honourable people who want to invest in football

then im happy to stay with JM, and only spend what we bring in.

[manny96]

My dream is not that he will sell to a billionnaire, my dream is that he will donate the club to STAR.

Fair. I'd be concerned they'd be more vulnerable to the short-termism of many fans. Even an established model of fan ownership like Barcelona has left them in stonking amounts of debt and doing idiotic deals like for Fabregas, to satiate the fans who elected Rossell on the populist promise that he'd get his man. I'm sure there are good, fair and sustainable ways for a club to be run by fans, like the German model of at least 50% fan control. But I just sometimes think we're too dumb...

[brendywendy]

My dream is not that he will sell to a billionnaire, my dream is that he will donate the club to STAR.

i do wonder if thats what is being done currently with the profits from the last few years.
would be a suitably grandiose, and publicly welcomed gesture for the great man.

[Arch]

My dream is not that he will sell to a billionnaire, my dream is that he will donate the club to STAR.

Fair. I'd be concerned they'd be more vulnerable to the short-termism of many fans. Even an established model of fan ownership like Barcelona has left them in stonking amounts of debt and doing idiotic deals like for Fabregas, to satiate the fans who elected Rossell on the populist promise that he'd get his man. I'm sure there are good, fair and sustainable ways for a club to be run by fans, like the German model of at least 50% fan control. But I just sometimes think we're too dumb...

Good point, Plato.

[manny96]

My dream is not that he will sell to a billionnaire, my dream is that he will donate the club to STAR.

Fair. I'd be concerned they'd be more vulnerable to the short-termism of many fans. Even an established model of fan ownership like Barcelona has left them in stonking amounts of debt and doing idiotic deals like for Fabregas, to satiate the fans who elected Rossell on the populist promise that he'd get his man. I'm sure there are good, fair and sustainable ways for a club to be run by fans, like the German model of at least 50% fan control. But I just sometimes think we're too dumb...

Good point, Plato.

Ta.

[mr_number]

the problem is though, if Madejski wants the buyer to run the club like a business as well, there wont be any changes. To take the playing squad and stadium to the next level will cost millions, and that would be classed as reckless not tight ship like he wants

dont think hed care- if his price is matched, and he believes the man to be honourable, and a good business man, hel'll sell, and itll be down to the new man to set the plans and budgets he sees fit

there in lies the problem though there are no honourable people who want to invest in football

Au contraire, I consider myself to be very honourable, and I am keen to invest in football. Sadly, Madejski has refused every offer I've made to him yet.

On another note, this is just one of those debates that will never get sorted, and is fairly boring to chat about because everyone's views are so entrenched. So I would possibly argue that, just by posting about it, you're making matters worse.
Can't we just have debates about things like: who was better: Jimmy Quinn or Mick Gooding?
(I'd definitely argue that his subsequent career as a manager who wore a flat cap gives Quinn a serious advantage)

[brendywendy]

quinn every time
flat cap or not!

[Rob-Royal]

I thought about you the other day when walking down the bread isle in tesco's until I looked again and it said Thick Cut.......[/quote]
And there it is. The first piece of mindless abuse of the thread. You knew it couldn't be long.[/quote]


Oh FFS!!

[Harpers So Solid Crew]

Do I want Madejski out? No I don't. But I do want to see someone fresh to come in who has dreams and ambition to make this a big club, who will spend more adventuriously but also within reason, and who will have the clubs best interests at heart and not their own. Sadly, there isn't many out there like that.

Whose money do you think they will spend?

[brendywendy]

I thought about you the other day when walking down the bread isle in tesco's until I looked again and it said Thick Cut.......

And there it is. The first piece of mindless abuse of the thread. You knew it couldn't be long.[/quote]


Oh FFS!! [/quote]


first mindless abuse.
now uncontrolled swearing.
awful scenes

[WoodleyRoyal]

oh the irony

[urz13]

Madejski values the club at £100m whereas its probably only worth £50m.

[mr_number]

quinn every time
flat cap or not!

Quinn without the flat cap over local radio's version of David Lloyd -where's your justification for that? The flat cap is everything