by RoyalBlue »
21 Aug 2010 21:18
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He was happy to stand inviting/reaping the applause when things were going well and it appears he still likes the attention that comes with having your own football club. It's time he realises that things like that don't come for free. If he doesn't offer supporters something to get excited about and to look forward to then he deserves the same stick that any other chairman would get. If he can't stand that heat then the sooner he rushes for the kitchen door the better.
If supporters can't get excited by the thing most people have been demanding for years (a flow of talented, home produced, local kids in the first team) then I suspect what we have in part are the usual boring suspects simply wanting to find things to moan about.....
I's also suggest SJM knows very well that success doesn't come twice for free (we pretty much got it for a bargain basement price the first time round) but I still can't quite get why it's down to him to chuck the cash in to gamble on more 'success'. For year's we've known the financial basis on which the club is run but some people still want us to compete financially int he mad world of football finance, and have cheap tickets, and deliver the moon on a stick !
I'm also confused by Floyd's comment about the club forgetting about 'entertainment'. The football we get now is a dman sight more entertaining than it has been for most of the year's I've watched the club. Floyd obvioulsy equates entertainment with 'being in the Premer league', an elemental mistake !!
You don't get it? He is the sodding Chairman, it is up to him to create a situation where there is the cash to allow the club/business to compete effectively and become increasingly successful. That's an essential role of any Chairman in any business. Plenty of other Chairman seem to be managing to do it and still pay HMRC. If he can't create that situation then he should either provide some cash himself in return for the adulation and recognition he appears to think is his right or hand over (at a sensible price and under sensible terms and conditions) to someone who can.
We haven't actually got what we've been demanding for years as some of the 'talented, home produced, local kids in the first team are clearly only there because the Chairman won't agree a budget that will allow the manager to bring in better players that would allow us to make a serious and realistic push for promotion.
"some people still want us to compete financially int he mad world of football finance, and have cheap tickets, and deliver the moon on a stick !"
Just one of those would be nice! (we now have cheaper but not cheap tickets)
As for boring, you sir, should look in the mirror. That's if you can extract your head out of the sand where it appears to be buried next to Madejski's.