Stoke show RFC how to run a Real Football Club

[WoodleyRoyal]

mills, kitson, sonko, gilfy, long, doyle

please, WHERE THE MONEY GONE? all big profits for RFC.

also sidwell, shorey and others must have made money?

WHERE THE MONEY GONE!!!!!

£eading fc seLLING club

YOU WANT TO KNOW WHERE THE MONEY HAS GONE????????????? READ THIS http://star-reading.org/index.php/downl ... ew/165/74/

[SouthDownsRoyal]

mills, kitson, sonko, gilfy, long, doyle

please, WHERE THE MONEY GONE? all big profits for RFC.

also sidwell, shorey and others must have made money?

WHERE THE MONEY GONE!!!!!

£eading fc seLLING club

YOU WANT TO KNOW WHERE THE MONEY HAS GONE????????????? READ THIS http://star-reading.org/index.php/downl ... ew/165/74/

DONT CLICK THIS VIRUS

[WoodleyRoyal]

you and all the other haters/doommungers are the bloody virus in this football club

[SouthDownsRoyal]

you and all the other haters/doommungers are the bloody virus in this football club

erm where is the dooma nd gloom? i m saying we have made shed loads of cash and spent hardly anything

FACT. Dispute it

[WoodleyRoyal]

2-2 - inevitably Benjani and Kitson for them. A Harte brace for us.

think HARTE wont score this season, or maybe he score one later in season. think we got carried away as had good season last year, sad timez

benjani will score 2 tonights

thats sad for us

Manset will dick on them

LOL he has scored his goals for the season

donkey

manset sets off for Portsmouth but does not take team BUS

LOL you tell me mate you tell me

[SouthDownsRoyal]

erm m8 bit of a fail from you

sorry for you

[Schards#2]

As we speak, i'm sure Stoke fans everywhere are looking disdainfully at their cup final appearance, their extended run in the Premiership, their successful start in Europe and casting an envious eye towards Reading losing at home to Barnsley in front of 15,000 and thinking "why oh why can't that be us"

[floyd__streete]

As we speak, i'm sure Stoke fans everywhere are looking disdainfully at their cup final appearance, their extended run in the Premiership, their successful start in Europe and casting an envious eye towards Reading losing at home to Barnsley in front of 15,000 and thinking "why oh why can't that be us"

Oh sure, it is easy to mock, Schards - but you'll be laughing on the other side of your face when they surely go bankrupt some time soon. It is inevitable, clubs are dying every week. Football in this country is like a Youth camp in Norway.

[Ian Royal]

As we speak, i'm sure Stoke fans everywhere are looking disdainfully at their cup final appearance, their extended run in the Premiership, their successful start in Europe and casting an envious eye towards Reading losing at home to Barnsley in front of 15,000 and thinking "why oh why can't that be us"

Oh sure, it is easy to mock, Schards - but you'll be laughing on the other side of your face when they surely go bankrupt some time soon. It is inevitable, clubs are dying every week. Football in this country is like a Youth camp in Norway.

You two can jerk yourself off at this but I don't think anyone has said Stoke are badly run, and people at Stoke have said they're run on our model. They just happen to have not made the mistake we did in our second season and have an owner more able to put extra cash in than Madejski.

[AthleticoSpizz]

might not be badly ran....but how many £millions did they lose on Kits and Sonks alone?

Would you run your own bank affairs like that?

[Royal Lady]

They've spent a fair few million on players, recouping some, but have an £8 million debt. We've had similar debt without spending anywhere near as much on players.

http://www.footballtransfertavern.com/2011/06/premiership/queens-park-rangers/stoke-city-a-damn-fine-football-business-model

[Ian Royal]

might not be badly ran....but how many £millions did they lose on Kits and Sonks alone?

Would you run your own bank affairs like that?

They've certainly made mistakes, as has been pointed out, and they're spending quite a lot. But their owner has something like double Madejski's fortune, and they're staying competitive at the moment. The test for them comes when they get relegated and sooner or later they're probably going to have a bad season and do that.

If they don't go straight back up under that circumstance, it will be very interesting to see what they do next.

[Royal Rother]

Wonderful bloke though Coppell is I think we would not have gone down with a character like Pulis in charge. He would have wrung a few more points out of that season.

I'm beginning to get Floyd and SDR confused. They both love nothing better than a good defeat.

I don't mind a bit of misplaced over-optimistic smugness after a win, but when a defeat brings out "told you so" smugness it really seems time to question people's state of mind. It's an odd way of dealing with disappointment.

[floyd__streete]

I don't mind a bit of misplaced over-optimistic smugness after a win, but when a defeat brings out "told you so" smugness it really seems time to question people's state of mind. It's an odd way of dealing with disappointment.

It's called a 'discussion' m8, it's just that you don't like most of the very fairly raised points that are coming up. Once again I ask, were you there? If you don't put up then you should definitely shut up.

[AthleticoSpizz]

Wonderful bloke though Coppell is I think we would not have gone down with a character like Pulis in charge. He would have wrung a few more points out of that season.

I'm beginning to get Floyd and SDR confused. They both love nothing better than a good defeat.

I don't mind a bit of misplaced over-optimistic smugness after a win, but when a defeat brings out "told you so" smugness it really seems time to question people's state of mind. It's an odd way of dealing with disappointment.

and being too understanding can become a chore every season start......



.....but FFS that was only game 4 of a 46 game season

[Royal Rother]

They've spent a fair few million on players, recouping some, but have an £8 million debt. We've had similar debt without spending anywhere near as much on players.

http://www.footballtransfertavern.com/2011/06/premiership/queens-park-rangers/stoke-city-a-damn-fine-football-business-model

The only reason they have reported a low debt is because the Coates family have converted most of their actual injections of £40M+ into Share Capital.

[Harpers So Solid Crew]

Was it not reported that JM did the same at RFC?

[Royal Rother]

I don't mind a bit of misplaced over-optimistic smugness after a win, but when a defeat brings out "told you so" smugness it really seems time to question people's state of mind. It's an odd way of dealing with disappointment.

It's called a 'discussion' m8, it's just that you don't like most of the very fairly raised points that are coming up. Once again I ask, were you there? If you don't put up then you should definitely shut up.

Why?

I follow the fortunes of the club closely but choose not to go to games for reasons I have given many times. Like it or not that makes me far better placed to take a dispassionate view of the situation. And believe it or not, a couple of narrow defeats out of 4 games is not a good reason for despondency.

The team has to readjust after losing 2 key players just as it had to adjust and evolve after losing Gylfi. It took time but people stepped up last season and the same will happen this season. But that evolution needs time to happen again.

As for fairly raised points - well, to my mind "Where's the money gone", and "We need new players" type discussions are absolutely pointless at this time and disrespectful to the club's ethos and its managerial and playing staff.

FFS, 4 games in - give them a chance to adapt and grow. It took some time but Long showed what patience and faith could produce. Surely it's too early to forget that message.

[floyd__streete]

As for fairly raised points - well, to my mind "Where's the money gone", and "We need new players" type discussions are absolutely pointless at this time and disrespectful to the club's ethos and its managerial and playing staff.

These discussions are entirely pointless because all the bluster on this message board is meaningless. Disrespectful? You didn't see the ponderous defending of our painfully slow back four and our toothless attack. Because you weren't there.

[Avon Royal]

to my mind "Where's the money gone", and "We need new players" type discussions are absolutely pointless at this time and disrespectful to the club's ethos

Are you for real?!?!?