Robinson signs for 50k- paid for by Delia

[MadDan 0]

" unless major money is spent and we know that won''t happen when there''s land to be built on. "

Yep, silly old club putting a new stand up and then wasting even more money filling in the gaps between. Why couldn''t the club have spent the money on players, we would still be in the Premiership and every game would be sold out. Well, sold out because they would be hardly where to seat anyone.

Still in the Premiership because we got there in the first place on borrowed money that was secured against, um err mm........... oh yes, some land.

I only thank god that we have a club ran by folk who have grasp on reality not the binmen brained dimwits that post their idiotic Sheepshanks style business ideas on here.

I also do wonder if some of our fans would prefer us to be such a basket case as those further south who after decades of neglect and under investment finally collapsed under the weight of their debt and their own incompetence.

A club who as I write, cannot even meet the most minimal of their interest only payments. Have gone, yet again, cap in hand to their major creditors to beg for a stay of execution. Not to bolster some imaginary promotion challenge but to stave off the inevitable drop down to Div 1.

There was some absurd talk on here before Xmas of us doing a Nottm Forest as if a loss of form is enough to relegate a club. It is not. It is a loss of money that does that. Ask Forest, Barnsley, Bradford and Sheff Weds. A loss that sees your best players gone and a squad made up of loanees, short term signings and raw youth.

Remember that our impoverished neighbours had been paying annual wage bills of £20m, £14.7m and £7.5m up till the end of last season. Watch the slump now they have hit around £5.5m. Imagine what is to come, when athey hit the point of having to start paying their debts.

Probably gates of less than the glorious 10,000 who followed them to Milan. Probably having to ask a fan, not the manager, to pay the hotel bill because the hotel said "''that won''t do nicely" when they saw the binman credit card.

A club that has millions of pounds worth of debts around the county, is in existence only because it defaulted on those debts and was only saved from further humiliation when one or two their more astute fans pointed out that the all singing, all dancing new investor might not able to " commit to this club in a way that is consistent with our heritage, and our community, family values." (that someone should be too dodgy for even our third world neighbours might come as a bit of a shock to some up here but there are still people like that around.)

Now I''m not saying that those City fans, who aimlessly drift along in some kind of ''la la'' land where running a football club is akin to buying Panini football stickers, would want us to be in that state but I''m afraid that if their simple minded wishes were they to be carried out they would certainly have us there.

Perhaps these folk perhaps might be best playing a game of Suffolk monopoly, where the only counters are a top hat, a pitch fork and a worn out donkey. Where you don''t buy any property, you buy players instead (when they have not gone directly to jail for drinking offences).

The chance cards are -

" Do not play your game against Lazio, collect £10 instead "

" You have won second prize in a beauty contest - a pig came first"

And you''ll find that both dice have only the number one on each side as anything else might prove rather too difficult to count up when you come from suffolk.

So hopefully they''ll enjoy and will remember next time they are griping about land, that in the real game it is the ones that puts up the hotels that tends to win !

[Citizen Journalist Foghorn 0]

[quote user="MadDan"]" unless major money is spent and we know that won''t happen when there''s land to be built on. " Yep, silly old club putting a new stand up and then wasting even more money filling in the gaps between. Why couldn''t the club have spent the money on players, we would still be in the Premiership and every game would be sold out. Well, sold out because they would be hardly where to seat anyone. Still in the Premiership because we got there in the first place on borrowed money that was secured against, um err mm........... oh yes, some land. I only thank god that we have a club ran by folk who have grasp on reality not the binmen brained dimwits that post their idiotic Sheepshanks style business ideas on here. I also do wonder if some of our fans would prefer us to be such a basket case as those further south who after decades of neglect and under investment finally collapsed under the weight of their debt and their own incompetence. A club who as I write, cannot even meet the most minimal of their interest only payments. Have gone, yet again, cap in hand to their major creditors to beg for a stay of execution. Not to bolster some imaginary promotion challenge but to stave off the inevitable drop down to Div 1. There was some absurd talk on here before Xmas of us doing a Nottm Forest as if a loss of form is enough to relegate a club. It is not. It is a loss of money that does that. Ask Forest, Barnsley, Bradford and Sheff Weds. A loss that sees your best players gone and a squad made up of loanees, short term signings and raw youth. Remember that our impoverished neighbours had been paying annual wage bills of £20m, £14.7m and £7.5m up till the end of last season. Watch the slump now they have hit around £5.5m. Imagine what is to come, when athey hit the point of having to start paying their debts. Probably gates of less than the glorious 10,000 who followed them to Milan. Probably having to ask a fan, not the manager, to pay the hotel bill because the hotel said "''that won''t do nicely" when they saw the binman credit card. A club that has millions of pounds worth of debts around the county, is in existence only because it defaulted on those debts and was only saved from further humiliation when one or two their more astute fans pointed out that the all singing, all dancing new investor might not able to " commit to this club in a way that is consistent with our heritage, and our community, family values." (that someone should be too dodgy for even our third world neighbours might come as a bit of a shock to some up here but there are still people like that around.) Now I''m not saying that those City fans, who aimlessly drift along in some kind of ''la la'' land where running a football club is akin to buying Panini football stickers, would want us to be in that state but I''m afraid that if their simple minded wishes were they to be carried out they would certainly have us there. Perhaps these folk perhaps might be best playing a game of Suffolk monopoly, where the only counters are a top hat, a pitch fork and a worn out donkey. Where you don''t buy any property, you buy players instead (when they have not gone directly to jail for drinking offences). The chance cards are - " Do not play your game against Lazio, collect £10 instead " " You have won second prize in a beauty contest - a pig came first" And you''ll find that both dice have only the number one on each side as anything else might prove rather too difficult to count up when you come from suffolk. So hopefully they''ll enjoy and will remember next time they are griping about land, that in the real game it is the ones that puts up the hotels that tends to win ![/quote]

Personally I feel worthy has been backed well by the board - he has just squandered the funds that have been made available to him.

And i think people were worried because 23 games in we had scored only 23 goals and were just above the relegation zone, having been humiliated away and embarrassed at home.  Fortunatly we had a good *blip* in form in December.