city left standing by latest fashion.........

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in the late 90''s & early 2000''s, the fashion was to borrow big, invest in the team, new stadia and have a tilt at the big time.  for some it worked and they are still in the prem, such as newcastle, bolton and man city.  others had initial success and nearly went bust, or even into administration.  leicester, derby, and leeds spring to mind.  now, and in the last 3-4 years, the main economic fashion is to chute in billionaires/investors - who are prepared to spend big without fear of loss - why, cos the rewards are big now to get in the prem and could get bigger.   even ipswich, £30m+  in debt  have  a new investor,  preparing to  finance them into the prem.NCFC - have stuck proudly by their traditions during these times, and have always tried to act honourably and decently - even towards their managers, (who are encouraged to go by mutual consent) but also towards their fans.   we''ve tried to  run the football club within our means - as a sound business.   however, since late 90''s and since, this economic model has been under strain - as noted above, by bigger spending clubs.  it can been argued, the only time we strayed from our traditions, pumping extra investment in via a fans/directors shares issue has been the only time we''ve acheived success in 13 years.   1 year in 13 - that stat says it all.  we''re in real danger of going down - there''s hope> QPR are showing the way, they''ve spent some of their new investors money and are unbeaten in 4.  nothing against hartson, (he''s impressive for 10 mins) but he''s probably the most unfit player i''ve ever seen on a football pitch.  he''ll take another 4 weeks to last 45 mins imo.  if he''s the limit of our ambition, then its patently not good enough.what do others think - should we continue to stick to our prinicples - even if this means going down to league 1 (they don''t come straight up usually from there)  or is it time to follow suit, and sell the club to people with real money????

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We should have sold the club to someone with real money when we got promoted, we may have still been in the prem had we spent some cash. If we can''t attract some investment into the club I really do fear for us, even in recent times there are at least 4 clubs( QPR,Leicester,Stoke and Ipswich) that have gone above us in the pecking order because of money coming in to the club, the way things are going if we don''t do the same we won''t even be worthy of being a championship club.

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we''re in real danger of going down - there''s hope> QPR are showing the way, they''ve spent some of their new investors money and are unbeaten in 4. 
what do others think - should we continue to stick to our prinicples - even if this means going down to league 1 (they don''t come straight up usually from there)  or is it time to follow suit, and sell the club to people with real money????

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LGT,

I like to play poker with my mates. We play for small stakes because at the end of the game no one has lost too much and we are still friends.

If I were to play poker with the big boys in, say Las Vegas or Macau, I would need to raise a lot more cash to sit at the table, and losing would not be much fun at all.

In a way NCFC is like that. Do we want to be little old Norwich and play our football in League 1&2, It may actually be more fun (some Premiership fans are not happy with their football), and can be done on the cheap, or do we want to play at the biggest game in town?

Remembering the late 80s/early 90s, I know where I would rather be,

YH