Dean Coneys boots 1,398 Posted January 8, 2009 Please for the sake of my sanity can we STOP the snide comments about following the ''Charlton model''. Yes Delia said it at a time when they were a small family club competing at a high level. Yes they have since fallen from grace. Yes we are in similar sorry positions. Yes it was quite funny to state that we are finally doing a Charlton....but after the 1000th time it is wearing thin and is a little unfair. No one has crystal balls and no one knew they would fall so hard and so quickly. The truth is that football has been run on greed and consumerism for too long and MANY clubs are going to be in the brown stuff before long. I predict a massive crash and am not sure it will not be a good thing in the long run. Certainly the recession, nay depression, will soon hit clubs and it will not be pretty. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tim Allman 1 Posted January 8, 2009 From now on we should say that Charlton are following the Norwich model. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Robert Ketts Yellow Army 15 Posted January 8, 2009 [quote user="the artist formerly known as VIYAG"]Please for the sake of my sanity can we STOP the snide comments about following the ''Charlton model''. Yes Delia said it at a time when they were a small family club competing at a high level. Yes they have since fallen from grace. Yes we are in similar sorry positions. Yes it was quite funny to state that we are finally doing a Charlton....but after the 1000th time it is wearing thin and is a little unfair. No one has crystal balls and no one knew they would fall so hard and so quickly. The truth is that football has been run on greed and consumerism for too long and MANY clubs are going to be in the brown stuff before long. I predict a massive crash and am not sure it will not be a good thing in the long run. Certainly the recession, nay depression, will soon hit clubs and it will not be pretty. [/quote] Agreed - most football clubs are run on unsustainable, debt-fuelled business models, apart from a few ''lucky'' ones like Man City and Chelsea. The massive crash you mention will follow what we''re seeing in retail with lots of well-known names hitting the skids - and going into administration. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
singing canary 0 Posted January 8, 2009 no i think secretly we have been following the exeter approach...and model Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joanna Grey 0 Posted January 8, 2009 I think you will find that most on here aspire to the Burnley model now. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nolegs 0 Posted January 8, 2009 In our current financial plight,we would be hard pushed to follow the "Airfix"model! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
