defensive coach

Oh right Mostyn, I thought the topic for the boards was the state of our Football Club. I didn't know you wanted to put the rest of the world to rights too.

Im quite happy to participate in that, but Im sure we will only draw the same conclusions

And my "riddles" as you call them relate to every aspect of life, not just DCFC. The fact that you can't seem to understand nor decifer it is not my problem, thats yours.

The ending of the story of the sheep is generally much the same, lead to slaughter. My premise is that we are all cattle, and this will never change until we stop acting like cattle. Typical you Mostyn, pour scourn over things you don't understand in preference to spending a little time to find out whats being said.

Cattle or sheep SDS? I'm getting as confused as Mostyn now!

Silence of the lambs

comment by SDS (U15040) posted 34 minutes ago
Oh right Mostyn, I thought the topic for the boards was the state of our Football Club.
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That's fair enough, so why don't you 'evaluate' the state of our club fairly then, instead of what you think is going on.
If we take two points in time, one where you was happy (promotion season under Billy), and one when you aren't (now).

In promotion season, our gates started off at 17k.
Now they're about 22k

In promotion season, the board borrowed about £10m in the clubs name to buy players (this was debt when that consortium left)
This season, the board have put in a couple of million of their OWN money, no added debt.
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I don't know what else is important. We have never had a board that has been 100% and we never will, businesses cannot afford to be 100% transparent as it leaves them open to exploitation and manipulation.

You moan about the state of the club but can NEVER offer a solution that isn't 'pie in the sky'.

I keep saying it, and it's true, the problem you have with our owners is YOUR problem, because you cannot accept what football has become.

I want the baseball ground back. But sadly it's been demolished

"OOE likens some critical folks to brick wall headbangers."
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Yep, I do, SDS. I feel that anyone who has a single item agenda deserves that epithet - the actual item is irrelevant, whatever it is. For people who are open-minded, this is an advantage though. You can read the poster name and then not have to bother reading the actual content because it's always just going to be a re-hash of everything they've said before.

OOE
Seems Im ok then, as you obviously read my comments As for agendas, I'll leave that to the likes of Mostyn and 666. And please have a word with Mostyn about opening of the mind.

Mostyn

Yeah, I have and still am struggling to come to terms with what football has become. Who is to blame, we are, which has been my whole point from the start. All these horrible changes to football have come because Fans of every club have supported it. You any closer to understanding my point now?

SDS, I have ALWAYS understood, and 90% agreed with your point.

But as I said, it's a simple choice nowadays, take it or leave it. Your average fan is unwilling to give up his sky tv and support his local team.

Personally, I am not sure clubs themselves are being run any differently, reading some of the books I've read, there have always been dodgy owners doing shady deals and not representing the best interests of the average supporter, just these days we have a media saturation and camera phones, internet etc meaning fans can actually see and get worked up about what is going on.

Your point of view is exactly what it is though, it's a point of view, it's not an alternative.

Of course its an alternative. Ive had my point of view since 2008, and I carried on supporting the system for another 2 years afterwards, and after becoming sick to the stomach of it I implemented MY "alternative" and decided I wouldn't support the system any longer. Thats my choice and my alternative. If the collective eventually wake up to the fact that Football is dying a slow and painful death then my alternative becomes yours and everyone elses. And the alternative for Corporate interests in the game will be to f'off and find some other resource to bleed dry.

If this happens, you never know, we might just get back to what we once had that meant so much. And who knows, maybe if theres less money in the game we might even find we can put together a decent international squad and the interest will pick up.

So my alternative is Fan Power, the willingness to say "NO, enough". Of course this would require a meeting of minds of thousands of people countrywide and some tough times. Im up for it, are you?