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We all know, Prez. But this is where we are going to remain until we find an owner who wants to put some money in. Simple as that.
Made my stomach churn looking at that.
Quote from: Michael Shaw on February 06, 2023, 03:55:03 pmWe all know, Prez. But this is where we are going to remain until we find an owner who wants to put some money in. Simple as that.Err...who were the owners 2 years ago today?
We’re literally in catch 22 situation we don’t get the gates to sustain much better than league one, the outlay to return us to the Championship is simply unsustainable & any multimillionaires would be bonkers to Chuck their money down our toilet - John Ryan’s of this world come around only once & we don’t have a divine right to think we should be. I bet any fan of Darlo, Scunny, York & Rochdale would rip their arms off to be in our position. I know it’s frustrating but things could be much worse.
I get that. But that isn’t the owners fault.
I knew a comment about happy clapper would come. So pedictable
Interesting it feels way longer that 2 years ago. Maybe that’s just life been busy but I feel like we’ve been awful for way longer than that.
I might be wrong but…I’m sure we went to Fleetwood (possibly a game in hand) and we’re winning, possibly putting us top? We ended up losing that game and we’ve been on a decline ever since.
‘Until we find owners who put money in’. The current owners have put plenty of their own money in over the years. We wouldn’t have a club if they hadn’t. Yes it’s not great at the moment, but there is still hope, a win or two could change things. The people slagging the board are (yes there thoughts) wrong. We should be thankful. But I suppose I will get slated.
Quote from: Spilsby Red on February 06, 2023, 07:22:18 pm‘Until we find owners who put money in’. The current owners have put plenty of their own money in over the years. We wouldn’t have a club if they hadn’t. Yes it’s not great at the moment, but there is still hope, a win or two could change things. The people slagging the board are (yes there thoughts) wrong. We should be thankful. But I suppose I will get slated. "We wouldn't have a club if they hadn't"Utter cobblers. I'm getting so sick of being told that the current owners effectively saved the club from oblivion and we must therefore be eternally grateful. They didn't. They took over a well respected, well run football club that flirted with the Championship amd upper end of League 1. A club that had vision and identity. Now look at it.I would suggest it would be more appropriate to say that they historically invested to a level reasonably expected of football club owners at that level. They didn't save the club from oblivion! There was a Doncaster Rovers before them and there will be one after them. Virtually every single club requires investment from their owners. Have all those owners saved their clubs from oblivion too?! Are all those owners purely altruistic saviours of their clubs? Of course they aren't.Your words may be more appropriate to the takeover in 98, but certainly not to the efforts of these three. And no, I have no idea who would or would not have been in the running to take over from them had they decided to sell the club. But to suggest nobody and the only outcome without them to be "no Rovers" is delusional.
As far as I can see we haven't released a single good player in the past 2 years. We've sold Knoyle who wasn't remotely a good enough L1 defender last season and who presumably has upped his wages by the move. As I've said before, given his defensive frailties last year, we'd have been stupid to match that. The key problem has been that we have spent wages on numerous players who have been way off the standard required. BogleDodooHiwulaBostockCukurWoltmanClaytonAgardOdubekoGriffithsDahlbergVilcaGardnerLongNone of them played for Co-op cheques. Few of them have ever looked like strengthening the team. It's been recruitment and injuries that has scuppered us.