Mattyblue

He’ll never get near the England side with the likes of Mainoo arou… oh.

And some on here had no issue with the fee, bloody hell 🤦‍♂️

Think people on here fundamentally misunderstand large chunks of the fanbase. It’s not that they don’t have enough fight to go after the owners - it’s that they don’t have any particular issue with them in the first place.

So more Wharton instalments, Sammie and Raya, that’s the bills for this season sorted then. Who we selling next season to get us through more than about one payroll?

They are ‘cheap as chips’, so looking forward to see us heading towards 12k+ sales.

So £350-£450 is actually cheap then? Bloody hell PNE, Bolton, Hudds etc must literally be giving them away. Very similar clubs with very similar fanbases, difference being they want bums on seats, our lot want to hit some arbitrary revenue target the ‘owners’ (Suhail, I imagine) presumably came up with on the back of a fag packet.

£350-£450 is not ‘cheap as chips’, which is why we won’t be selling many more than a pathetic 9k.

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I presume the thinking is purely to ensure Swag/Suhail consolidate their power, much easier with all manner of ‘Heads Of’ appointed with discrete roles over one high profile DoF with a large portfolio.

A TD also oversees transfers and the academy, as well as that, according to Dan Ashworth… obviously here this will be split between a half dozen folk - divide and conquer and all that for the Swag/Pasha axis.

If only this club found it as easy to bring in a plethora of, you know, footballers.

Cheers for the link, but I’m certainly non the wiser after reading it as to how a TD is any different than a DoF - from Ashworth’s own examples both TDs and DoFs look at academy set up, both oversee transfers, both only suggest (but don’t force) players on managers.

Hmmm, if you say so FB, but I’m sure I’ve seen SD and DoF used interchangeably.

He’ll be getting a decent wedge in a nice environment. Getting folk to take jobs is never going to be an issue - if they are any good (or if they even get chance to show their skills) is another issue.

Aren’t Director of Football, Sporting Director and Technical Director all the same thing?

I’m hoping they see sense and at the phase 1 ‘deadline’ they come out with something like; ‘Due to the fantastic response to our ticket offer we have decided to ensure as many fans as possible can take advantage of our 30th anniversary Phase 1 pricing, so have extended the offer (yada yada)’ Indeed, I hope that’s aways been the plan and phase 1 is just a marketing ruse to get folk buying quick. As otherwise it’s a very short phase 1 (because they were two months later on sale than last year), and only one payday before they ridiculously bump them up 80 quid - and *surely* they aren’t actually expecting anybody to be paying that in just three weeks time.

End of the day 24 quid off an adult season ticket isn’t going to move the dial - remember the majority of fans don’t take kids with them, so little has changed. But the club isn’t interested in taking a gamble to potentially move said dial, so it is what it is and I’ll take the offer they’ve made on kids tickets, as at least it’s something, and something for the future generations too.

😅 As people have said he gives us good as he gets! So we get some fellas in as DoF and you are happy. Fair enough, like I said if you think the football side of this club is doing well then we obviously have different standards. Though you obviously don’t really believe that and you actually agree the football side isn’t good either - as recruitment ‘needs to be much better’ and we are ‘7/8 players away’ from a good second division squad… yeah, that’s quite a lot!

Read seems out of his depth to me. Whereas I think Swag now does understand it, but has no interest in harnessing it.

I agree that WATR have done a good lobbying job, probably the best offer they could’ve got out of them, as they just aren’t going to follow Bolton/PNE. But, like the Watford game why does it take fans (in other words volunteers giving up their free time) to make them wake up down there. Aren’t they paid professionals supposedly in marketing and commercial jobs?

End of the day if we didn’t have a Cat 1 would we be buying players to keep us in the Championship instead… think we all know the answer to that.

So it’s all about the manager now? Thought that’s not what modern football is? End of the day if you think we are selling a few more advertising boards and a better sponsor away from being a well run club, then we obviously have different standards.

10 minute city 🚨

So like I said your issues are with the commercial side - no arguments from me there. But the football side you seem happy enough.

Obviously that Fidler or whatever he’s called has fecked off as wasn’t his view inexplicably not to try and get young fans in the ground as ‘kids don’t want to watch football, they’d rather wear a VR headset’ or some other bollocks.