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When you look back at that infamous eve of season Swag interview and we sat here at the time aghast at the outlandish (we thought) and unambitious things he was saying.
(After two seasons knocking on the door of the Premier League) “We just want to develop players and stay in this division”
(Despite the owners being billionaires) “We need to help them”
And so it has come to pass-A squad full of loans and young lads ‘to develop’ as we ‘aim’ to stay in the division.
Wharton sold to ‘help’ pay the bills for them.
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The results were more than fine until December 2023. Obviously no question it went sour very quickly post then.
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Court case aside, I can’t see them ever putting the club into administration, regardless of division.
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You seemed to rate him pretty highly when he was here (which was noticeable as you don’t rate many folk 😅)
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Can’t say I’ve taken to the bloke at all, but no he isn’t in the Ke*n category, not even close.
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2 hours ago, bigbrandjohn said:
So I am a little confused. We didn't get the Sunderland chap because he was over 30. Then all of a sudden we get two over 30 year olds in this window. One is out for the season and the other banned because he is a trifle slow.
Because of ‘the model’… oh, there never was one after all? Who’d have thought it!
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ST sales will be substantially down next season, but of course they’ll be far higher than 2k. Morecambe have more ST holders than that.
We will, however, be back to the 2021 nadir of under 7,000. But I’m sure Swag will still find a way of hitting his stretch targets.
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Armchair is anti-JDT so he is cutting his successor more slack… so just like when an anti-Coyle fanbase cut more of it for his successor.
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So that’s just the one Saturday home win between October and April confirmed… roll up, roll up for your £400-£500 third division season tickets!
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They are taking good followings everywhere this season as it’s their first season at this level for a good while and with the new owner there is a buzz around their club again, booming home ticket sales etc… imagine that.
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Yep loan conveyor belt for him now… still, he’ll be raking it in compared to a load of the other lads he’ll know from his age group, so all good.
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Coyle wasn’t a ‘coaching manual’ manager at all, that was his problem. He was all tubthumping personality and nowt else.
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22 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:
When we lose I tend to keep away from the messageboard
No you don’t 😅
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Hosted in Blues Bar but he won’t turn up as he won’t have heard about it.
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If his contract was bought out that would mean Coyle (far too late BTW) is still the only manager they’ve sacked since 2015.
So if and when things go awry with Eustace, who’s buying his out?
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We have ‘absent, calamitous owners’… but our issues are nowt to do with that.
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Such a lack of class.
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We must be in a unique position. Most ownerships take these forms -
- Local businessman who no longer can fund/sick of taking grief from fans so will sell up.
- US venture capitalist types who will give it up as a bad job or flip for a profit.- ‘moneyball’ style ‘data led’ owners who would also be happy enough to sell up if it goes sour or for a profit.
- fan owned club, who again will look to sell if there is someone out there that can take it to the next level.
But there surely can’t be an equivalent club in which they are a long forgotten impulse purchase for an unwieldy conglomerate based half way round the world. Where the owners will put enough in to keep it going, but certainly have no footballing ambitions for it… yet won’t even entertain selling to those that do have said ambition either.I rue the day we somehow ended up with this ridiculous set up, a set up that does not and cannot work in professional football.
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To ‘real’ turnout wasn’t close to 11,500 home fans. 7k max.
Yes, it was a night game, but Saturday ST holder turnouts are dwindling too. Next season’s sales, Christ, they’ll be some sell for L1 football at £400-£500 a pop.
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Blaming JDT for Travis 🤦♂️
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Its nothing personal, but he’s a symptom of a football club that has completely lost the plot.
We had a ‘DoF’ model, we had a ‘model’ to ‘develop’ players and sell on for profit. We had a ‘model’ to play a certain style of football from the under 8s to the first team…
then we didn’t and we are now playing ‘prosaic’ football with 37 year olds and a bloke with a metal leg.
Where does this ‘confused’ club to turn a phrase end up? The third division.
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Get all that, but you aren’t losing every home game to all kinds of opposition 5-0, 6-0, 8-0 if you are putting a shift in.
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‘Who could have foreseen that?’
Every fecker bar one on here for a start.
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It’s very hard when you don’t bother tracking your runners or marking. You aren’t 5-0 down at home after 30 minutes if you are putting a shift in, regardless of opposition. Look at Luton for evidence of that.
(And getting spanked 5-0, 6-0, even 8-0 every home game).
John Eustace - our head coach
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Of course JDT has forgotten about us, as does every professional as soon as they get a new gig, they are all guns for hire.
However, whilst here he was striving for this club to be more - it’s the fact that it isn’t run like a professional football club as to why he’s gone.