Mattyblue

Now I’m entertained by winning first and foremost, but if you are entertained by ‘good football’, who said you can’t have both? Course you can, but winning is the ultimate aim for a professional football club as those points you gain is what gets you up and out of leagues and therefore improved budgets and players follow. If you can do it with panache too, great, but wins come first and if you have a manager that provides them, you don’t sack them.

And that’s always the way, some don’t renew, some newbies come on board, always a churn. But to have around a third of existing STs holders not renewing before the claim your seat deadline is very worrying and even with a load of new purchasers you won’t be growing your overall ST base with that level of non renewal .

Definitely, the seat map looked absolutely horrendous on Monday morning, now it want exactly packed on Friday morning, but there was an obvious spike. Every club has that floating fanbase, that just needs a rocket up it and enthusing, and boy did this club need to be roused from its comatosed state…

No it doesn’t, but if they are granted responsibility despite being incompetent and are allowed to just carry on regardless, they aren’t exactly going to say no to a nice wedge, and it’s 100% on the owners for allowing it.

But the owners keep them employed, so as always the buck stops with them…

Perhaps it was possible to find a manager that would get a skint club playing ‘football the right way’ and mid table like it had with Sam, but Williams, as one of the custodians of the club with a responsibility to keep it solvent, decided getting to 40 points with a proven operator was more important for a club with no money, than taking a risk (he’d learnt the hard way after Ince) and potentially bringing on relegation, big financial losses and a much reduced club. And he was 100% correct in doing so. Well you’re not right, as you are confusing what you personally enjoy/don’t enjoy with what is best for the football club.

Well it depends, like you I’m speculating, but if Swag was overseeing this highly rigorous process going on for weeks and weeks, akin to hiring a new finance director and getting nowhere… then GB comes in, wants JDT, gets him in days, perhaps football is just a tad more dynamic than standard corporate recruitment processes…

No, but he could still make something of himself. Trundling on the pitch a stone overweight isn’t going to help…

Sorry, obviously misread your post, I thought you were alluding to the fact he wasn’t going to Burnley due to his impending move to AFCB…

I’m there to support my football club to get results to improve its stature, to get up the table and grow. Those results make me happy as it helps my club thrive, I’m very much entertained by that. I understand other people’s views on what entertains them, but I find it odd a few folk in here can’t seem to understand this view.

If this is the approach, it should be an early bird price for everybody, a rise for everybody. Why actually incentivise keeping your sales, at best, static by penalising new customers?! Never known a business plan like it.

Me too, sounds great. But Arbito’s point is exactly right, it’s results that builds football clubs. So you don’t put the cart before the horse. Find a way to win, get up the table, bring in better players, get further up the table, get bigger crowds, get promoted, get even better players, get even bigger crowds, get improved facilities, even better coaching staff and on it goes. If we’ve done that in a swashbuckling ‘football the right way’ style (however that is defined) then great, who wouldn’t want to see that? But if it was a more prosaic style that got us there, then that also doesn’t matter one bit as BRFC will finally be out of a very deep hole. * But as an aside, if you win enough, performances get better anyway as confidence is probably the biggest thing in any sport.

Ha never thought of that, is it too late to ask for a refund? But on the flip side you are happy if we lose as long as we’ve played what you’ve deemed ‘good football’?

I’m entertained by 3 points at 5pm.

Never call someone from Leigh a ‘pie eater’… ‘We are Lobby Gobblers!’

Not bothered how he plays as long we are successful.

In your opinion, Paul. I enjoyed it, loads on here are literally telling you they enjoyed it! I respect that you didn’t, game of opinions, but don’t start telling everybody else what they did or didn’t think!

Massive generalisation based on folk you know. You are literally seeing a load of posters right now saying they enjoyed it. Good football is winning football. A good manager is one that has you punching above your weight.

Yep, it’s only been dropped for existing ST holders until 30th June. Still the surcharge for anybody new or returning.

Unless you are a returning or potential new ST, of course, or if even as an existing ST you can only buy on the 1st July. Very odd way to try and grow a fanbase, but then Swag isn’t particularly arsed about doing that anyway..

Any goss on what happened with Farke, Glen?

He’s telling half truths, as we’ve maybe surpassed last summer’s 7,300, Gooze’s tallying had us around there give or take. But we finished the season with 8,500, so we haven’t got more ST holders as it stands. Typical politician style smoke and mirrors. But actually crowing about selling c7,300 STs at Blackburn Rovers anyway, what a small time cretin.

Did he? Not how his late Bolton sides played.

I understood budgets had been cut to the bone by the Walker Trust, so we were ‘weeing with the willy we had’, others obviously knew better!

No it was often a bloody good win at Ewood. If you stopped enjoying being a comfortable PL side with a fantastic home record and a packed Ewood that’s up to you, I loved it and knew the day of his sacking where we were going to end up.