Posters on this sight really need to cheer up. After the last couple of weeks of the whole 'We are going to crash and burn epidemic', we finally get a couple of signings to cheer the mood up a little, but i still find nothing but negative comments. I can't really understand why? After the great season we have just had with shattering records all over the place you would have thought posters on here would lighten up. Also why are so many attacking other posters on here for no reason? See Tango Flashes Football manager thread, is there really any need? If you don't like the joke don't post on there at all you wouldn't abuse him down the pub for telling a bad joke, so why should you on here?
Sorry about the rant but people on here have really gotten on my nerves! So please for your own sakes lighten up and enjoy the Championship next year, after the dark seasons in league one we should all be looking forward to whats to come.
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Agree with the OP though.
At the very worst, we could be in the same financial situation that was in a couple of years back (which was pretty bad), but at least we will be a division higher.
It is a shame to see/hear next to no excitement around us playing Championship sides next year though.
I am glad we ate signing players especially ones like Wilson who offered enough in league 1 last year to step up and I believe another young player who has returned
I will be wondering how we finance it and if it has a knock on but I am happy that we are doing it
Questions still need to be asked and we still need to progress as fans
The next couple of signings may make people think its bs
We will see if I have to say I was fed bollox I will
However, something to lighten my mood was the fact my season ticket is on its way!
We were in league One a couple of seasons ago and had it not been for Slater/Cash/Jiminez who knows what would have happened, best Administration, worst...who knows.
You are correct we are now in a league higher which means higher wages, higher running costs i.e. ticketing staff (more tickets to sell), stewards (bigger crowds), Police costs etc.
If we could not afford to keep our heads above water in League One we will drown in The Championship if the funding has gone.
My doctor told me I was too negative.
I told him I wasnt
I am all for being positive mate but it needs to be seen how it is, the problems that appear to be happening at the moment are not to be viewed through rose tinted specs.
Oops, looks like I read the title incorrectly :-)
either way how on earth can you finance a deal to sign Wilson when the cash isn't there? I think some people need to go back and question there sources maybe they don't know as much as they used to or there info is out of date because I really don't see how a club with a cashflow problem can make an up-front payment to Stevenage without 1) leaving us so short on cash the players don't get paid which subsequently gets leaked to the media which hasn't happened yet so one can only assume there is no problem in players being paid and therefore no cashflow problem and 2) if our backer has pulled out who rubber-stumped the downpayment and finance for Wilson or do you think we're paying them in air-conditioning units?
Every single person wants what is best for the club, so if issues have been resolved / there has been a cash injection / new investor has come in, then brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
If it turns out in time that as problems were filtered down, it turns out some of it was exaggerated, then thankfully there will have been no lasting damage other than a bit of conjecture. Personally, given the breadth and quality of initial sources, i would be surprised if that was the case.
If however many weeks / months down the line, it turns out that these signings, and potential future bigger ones, were made at a time when our foundations were made of sand and in no real position to be making them, then we have every right to be furious.
Very much hope that last scenario proves to be the one incorrect, and is starting to look the most unlikeliest if you take a step back and try and make sense of the wider picture.
Time will tell i suppose.
SCP stated he wanted (most of) his signings in for the Welling game, given we don't need to make many changes to the squad I would be very surprised if we signed no more than another two players being a LM and a CB. Had no signings materialised by the Welling game then yes I think questions and issues would rightly have been raised. Until then no-one really knows what is happening in the boardroom and whatever may or may not have happened - doesn't seem to have had a negative impact on us to date.
Anyway, it will all come out in the wash i'm sure.
Come on, he's had it since he was a baby and he was hoping to have grown to be able to put the little black line at the top on his next birthday!
Personally, I'm not stressing about the possibility of the club going into admin tomorrow, because it's highly unlikely to happen, and even if it did there's bog all I could do about it anyway. It's not a question of burying my head in the sand, but managing the various things I have going on. Other people here would rather share their concerns with like-minded fellow fans, and without knowing exactly what they know, where they heard it from and how up to date their information is, we can't say whether they're being negative or just realistic. What I think it is safe to say, is that until the transfer window closes and we see who has come in and who has left, we're not really going to know how competitive the squad is going to be in the Championship. Now we can either spend the next 6 weeks getting worked up about every little rumour of ins and outs, dismissing fellow posters as rosetinted, scaremongerers or whatever, or we could chill out a bit, and wait and see what happens.