Re: Sick of the cheap option. : Tue Aug 24, 2010 12:37 pm
Tricky2309 wrote:
I am suggesting that whilst ever people are prepared to put up with the way the club is run, nothing will change. Therefore if we put aside our differences, and say enough is enough in sufficient numbers, changes would be more likely to be made.
I understand what you are suggesting just not what action you are suggesting or what you think it will achieve. Are you suggesting we stop going? Don't renew season tickets? don't purchase merchandise? These things would only put the club in a worse position and make it an even worse proposition than it already is. If there are people who wish to take the club on as rumoured why have these people not gone public to force Ted out as anyone wishing to take over the club would have the backing of the vast majority of fans? For me it is not about settling/accepting what we have it is about the reality of the situation that there doesn't seem to be an alternative.
Tricky2309 wrote:
Kears position is quite simple as far as I see it - he wanted out and since then the performances have really gone downhill and he hasn't been able to reverse the trend/solve the glaringly obvious problems. I am grateful to him for what he has done in the past, but we cannot afford to dwell in the past - professional sport is about the here and now. I also think loyalty is a two way thing, had JK turned down Catalans to stay with us and not gone after the Bradford job, then I might be more willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.
I don't really care about the loyalty one way or the other I just think that Kear has done enough to make me believe that he is capable of picking up some bargain basement players and turning them into quality players as he did with the players we are now complaining that we couldn't keep! I get the feeling though that he may be gone at the end of the season so the debate will be pointless. What I do know is that if we don't make the right appointment then by May next year we will be on here calling for another sacking.
Tricky2309 wrote:
As I understand it (based on what others have said in the past), Ted has not put money into the club for a number of years and we are self-sufficient. This being the case, then whilst it is accepted someone with cash to inject is whats really needed to take us to the next level. Getting someone in who could make the set-up operate more professionally would at least be an improvement on where we are now and enable us to function as best we can with what we have.
Not knowing who puts what money into the club I would suggest again that if there is someone out there willng to put money in/improve the running of the club then get out there make it public and then the fans can get together and back them now that would be the best way to pressure Ted out but someone has to put themselves forward.
Tricky2309 wrote:
As for the Vastman comment, you seem to defend him, yet some of the stuff he posts on here to anyone who has the temerity to disagree with the way the club is run or his opinion, is far more offensive than what I put regarding him getting frustrated about not being able to come on and provide his usual rants.
I think you will find that in all the posts I have ever put on here, none of them are offensive about other posters or their opinions, in the same way a number of Vastmans are.
I am sure that everyone on here wants the same thing, but have different views as to how to go about it. My view is that maintaining the status quo is only going to allow us to standstill at best and that we should aspire to be better and I make no apologies for that fact.
There are a large number of people voicing their frustrations about the current predicament and some of them are well respected on here (and rightly so as fans of many many years) - they are not moaning for the sake of moaning and I am sure like me they do not take any pleasure from the fact we are where we are.
I think you will find that in all the posts I have ever put on here, none of them are offensive about other posters or their opinions, in the same way a number of Vastmans are.
I am sure that everyone on here wants the same thing, but have different views as to how to go about it. My view is that maintaining the status quo is only going to allow us to standstill at best and that we should aspire to be better and I make no apologies for that fact.
There are a large number of people voicing their frustrations about the current predicament and some of them are well respected on here (and rightly so as fans of many many years) - they are not moaning for the sake of moaning and I am sure like me they do not take any pleasure from the fact we are where we are.
The comment wasn't really about defending Vastman or about the 'well respected' folk who are getting fed up. It was more that having posted on here for many years it becomes obvious that there are a good number who only come on and post when things are going badly. I have no doubt that the vast majority do all want the same thing but I am convinced that there are a number who revel in the misery and back biting of it all and those were the people I was getting at.