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I have just had a good look too but can't see anything.
Is there a rotherham forum?
Rotherham go into Liquidation at 5pm tonight!!
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I have just had a good look too but can't see anything.
Is there a rotherham forum?
Gully
Monkey in a seagull suit.
I did a trawl on newsnow about half an hour ago and there was no new info.
Yoda
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It seems that the biggest football story of the day is three Man Utd players have signed new deals. I haven't bothered to read about it as it is possibly the most uninteresting bit of news ever. Only mere sub heading about Rotherham Uniteds plight.
Sickening isn't it?
But if it was some tin pot row between Hicks/Gillett, or David Dein at Arsenal, then that would be front page and claimed to be "putting the soul of the club under threat"
But a club going to the wall? A community losing its team? Nah f*** it, we will just put a story on about WES BROWN getting a new contract..
Yoda
English & European
I noticed that, discraceful and really shows what the media think of lower level football. Hang your heads in shame BBC.
ben andrews' girlfriend
Nurse Laura
That makes me so angry too. Looks like Rio's going to get 130,000 a week - that's 6.7 MILLION a year. Even half that would work wonders for the likes of Rotherham.
I really think this sort of thing is going to happen more and more often where the richer teams are getting extremely rich, at the sacrifice of lower league teams. It's bloody stupid.
Djmiles
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wouldn't be the first time things have been approved after deadlines now would it? lets hope
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It is an obscene setup when a single player earns more than a football club. Sadly, I think you are right and we will see lower league teams flirt with liquidation far more regularly. The survival points target will be 40 points as more teams slip into administration, but at least one will be able to watch most of the Chisla, Arse, ManUre and Liverpool games on the tellybox if they lose their local team!
Apparently there was going to be an announcement on Radio Sheffield, but the DJ opted to play Human League beforehand. That would have been a long three minutes for the Millers tuning in for the result!
They are now playing 'Everybody Hurts'
It will all come crashing down in the end, what goes up must eventually go down. The "Premiership" will lose vitality coming from the lower leagues and become even more stale. In turn the crowds will complete their evolution into plastic corporate types and rich asians who come over to watch whatever token buy the top4 have made.
Nobody will watch the game on TV when it simply becomes fat cats against fat cats. What happens after that, who knows? But people will walk in a way in an end. Football is about something you can relate to, nobody will be able to relate to these multimillionaire 21 year olds who think life is like MTV cribs.
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Have you seen the reaction on the rotherham forum?
The admin. has seen 2/3 bids, but isn't totally satisified with them. He has urged the fans to keep fundraising... I know it may seem defeatist but I kind of sympathise with a poster on that forum who has had it. I mean, that is what they had to do only TWO years ago and now it has happened again. Your club is your club but there IS only so much you can give.
If they were to survive this then go into Admin for a third time anytime soon, I don't think the fans would have the energy to bail them out. There is only so long you can fight..
The admin. has seen 2/3 bids, but isn't totally satisified with them. He has urged the fans to keep fundraising... I know it may seem defeatist but I kind of sympathise with a poster on that forum who has had it. I mean, that is what they had to do only TWO years ago and now it has happened again. Your club is your club but there IS only so much you can give.
If they were to survive this then go into Admin for a third time anytime soon, I don't think the fans would have the energy to bail them out. There is only so long you can fight..
Eastleigh Northstander
Member
Yeah bloody right but they dont give a toss about anyone but themselves. They lose track of reality and only care about their own wallets and how much they can stuff in them!
Dave the OAP
Well-known member
Surely there must come a time when clubs cannot survive when hardly anyone wants to see them.
Rotherham get pityful gates as do Bournemouth, yet they lurch from crisis to crisis and we are supposed to sign petitions, etc etc
I know its hard, but perhaps if a there are a few less clubs then what money there is will be spead more evenly, after all, if the poeple of Bournemouth as an example would all support the club week in week out, they would fill the ground and not have the problems.
I think in these days of so much other stuff to do, football is not the be and end of all things football fans think it is.
Rotherham get pityful gates as do Bournemouth, yet they lurch from crisis to crisis and we are supposed to sign petitions, etc etc
I know its hard, but perhaps if a there are a few less clubs then what money there is will be spead more evenly, after all, if the poeple of Bournemouth as an example would all support the club week in week out, they would fill the ground and not have the problems.
I think in these days of so much other stuff to do, football is not the be and end of all things football fans think it is.
Dave the OAP
Well-known member
Now being reported that the club have said there is 'no truth in the 5pm rumour'
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An email to SkySports this afternoon from Steve Matthews, a Rotherham supporter:
"There's a team that looks like going out of business today and all you want to spout about is Benitez and Man U...
For crying out loud don't little old 'Rotherham United' deserve even a snippet on your pages.....you make me sick to the pit of my stomach just spouting on about bloody premier league teams ! Where do you think grass roots football starts ?
Premiership clubs don't just pull players off a shelf out of a cupboard....it's sometimes way down in the lower leagues ala Kevin Keegan..remember where he came from ?
All I'm asking is at least mention my home town club's plight as though someone cares as we await our fate whilst you post '3 Prem players to sign new contracts at Man U'.... is the Prem all that sky sports care about ? !!!!"
"There's a team that looks like going out of business today and all you want to spout about is Benitez and Man U...
For crying out loud don't little old 'Rotherham United' deserve even a snippet on your pages.....you make me sick to the pit of my stomach just spouting on about bloody premier league teams ! Where do you think grass roots football starts ?
Premiership clubs don't just pull players off a shelf out of a cupboard....it's sometimes way down in the lower leagues ala Kevin Keegan..remember where he came from ?
All I'm asking is at least mention my home town club's plight as though someone cares as we await our fate whilst you post '3 Prem players to sign new contracts at Man U'.... is the Prem all that sky sports care about ? !!!!"
