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The club is a MESS at the moment



Jul 5, 2003
23,777
Polegate
Just a few points, in no particular order:

1) Adam Virgo has played in EVERY game he's not been banned or injured for this season, despite us using 41 players and him being shit for most of them. What the hell is in his contract?

2) If Bob Booker is 'reserve team coach', why is he in the dugout each game, when the likes of Hinshelwood aren't?

3) Who is goalkeeping coach?

4) Where the f*** is the 60 million to build Falmer coming from when we haven't even got a sponsor yet?

5) Tony Bloom. 300k on Glenn Murray. 150k on McNulty. Who is he? Is he really the only man on the board with money? Are we really expecting a GAMBLER to pay for Falmer? Why do we only ever hear from Knight, and not Bloom or any of the others?

6) If Tony Bloom is really so rich, why can't he just pay a sum to the council to subsidise the cost of the travel voucher, meaning supporters can have £4 chopped off ticket prices each week?

7) Dick Knight. What power does he have now? He's got no money, has he got any influence? Or is he just there as a figurehead who will take the praise when good things happen and go missing when they go tits up?

8) Micky. Who made that decision? When are they going to admit the mistake? I don't think Wilkins would do that much better, but I don't think we looked like going down under him. What did he do that warranted him staying at the club, but not as manager? Did we really want him as coach?

9) £24.50 for a Withdean ticket in the pissing rain in League 1. What the f*** is that about?

10) Ken Brown. What does he do? Why do we never hear from him?

11) Martin Perry. He's not an Albion fan, so is the only reason he's still with the club because he's going to make a mint when Falmer opens?

12) Club marketing department. We have a huge catchment area, but other than the Argus, the only marketing that gets done is to school children who get to games on a freebie. What a joke. Burgess Hill? Worthing? Haywards Heath? Do we target them? No. WHY?

13) Season Ticket DVD's. Half the fanbase haven't received theirs yet. Piss Up. Brewery.

14) Why the f*** did we sign Colin Hawkins?

15) Who decides which players we should sign? Hart & Mayo...was it really Adams decision to bring them back, or was Knight just giving a contract to another old mate of his? How long before Keehan comes back?

16) Next season. If the likes of Davies are on 3k a week as reported, and the wage budget in League 2 needs to be no more than 60 % of turnover, are we up shit creek?

17) What the hell is the point in an empty East stand every week? Sell tickets in the SOUTH STAND, in the WINGS, where people can actually see the bloody pitch and might be persuaded to a) make some noise and b) come back!!!

18) Dean White. How?



I'm sure i'll have plenty more to add tomorrow, but that's the lot for now.

We're truly a CIRCUS club. :albion2:
 






Spider

New member
Sep 15, 2007
3,614
Some good points, but equally some utter garbage. Nos. 1, 2, 4 and 6 are particularly ridiculous,
 


Jul 5, 2003
23,777
Polegate
19) How the hell can Dean Cox be awarded man of the match in every game we lose?
 


Djmiles

Barndoor Holroyd
Dec 1, 2005
12,064
Kitchener, Canada
Perhaps we need a relegation to have a good clearout and start afresh.
 




Djmiles

Barndoor Holroyd
Dec 1, 2005
12,064
Kitchener, Canada
Yup agreed, I think 4 is rubbish. If Buckingham didn't think they would be getting a penny out of it, they wouldn't have started in the first place.
 




Djmiles

Barndoor Holroyd
Dec 1, 2005
12,064
Kitchener, Canada
20) Lewes have won more games at home than us. (No, seriously)
 




British Bulldog

The great escape
Feb 6, 2006
10,974
11) Martin Perry. He's not an Albion fan, so is the only reason he's still with the club because he's going to make a mint when Falmer opens?

I would'nt begrudge the bloke a penny he makes when he gets the stadium up and running.
 








Silent Bob

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Dec 6, 2004
22,172
2) Why should Hinshelwood be there any more than Booker?

3) Tony Godden?

5) He is the one with most money, supposedly. Are we really expecting a GAMBLER to pay for Falmer? I don't know. But GAMBLING is not what made him his money, he is a professional poker player but he plays the way anyone else does, it's just he's richer. Why do we only ever hear from Knight, and not Bloom or any of the others? Knight is the chairman, but yeah, I'd love to know more and hear more from the board.

6) Because the board are already propping up the clubs losses? Ticket prices must go down though.

7) This is a problem. My impression is that Dick Knight is trying to hold on to power and influence, Bloom is the money man but is on the other side of the world most of the time. He flies in and gives the thumbs up or down like some Roman emperor. This doesn't seem like any way to run a football club.

11) Martin Perry is running the Falmer project isn't he?

13) Half? Prove it. Everyone I know got theirs no problem.

14) Thicky.

15) Who decides which players we should sign? Hart & Mayo...was it really Adams decision to bring them back... yes.

16) Davies is almost definitely not on £3k a week. Lots of players are out of contract, the squad will be trimmed in size, and players will have clauses that reduce their wage on relegation.


:)

Some of the points are ridiculous, some very valid.
 


5) Tony Bloom is not a Board member, he's just a shareholder like a number of others (eg Bill Brown, Norman Cook etc.)

6) Would that be in addition to, or instead of the £12M+ cumulative losses made by the club (incl £2.8M in 2006/7) that he and fellow shareholders currently underwrite?

7) Dick Knight owns approximately 23% of the club shares and, as club chairman (elected), he is the public mouthpiece of the company/club Board. The Board members own less than 50% between them and can therefore be outvoted by the remaining shareholders even if Tony Bloom was to side with the Board.
 


Paxton Dazo

Up The Spurs.
Mar 11, 2007
9,719
stop moaning you f***ing idiot. get a life, go out. what's moaning on here gunna' go.

Oh, do you want me to say that in real life, as you dont know me? :rolleyes:
 




Husty

Mooderator
Oct 18, 2008
11,998
9) £24.50 for a Withdean ticket in the pissing rain in League 1. What the f*** is that about?

This clubs biggest problem...
 






Jim in the West

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Sep 13, 2003
4,957
Way out West
Just a few points, in no particular order:

1) Adam Virgo has played in EVERY game he's not been banned or injured for this season, despite us using 41 players and him being shit for most of them. What the hell is in his contract?

2) If Bob Booker is 'reserve team coach', why is he in the dugout each game, when the likes of Hinshelwood aren't?

3) Who is goalkeeping coach?

4) Where the f*** is the 60 million to build Falmer coming from when we haven't even got a sponsor yet?

5) Tony Bloom. 300k on Glenn Murray. 150k on McNulty. Who is he? Is he really the only man on the board with money? Are we really expecting a GAMBLER to pay for Falmer? Why do we only ever hear from Knight, and not Bloom or any of the others?

6) If Tony Bloom is really so rich, why can't he just pay a sum to the council to subsidise the cost of the travel voucher, meaning supporters can have £4 chopped off ticket prices each week?

7) Dick Knight. What power does he have now? He's got no money, has he got any influence? Or is he just there as a figurehead who will take the praise when good things happen and go missing when they go tits up?

8) Micky. Who made that decision? When are they going to admit the mistake? I don't think Wilkins would do that much better, but I don't think we looked like going down under him. What did he do that warranted him staying at the club, but not as manager? Did we really want him as coach?

9) £24.50 for a Withdean ticket in the pissing rain in League 1. What the f*** is that about?

10) Ken Brown. What does he do? Why do we never hear from him?

11) Martin Perry. He's not an Albion fan, so is the only reason he's still with the club because he's going to make a mint when Falmer opens?

12) Club marketing department. We have a huge catchment area, but other than the Argus, the only marketing that gets done is to school children who get to games on a freebie. What a joke. Burgess Hill? Worthing? Haywards Heath? Do we target them? No. WHY?

13) Season Ticket DVD's. Half the fanbase haven't received theirs yet. Piss Up. Brewery.

14) Why the f*** did we sign Colin Hawkins?

15) Who decides which players we should sign? Hart & Mayo...was it really Adams decision to bring them back, or was Knight just giving a contract to another old mate of his? How long before Keehan comes back?

16) Next season. If the likes of Davies are on 3k a week as reported, and the wage budget in League 2 needs to be no more than 60 % of turnover, are we up shit creek?

17) What the hell is the point in an empty East stand every week? Sell tickets in the SOUTH STAND, in the WINGS, where people can actually see the bloody pitch and might be persuaded to a) make some noise and b) come back!!!

18) Dean White. How?



I'm sure i'll have plenty more to add tomorrow, but that's the lot for now.

We're truly a CIRCUS club. :albion2:

It's almost certainly worth debating a few of the points in this list, but I'm always slightly wary of spending too much time reading posts which appear not long after the pubs have closed on the day of a home defeat.

Amidst the gloom of our dire defending yesterday it's worth remembering that off the pitch the club is, for the most part, being run incredibly well. The programme yesterday had some great stuff on Falmer. The bit that really excited me was that in just over a year, the main construction will be complete - Falmer will have arrived. There will still be lots to do on the interior, but from the outside it will look like a proper stadium.
 




dougdeep

New member
May 9, 2004
37,732
SUNNY SEAFORD
Number one is wrong so I gave up on the others, just another WW, LOOK AT ME thread.
 


Hungry Joe

SINNEN
Oct 22, 2004
7,636
Heading for shore
Number one is wrong so I gave up on the others, just another WW, LOOK AT ME thread.

Number one was pretty funny but you shoul have read on doug, you missed the hilarious:

11) Martin Perry. He's not an Albion fan, so is the only reason he's still with the club because he's going to make a mint when Falmer opens?

Withdean Wanderer = comedy genius.
 


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