When will the blind optimism for next season start?

[chaileyjem]

I feel it's to keep as much money as possible but stay in the championship. .

Tony Bloom has lost £51m in accumulated losses since 2010, the club spends £500K+ on players wages and fees *every* month and this cost is rising every year
,and he's already spent £205m in funding an expensive Championship Squad for four years, the Academy and the Amex itself. And he's promised to invest heavily again this summer. Investment that he's never likely to recoup.
He's not doing very well at this "keep as much money as possible" goal. Because he's not keeping any money at all. He's spending it. Millions of it.

 

[SteveTheSeagull]

My optimism will return when the club do and not say. Talk is cheap. As they say. Money talks. Bullshit walks

 

[chaileyjem]

Paul Barber takes up new role as Chief Executive of Championship side Brighton & Hove Albion on 18 June 2012 - source: wikipedia

[MENTION=24867]chaileyjem[/MENTION] NSC Join Date: June 2012

Anything you'd like to tell us?

I've got more hair than him for starters.

 

[KZNSeagull]

]I feel it's to keep as much money as possible[/B] but stay in the championship. They are currently using the loyalty of a fan group to forward their personal goals. When the Albion finish in the lower half of the championship again you will understand.

TB would have at least 205m more if he had not bothered to get involved with the club.

 

[Eeyore]

The optimism will start when we score a late equaliser at The Riverside on Saturday, after dominating the last three minutes against a disinterested 'Boro.

This moment will be hailed as the initiation of an expanding 'big-bang' of all encompassing hope and faith- that will last until five past three on the first day of the next season.

Then it's all downhill from there....

 

[AlbionPics&SouthCoastTwit]

How do we know that losses on the football club don't benefit them in another area?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I've got more hair than him for starters.

Probably an old photo tho eh Paul, sorry 'jem'?

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

How do we know that losses on the football club don't benefit them in another area?

Something like Brewster's Millions you mean....


I like it, Tony has to dispose of 250 million as quickly as possible without giving it away etc.

FFP must have annoyed him

 

[Rookie]

All depends on the first few new names through the doors. If there is a leon best or Greg halford in there any optimism will quickly vanish.

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

How do we know that losses on the football club don't benefit them in another area?

Well named contributor

 

[Icy Gull]

Won't start for me until we have signed at least three players with pace that have played at this level or above successfully and one of them is a striker who is young, over 6ft ,has real pace and has a track record of scoring goals at a decent level.

I'm not expecting this to happen until just after the first game of next season though, if it does. I have been so underwhelmed by transfer dealings in the last two years that my expectations are very low that any of the above will be delivered.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Will start for me when the proper old school non-head-mental football manager - who so far has a 100% record of excellent signings - is still in place over the Summer to trawl further through his notebook and pull some more Kayals out of the hat.

 

[Icy Gull]

Having just read all the way through this thread, it seems the majority of NSC'ers have absolutely no faith in the club delivering any more than spin on players,

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Having just read all the way through this thread, it seems the majority of NSC'ers have absolutely no faith in the club delivering any more than spin on players,

To be fair it doesn't affect most of us directly. We'll continue to renew our ST through docile inertia more than anything else, same as most of us can't be arzed to change banks or energy suppliers. Got zero faith in the club spin tho, it's all just so much

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I haven't read any of this thread but blind and unrealistic optimism is surely what all football supporters do during the summer? Why wouldn't you?

 

[AlbionPics&SouthCoastTwit]

To be fair it doesn't affect most of us directly. We'll continue to renew our ST through docile inertia more than anything else, same as most of us can't be arzed to change banks or energy suppliers. Got zero faith in the club spin tho, it's all just so much

You don't have to feed the swine more they only get fatter not more lean.

 

[SAC]

Tony Bloom has lost £51m in accumulated losses since 2010, the club spends £500K+ on players wages and fees *every* month and this cost is rising every year
,and he's already spent £205m in funding an expensive Championship Squad for four years, the Academy and the Amex itself. And he's promised to invest heavily again this summer. Investment that he's never likely to recoup.
He's not doing very well at this "keep as much money as possible" goal. Because he's not keeping any money at all. He's spending it. Millions of it.

Yet some on here feel that they can take the moral high ground with other clubs they perceive to have overspent.

 

[AlbionPics&SouthCoastTwit]

Sometimes those who plead innocent are the most guilty. If it works once why not try it again.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Yet some on here feel that they can take the moral high ground with other clubs they perceive to have overspent.

I suspect it's not about perceived overspending, more about perceived rule breaking.

 

[Knotty]

To be fair it doesn't affect most of us directly. We'll continue to renew our ST through docile inertia more than anything else, same as most of us can't be arzed to change banks or energy suppliers. Got zero faith in the club spin tho, it's all just so much

Speak for yourself.

It's nothing to do with 'docile inertia' for me or, I believe thousands of others. (Anyone who can afford to buy a season ticket through 'docile inertia', must have more money than sense!) It's everything to do with supporting BHA.

I'm really not bothered what the club 'spin' is. I read it, of course, and I'll agree with some of it as much as I'll think some of it is nonsense, but it has no bearing whatsoever on my decision to renew every year.

And the same goes for our attendance figures, beer and food prices, train queues, applauding the opposition attendance, pre-match entertainment and the many others things we are so desperate to whinge about on NSC.

I enjoy supporting my football club, despite there being numerous seasons and matches over the years I've hated. All the other stuff is a peripheral irrelevance.