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  1. So only about 5" shorter than a VW camper van...and you can live in one of them.
  2. I knew you would bite at that Honestly mate, nobody cares how much you paid for your car.
  3. It's a £10k Toyota...where are you buying a house!
  4. We could do with a freak result out of nowhere to change the mood around the place. A win at Leicester would do it.
  5. Or Red. Never happen but that would get some proper media coverage.
  6. So wilfully ignoring the fact that I specifically mentioned the state owned clubs at the top of the Premier League. And which of Newcastle or Man City are EFL clubs? Wrexham owned by US Billionaire who has made a series of outstanding investments and uses his own profile to increases the revenue and value of the businesses he is involved in. Wrexham is not a rich man's plaything, it's a serious business investment. There are always anomalies but your initial assertion was that I should look at 'Russian money' and that £60m was just a drop in the ocean. My point was, and remains that almost everyone buying into football now is making a serious business decision and looking for the right club at the right price. Clubs don't have to be profitable, you can profit on your investment by increasing the brand value a la Wrexham.
  7. Just highlights my point. They were able to play at a 5,000 capacity stadium from the day they were formed and took 21 years to get where they are and even then as part of that journey, they've made commitments that will hold them back for a number of years to come.
  8. Look at AFC Wimbledon, it's an incredibly well run organisation that got a lot of support from locals in one of the wealthiest parts of the country. They are sitting in League 2 after 21 years of tireless, organised work devoid of infighting and with everyone pulling in the same direction. It has significant financial problems having mortgaged it's own future to build a stadium and has relied, more than once, on donations and loan write offs from investors. If you think a trust for SWFC could come together in the same unified manner then we too could be a struggling league 2 club, unable to compete financially to go higher for the foreseeable future.
  9. This is just not true any more. There isn't really any 'throwaway' money chucked into football clubs by oil billionaires or similar. Most of the EFL are owned by investment groups and venture capitalists. They buy the right clubs for the right price because they want a return on their investment. You get the odd 'sugar daddy' around League 2 level then you get the state funded giants at the top of the Prem and then there are a few that are hanging around from 20 years ago but almost everyone else buying a club today wants a return on their investment.
  10. If somebody paid £60m for us, we would be in a worse position than we are now. DC is clearly a terrible 'businessman', imagine the genius that gets talked into giving him 60 million quid.
  11. But you haven't made a good argument there. You agree that the long term direction of the club is terminal decline yet you belittle people trying to stop the rot. 'Killing the club' doesn't mean it will be dead in a week, it means it's heading in one direction only. I don't agree with telling people if they should buy season tickets or not and I would never tell people they are part of the problem but most of those who are, are doing so because they fear for the long term future of the club, not because they see imminent doom.
  12. I think the accepted truth is that he is slowly running the club into the ground with no plan, no vision, an inability to recognise his own shortcomings and a serious superiority complex thinking we should all bow at his feet for 'all he has done for us'. The 'accepted truth' is that the club will die a slow and painful death, a shell of a club. The idea that we will be out of business 'imminently' is one from the knee-jerkers.
  13. Sometimes it's really hard to discuss the post, not the poster. I don't see any way I can respond to this without questioning your ability to tie your own shoelaces.
  14. As you are accusing people of skirting questions, can you answer this one for me. Why should Sheffield Wednesday, one of the world's oldest football clubs, a true giant of the English game with a long and storied history, judge our success against a club that currently has the reputation of being a 'basket case'. I don't want to measure success by how far off we are from being the worst run club in the country but if that is your yardstick, then I guess you can look around and be fairly happy with what you see.
  15. Chansiri has found himself the perfect club. A 'sleeping giant' with fans so desperate for success that they will allow him free reign and then say 'at least he tried' when it all goes wrong. There comes a point when you don't even meet the 'sleeping giant' status and just become another footnote in football history, a once great club for fans to pick over, write blogs of how it all went wrong and look at each other wondering how they didn't see it coming.
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