[Aspire_webby]

MDCCCLXVI, on Jan 5 2009, 07:52 PM, said:

Saturday's game against Rochdale could see the nightmare scenario of a Ward-less Town side, a seemingly bombproof Richardson still occupying the dugout, all being overseen by a Board resolutely oblivious to a sparsely populated Saltergate and the constant calls for change.

Meanwhile, a copy of the Derbyshire Times blows across the deserted terraces revealing the back page headline: 'Richardson targets new signings'.....


Somebody wake me up and tell me it's all a bad dream.

I'd say the nightare scenario as we move into 2009 is that a potential investor looks at sliding land prices and interest rates and decides that this is not the time to be financing a new football ground - better by far to put his money under the matress and wait for the storm to blow over. Then we are left with a disaffected chairman who has no means to progress the club on his own, disaffected fans and falling attendances and revenue, and the FA knocking on the door asking what our forward plans are for replacing a wooden stand.

We will remain Ward-less and the money from his transfer will be used to balance the books for one more season but the one thing that Hubbard will be able to do is sack the manager. What good it will do in those circumstances is another question.

[Wooden Spoon]

Aspire_webby, on Jan 6 2009, 10:45 AM, said:

I'd say the nightare scenario as we move into 2009 is that a potential investor looks at sliding land prices and interest rates and decides that this is not the time to be financing a new football ground - better by far to put his money under the matress and wait for the storm to blow over. Then we are left with a disaffected chairman who has no means to progress the club on his own, disaffected fans and falling attendances and revenue, and the FA knocking on the door asking what our forward plans are for replacing a wooden stand.

We will remain Ward-less and the money from his transfer will be used to balance the books for one more season but the one thing that Hubbard will be able to do is sack the manager. What good it will do in those circumstances is another question.

Wont matter. Craven cottage has an even older wooden stand built by the same fella, and its now a listed building.

As long as it is safe, and not in a dangerous state of dissrepair it wont matter.

[fishini]

MP-Spire, on Jan 5 2009, 09:59 PM, said:

BH is the Chairman.

So why doesn't he get off his fat backside and act like one?

MP-Spire, on Jan 6 2009, 05:31 PM, said:

Come on Fish, play fair, have an open mind.

Lets say a billionaire Pole wants to buy the company you work for. His people have done the audit and due diligence and have highlighted that it will be of benefit to replace you with a Pole, you're a dead man walking. Six months down the line, the billionaire Pole is successful with his acquisition and you were a dead man walking!

How can you have an open mind when you support a team that is led by such a cloesd mind weak person like the Hubbard
God you astound me at times. He has the safest job in league football

This post has been edited by fishini: 06 January 2009 - 08:37 PM

[fishini]

MP-Spire, on Jan 6 2009, 08:55 PM, said:

Fish,

Just assume that there is an investor that's willing to finance our move. As Chairman, are you saying that you would jeopardise the funding and as a result, the ground move, by going against the wishes of the investor?

Make no mistake, this season has been a con for supporters and some players that had other options this summer. For that reason, the Chairman should be required to explain himself and the position he finds himself in.

If this is true and I have no reason to think otherwise then Hubbard has all the way down the line been dishonest over and over again. He conned us when trying to convince us to buy ST by dangling the new ground in front of us not just this season but the previous one too. I wonder what he's going to con us with in the coming season. If he can't even speak to us just once and tell us the truth. If the investor (if there is one) is pulling the puppets string then why on earth would he be telling the fat controller that he must not sack the cl o wn, that he must sell Wardy, that he must sign over aged useless players on huge long contracts, that he must allow gates to drop and not try to halt the decline, that we must slowly slip down the table, that we must not even try for promotion. Is this the type of 'investor' we want or need?