[Mr.Spireite]

Now I know all well and good what it is to have your football club within a whisper of folding, we CFC have been there at least twice, possibly 3 times. However for the life of me I can't understand the media outcry to save them. They need £1million now to save them till the end of the season, then another million for next season.

The current chairman/board have no money are currently building a new stand which all the supporters desperately wanted/needed.

To me it smacks of poor management at the top, but is it me or are the press really behind Rotherham. We had a chairman previously who came into a cash rich club and stole the money and we were the villains of the peice. I don't remember the press/media or anyone coming to the fans aid, such as no breakfast shows on radio sheffield solely for the benefit of highlighting the problems.

Smacks of hypocricy to me.

[belpercfc]

Last season they managed to afford JCR.

[Mr.Spireite]

belpercfc, on Feb 17 2006, 11:39 AM, said:

Last season they managed to afford JCR.

I supose they would argue back, we signed Beckett, Edwards etc......

But no one stood up for us in the media apart from David Conn......

[InkySpireite]

Mr.Spireite, on Feb 17 2006, 11:42 AM, said:

I supose they would argue back, we signed Beckett, Edwards etc......

But no one stood up for us in the media apart from David Conn......

On cash we thought we had... Brown was the one who scammed them.

Bodged the Beckett deal so we paid less.

At least the Rotherham board SHOULD have known they were in trouble, and SHOULD have had the brains to do something about it. Such as sell some players in January.

If you're in Yorkshire Radio Sheffield will always back you, we're just the small fry that they report on when there's nothing else to.

[Frank Thacker]

In our case we had to refute the cheating charges to restore our good name in order to have something worth saving, and then attend to the survival of the club. Had we gone at it the other way around people would have said that we didn't deserve it, having cheated. By showing that we were as much the ones that were cheated, we gained some measure of sympathy.

Radio Sheff have probably been shamed into promoting the Millers' cause to a greater extent than they're bothered about by way of atonement for some idiot DJ rubbishing their plight earlier.

We were among the first to try to rescue a club ourselves, and had only the experience of Lincoln another one to draw on. One of the things that subsequent clubs have learned to do well is manipulate the media.

[sophocles]

InkySpireite, on Feb 17 2006, 11:45 AM, said:

On cash we thought we had... Brown was the one who scammed them.

Bodged the Beckett deal so we paid less.

At least the Rotherham board SHOULD have known they were in trouble, and SHOULD have had the brains to do something about it. Such as sell some players in January.

If you're in Yorkshire Radio Sheffield will always back you, we're just the small fry that they report on when there's nothing else to.

Which just makes me angry again when Radio DERBY totally ignores the DERBYSHIRE League One team.

[InkySpireite]

sophocles, on Feb 17 2006, 01:05 PM, said:

Which just makes me angry again when Radio DERBY totally ignores the DERBYSHIRE League One team.

Tell me about it.

When I was in Derby other week, I had there station on, and they were reporting on Sammy signing for Forest. No mention of Town!

[Mr.Spireite]

InkySpireite, on Feb 17 2006, 01:25 PM, said:

Tell me about it.

When I was in Derby other week, I had there station on, and they were reporting on Sammy signing for Forest. No mention of Town!

What annoys me about it all is that BBC website includes us in the BBC Derby section, when we get NO coverage on BBC Derby to which I don't think you can even pick up the station in Chesterfield.

Yet the BBC refuse to put us on the South Yorkshire section, go figure.

[InkySpireite]

At the end of the day, I suppose we're never going to compete with the big successful clubs, like Derby, Rotherham, Sheff Wednesday to ever warrant a place on either properly are we....

Cant wait till Derby / Sheff Wednesday are in the same league as us, or the one below (still hopeful!!!) next season, and Rotherham are 2 below us, or 1....

This post has been edited by InkySpireite: 17 February 2006 - 03:23 PM

[Webster]

Mr.Spireite, on Feb 17 2006, 11:03 AM, said:

Now I know all well and good what it is to have your football club within a whisper of folding, we CFC have been
there at least twice, possibly 3 times. However for the life of me I can't understand the media outcry to save them. They need £1million now to save them till the end of the season, then another million for next season.

The current chairman/board have no money are currently building a new stand which all the supporters desperately wanted/needed.

From a Rotherham mate they actually owe 500k or so to IR the rest are debts through the season due to what he described has losses due to a rose tinted business plan.

The plan apparentlly went wrong thanks to Southend or there Chairman not honouring the JCR offer which is apparently now in the public domain and on the back page of this weeks Rotherham Advertiser