What depresses me

and I think I'm with Jayson on this - is that the only answer anyone ever comes up with is to throw more money than the club has at the playing squad. This was clearly the Doncaster way. Someone allowed Gunn to do it agin last summer (I remember being slaughtered on here for suggesting that we were signing too many players - but we did).
And Plan "B" - Mr Cullum - came along. His answer? Throw ?20 million at the playing squad. Why not throw ?20 million at the debt - clear it - and leave yourself with a debt-free club with gates of 25,000? I think such a club could easily be competitive and balance the books in the second division for the foreseeable future. Yet people whose personal fortunes suggest they must be much cleverer than me don't like that idea?

Posted By: Black Creosote Time on January 7th 2010 at 21:45:33

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What depresses me (NCFC) - Black Creosote Time, Jan 7, 21:45:33
- Problem with that is that it doesn't excite the masses, who also wouldn't get it. (NCFC) - megson, Jan 7, 22:22:39
- Wy would Cullum want to do that? (NCFC) - Iwan Husarmi, Jan 7, 21:56:53
  - Who has actually made money doing that? (NCFC) - Black Creosote Time, Jan 7, 22:03:23
    - Ken Bates. Ron Noades. Sam Hamman. (NCFC) - jayson blair, Jan 7, 22:06:31
      - I was thinking the bloke who acted as middleman for Man City and Portsmouth (NCFC) - Iwan Husarmi, Jan 7, 22:09:09
        
        Gaydamark says he's lost a fortune (NCFC) - Black Creosote Time, Jan 7, 22:10:28
- oh do shut up (NCFC) - Tombs, Jan 7, 21:49:55
  - ho ho (n/m) (NCFC) - Charles21, Jan 7, 22:12:36
- It's depressing of football in general though, isn't it. (n/m) (NCFC) - Yellalee, Jan 7, 21:47:06
  - But we AREN'T football in general (NCFC) - Black Creosote Time, Jan 7, 21:50:24
    - But we are suffering from a time when we were trying to compete with clubs (NCFC) - Yellalee, Jan 7, 21:56:12
      - No coincidence at all, Lee (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Jan 7, 22:00:27
    - I still think what the board are doing this season is right (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Jan 7, 21:56:11
      - But, we have We have to get real excitement and verve back into our club (NCFC) - Tombs, Jan 7, 22:06:47
        
        This argument will run and run, Tombs (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Jan 7, 22:13:49
        
        True enough (NCFC) - Tombs, Jan 7, 22:23:14
        
        Haha! Who said anything about precluding it? It's just refreshing to also debate (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Jan 7, 22:26:02
        
        Yes yes (NCFC) - Tombs, Jan 7, 22:31:33
      - "throwing the kitchen sink at getting promotion" (NCFC) - Black Creosote Time, Jan 7, 22:00:36
        
        I don't think it's what we did at all last year or in 2005 (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Jan 7, 22:04:13
        
        Well we'd spent all our parachute money by Christmas 2005 (NCFC) - Black Creosote Time, Jan 7, 22:05:51
        
        We'd run out of cashflow by Xmas '05 (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Jan 7, 22:10:04
        
        My own take on how poor that season was now (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Jan 7, 22:21:14
        
        from what's been said about Hull and Portsmouth's problems (NCFC) - Ralf Scrampton, Jan 7, 22:16:45

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