I still think what the board are doing this season is right

We're in the Third Division, after a five year long tailspin. It isn't acceptable. We have to get real excitement and verve back into the club, and a sense we WANT to be successful. That meant throwing the kitchen sink at getting promotion, back to a league where we'll have a better chance of renegotiating loans.

And once we're there, by all means look to the youth more and more, look to live within our means in the long term. But this season's a one-off in my view. If we were following your plan, then such was the state we were in in May, we could be looking at becoming a 3rd Division club long term.

It's always about a balance - between financial reality and trying to be successful. Economic theory doesn't cut it when set against the context of where we were when we went down: it was imperative we turned it around ASAP.

Posted By: thebigfeller on January 7th 2010 at 21:56:11

Message Thread

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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