it's seen as a gamble now but the point is...

they most certainly didn't see it as a gamble then. They had no vision that they would be relegated, hence why they had so many financial problems and went into Admin.

This is the issue I have with football these days, as we know we never have the chance of winning this league so we need to spend a lot of money on the hope of just staying in a competition we will never win but it does give us a platform to maybe win a cup and have some good nights in Europe. However if you make a couple of bad decisions and find yourself out of it, you are in a lot of trouble.

Posted By: Brandonio on November 6th 2011 at 15:42:15

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Bolton 1 Stoke 0 (Other Football) - Waddockhunt, Nov 6, 15:07:50
- 2-0 dodgy keeper (n/m) (Other Football) - SCC 28, Nov 6, 15:26:24
  - Who's in goal for them - Begovic? (n/m) (Other Football) - Karnivore, Nov 6, 15:36:27
    - yeah (n/m) (Other Football) - SCC 28, Nov 6, 15:37:45
      - ta - we were after him, got Turnbull instead! (n/m) (Other Football) - Karnivore, Nov 6, 16:09:18
- ...with an utterly ridiculous goal that by the sounds of it shouldn't have stood (Other Football) - norway, Nov 6, 15:11:43
  - looked ok actually (Other Football) - SCC 28, Nov 6, 15:54:58
  - Just seen it (Other Football) - wgf500, Nov 6, 15:22:15
    - BBC guy said it wasn't a backpass in his opinion? (n/m) (Other Football) - norway, Nov 6, 15:25:01
  - "going absolutely postal" (n/m) (Other Football) - Waddockhunt, Nov 6, 15:15:58
    - WTF does that entail, exactly? (n/m) (Other Football) - Karnivore, Nov 6, 15:17:12
      - 1986 killings somewhere on Oklahoma where a postal worler shot a bunch of people (n/m) (Other Football) - John in Texas, Nov 6, 15:57:13
        
        have you seen the fillum "we need to talk about kevin" (Other Football) - Tombs, Nov 6, 16:06:23
        
        I read the book - surely the film can't be anywhere near as good? (n/m) (Other Football) - Karnivore, Nov 6, 16:26:44
      - That's a very good question (Other Football) - norway, Nov 6, 15:19:02
        
        I was thinking perhaps turning up late, or not at all (Other Football) - Karnivore, Nov 6, 15:35:06
        
        ... (Other Football) - SCC 28, Nov 6, 15:21:35
        
        US Postal Service workers shooting and killed managers, fellow workers and others (Other Football) - phrankin, Nov 6, 15:21:05
    - Pulls that is (Other Football) - Waddockhunt, Nov 6, 15:17:10
  - will check it out at ht (n/m) (Other Football) - SCC 28, Nov 6, 15:13:55
- A reminder of what it would be like, even if we over achieve and qualified for Europe (n/m) (Other Football) - pants, Nov 6, 15:10:15
  - A salutory lesson indeed (Other Football) - norway, Nov 6, 15:15:02
    - that's if you get it right, Stoke have been in the division for years (Other Football) - Brandonio, Nov 6, 15:24:33
      - the scum ruined themselves tbf (n/m) (Other Football) - SCC 28, Nov 6, 15:28:57
        
        Finishing 5th ruined them because they thought buying expensive players (Other Football) - Brandonio, Nov 6, 15:34:29
        
        it's all down to how the club is run tho (Other Football) - SCC 28, Nov 6, 15:36:04
        
        it's seen as a gamble now but the point is... (Other Football) - Brandonio, Nov 6, 15:42:15
        
        naive and badly run (Other Football) - SCC 28, Nov 6, 15:46:48
        
        plenty have done (n/m) (Other Football) - Brandonio, Nov 6, 15:53:25
        
        indeed (n/m) (Other Football) - SCC 28, Nov 6, 15:55:31
        
        Finidi George!!! Oh dear. (n/m) (Other Football) - norway, Nov 6, 15:35:13
      - All about balance isn't it? (n/m) (Other Football) - norway, Nov 6, 15:28:19
        
        I think the Europa League is best avoided in first couple of seasons (Other Football) - Brandonio, Nov 6, 15:30:36
        
        Definitely (Other Football) - norway, Nov 6, 15:32:02
    - drew with man u too (Other Football) - SCC 28, Nov 6, 15:16:06
      - Best avoided (n/m) (Other Football) - norway, Nov 6, 15:18:29
        
        and making a european final like fulham (Other Football) - SCC 28, Nov 6, 15:20:50
        
        If playing in Europe means (Other Football) - norway, Nov 6, 15:21:48
        
        can't argue with that (n/m) (Other Football) - SCC 28, Nov 6, 15:24:12
    - haven't you got a serious car crash to joke about? (n/m) (Other Football) - pants, Nov 6, 15:16:00
      - Details (Other Football) - norway, Nov 6, 15:17:53
- might end their run of 7 straight home defeats (n/m) (Other Football) - SCC 28, Nov 6, 15:10:07

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