No its not. You're certainly no stranger to questioning stuff on here either. If you think that were just going to carry on selling our best players and replacing with quantity, and it's guaranteed to work, then you're very naive. People were slitting their wrists on Tuesday when the current crop of players were embarrassed at home by a league two team, following on from a no show at Hillsborough. I sincerely hope that the plan works, and my doubts are eased, but I'm a bit sceptical about how it can work and would like to know that if it doesn't have the desired effect, are they prepared to deviate from it. You say they're not flexible, but every business has to be flexible to prosper. You can't just keep ploughing the same furrow without success, you have to tweak things.
We seem to have covered all the options. A full season in the championship will see the best players increase in value and be sold for a profit, all the players gain plenty of experience good and bad and then we either stay up which will be a big plus or go down and have a squad ready to go straight back up. Hopefully we dont become a yo'yo club like millers!
These owners are clever buiseness people there not in it for the love of BFC there prospectors investing in a football club which will reap them benefits I'm sure they have a plan B or C or even D .
No I’ve read enough of your threads and posts over the years to know your a loyal knowledgeable caring fan wanting the best for the reds .
I couldn’t give a rats arse whether some people renew or not depending on how we’re doing. Culling some of the whining boo boys would make my oakwell experience significantly better.
I'd suggest your premise is flawed - if we get relegated it will be seen as a failure of the plan, but due to errors in the implementation rather than the plan itself. Plans fail because humans make mistakes - I'd guess we made a mistake this summer in the signing of first choice targets. But there's also the very real issue that we lost Pinnock because we couldn't throw enough money at him, and that will happen a lot because the core of the plan is financial prudence.
If it doesn't work they'll sell. having made a very small profit for their work. Maybe we'd then be bought by a gambler who'd once more invest heavily in the prospect of promotion - probably to fail so we end up like most of the other clubs in the league - a financial basket case.
Not necessarily in either case. They could speculate a bit more or could sell to someone who's prepared to do so. It doesn't have to be wanton extravagance nor frugality. There could be something in the middle that works better.
We'll agree to disagree; investing in a football team is a slippery slope - like any form of gambling, it's always the next one that'll put you straight. People here mock clubs going into administration - or selling their ground to keep afloat completely forgetting our not too distant past. In some ways we are still digging our way out of the debt from then. We are solvent - but we don't own the ground, if we bought it - that's a load of money we can't invest in the team - the ownership of the club is enough of a gamble without overspending on playing talent.
We'll have to because you're totally misunderstanding my point. You think that I'm suggesting we chuck money at it. I'm not. I'm simply asking a question. I have no agenda. If you ever bother to read any of my posts, you will know that I hate Reading, Bournemouth, Wigan and I'm getting to feel the same way about cuddly Brentford for living outside their means and buying their way up the pyramid.
