Chucking Money Away

Last season I tried to buy a shirt for my daughter they had no stock. I bought her some Lego instead. That's a direct example of us chucking money away.

 

Football is cyclical. You're not going to do well all the time, and make the right decisions.

All you guys that spend so much time guessing what's going on behind the scenes and feeding each others negativity on here should get a meeting with the good people that run the club, and put forward your advice on how things should be.

Maybe you all should start a business between you, remortgaging everything you have to get it started, and then make loads of money, as it's so easy, then you can put forward a plan to buy out the current board and take us forward!

Do any of you actually run a company btw?

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That's not throwing. Money away though is it. Throwing money away is been left with dead stock

Last season was exceptional and consequently I would have expected the stock forecasts to be out

 

There are obviously things we can do better off the pitch, no doubt. And as has happened when we've hit a bit of a dip in form people start thinking about them more. It's only natural.

However I feel like I'm missing something about this million quid we lost. Of course, it's not great; but wasn't the idea of our transfer policy to avoid reliance on Patrick Cryne and become self-sustainable? We've sold players which could value up to £20 million (although we certainly won't see all that this season). If the figures come out next year and show a very healthy profit, surely that shows we are being well-run and using a transfer policy that works terrificly well.

 

What do you think

 

No it isnt

 

So you are saying it's better to be left with dead stock

 

No I am saying that is better not to run out of shirt sales before the season starts.

Which is better to you? Buy 1000 and be left with 100 to sell off at a reduced profit or buy 1 and guarantee you will not be left with any?

 

I guess it depends on how many. You've sold historically. what I'd do is look at the metrics and make an informed decision. And if the forecasts told me I only sold 10 then I'd budget accordingly. Clearly, you. Have the benefit of those metrics and the person responsible for buying stock isn't.

Alternatively you get lend them your crystal ball

 

Yes it is. A business accurately projects sales. For example Bradford City have sold 10,000 shirts this year. Thats because they accurately forecast potential sales and when they exceeded these potential sales they acted quickly and decisively to replenish stock. There is no way on earth we could do this.

When you run a business any money that a customer wants to spend in your business that ends up being spent elsewhere is a failure and a cost to that business. When I ran my own business if I couldn't offer the service my clients required I made damn sure they purchased something. It's very basic like your grasp of English.

 

We sell out early almost every season. When we have failed so often how can we rely on those sales metrics to tell us how many we COULD sell wife we had stocked correctly?

Based on your logic we should order a small amount next season because we didn't sell many this year so logically we won't next year either.

 

I ran my own business very successfully for 5 years and only when a client made me an offer that I couldn't refuse late last year did I stop.
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In terms of negativity I see people who don't want improvement or change negative. People obsessed with league position to the point where any sort of suggesion is seen as criticism I think you should all stand in a field looking at the league table fuelling each others negativity.

'its the way it's always been done we can't change it or improve'

It's impossible to get products in your shop for people to buy in case we don't sell some.

Let's close all the ground except the west stand. Bloody ex chairman building stands. What is the point.

Let's not buy any players just sell the ones we've got and play cardboard cut outs.

 

As I say they could. Always. Use your crystal ball

 

I don't need a crystal ball. We sold out therefore we need to order a higher number omg I'm mystic meg.

Or you know, they could ask their customers?

 

Asking the customer. Isn't that analysising the metrics ffs

 

Who doesn't want improvement?

We all want the best for the club, it's just that some of us actually like to talk about the real reason were football fans.

Football.

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Evolution and graduate improvement

 

If you're so dissatisfied with the the way the club is run, why go? Why not just withdraw your support, and watch someone that lives up to your expectation, rather than continuously having a go at your fellow fans that just want to support the football team?

As I said the other day, and you agreed. I'm just a long standing fan. I go regularly and get behind the team. Everything else isn't worth worrying about because I can't affect it.

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