Lincoln City

What a very well-run club. No huge sums of money invested, just a long-term plan which they've stuck to.

 

Skubala was the guy I wanted us to go for in the summer, but of course we went for someone that’d just been relegated from this division….

 

I have ended up chatting with you across three different threads, here. (I am not stalking you, I just think you talk total sense). And in another, I alluded to ‘most clubs’ losing their local identity. But Lincoln is, as you say, a brilliantly well run club.
I have done corporate a few times, there, and that is so simple it is just brilliant. Laid out like a pub with high tables and stools, no formal sit down meal, just a couple of cooks, in the corner, serving you up a takeaway style meal in a box to eat with your pint.

 

You're assuming we could have tempted him away from Lincoln. Whilst I'm Yorkshire through and through, I have to say that Lincoln is an absolutely lovely place to live. I'm also not sure that we'd be able to trump them on wages.

 

Lincoln does have the advantage that it's the only professional club for miles around, with their only real competition being Nottingham Forest. But the whole ethos around the club is brilliant, which I think is borne out by their fan zone. Nothing fancy, just a few food trucks and a pop-up bar, but all local businesses who've bought into an idea.

 

Are you still pissed from last night?

 

Lincoln have lost £6m in the last three years and the directors have pumped in £5m to cover those losses.

Football clubs are not well run.

 

Isn't that a lot less than we've lost, while averaging smaller crowds?

I don't know what the situation is now, but when they were in the 4th tier in the 90's and 00's, Lincoln always had to pay disproportionately high wages as a lot of people didn't want to move to Lincolnshire. Fair enough really, as apart from the city of Lincoln itself, the county is an inbred backwater! Assuming that now they're in the 3rd tier and competing with some much bigger clubs, us included, that's no longer completely true about wages. But it may still be that as a percentage of their turnover it's relatively high compared with similar clubs.

 

Yes we lose in one year what they lose in three. Neither are good business models.

 

Think the current board are decent well meaning people but they haven't a clue how to run a professional football club. The responsibility has fallen on them though 1-getting involved with couple of charlatans 2- bereavement, these people could have chosen to walk away cut their losses but they didn't this why I believe my first point. Here in lies the problem they tried their best to do it and failed that leaves one option pay somebody to do it. We are in the early stages of plan b unfortunately it hasn't started well,some of these people are fan's other's didn't start that way they are pumping millions of their own money into the club and I think they deserve our patience.

 

Also had to deal with a loss of key players, such as the one that played against us yesterday.

 

And their best loanee from last season.

 

Lincoln way in front us at minute how the club run even tho much smaller club. The fan zone puts the so call fan zone at club to shame

 

Sensible recruitment. It really isn't that difficult.

 

Anyone going to Oakwell for Tuesdays draw with Wycombe, would never have guessed there is a ‘weight of expectation’ at BFC, at least at this level. Granted it doesn’t compare with Birminghams, but it’s there.

I think it’s one monkey that Lincoln and a few others don’t have on their backs. Lincoln haven’t played any higher than league 1 for 63 years. Few of their fans are old enough to remember.

 

We've not lost key players, or several decent/good managers?

 

Define 'sensible recruitment'?

I seem to remember only a few weeks ago the majority of people were really happy with the recruitment. Now, it's a disaster.

People on here have more faces than the town hall clock.

 

Now that really surprises me that its as long as that. They are not as small as many many clubs that have made it to the championship over the years, if only briefly. 63 years is an awfully long time.