Puff the Magic Peacemaker

[DV]

sale of our best player in January....set the stall really....showed that money was more important than staying up. Yes we made 300k from Fallon but lost 200k by going down. There was no guarentee Fallon would have kept us up...but I believe we would have at least stood a fighting chances.

Plus, the proof is there a team at the top of division 4 would bring in more punters than that of a bottom division 3 side. People flood in to see success...and the board wanted us to drop down a division so we could have a winning a side again. We have and attendences are up

Cureton was rubbish missed open goals...scored 7 for us in close to 30 games then went to the Championship and has already scored 4 goals


hmmmm  

[Bogus Dave]

cureton wont score more than 12 goals this season. FACT

[DV]

cureton wont score more than 12 goals this season. FACT

which is still 5 more than he did last season two divisions lower!!!

[Bogus Dave]

he scored 14 goals last season.

[DV]

7 for us.

dont give a fuck what he did else where. I'll judge him purely on what he did in a town shirt...not alot

Lets also not forget than 2 of those were against lemmington in the fa cup  :roll:

[Reg Smeeton]

Since the sale of Fallon 30 games ago we've failed to score more than 2 goals in a game......last season the sale of parkin and Fallon suppposedly trousered us at least 750K.....throw in Brian Adams and that's more or less a bonus mill....where's it gone?

[Bogus Dave]

he wasnt getting any decent supply though. if we played a system of football which could get the best out of cureton/thorpe and fallon, then goals shouldn't have been a problem last season. As it was, we didn't, and now we are where we are.

Since the sale of Fallon 30 games ago we've failed to score more than 2 goals in a game......last season the sale of parkin and Fallon suppposedly trousered us at least 750K.....throw in Brian Adams and that's more or less a bonus mill....where's it gone?

a fair bit of that would of been wasted on the new ground developments wouldnt it??

[pauld]

a fair bit of that would of been wasted on the new ground developments wouldnt it??

No. How do you make that out?

[DV]

the fallon and parkin money made up the short fall last season...

as for bryan adams....into the black hole I suppose...

[pauld]

  I take this passage from JW/Diamandis to mean relegation was welcomed as a way of reducing expenditure for the final CVA season

 

At the time, we assumed the Club would be operating within budget and although we knew Dennis and Gus were coming on board, we were of the belief that the 20% contracted salary reductions resulting from last season's relegation together with the agreed value of the proposed new contracts would allow the club to maintain the playing budget at the same level as 2005/2006.

FWIW, that's one hell of a leap to one hell of an allegation Reg

[DV]

he wasnt getting any decent supply though. if we played a system of football which could get the best out of cureton/thorpe and fallon, then goals shouldn't have been a problem last season. As it was, we didn't, and now we are where we are.

hmmm apart from the penalty against whoever, the open goal at Yeovil and the open goal at City....you're right no service at all.

Also, if our service was so shit...how did Fallon manage to get 13/14 in half a season?

[Bogus Dave]

swindon town dave wrote:
a fair bit of that would of been wasted on the new ground developments wouldnt it??

No. How do you make that out?

i thought it would of cost a fair bit of money to go through all the club went through as regards to a new stadium. or am i wrong

[Bogus Dave]

Also, if our service was so shit...how did Fallon manage to get 13/14 in half a season?

because we were lumping long balls in the box. if your 6ft 5, thats a god thing. not if your 4ft 8 though

[DV]

well I certainly didnt get paid for my involvment!

[pauld]

swindon town dave wrote:
a fair bit of that would of been wasted on the new ground developments wouldnt it??

No. How do you make that out?

i thought it would of cost a fair bit of money to go through all the club went through as regards to a new stadium. or am i wrong

It would if the club were actively working on a proposal but since their last proposal got canned, that hasn't been the case. So yes they probably did spend money on the three failed development/relocation scenarios they've come up with to date, but not last season and certainly not enough to start burning any kind of hole in a million quid.