New beginnings - 25% Truth, 80% Bollocks

[DiV]

That would be totally catastrophic.   Football is full of crooks, many of them agents, soa phoenix club would still have them swimming about.

Talk about throwing baby out with the bath water.

How is that any difference to now?

[DiV]

will that guarantee we get good owners?
what if we just keep on going down.
I remember as a young lad when we got relegated from the championship and i thought at least we can start winning again. never been back since.

a less drastic method would be to just kick on from our current scenario instead of killing the whole club off.

I mean burning down and starting again is more likely to then be fan owned.
Not sure that would be better than dodgy business men but might be safer?!

[DiV]

Behave,  would you really like to be an Oldham fan ??,  the shit they’ve been through over the last few years,  bet they’d love to be in our position.   Be careful what you wish for.

No, I wouldn’t want to be an Oldham fan right now…
…but being a Luton fans seems pretty good right now and they massively dropped like a lead ballon & bottomed out.

[Batch]

Rob will be there tomorrow as CEO. Everyone can ask him.

So is he serving his notice, as was yesterday's claim?

or are you saying he hasn't resigned?

[RobertT]

I have to think, not in the DV theme, that now is the time to do something different.  The Trust have done well on the Ground purchase - take that and extend to buying the club.  Spend the next 12 months building a plan for how to get an offer together - individual contributors, subscriptions, potential investors etc.  Publicly challenge Clem against his statements and get him to confirm what he would want to let the fans have the club (not any other outside interested commercial party).  Get him to put up or shut up on this being about the club and it's fans.

Lets be honest, the Trust is being pretty much tickled under the chin right now, may as well accept the only option for meaningful change is to take it head on in the most extreme way possible.

[Batch]

Yes,
I’ve said this plenty of times post Andrew Black.
The best thing this club could do is die a death and rise again as a phoenix club.
Start at the bottom and go again. Clear all the deadwood.
Play some new teams, visit some new stadiums. Hopefully have a bit of fun running through divisions.

Beats going to Colchester & Walsall every fucking year…

Fuck that. If I wanted a non league club I'd watch ciren town

Non league is full of clubs that were once league clubs.

[DiV]

The league has clubs in it that were once non league clubs.
A lot of them above us in the food chain too

[swindonmaniac]

Fuck that. If I wanted a non league club I'd watch ciren town

Non league is full of clubs that were once league clubs.

Exactly.

[Pookemon]

How is that any difference to now?

Correct which is why it's a fucking stupid idea

[Batch]

The league has clubs in it that were once non league clubs.
A lot of them above us in the food chain too

Through good governance and sensible investment. We could have that without going non league or starting again.

[DiV]

Through good governance and sensible investment. We could have that without going non league or starting again.

We could.
But I also think starting again might be able to give us more a clean slate to start over with.

Even if we got good investment right now & they fully took over the club there would still be Power/Standing crap to sort. Clem would probably want some money back as part of the sale. Then things like Kiely and the other blokes wife.

Die & all that goes away (I think, not a business expert)

[Cowley38]

Yes,
I’ve said this plenty of times post Andrew Black.
The best thing this club could do is die a death and rise again as a phoenix club.
Start at the bottom and go again. Clear all the deadwood.
Play some new teams, visit some new stadiums. Hopefully have a bit of fun running through divisions.

Beats going to Colchester & Walsall every fucking year…

Or drop to the bottom and keep dropping

What a stupid comment !!

[DiV]

Plus, same as any time the club changes hand some sort of historical debt no one was aware of

[DiV]

Or drop to the bottom and keep dropping

What a stupid comment !!

Which isn’t far removed from what we are doing now anyway…
Don’t give me all that about it being stupid.

You’re basically on here saying we’re as good as fucked anyway.

 Isn’t it better to pull the plug than limp to a slow painful death.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Audrey]

Last time I looked we were unbeaten and would go second if the game in hand is won.

Shit behind the scenes is just that. At the moment it isn’t affecting the team on the pitch.

Why would you give up on that? Stupid.