Official Uddersfeeled Matchday Thread

[Rich Pullen]

I'm thinking there's got to be the swallowing of some pride and do sensible business with agents and/or spend a bit of money because their long-term plans are going to be proper messed up if we go down.

[STFC_Gazza]

Fitton swallowed pride with Malpas, Thing is fair enough he wont deal with agents fees etc bt then they just go somewhere else. I sort have a feeling this has scuppered some deals including the Mulgrew deal in the summer.

[Arriba]

am i the only one who thinks what if, in regard to bill power?

[Reg Smeeton]

Is Wilson taking too much of Byrne's advice? Is Byrne actually Grima Wormtongue?

 No, Diamand Mike was Grima Wormtongue to SSW's Theoden.

[DV]

am i the only one who thinks what if, in regard to bill power?

Nope, he managed to create the buzz around the place and on the pitch that Fitton never did.

[Rich Pullen]

buzz around the place and on the pitch that Fitton never did.

...Thus far....

[Arriba]

so dv. do you think we'd be better off than we are now?
i cannot help thinking we'd have better players, and a more high profile boss.
malpas was an awful mistake on fittons part

[Rich Pullen]

So we're hating Danny Wilson now?

[Arriba]

i'm not.to early, but without money he's on a hiding to nothing anyway

[Rich Pullen]

I honestly think there isn't a man in the land that can fully sort this current squad. So yes chequebook out please.

[STFC_Gazza]

Fitton needs to open his wallet and quick and bit the bullet to pay agents to get the players in we need.

[DV]

so dv. do you think we'd be better off than we are now?
i cannot help thinking we'd have better players, and a more high profile boss.
malpas was an awful mistake on fittons part

I think we'd be better off on the pitch, no so sure about off the pitch.

Power was only 'in charge' for a few weeks but managed to get in a high profile coaching team (Wise, Poyet, Beasley) and we signed loads of new players alot of frees but decent players. We must have offered some of them better contracts than other teams did.

Of course if Power did keep going down this route it would be great short term but the minute he got bored and decided he had, had enough he would have left us with loses we couldnt cope with.

He would have funded the team but not made us sustainable, he would have just accepted the yearly losses and paid them making us rely purely on Bill Power.

Fitton seems so far the complete opposite - he has safe guarded our future and you'd hope if he and his consortium buggered off in a few years they would have left us in a good financial state but thus far they havent put much, or rather enough money towards the on pitch things. Could have spent more and got in a better manager, should have backed him and let him bring in his own coaches. Could have offered better contracts in order to tempt players to come here.

Both have their plus points and both have their negative. At this moment its all a bit of an assumption on how things would have/will go.

Ideally you want financial stability but with the potential financial clout we have behind us (I dont expect them all to spend million after million on us) we should be spending more on the playing side of things than we have because its clear to see our on the pitch fortunes are going rapidly backwards.

do you think we'd have been better off arriba?

[Spencer_White]

am i the only one who thinks what if, in regard to bill power?

Bill Power was brilliant.

Without him comming in we would probably never have got rid of the old board.

But he wouldnt have been able to keep it up. The bloke had a bit of cash, but not a lot he wouldnt have been able to keep it up for long. 

As regards the new board, its got to be constructive criticism. I dont think Fitton is really a football man. He likes football, but he doesnt know about it as much as he thinks he does. A Hungerford mate told me he used to do a Hungerford team talk before their home games, he would then leave and the manager would say 'right, forget all of that bollocks'. Malpas was that sort of gaffe. He ticked all the boxes in Fittons mind, but it didnt stop him being crap. They are getting a dose of reality now, which maybe they needed?

Solvent but shite? The realities will hit home when they try and sell season tickets next year.

[Arriba]

i dont know dv. i agree with alot of what you say to a point.
i reckon we'd be fucked if fitton went, same as if power did though had he got control.
it would still need someone to take over.i reckon power might well have left a better aquisition than fitton.
at the end of the day it's a football club, and the product is the team.at the moment that is utter shite.
ias it stands, our financial stablilty is boring

[Spencer_White]

To be honest I think we could see a board room split.

From what I gather Fitton will stay true to his principles. He wont pay agents, he wants a business plan, he wants youth he was the one who kept Malpas on. But Watkins is getting a bit pissed off with the lack of progress. Cant be nice sending so many people home unhappy week after week.