Solihull (A) Match Thread

Quoted from Fillipe Noche

Well it’s absolutely ridiculous the amount of expectation some on here place on this football club.

You can spray glitz and glamour as much as you like around the periphery, it’s doesn’t change a thing. Ultimately we are still a very small and struggling football club, in a whole different football world to what it was when we used to punch above our weight.

The agony of that different football world will remain with us. So people need to start accepting what we are now isn’t what we used to be. No matter who owns us.

Utter rubbish. Football  at lower levels is no different from what it always was. Get the right manager the right players  the right culture and momentum and you will do welll. But you do need all of them not some!

Quoted from MuddyWaters

I’m far from a Fenty apologist but that’s not strictly true. JS even said that there was money left in the bank by the previous owners.

Money in the bank and we got relegated out of the FL for the second time in a few years , perhaps someone should have told the previous regime to get decent players you have to buy them and pay the going rate for wages

Quoted from MuddyWaters

I’m far from a Fenty apologist but that’s not strictly true. JS even said that there was money left in the bank by the previous owners.

That's true BUT the pitch was knackered, Cheapside was in shambles, BP was needed updating and we dropped a division. BUT we had a positive bank balance!

Quoted from MuddyWaters

I’m far from a Fenty apologist but that’s not strictly true. JS even said that there was money left in the bank by the previous owners.

There may have been money in the bank but it doesn't mean you can spend it on new players.

Quoted from dapperz fun pub

Money in the bank and we got relegated out of the FL for the second time in a few years , perhaps someone should have told the previous regime to get decent players you have to buy them and pay the going rate for wages

It also helps if you train with Mitre balls rather than Gilbert ones too. But he did invest in a state of the art portakabin with features like a radiator, wire window guards and no leaks.

Quoted from jamesgtfc

As opposed to one we never heard from? However many years in the post and the most recent picture the Telegraph had of him was years old.

We don’t need prominent CEO’s all over Twitter hogging the limelight. Your CEO should sit quietly and efficiently in the background, doing executive work.

The PR department is more than capable of communicating with the public, and getting out there what’s needed. Which is essentially any important info regarding developments, plus football stuff that we want to read.

I’m not fooled one iota by all of this look at me CEO stuff. It’s narcissistic and isn’t required. Just get on with doing your CEO work.

I’ll ask you a question. If the poor run of form continues and the shine of the takeover and early season promise diminishes, then how do you think the fan base is going to respond to all the glitz and glamour look at me Tweeting then?

We are a blooming football club, not a social network love-in

Quoted from HerveJosse

Utter rubbish. Football  at lower levels is no different from what it always was. Get the right manager the right players  the right culture and momentum and you will do welll. But you do need all of them not some!

I'd agree the formula is the same as it's ever been, it just costs a lot more now versus the in come clubs get.

Watched the thing about Mac on i-player the other night and it was excellent, but even at what I think is tier 8 they have had to spend a lot of money to compete and some of the players they have signed have agents who wanted some really silly stuff.

Quoted from HertsGTFC

There may have been money in the bank but it doesn't mean you can spend it on new players.

I know that but it’s still a fact that needed pointing out in the context of the previous point.

Quoted from jamesgtfc

It also helps if you train with Mitre balls rather than Gilbert ones too. But he did invest in a state of the art portakabin with features like a radiator, wire window guards and no leaks.

And to boot players like Amond were let go for the sake of pennies .. a proven goal scorer what the fook were they thinking off

Quoted from Fillipe Noche

Well it’s absolutely ridiculous the amount of expectation some on here place on this football club.

You can spray glitz and glamour as much as you like around the periphery, it’s doesn’t change a thing. Ultimately we are still a very small and struggling football club, in a whole different football world to what it was when we used to punch above our weight.

The agony of that different football world will remain with us. So people need to start accepting what we are now isn’t what we used to be. No matter who owns us.

For what it's worth, I agree that the odds of us ever playing in the 2nd tier again (Championship now) are 1000/1 at least, but I do feel we could be a decent league 1 side at some point in the future, and if I didn't believe that after nearly 50 years supporting the Team then I would probably call it a day.

Now I don't actually know whether or not you are / were close to the previous regime, but your earlier cynical, sarcastic and gloating post suggests you may've been.

Whether PH can get us out of this league now or in the next few years is anyone's guess, but I am sure we wouldn't have been in this position if the previous regime (including the Manager) hadn't banked on last season not kicking off or being abandoned quickly due to COVID, and treating that as an opportunity to spend virtually nothing on maintaining a decent playing squad, and even letting the pitch go to ruin!