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He is Radio Humberside's sports editor, not sure who else they would send and he seemed to be the only one asking the questions.
Yes, that did occur to me but given the last run in they had, and the usual stance that the non-chairman has taken with RH I could imagine us requesting someone more 'trusted' than Matt. But not Burnsy. Or anyone senior in the Sports Dept who has crossed swords with JF. Possibly the lad who reads the weather. Either way, works for me.
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Please tell me you made that up ?!?! Hahahahahahahahaha....Long term..5 yrs... why the fck cant they just say " Good morning everyone...as previously announced here is Mr Jolley our new first team manager...any questions ? "
They are already setting themselves up for a missed target... we currently have ..
New ground in two years Championship in five years
Highly unlikely on both counts i would say as we are currently just sitting outside the relegation from the football league places, havn't won in 15 games, have 5/6 players in place for next season, havn't even submitted an outline planning application for a ground ...yet we hope to be playing Championship football in the FentyExtreme Dome in 5 years ?!?! I hope there was some sniggering at that point.
That's essentially what he did say... And one of the questions was 'what are the long-term goals of the club' To be fair how much ambition would it have shown if he just said 'We're hoping to be a mid-table league 2 side in 5 years'. If he had said that people would have been damning the board for showing no ambition and having no vision to aspire to etc etc!
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Go back to our last season in the championship, and if anyone had suggested scunny being in the championship in five years, and hull in the prem we'd have laughed our mammaries off.
It's bloody unlikely we'll do it, but it's not beyond the realms of possibility.
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What PD said about league one top half in next five years sounds a realistic ambition. I took his comment about the championship as if things went really well not to plan but better.
For me Short term = get through this season as a league 2 club; Medium term challenge for promotion to league one over next 2-3 seasons. Then become an established league one side season 4+.
Like MJ said though let's just get through the next 10 games and take it from there. I liked what I heard from both board and manger.
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Wonder if PD knows something we don’t 🤔 obviously it’s every clubs ambition to go as high as you can just look at burton who would thought that, just make me wonder where the money will be coming from ? Unless we are getting bought out by a billionaire very unlikely though
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Wonder if PD knows something we don’t 🤔 obviously it’s every clubs ambition to go as high as you can just look at burton who would thought that, just make me wonder where the money will be coming from ? Unless we are getting bought out by a billionaire very unlikely though
And maybe MJ is more that what appears. Time will tell but get the feeling this relationship will develop into more than just management.
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Maybe he could get one or two of his former city mates to invest few million in our direction. Oh hang on they are shrewd investors are they not?
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That's essentially what he did say... And one of the questions was 'what are the long-term goals of the club'
To be fair how much ambition would it have shown if he just said 'We're hoping to be a mid-table league 2 side in 5 years'. If he had said that people would have been damning the board for showing no ambition and having no vision to aspire to etc etc!
The thing is they have no credibility to be able to state that, the best statement the club has made in recent times was our first season back in the League, along the lines of " we have been away for a long time, need to establish ourselves first and paramount is securing our League status" ...completely sensible, completely achievable at the time. Then we get the Bignot era, build for the future, infrastructure isnt there behind the scenes to build the club, "the plan" , 3-5 yrs which seemed acceptable to all especially as Hurst had left with murmurings of lack of infrastructure. ....then that suddenly wasnt quick enough and it was binned off in favour of assess the squad with play offs next (this) season, as that now petered out it was "we are building" ....then its failure so sacked....now its " 5 yrs to Championship"..... The club have absolutely no clear mandate whatsoever and until it does the club will suffer and every statement of ambition by the board will be challenged. If it truly is long term ,then 5 yrs isn't long term is it ? Will our current U16 - U13 teams be developed ready for Championship level football by the time they hit 18-21 yrs ? While we are selling raffle tickets and whipping round parents to fund it then i truly doubt it. The deemed best 3 players of the last crop are...Wright on loan at Scarborough, Venney released and Clifton just made his full debut....hardly a ringing endorsement. When the board start being credible by delivering or sticking by what they say then we can all move forward.
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I think a few may have interprated the championship comment the wrong way.
My interpretation was that the club believe there is no reason why we shouldn’t be a comfortable top end league 1 team. (Ala Scunthorpe)
If we where to achieve that then there is absolutley every possibility we could regain championship status, only takes a play off spot and then some luck during them.
I didn’t think when asked that the aim was “to be a championship club in five years”. Just that if we achieved the league 1 goal,which was the long term aim, you never know what could happen with a little luck.
But as MJ wisely pointed out, it’s all about the next 10 games at the minute.
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As for keeping Wilkinson for his experience of the players....... He'd be better off reading this forum
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