Holloway

Quoted from Ipswin

There are far too many full time professional football clubs in the UK anyway The EFL could easily be cut by two thirds and still be as strong and watchable as the leagues in other Western European countries

WTF are you ranting on about?

Not great for the fans of those who support one of the clubs in your two thirds & not all football fans are obsessed with watching overpaid players falling to the ground at the merest touch or a change of wind direction!!!

Quoted from Lincoln Mariner 56

WTF are you ranting on about?

Not great for the fans of those who support one of the clubs in your two thirds & not all football fans are obsessed with watching overpaid players falling to the ground at the merest touch or a change of wind direction!!!

I always get the impression that Ipswin is negative and miserable just for the pleasure of winding people up. Sad way to live your life but everyone to their own.

The training ground is owned by a farmer and the club has a 325,000 debiture on Blundell Park to Mr Fenty.

Could......was the key word.






Our board have already isued a statement saying they are prepared and plans are in place, Holloway said last week we are the best run club he has EVER been at,   and while income is down on the other hand so are outgoings , not to the same percentage i imagine but none the less outgoings will be down.

Cheap and easy press soundbite.

Quoted from Lincoln Mariner 56

WTF are you ranting on about?

Not great for the fans of those who support one of the clubs in your two thirds & not all football fans are obsessed with watching overpaid players falling to the ground at the merest touch or a change of wind direction!!!

The clubs will still exist, they just won't be part of that ridiculous and for some reason so important 'football league' Their fans will still be able to watch their own underpaid players falling to the ground at the merest touch or change of wind direction as they do now. 92 clubs (plus most Conference teams) is just too large a number of full time professional teams. It is the largest set up in Europe and is simply unsupportable in the long term.

Quoted from GrimExile

I always get the impression that Ipswin is negative and miserable just for the pleasure of winding people up. Sad way to live your life but everyone to their own.

I thought you were busy begging in Top Town with a 'football club to support' sign scrawled on a bit of old cardboard

Quoted from Ipswin

There are far too many full time professional football clubs in the UK anyway The EFL could easily be cut by two thirds and still be as strong and watchable as the leagues in other Western European countries

The winner of the most unpopular opinion goes to Ipswin! Congrats

If, and it’s a big if, a whole raft of clubs went out of business (something which is actually extremely rare over the course of football in this country) then the EFL would just have lots of teams with zero cash/in administration.

The EFL wouldn’t kick them all out and risk their empire going down to one may be 2 smaller divisions. We wouldn’t all have to start at the bottom again.

Our chums at the club, the soundbites, the statements and so forth haven’t told us anything we don’t know (aside from Holloway talking out of his bottom regarding GTFC being the best run club he’s ever worked at). Anyone would be foolish to think businesses like football clubs, at our level in particular wouldn’t struggle during times like this.

Whilst I see the sentiment from fans wanting to do their bit (I mean we already do by going every week, using the club shop and so on) people feel the need to use a crowd fund. It will always be a resounding ‘no’ from me for numerous reasons, I guess what’s a little frustrating is we never see anyone from within stumping up some cash, yet they’re happy to accept and I’d imagine they all knew a crowd funder would be set up. Of course I’m fully aware that Honest John has dipped his hand in his pocket (albeit loaning the club money) but what about the others in the gentleman’s club? A gesture would be nice, to show we’re all in it together or so they tell us, it’s ‘our’ club...

Quoted from Ipswin

I thought you were busy begging in Top Town with a 'football club to support' sign scrawled on a bit of old cardboard

I guess Ipswin you’re proving my point.

A few posts referencing being in administration, it’s worth mentioning that is the last place any club wants to be as it’s usually the catalyst for closure rather than recovery.

I’m optimistic we’ll be ok in terms of survival. What the level and quality of the playing squad looks like is another matter.

The biggest challenge will be when furlough finishes we may need to move out our bigger earners the problem being that lots of clubs will be in the same position and finding takers will be hard.