The rumour...

Quoted from Heisenberg

Wow, this is depressing. I have never ever been this unenthusiastic about a season. People accepting we’re  not amongst the top runners. Another season in non league, and with a potentially average squad. No marquee signings, yet the others around us manage it.

Non league is beneath us. Whether that’s a sentiment from the past or not is irrelevant to me, I personally have no time for it. I have no intention of going to games this season. I hope I get dragged in by surprising results and an uplift in results, but it’s probably not happening.

I can’t help but think the unwanted players we have under contract will haunt us this season. Oh, and of course the players that we’ve signed who are too old and readying themselves for a season on the treatment table, a la Hanson.

If you don’t spend big you rot in this league.

Last season beat the fight out of me, and this pre season has not brought it back.

I like the new owners, but I’m not hanging around another 6 years for success, no way, it’s embarrassing.

I couldn't agree more with this sentiment. I hated non league first time round.
The only difference is that I will still support the team ( due in large to the new owners committment) and will be at Chesterfield on Saturday. Thick and thin and all that.

Quoted from Maringer

How does that work, then? Don't the contracted players get paid?

It's pretty obvious that the money to cover their wages of all contracted players, whether wanted or not, will have been accounted for before the playing budget was put together so it's simply not possible it hasn't had an impact. I certainly wouldn't expect Hurst to say as much in an interview, however. It's just obvious.

Reasonable enough pre-season in terms of a couple of decent performances, despite playing with a bunch of kids up front much of the time. Would obviously have been better if most of our forwards weren't injured when these games were played, but hopefully there has been enough for other parts of the team to begin to gel.

Seems like it was a bluff from PH to get them to move. JS promised a bigger budget than last season, and I can't see that we've got that yet regardless. PH said that the budget wouldn't be affected by those that he wanted rid of, and that he wasn't bluffing about it and we'd see. Our business isn't finished, but it certainly doesn't seem to be what the early rhetoric was implying.

But none of this should be a surprise. They came in with a plan to build a new stadium that somebody else would pay for. We've been trying that for over 20 years and got nowhere with it. As soon as they bought the club, it got shelved and there was a statement about being sustainable. Not a criticism, that's exactly what I want. But you can't spend £200k on improvements, have a bigger budget than last season, have to pay the wages of players that PH has outcast and be sustainable. Throwing money will guarantee nothing and the team looks mostly decent.

The biggest problem for me is that if we don't do it this season with a parachute payment, bumper season ticket sales and the transfer income we've had, then it's only going to get harder next season onwards as the income will drop significantly.

Quoted from pen penfras

But none of this should be a surprise. They came in with a plan to build a new stadium that somebody else would pay for. We've been trying that for over 20 years and got nowhere with it. As soon as they bought the club, it got shelved and there was a statement about being sustainable. Not a criticism, that's exactly what I want. But you can't spend £200k on improvements, have a bigger budget than last season, have to pay the wages of players that PH has outcast and be sustainable. Throwing money will guarantee nothing and the team looks mostly decent.

The biggest problem for me is that if we don't do it this season with a parachute payment, bumper season ticket sales and the transfer income we've had, then it's only going to get harder next season onwards as the income will drop significantly.

I’d rather we spend £200k on improvements than £200k to a private pension/loan

I have a couple of thoughts here.

Firstly, though I am not saying he is the answer, Michael Cheek would certainly be a striker to consider. When the fixture list came out, maybe Bromley said they would not consider an approach until after the first game. So could it be that there will be discussions after then? Especially since it gives our manager the opportunity to see him in a competitive game environment.

Secondly with the leagues below curtailed last season there is no obvious high scoring striker to look at based on form last year. If someone in the league below (or indeed in our league) gets off to a flyer scoring goals at will, we will be in the best position to sign them up when others have spent their cash already.

Quoted from pen penfras

Says the guy who openly boasts about watching our matches on pirate streams?

I'm afraid once again you are wrong.  I paid for and watched every single match last season, as well as donating £100 to the Youth Team development and £20 to sponsoring a player, so until you know the facts, shut your fecking mouth and go back to tossing yourself off in your little cot!

Quoted from 123614

I'm afraid once again you are wrong.  I paid for and watched every single match last season, as well as donating £100 to the Youth Team development and £20 to sponsoring a player, so until you know the facts, shut your fecking mouth and go back to tossing yourself off in your little cot!

A lot of your posts seem unnecessarily aggressive. Are you okay?

Quoted from mariner91

A lot of your posts seem unnecessarily aggressive. Are you okay?

When someone lies about you in public, wouldn't you be a bit miffed?

Quoted from 123614

When someone lies about you in public, wouldn't you be a bit miffed?

I don't think I'd tell them to "toss themselves off in a little cot" but to each their own.

What an odd choice of phrase.

I was in  the Army 14 years, we come out with some odd stuff sometimes.