Ollie Palmer

Quoted from mimma

If I had £300,000 to sign a player I wouldn't waste on Ollie Palmer.

Totally agree, and that's nothing against Ollie.., he must think it's Christmas!

Quoted from mimma

People point to Harrogate and Sutton that went up without spending money. They built promotion sides slowly, giving the manager time to build their squads. Their teams were put together when the right players became available instead of spending a fortune in one or two transfer windows. Halifax would appear to be doing the same this year, biding their time and picking up players when they are available to them.

This!

There's a lot of knee jerk going on. Yes, we're not doing very well right now, but the calls for Hurst's head are laughable. Building the squad over 12 months TWICE has got him to a starting point that he can build on over the next 12 months and have a promotion challenging side then. Nobody wants us to miss out on play offs or a chance of the title, of course not, but there's virtually no chance of immediate promotion with the carnage that he inherited. There's only ever been 4 bounces back to the football league the season after relegation? Brizzle Rovers a few years back and Lincoln in the 80's? Can't think of the others. "League 2 has finally shown a negative with only four clubs of the 35 relegated since 1992 gaining promotion back into the Football League at the first attempt." [url] https://www.thestatszone.com/archive/promotion-and-relegation-in-english-football-13946[/url]

He's got next year and probably the year after for me to build a squad without bankrupting the club, which he's shown in the past he can do.

Quoted from Biccys

This!

There's a lot of knee jerk going on. Yes, we're not doing very well right now, but the calls for Hurst's head are laughable. Building the squad over 12 months TWICE has got him to a starting point that he can build on over the next 12 months and have a promotion challenging side then. Nobody wants us to miss out on play offs or a chance of the title, of course not, but there's virtually no chance of immediate promotion with the carnage that he inherited. There's only ever been 4 bounces back to the football league the season after relegation? Brizzle Rovers a few years back and Lincoln in the 80's? Can't think of the others. "League 2 has finally shown a negative with only four clubs of the 35 relegated since 1992 gaining promotion back into the Football League at the first attempt." [url] https://www.thestatszone.com/archive/promotion-and-relegation-in-english-football-13946[/url]

He's got next year and probably the year after for me to build a squad without bankrupting the club, which he's shown in the past he can do.

You're havng a laugh, shirley?

Quoted from arryarryarry

You're havng a laugh, shirley?

No, and ... no, I won't do it.

Right, this is pissing me off now.

All these digs at the board for not splashing hundreds of thousands of pounds on strikers...what the intercourse are people expecting?  Where do you think this money magically appears from?

Unless you've lived under a rock for the last year, the shares of John Fenty were bought with personal cash.  That's money from the pockets of two individuals to get rid of Fenty from our club.  That isn't money that we've generated through sales or tickets, it's from their own pockets.

Investment in the ground, including the much derided Perspex screen in the Upper, from personal cash.  

Last summer we had a couple of windfalls from the sales of Ben Grist and Mattie Pollock, to the tune of just over half a million.  Unfortunately that has gone to paying off our good friend John's benign loans off.  Or did you expect the new owners to pay that from their personal cash too?   If we didn't have that bloody anchor weighing round our necks we may have been in a more comfortable position to splash cash on £250k strikers.  

Y'know, they're not getting everything right.  The poorer our form the more things become obvious.  Stuff that would be ignored when we're playing well is rankling everyone now.  Changing the crest, the CEO arguing on Twitter, the price of the food in the ground, it all chips away when the team are doing excrement.  Rightly or wrongly, they're in the position to be shot at.

But let's at least have some respect to not go down that route of demanding they spend their personal money on transfers and silly wages.   If that's the route people really want, the option is always there for them to make millions themselves and do that.

Quoted from diehardmariner

Right, this is pissing me off now.

All these digs at the board for not splashing hundreds of thousands of pounds on strikers...what the intercourse are people expecting?  Where do you think this money magically appears from?

Unless you've lived under a rock for the last year, the shares of John Fenty were bought with personal cash.  That's money from the pockets of two individuals to get rid of Fenty from our club.  That isn't money that we've generated through sales or tickets, it's from their own pockets.

Investment in the ground, including the much derided Perspex screen in the Upper, from personal cash.  

Last summer we had a couple of windfalls from the sales of Ben Grist and Mattie Pollock, to the tune of just over half a million.  Unfortunately that has gone to paying off our good friend John's benign loans off.  Or did you expect the new owners to pay that from their personal cash too?   If we didn't have that bloody anchor weighing round our necks we may have been in a more comfortable position to splash cash on £250k strikers.  

Y'know, they're not getting everything right.  The poorer our form the more things become obvious.  Stuff that would be ignored when we're playing well is rankling everyone now.  Changing the crest, the CEO arguing on Twitter, the price of the food in the ground, it all chips away when the team are doing excrement.  Rightly or wrongly, they're in the position to be shot at.

But let's at least have some respect to not go down that route of demanding they spend their personal money on transfers and silly wages.   If that's the route people really want, the option is always there for them to make millions themselves and do that.

Nice reality check , well said

Quoted from diehardmariner

Right, this is pissing me off now.

All these digs at the board for not splashing hundreds of thousands of pounds on strikers...what the intercourse are people expecting?  Where do you think this money magically appears from?

Unless you've lived under a rock for the last year, the shares of John Fenty were bought with personal cash.  That's money from the pockets of two individuals to get rid of Fenty from our club.  That isn't money that we've generated through sales or tickets, it's from their own pockets.

Investment in the ground, including the much derided Perspex screen in the Upper, from personal cash.  

Last summer we had a couple of windfalls from the sales of Ben Grist and Mattie Pollock, to the tune of just over half a million.  Unfortunately that has gone to paying off our good friend John's benign loans off.  Or did you expect the new owners to pay that from their personal cash too?   If we didn't have that bloody anchor weighing round our necks we may have been in a more comfortable position to splash cash on £250k strikers.  

Y'know, they're not getting everything right.  The poorer our form the more things become obvious.  Stuff that would be ignored when we're playing well is rankling everyone now.  Changing the crest, the CEO arguing on Twitter, the price of the food in the ground, it all chips away when the team are doing excrement.  Rightly or wrongly, they're in the position to be shot at.

But let's at least have some respect to not go down that route of demanding they spend their personal money on transfers and silly wages.   If that's the route people really want, the option is always there for them to make millions themselves and do that.

Excellent post….a rare dose of calm pragmatism and reason in a swirling pot of spiteful and unrealistic hyperbole.

Quoted from chaos33

Excellent post….a rare dose of calm pragmatism and reason in a swirling pot of spitefu and unrealistic hyperbole.

Spite-fu? I think my wife takes a class in that..

Any idea if he's had clearance to play tonight yet?

Quoted from Poojah

Spite-fu? I think my wife takes a class in that..

Hehe. Yeah just noted. Corrected now.