Ok then , New Ground time

Quoted from pen penfras

Maybe I just feel like the way that a lot of people, who have given a lot to this club over the years, have been treated is unacceptable. Especially when we hear so much publicity about the respect and values the club is supposed to hold. If we'd brought in people who were doing a great job, then it'd be somewhat justified, but most of the staff over the years did a fantastic job regardless of what you think of the owner.

I’d say they were part of the issue then, to realise that the previous owner was as a buffoon but they kept going and ploughing on, doing very little to try and change things.

They could’ve left, they didn’t. Now new owners are changing the shape, the direction of the club and so forth and they’re being pushed to the side or leaving, it happens. In every single profession. You can do that with honesty and transparency too. We serve notice on kids at school, we’re a trauma informed setting and we serve notice in a trauma informed way.

It’s just the usual, people trying to find something to moan about.

It’s a non story really, all the advertising boards about the Main stand were removed last year and replaced.

As I said, and I’m sure plenty would agree, I’ve barely missed a home game since 89 and I couldn’t tell you a single advertising board. How much income they generate for the businesses can’t be much.

As Ska said though, plenty of space, could always sling a couple of hundred quid in for some MDF with ‘save smudger’ on.

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Quoted from pen penfras

But the department changed long before Dave left. Somebody was hired to be his boss and changed the way things are done. I've never seen black boards around the ground during the season before.

Companies buy them to support the club, it's not like they get very much out of it.

Do they?

So I work for a business that involves around 1,000 SME’s across the UK and those businesses would never buy such an unquantifiable media to support a club, they’d buy it to raise the profile of their business in a location that has regular high numbers of attendees.

Maybe some businesses in what is a challenging period can’t see the value in this kind of spend rather than anything the club may or may not be doing.

You have to get your head out of small town mentality, just because someone is a nice lad or lovely lass the way of the world now sadly is that that won’t keep them in a job.

Quoted from HertsGTFC

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Do they?

So I work for a business that involves around 1,000 SME’s across the UK and those businesses would never buy such an unquantifiable media to support a club, they’d buy it to raise the profile of their business in a location that has regular high numbers of attendees.

Maybe some businesses in what is a challenging period can’t see the value in this kind of spend rather than anything the club may or may not be doing.

You have to get your head out of small town mentality, just because someone is a nice lad or lovely lass the way of the world now sadly is that that won’t keep them in a job.

Probably why some of those people were at BP so long, look at Fleming, hard to see any element of effectiveness in his role as CEO or impact.

May be they were nice people but that doesn’t drive a company forward. As you say, people need to relive the small town mentality and also explore why a small, local business would throw any money in to a no mark football team for little benefit and little coverage isn’t he current climate.

Plenty put money in to the club since a certain person left but we don’t talk about that, instead we’ll talk about a few empty advertising boards. Although, as I’ve said, I couldn’t actually tell you any, not because I’m not observant, quite the opposite in that area, more that it’s not really something I’m arsed about or look at.

I’ve said it before, and will beat the drum again, but if a side panel was put up at the main stand side of the pontoon, it would be prime advertising space and keep any noise inside the pontoon (plus keep people dry!)

Am I right in thinking that there used to be advertising on the roof of the main (and possibly osmond?)

I also remember Glanville Tours or something like that on the mainstand roof as well.

Quoted from pen penfras

Maybe I just feel like the way that a lot of people, who have given a lot to this club over the years, have been treated is unacceptable. Especially when we hear so much publicity about the respect and values the club is supposed to hold. If we'd brought in people who were doing a great job, then it'd be somewhat justified, but most of the staff over the years did a fantastic job regardless of what you think of the owner.

You keep saying this and yet we never finished above mid table league 2 in all the years JF was at the helm. We were relegated numerous times, twice to non league (effectively three times but for points deductions) and when JF finally left (with every penny he had "invested" in the club and more) he had taken us from the Championship and left us in non league with the worst squad of players I have ever seen.

Brilliant job, well done.

Quoted from ginnywings

You keep saying this and yet we never finished above mid table league 2 in all the years JF was at the helm. We were relegated numerous times, twice to non league (effectively three times but for points deductions) and when JF finally left (with every penny he had "invested" in the club and more) he had taken us from the Championship and left us in non league with the worst squad of players I have ever seen.

Brilliant job, well done.

Quoted from ginnywings

You keep saying this and yet we never finished above mid table league 2 in all the years JF was at the helm. We were relegated numerous times, twice to non league (effectively three times but for points deductions) and when JF finally left (with every penny he had "invested" in the club and more) he had taken us from the Championship and left us in non league with the worst squad of players I have ever seen.

Brilliant job, well done.

Bang on mate.

There are 3 of us that have not been this season we want to sit together and like the lower smiths stand but it’s all sold out now so we don’t bother going.
We watch Clee Town more there must be loads of fans like us the main stand is overpriced and rubbish view.