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Quoted from HertsGTFC

Utter & complete cobblers, you don’t do marketing unless you need to, it costs too much and you do it to court business or beat a competitor to win the consumer £.

Negotiating a contract is a completely different scenario.

Advice I received years ago, it might cost now but didn’t then.

Quoted from ginnywings

I think what he actually said was that you don't take investment when you need it, you take it when you don't. Something he has said before in other interviews.

Seems counter intuitive, but I think what he is trying to get at is that you then take it on your own terms and not when in a desperate situation which allows others to have a hold on you. Build your brand and then accept people who want to be a part of it, and not because they see a way of elbowing their way in with shiny trinkets.

Dream on

Jesus.  Reading this thread alone it's no wonder Stockwood seems a bit rattled.

I'm not advocating an easy ride at all for him and 1878.  I think questions should be asked of them and there shouldn't be a perception that they can do no wrong.  They will get things wrong and I think they already have done.  They're human, no-one is perfect.

But christ almighty some of the things Stockwood is getting dug out for in this thread is pathetic.  Every time he puts a Guardian article out there's someone chipping away at him for it.  Every single point we drop, there's a dig...

A few people have hinted that he needs to block it out and grow thicker skin.  Not always that easy though.  If he turned round and said 'intercourse you, I don't need this excrement' no-one could blame him.

The comment on investment was probably a reference to the saying “repair and weatherproof your house roof in the summer”.  Not the winter.

Under the new owners we had early and unexpected successes on the field.  There was also a large increase in the number of STHs.  The success and increased financial income resulted in higher expectations from many fans.  (Rightly or wrongly). There was a strong feel good atmosphere.

Then it went wrong.  We got players in to strengthen but slipped badly to 4th to bottom.  Hurst was sacked.

As a backdrop to this the need to maintain BP drained valuable financial resources.  The club had to spend more than anticipated as a result of many years of underfunding and neglect by the previous regime.  ( Toilets are WIP but still outdated).

We climbed a big peak and then fell into a chasm. If we could control things it would have been better the other way round,

Got to watch this late last night regarding Jason he did sound a little frustrated at times but with hindsight it could have been he was bursting to tell us something but he knew he couldn't .

Now it's out , good choice Jason Andrew and Debbie.

Now let's enjoy the rest of the season watching a team to be proud of.