19-09-2020, 12:35
I miss SGB too. He was / is a good bloke. Something was obviously wrong, and it was something he didn't want to share. Whatever it was I wish he had, I think he would have simply found deeper friendships. So yes I'm glad you are still around and opinionated Dancing. I must admit putting the head of the most complained about communications company in Britain in charge of Test and Trace was a masterstroke.
I loved THAT Dave Allen.
I don't know if you'll agree, having run a business, but there are times when you have to do your best to move on. Obviously we are strapped for cash, but it unlikely just to fall into the club's lap. In fact, it is more likely disappear from its hiding place under a Boardroom chair. So we have to do some things. And doing always has costs. Whits would be a good thing to do in my opinion and an investment in the future. Similarly that's what I was thinking on another thread where I was suggesting designing a Derbyshire based second strip. Only a few thousand Chesterfield fans would ever be up for buying any kind of shirt linked to the club. If it had a Derbyshire connection the potential market would be Derbyshire ...... 800,000 people or more. Chesterfield fans could buy it with our badge prominent. Those who just liked the shirt but weren't Spireites could have discreet little spire, like any other company logo ......
Doing nothing means we die. The things we do need to bring a return. We do have to have a second strip in another season, so make it one that sells and give it a theme so maybe we can have new designs on that same theme to bring in the punters. In the same way this current set of players have to be worth our expenditure on them, so they must at least stabilise the club and at best mount a challenge so we have something on which to build. Equally they can only be players who cost nothing or next to it in transfer fees and we can't carry a huge first team squad. And we urgently need some invention as regards income streams.
Wigan fans have already suffered. They were halfway up the Championship. They got relegated, lost their manager and all their best players. They've got Sheridan, who as you point out will be fine if somehow the team wins games, but if, as seems likely, they keep losing, he'll be the only one blameless and the blame game will destroy the team. But he doesn't WANT to lose. He HATES it. Sheri's blamegame is like Peter Schmeichel dropping a cross. The full back should have tackled the winger, the centre backs weren't marking, I shouldn't have had to come for the ball at all, nobody was picking up runners .......... I'm just a loud-mouthed Dane whose reputation exceeded his ability years ago ...... The only difference is Sheri shouts because he hates himself, Schmeichel used to shout because he'd fallen in love with a mirror.
I loved THAT Dave Allen.
I don't know if you'll agree, having run a business, but there are times when you have to do your best to move on. Obviously we are strapped for cash, but it unlikely just to fall into the club's lap. In fact, it is more likely disappear from its hiding place under a Boardroom chair. So we have to do some things. And doing always has costs. Whits would be a good thing to do in my opinion and an investment in the future. Similarly that's what I was thinking on another thread where I was suggesting designing a Derbyshire based second strip. Only a few thousand Chesterfield fans would ever be up for buying any kind of shirt linked to the club. If it had a Derbyshire connection the potential market would be Derbyshire ...... 800,000 people or more. Chesterfield fans could buy it with our badge prominent. Those who just liked the shirt but weren't Spireites could have discreet little spire, like any other company logo ......
Doing nothing means we die. The things we do need to bring a return. We do have to have a second strip in another season, so make it one that sells and give it a theme so maybe we can have new designs on that same theme to bring in the punters. In the same way this current set of players have to be worth our expenditure on them, so they must at least stabilise the club and at best mount a challenge so we have something on which to build. Equally they can only be players who cost nothing or next to it in transfer fees and we can't carry a huge first team squad. And we urgently need some invention as regards income streams.
Wigan fans have already suffered. They were halfway up the Championship. They got relegated, lost their manager and all their best players. They've got Sheridan, who as you point out will be fine if somehow the team wins games, but if, as seems likely, they keep losing, he'll be the only one blameless and the blame game will destroy the team. But he doesn't WANT to lose. He HATES it. Sheri's blamegame is like Peter Schmeichel dropping a cross. The full back should have tackled the winger, the centre backs weren't marking, I shouldn't have had to come for the ball at all, nobody was picking up runners .......... I'm just a loud-mouthed Dane whose reputation exceeded his ability years ago ...... The only difference is Sheri shouts because he hates himself, Schmeichel used to shout because he'd fallen in love with a mirror.