25-03-2024, 09:59
It strikes me that the Kirk brothers are pretty shrewd businessmen - if they`re not, they must have been bloody lucky in life, given what they`re worth according to the sort of numbers I`m reading about - who will have worked out the budgets for next season already. I believe they`re also Chesterfield born and raised and long-standing (life-long?) supporters of the club. Although I`m slightly uneasy about our getting too much in hock to any one or couple of individuals after our experience with the previous regime, this makes me a lot more hopeful this time. I get the impression that they`re in for the long haul and that the future for the club looks ever so slightly rosy at the moment.
If we end up in the Championship in a few years`time, which would not be totally impossible given the sort of financial backing they can offer, does that mean that we would be seen as a `plastic` club by some and how would we Spireites feel about that? I asked that question on a thread some time ago, never thinking that we might be in that position ourselves.
Like you, Dev, I got slightly emotional when I saw the pictures from the ground at the end of the match - yes, even a cynical old bugger like me - and wished I could have been there. Unfortunately I was landing at Heathrow after a 13-hour flight just about the time the final whistle went so couldn`t. Next year, maybe.
I still don`t blame Cookie for moving on last time, for reasons I`ve given in the past, and just hope he won`t be put in a position whereby he has to even consider making a similar one again.
If we end up in the Championship in a few years`time, which would not be totally impossible given the sort of financial backing they can offer, does that mean that we would be seen as a `plastic` club by some and how would we Spireites feel about that? I asked that question on a thread some time ago, never thinking that we might be in that position ourselves.
Like you, Dev, I got slightly emotional when I saw the pictures from the ground at the end of the match - yes, even a cynical old bugger like me - and wished I could have been there. Unfortunately I was landing at Heathrow after a 13-hour flight just about the time the final whistle went so couldn`t. Next year, maybe.
I still don`t blame Cookie for moving on last time, for reasons I`ve given in the past, and just hope he won`t be put in a position whereby he has to even consider making a similar one again.