Your Club Closes, What do You Do

HomerJSimpson said:
Not sure how much blame you can put at Sky's door and creating a "Premier League Financial Monster" and if they didn't pay for the rights BT or another broadcaster would step in and snap them up and so the money pot would swell regardless. I actually think SSN covered the recent events well and definitely took the fans perspective into account and I didn't see anything overly wrong with a countdown clock. The deadline was well known anyway.

I think there is a lot more to the Bury mess than just PL money and the firm have already said as much https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/49493929 and sure more information as to why they couldn't do a deal will come out
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1. I disagree with Phil.
2. I disagree with Phil.
3. I disagree with Phil.
4. I disagree with Phil.
5. I disagree with Phil.
6. I disagree with Phil.

I may agree with him on some things, but wont put them down.

Sheesh!

BTW I disagree with him also, but will take it point by point, and maybe even agree with some of it.(y)
 
I'm not a massive fan of any team, but I follow the results of Burnley as it's my Dad's team, and I follow the results of Derby as that's where I was born & bred.
 
GB72 said:
Serious and honest question in light of the awful situation facing Bury and Bolton fans. If your club that you have followed all of your life ceased to be, what would you do. Do you follow another local club who were, in all likelihood rivals, pick another club from a lower league or would that end your interest in supporting a club at all.

As a rugby fan, I cannot see me following another premiership club so would support a local club in the lower leagues
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In reality, the clubs will likely be re-born and join a league further down the tiers. I would do my bit to support that club and hopefully watch their revival back up the leagues.

I definitely wouldn't support another club in Scotland.
 
I remember us getting close before Liebher came in. We were freefaling through the leagues. There wasn’t a chance in hell I’d have supported anyone else.

I became disillusioned season before last tbh, all the previous 10 years project fell apart after new foreign investors (not that they invest) came on board.
Poor manager, lack of players showing effort and shocking squad.

Then I broke my hand in celebration when Gabbiadini scores the goal to effectively keep us up. Now I’m back to being a miserable sod most weekends as the results haven’t improved much but I much prefer it that way.
I spent my first 27 years hoping we’d do better than Coventry as that would get us 16th. After a few lows then a couple of highs I’m now cautiously optimistic we can get to the lofty heights of 14th......
 
On the side issue, who's to blame? Well Bury FC are responsible, end of

You can blame Sky I suppose for giving vast sums of money, but as I understand it Sky don't stipulate how and on what the money should be spent on or divided up. But then thinking on, Sky don't print their own money, subscribers give it to them, so I guess if you blame sky it follows you have to blame the people that gave the money to Sky in order for sky to give it to football clubs...

Anyone want to borrow a mirror :unsure:
 
Slab said:
On the side issue, who's to blame? Well Bury FC are responsible, end of

You can blame Sky I suppose for giving vast sums of money, but as I understand it Sky don't stipulate how and on what the money should be spent on or divided up. But then thinking on, Sky don't print their own money, subscribers give it to them, so I guess if you blame sky it follows you have to blame the people that gave the money to Sky in order for sky to give it to football clubs...

Anyone want to borrow a mirror :unsure:
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For me the only people fully responsible are the owners.

Obviously the Premier league is a massive carrot. But if you cut your cloth accordingly and happen to get there it's a bonus. If not, there are plenty of layers available to pay a lesser way and keep you as you were.

It's the same in any business. If a company takes a punt going for a larger market share, they'll obviously have an initial financial outlay and if their attempts fail they'll be in trouble.
 
When it suits everyone refers to football as a business these days but when clubs find themselves in the same position as so many businesses fans expect their club to be treated differently to those other companies.

Understandable but equally unrealistic.

Bury were paying some players £8000 per last season, Bolton relied upon a benefactor for many years including the Allardyce era.

Neither club was ever truly businesslike so the consequences are inevitable.
 
Bury used to be our bogey team. Even when we romped the league winning our first 13 games, they then went and beat us 6-0

Bolton beat us in the play off final in 1994/5 season. I think that year we were the only team to finish second in the second tier not to be promoted to the top division. Losing the final after being 2-0 up and missing a penalty was the most depressed I have ever been at a game, and supporting Reading there have been many depressing times. Thought it would be the only chance of playing in the top division in my life time.

Despite the above I am still saddened to see what has happened to both clubs. Their supporters deserve so much better.
 
Interesting point was brought up on my team by my grandad. If we ever did happen to do a Bury, I'd probably end up looking for the results of Villa purely because they run in part of my family and until my grandad took me to Arsenal at 9 years old and got me hooked I was probably destined to watch them.
 
Not sure it would bother me that much.

As much as I keep an eye on results, and take a small interest....it doesn’t rule my life and doesn’t affect me as a whole.

I’d just move on I think
 
If I took an interest in anyone other than Newcastle then I guess it would be Notts County as a lot of the early matches that I attended as a boy were with my uncle at Meadow Lane when I'd go and visit my grandparents on holiday, so there is some affinity there.
 
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