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Post by sword65 on Mar 24, 2020 12:22:16 GMT
I wouldn't give that man a pot to piss in.
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Post by jdh80 on Mar 25, 2020 2:33:48 GMT
On eBay recently there was a brochure for sale which was produced by scally around 99/00 outlining a five year plan to have Gillingham in the premier league have to laugh everytime i see it.
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Post by jdh80 on Mar 25, 2020 2:34:53 GMT
I wouldn't give that man a pot to piss in. I would, just so that when he's used it you can pour the contents over his head.
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Post by hongkongstone on Mar 25, 2020 3:51:47 GMT
I wouldn't give that man a pot to piss in. I would, just so that when he's used it you can pour the contents over his head. By chance I met a Gills fan in HK on Monday (at a bar if you guys remember what one of those is). He was very pro-Scally and their current manager. Immediately had to go home, scrub myself down and self-isolate.
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Post by sword65 on Apr 21, 2020 9:33:00 GMT
Scary stuff. Not just our football, but every club outside the football league. Have heard talk of pubs, restaurants etc doing a take away service and some hotels may become hospitals, but for many in the entertainment and service sector, it must be like looking into a very dark tunnel with no light at the end. To mix the metaphors, how to bridge that as yet undefined gap is going to call for some radical thinking. In football, the average Premier League player will, in the short term, be affected, you'd think. So, 21 teams, maybe 400 players on a million pounds or more a year. Suppose each of those players donates £100k to an emergency fund for non league clubs. That's £40million. If allocated at around £50k per club, that would enable 800 clubs to benefit. Am just using this as a basic example of what might be done and it is no doubt wildly altruistic. However, that nation pledged £40 million to Sports Relief on Friday and much of that will have come from small donations. Time for the ultra wealthy to dig deep in their very large pockets? Trouble is, there are going to be so many areas needing support. I can see premier league clubs helping out their feeder teams but they wont care about anyone else. If there is no relegation from the prem league this season then they will save £90million on parachute payments but I bet they spread it among themselves not smaller clubs. As many of you may know I have an affinity with Whitley Bay fc in Northumberland and I have spoken to a club official and they say that suspension of football for more than 4 weeks could kill,not only themselves,but half of the Northern league clubs. Many of these clubs are kept going by money from their social clubs/pubs and if ,as rumoured,they are closed by the government they will not survive. Now multiply that by however many step 3,4,5 and 6 leagues there are and you will have utter and horrific carnage. A quick update on Whitley Bay fc. The supporters of this great club have so far raised £3,500 to keep the club afloat. This is not bad in an area of high unemployment.
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Post by jdl on Apr 21, 2020 10:22:18 GMT
I can see premier league clubs helping out their feeder teams but they wont care about anyone else. If there is no relegation from the prem league this season then they will save £90million on parachute payments but I bet they spread it among themselves not smaller clubs. As many of you may know I have an affinity with Whitley Bay fc in Northumberland and I have spoken to a club official and they say that suspension of football for more than 4 weeks could kill,not only themselves,but half of the Northern league clubs. Many of these clubs are kept going by money from their social clubs/pubs and if ,as rumoured,they are closed by the government they will not survive. Now multiply that by however many step 3,4,5 and 6 leagues there are and you will have utter and horrific carnage. A quick update on Whitley Bay fc. The supporters of this great club have so far raised £3,500 to keep the club afloat. This is not bad in an area of high unemployment. Bloody incredible. On past performance (eg the 'supporters' stand'appeal), we'd be hard pushed to equal that.
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Post by jdl on Apr 27, 2020 22:16:03 GMT
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Post by Raymondo316 on Apr 28, 2020 19:34:27 GMT
Some interesting comments from Accrington's owner
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Post by jdl on Apr 28, 2020 19:47:27 GMT
The EFL are waiting to see what the PL does - and the NL are waiting to see what the EFL does!
The trouble is that behind closed doors + TV probably works for the PL, but won't work for 90% of the rest of us, so we're all waiting for the PL to make a decision based on a set of criteria that dosn't apply to anyone else. Whatever they decide (except void 19/20 and abandon 20/21) will f**k everyone else up. So why wait? let's just declare 19/20 over/void (whatever suits), and let the clubs get on with doing whatever they have to do to survive no football next season.
Surely, all that matters now is that we're all still here when football does start up again? The rest is just details.
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Post by 61666 on Apr 29, 2020 7:01:06 GMT
France have joined the Netherlands in voiding their season at the top flight. Suspect on the big money leagues like England, Spain, Italy and Germany will brave it out on TV, plus smaller countries like Austria who have, thus far, had fewer problems.
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Post by yorkshirestone on May 4, 2020 13:56:52 GMT
The PL really needs to sort its act out. It appears that the bottom six clubs are all holding out against playing out the rest of the season on neutral grounds if relegation is still going to happen but bizarrely will be happy to play if there is no relegation this season, although it has to be said that if the PL were to vote on ppg and the bottom three going down as things stand in the table now, there would only be three teams unhappy with that
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Post by pedant on May 4, 2020 14:26:18 GMT
The PL really needs to sort its act out. It appears that the bottom six clubs are all holding out against playing out the rest of the season on neutral grounds if relegation is still going to happen but bizarrely will be happy to play if there is no relegation this season, although it has to be said that if the PL were to vote on ppg and the bottom three going down as things stand in the table now, there would only be three teams unhappy with that Not surprising. Far too much money involved for clubs to take a considered view on what's best for the sport / country as opposed to what they believe is the best outcome for their club.
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2020 15:20:29 GMT
Looking at a match grid, all those bottom teams have more home than away games left to play - there's a surprise.
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Post by hongkongstone on May 5, 2020 4:46:31 GMT
My idea would be to cancel the whole season, just to give scousers something to whinge about and start next season with Leeds amd WBA in the PL. This makes for 2x22 top 2 divisions which could be rectified by 2 up 4 down at the end of the new season.
Also promote Barrow on merit to the EFL (tough luck Harrogate).
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Post by 61666 on May 5, 2020 7:43:44 GMT
BBC News - Premier League 2020-21 without fans? Eight charts on the impact www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52529679Info here that will surprise nobody, but an important picture of what goes on at top level.
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