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[jdl]

Reading in deep shite...

www.theguardian.com/football/2024/jan/15/reading-dai-yongge-showing-clear-disregard-for-his-obligations-says-efl

Not strictly Stones/non-league related, but it's a good illustration of just how tits up things can go in football, and just what (or not) the authorities can do about it. Looks a tad more serious than the usual football club shenanigans.

[sword65]

Deep,deep shit

[Bernie]

Looking at the teams who find themselves shell shocked and like rabbits startled in headlights, in the National League for the first time, it only takes one bad owner.

[pwoodstone]

This is an extreme case but this is also the reason why I am completely
happy with our owners and long may they reign.

Yes, the Manchester takeover may have worked out well and he is a fan as well so that is reassuring but having an owner who has no emotional stake in the club worries me.

[nws]

Should this be in the Reading FC section of the forum

[pwoodstone]

All parts of the forum are for reading

[Bernie]

Interesting article about Forest Green Rovers, bottom of the EFL.

uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/inmates-were-running-jail-troy-073000254.html

[nws]

Jan 16, 2024 15:07:08 GMT pwoodstone said:

All parts of the forum are for reading

I was hoping someone would do the wordplay

[jdl]

Jan 16, 2024 17:03:13 GMT Bernie said:

Interesting article about Forest Green Rovers, bottom of the EFL.

uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/inmates-were-running-jail-troy-073000254.html

Very interesting. But it has echoes both of the Clown and Clough's brief time at Leeds. It will be interesting to see how it turns out.

[Sennockian69]

Seems to want to appear tough rather than sort out the mess in a quiet effective manner.

[jdl]

Jan 16, 2024 23:14:58 GMT jdl said:

Jan 16, 2024 17:03:13 GMT Bernie said:

Interesting article about Forest Green Rovers, bottom of the EFL.

uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/inmates-were-running-jail-troy-073000254.html

Very interesting. But it has echoes both of the Clown and Clough's brief time at Leeds. It will be interesting to see how it turns out.

Clough indeed - he's already gone:

www.theguardian.com/football/2024/jan/18/troy-deeney-forest-green-rovers-football

[Long gone]

Big George to take over at FGR?

[pwoodstone]

Jan 19, 2024 7:00:05 GMT Long gone said:

Big George to take over at FGR?

Any manager who backs himself will avoid that poison chalice in my opinion. 

I am sure he will get offers now he has the exposure, but hopefully in the summer.

As an aside, I always expected Luke Garrard to be poached from Boreham Wood but it didn't happen. Maybe he, like Jay, should have taken up some of those early approaches when his stock was high.