Tue Apr 08, 2014 8:26 pm
Roath_Magic_ wrote:This is a post laced with the aroma of coffee and strong smelling salts rather than a sharp tongue.
It is quite ironic that in a few shirt weeks you will be back in the same place where you guys allowed Tan to start this crazy path of rebranding and wild spending. You will still be clad in red, your fan base will still be split, your debts will have tripled and your attendances shrunk (judging by renewals of only 12,000).
So was it worth it? Surely the answer to that is no. But why couldnt you see what most other non city fans saw?
I think this is down to a fans attitude unique to your club. There is an insatiable appetite to be seen as a big club, best team in wales etc etc and this attitude and kudos craving has seen you mortgage your club and herritage on a whim for short term glamour.
You need a complete overhaul. Players, chairman, fans outlook, club ethos - everything needs to change. First of all this "big club" bollocks that has been spouted for so long needs to go as it is your main weakness. As soon as someone comes in and panders to that then you are sold and will give them the keys to the club (see Hammam, Riddler and Tan for details). Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.... Fool me three times and questions really need to be asked about your sanity.
You need to be comfotable in your own skin. A modest club from south wales with a small hardcore following and a largely irrelevant past in terms of footballing pedigree. This may be hard for many to accept but its true, and this pretence and desire to be something else is killing your club from within.
You need to build slowly, develop the club and live within your means - and then in turn grow within your means. This boom or bust gambling with money the club cannot afford is just nonsense and will get you nowhere. You need to be self sufficient and success needs to be steady and sustainable.
This is your opportunity for a turning point and a change - can you do it is the question.
Ill probably come in for abuse as usual but it will be interesting to bump this in a couple of seasons time. As CantonMagic and various incarnations of Roathie - again all I can say is ive tried to twll you whats what. You can lead the horse to water but you cant make it drink.
Good luck.
Wed Apr 09, 2014 2:03 am
cendl blue wrote:True you were more confident than a lot of the hibernating posters but you are still not mathematically safe. You won't go down but too good,no way your down the bottom for a reason the same as why we looked doomed. Lose on the weekend and your boys could get twitchy.
Wed Apr 09, 2014 2:04 am
toshacks_1_tales wrote:Roath_Magic_ wrote:This is a post laced with the aroma of coffee and strong smelling salts rather than a sharp tongue.
It is quite ironic that in a few shirt weeks you will be back in the same place where you guys allowed Tan to start this crazy path of rebranding and wild spending. You will still be clad in red, your fan base will still be split, your debts will have tripled and your attendances shrunk (judging by renewals of only 12,000).
So was it worth it? Surely the answer to that is no. But why couldnt you see what most other non city fans saw?
I think this is down to a fans attitude unique to your club. There is an insatiable appetite to be seen as a big club, best team in wales etc etc and this attitude and kudos craving has seen you mortgage your club and herritage on a whim for short term glamour.
You need a complete overhaul. Players, chairman, fans outlook, club ethos - everything needs to change. First of all this "big club" bollocks that has been spouted for so long needs to go as it is your main weakness. As soon as someone comes in and panders to that then you are sold and will give them the keys to the club (see Hammam, Riddler and Tan for details). Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.... Fool me three times and questions really need to be asked about your sanity.
You need to be comfotable in your own skin. A modest club from south wales with a small hardcore following and a largely irrelevant past in terms of footballing pedigree. This may be hard for many to accept but its true, and this pretence and desire to be something else is killing your club from within.
You need to build slowly, develop the club and live within your means - and then in turn grow within your means. This boom or bust gambling with money the club cannot afford is just nonsense and will get you nowhere. You need to be self sufficient and success needs to be steady and sustainable.
This is your opportunity for a turning point and a change - can you do it is the question.
Ill probably come in for abuse as usual but it will be interesting to bump this in a couple of seasons time. As CantonMagic and various incarnations of Roathie - again all I can say is ive tried to twll you whats what. You can lead the horse to water but you cant make it drink.
Good luck.
You really do love yourself, and have such an overwhelming stench of self-importance.
Wed Apr 09, 2014 4:10 pm
Wed Apr 09, 2014 7:44 pm
El Tel wrote:"Top ten side and running amok against the top sides in Europe" is not exactly calling it correctly unless you feel you did do well in Europe and will still finish in the top half of the table.
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