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Post by B*ue dragonstander on Dec 2, 2017 22:07:23 GMT
Woodenose...I was thinking much the same as I looked on from afar with no small tinge of green envy around my gills. It made me think of two things
1. The football hotbed of Fylde is hardly deserving of such a magnificent set up. Most of the supporters looked startled to be there. The lucky gits!
2. I have been denying for a while that I don’t give a flying *&£# for the Club as it it is presently set up and run. It turns me cold. The sooner it shuffles off into oblivion the better then we can see what can be built from the ash, dust, smoke and mirrors that remains. That is why I am critical of those who support the existing regime...they are simply denying or delaying the rest of us the chance to watch decent semi-pro footie locally.
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Post by B*ue dragonstander on Dec 2, 2017 13:11:30 GMT
What should be revealed is that instead of a flying fish the “plan” is a dead herring
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Post by B*ue dragonstander on Dec 2, 2017 13:08:38 GMT
Here is the challenge for the small band of believers. Name one single material thing that Hampson has actually achieved to the benefit of the Club in his time as Chairman ? Well I think that is long enough to wait for an answer or rather no answer. I rest my case.
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Post by B*ue dragonstander on Dec 1, 2017 19:52:39 GMT
Wgaff ?
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Post by B*ue dragonstander on Dec 1, 2017 19:48:56 GMT
You are right Admiral. The do nothing say nothing brigade are frankly letting the club they love go down the pan. It may be slow but it is certain. In fact it has already gone but a couple of hundred can’t see the corporate corpse in front of their eyes.
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Post by B*ue dragonstander on Dec 1, 2017 19:38:46 GMT
All sounds rather sadly familiar eh? I just wish our “Chairman” was considering his position!
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Post by B*ue dragonstander on Nov 17, 2017 20:18:46 GMT
So from the start of the plannning process to kick off is less than 15months? Pull the other one.
Hampson has delivered nothing in 9 years. No material plan he has espoused has been delivered other than a triple relegation.
He has no credibility whatsoever.
Here is the challenge for the small band of believers. Name one single material thing that Hampson has actually achieved to the benefit of the Club in his time as Chairman ?
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Post by B*ue dragonstander on Nov 12, 2017 22:12:11 GMT
To act in a way the director considers (in good faith) is most likely to promote the success of the company for the benefit of its members as a whole (or, if relevant, other purposes specified in the constitution). (regulation 20-24). In performing this duty, a director must have regard to all relevant matters, but the following are specifically identified in legislation: the likely consequences of any decision in the long term; the interests of the company's employees; the need to foster the company's business relationships with suppliers, customers and others; the impact of the company's operations on the community and the environment; the desirability of the company maintaining a reputation for high standard business conduct; and the need to act fairly as between members of the company.
Duties are owed under law to employees, customers, suppliers and shareholders. In practice the remedies available to these four groups are weak to the point of being all but useless.
As fans or minority shareholders in an unquoted company that runs a football club have little or no say if the Directors choose to ignore them.
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Post by B*ue dragonstander on Nov 12, 2017 22:02:52 GMT
So what should the board do - . Resign.
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Post by B*ue dragonstander on Nov 11, 2017 21:23:29 GMT
If the public really knew what public money was spent on then It wouldn’t be a democracy would it? Oh hang on...
I loved the hypocrisy exposed on last nights repeat of “meet the lords” where in almost the same breath the Speaker was seen looking at a portrait of herself that had been commissioned at a cost of £12,000 and dealing with the over claiming of expenses by another peer of the realm.
It would seem that the refurbishment of the Palace of Westminster would seem an ideal opportunity to eliminate the House of Lords and replace it with a cost effective elected second chamber of 100 or so. Why have 800 peers when the House only has room for 400 or so to sit. If you have no seat then you cannot participate in the businesss of the house.
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Post by B*ue dragonstander on Nov 11, 2017 21:11:14 GMT
Spot on Mr ‘sider.
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Post by B*ue dragonstander on Nov 11, 2017 21:08:22 GMT
I can’t make out the face at the window but it looks as if it is desperately trying to escape
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Post by B*ue dragonstander on Nov 11, 2017 20:54:26 GMT
After all the disappointment of the last six months should we now be prepared to accept that we're just a top five MFL side? You really think City will finish in the top five? We have the New Year crisis yet to come, the termination of the contracts of any players being paid anything more than expenses, noises from the board about the need to cut to break even in the face of dwindling attendances and the failure to attain planned revenue from cup competitions and the cost associated with the Red Herring Arena being higher than expected. Oh ye of too much faith,..
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Post by B*ue dragonstander on Nov 6, 2017 21:56:28 GMT
I imagine it would be most unlikely that the City Council will charge their own staff time against the £100,000 allocated to supporting this wonderful and enlightened proposal? Surely not eh?
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Post by B*ue dragonstander on Nov 5, 2017 21:32:23 GMT
I just love that dildo brothers bit..inspired!
I can see why they left but it has turned sour. There is an aroma of rotten fish about the government money spent on converting the stadium and the abysmally tiny rent being paid by a top football club for the use of it. I understand that the company (public sector) ithat owns the stadium s in financial trouble and talks were ongoing last I saw as to how to put thing right. The costs of running the stadium far exceed the rent agreed with West Ham and that situation won’t change. Solution? As it is public money the only answer would appear to be to “railtrack” the company. All rather difficult and a story worth following.
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Post by B*ue dragonstander on Nov 5, 2017 21:21:06 GMT
I can recall Gordon Banks wearing blue for Stoke on occasion and I think Gary Sprake or David Harvey did for Leeds in some matches.
I think the regulations permitted green, blue, yellow or red as goalie colours but I don’t know when that evolved into the Jackson Pollocks that today’s keepers wear. You don’t mind players wearing stupid kit if they can play but most Premier League keepers are, to put it bluntly, second rate or worse.
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Post by B*ue dragonstander on Nov 4, 2017 21:17:54 GMT
Following your comments about goalkeepers wearing the same shirt as the rest of the team and being distinguished only by wearing a cap a fact I had never appreciated before I have been looking at a number of team pics pre 1914 and there they are ...goalkeepers wearing the same shirt and these tiny schoolboy caps. Really interesting so thanks for that wee gem.
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Post by B*ue dragonstander on Nov 4, 2017 21:11:56 GMT
Not much makes me laugh out loud these days but I have thought for a while that Sullivan and Gold and Brady are only at West Ham on a massive ego trip and to make money so this post on BBC have your say was a nugget
101. Posted by Mustard Boy on 45 minutes ago Utter tripe from WHU. As a season ticket holder I'd like to thank the dildo bros and trailer trash Brady for ruining my boyhood club - thank you for you interference!
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Post by B*ue dragonstander on Nov 3, 2017 15:58:43 GMT
If you look at the player in white just goalside of the line and his stride length and compare with the distance to the goal then the line looks to be the six yard line. If you look carefully to the right you can just make out the right angle and the side line running towards the goal. The pitch is a bit rough so the line is not visible as it would be today.
It is possible that the player in the stripes on the line is wearing a cap judging from his hairline but I am nit convinced.
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Post by B*ue dragonstander on Nov 3, 2017 11:57:44 GMT
I was wondering the same thing but will go for the home team wearing their home colours. It looks, therefore, like City have just conceded with the two players running towards goal wearing stripes throwing their arms up in an “oh no” gesture rather than one of “yay we scored”.
The odd thing is the tiny figure that appears to be in the goal or goalmouth towards the right hand post as we look. Goalie? Very small if he is a player.
Does anyone know when the Brookside terrace was built? I am going to guess that it was pre 2nd world war with the Shed added post war? The Brookside burgers were certainly made pre war 😉
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Post by B*ue dragonstander on Nov 2, 2017 21:08:27 GMT
I believe it is City at home to West Brom in the Birmingham League and is the earliest known action photo of City.
The shot looks to be taken from the main stand side of the ground looking towards the Canal End. The trees are probably lining Barbourne Brook and that area would be where the Shed would be in later years. I don’t know when the Brookside or Shed were built.
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Post by B*ue dragonstander on Nov 1, 2017 15:36:57 GMT
Somehow our glorious leader manages to rearrange the letters of Parsonage Way and produce the word Bullshit. He is so clever.
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Post by B*ue dragonstander on Nov 1, 2017 10:05:10 GMT
Leaky defence?
(Well someone has to say it..)
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Post by B*ue dragonstander on Nov 1, 2017 10:00:48 GMT
I wouldn’t go and watch an “alternative “ club at the moment. I am a City FC fan and that is the Club I want to watch. However watching at the current level has virtually no interest for me. It has all the attraction of an empty crisp packet. Travelling to Bromsgrove to watch low level amateur football has zero appeal.
Were the club to return to Worcester I would not go. If there was a rebirth of the existing Club ..which seems highly unlikely..and it played in Worcester then I would attend some matches even at the current level of play.
If the existing set up folds and a new Club is born then I would buy a season ticket although I may not attend many matches.
Confused? So am I !
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Post by B*ue dragonstander on Oct 28, 2017 10:50:40 GMT
Oxford will return. At least I hope so.
Let’s not forget that the hope of the Board is to divide the fans and thus be allowed to carry on unchallenged and unchecked and to make those who oppose their Stalinist regime go away or lose interest. That is their only strategy whatever the cost to the results on the pitch. Now if what “true” supporters really want is what we have then they will be the laziest most apathetic bunch of football supporters in the UK as there is nowhere else where fans don’t want success on the pitch. If you back a regime with evidently zero interest in this then all is rosy. You are where you want to be.
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Post by B*ue dragonstander on Oct 27, 2017 21:28:11 GMT
Where does the definition provided by TM leave those who are unable to reach Bromsgrove for 3.00pm on a Saturday due to
* not having enough spare cash ?
* not being able to reach the game in time due to work or other commitments ?
* not being able to reach the match by public transport ...for instance those not fit enough to walk from the station to the ground?
* those who only go to away games?
Have we not reached a definition that has become an argument more suited to a junior school playground? You didn’t pay at the gate last week so you aren’t a true supporter despite having not missed a match for twenty years?
Hmmm.
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Post by B*ue dragonstander on Oct 25, 2017 22:29:05 GMT
All this guff about budgets. Shawbury United, who beat us a couple of weeks ago, don't pay their players, and they're not alone in this league. Spot on ..er..teej 😉. The managers may well be within their playing budget but if that is £1M a year then the overall budget for the Club is up Noboddy creek without a paddle or a rear admiral.
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Post by B*ue dragonstander on Oct 25, 2017 22:25:18 GMT
Is it the suggestion that the only true supporters are those that continue to pay at the gate to watch the matches?
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Post by B*ue dragonstander on Oct 25, 2017 22:17:36 GMT
I believe the rear admiral has also been seen in the background at The Royal Tournament, the International Horse of the Year Show and in early epidoses of Citizen Smith as well as that Leslie Grantham classic series 99 to 1.
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Post by B*ue dragonstander on Oct 24, 2017 11:17:18 GMT
Good to see WN have reported on the social media “spat” which is the prime concern in my eyes. Also good to see that the Board will seriously consider the issue at their meeting on Thursday. Tick ✅ from me.
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