Collateral damage

I have no evidence. It was just a hypothetical.

I do believe there's interest though. Not necessarily from all of those named, but if the club were on the market, I think there'd be takers.

 

I’ll be honest, left unchecked I think that’s exactly where R&R will take us.

I think the biggest blocker is the first point; partly because I do believe there’s a level of interest around the second point. That’s why I believe the imperative has to be to force a sale, or at least drive a level of willingness to sell and enhance awareness of the club being ‘on the market’ to attract possible interest.

 

Like we're anything like Stockport or Darlington.

Have you been to those clubs?

We're infinitely more attractive

 

Not my preferred option because I’d like them to sell but the best solution would be for the current owners to admit defeat, step back and appoint professionals to run the club. They need to put money in to protect their investment. Even they must know they have royally fecked up. Everything we know about Rahic makes that sound unlikely but if he did it could still work for him. What we need to hear is Rahic publicly stating he will back Hopkin in the January window. Failure to signal a change in January will result in real attendances of 7 or 8k fans for the remainder of this season.

 

OWNERS publicly said they would back McCall in the last January window as well.....well we know how that ended don't we....

 

I used to work at Stockport County, then I lost my job when they got relegation from the football league.

On match days against us I used to use my staff pass and head into the away section.

I don't think we'll end up like Stockport County though, we're to big too end up like that.

I remember us singing songs about one of our stands being bigger than their whole ground.

 

So the fan base has been f**ked for years then?

 

Yes mate.

Away support are the serious supporters now plus some others.

Most of the home support just want to get out of the house on a Saturday. Not serious about the enough and happy to watch the club go to the wall.

 

Who exactly are the "plus some others" fans you refer to?

 

can i ask why you believe there is interest?

 

isn't it something like 14 out of the last 88 seasons have been spent out of the third or fourth tier?

 

sorry, yeh - that’s what i meant. we’re hardly a glowing reference for the right to be a championship club. edited.

 

For me it's always been about if's and but's, under the present regime. However, IF Hopkin get's his targets in January, whose to say that won't bring about a change in our fortunes? After all, it boils down to another rebuild...surely it has to be from a different perspective and infinitely better than previous.

 

Good points and relative..but what alternative is there? Either we go with those who think that the Owners want to remould us from a lower division or we believe they will redeem themselves in the January transfer window by availing DH of what he needs to turn us around. Just trying to avoid seeing things from a negative perspective, because it's painful to say the least.