Most liked posts in thread: Rupp / Sparks and the Luton blueprint.

Cheap season tickets is not only right for the present but hopefully it will give this club a brilliant future especially if we eventually get it right on the pitch.
Families are coming of which the children are fans of the future because often love+of a club comes in childhood it did for me many year ago. We are growing the fan base for the future

 

Too right. Commercial loans come with double figure interest rates. If we had to borrow more than £5million the interest alone would be more than the rent.

Not owning the ground has little impact on the day to day running of the club because our crowd size makes our Commercial activity much higher than most in our league, and pays our rent.

The whole 'we own nothing' shite doesn't stop us progressing. It's a string of negative managers that do that.

 

I don't think they'll overstretch themselves to stay in the PL. They'll use some of the vast PL money they'll get to finally build the new ground they've been planning for years (see link below) and aim to be a yo yo club between Championship and EPL, which would be a phenomenal achievement considering how far they dropped.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-65718990.amp

 

How far they dropped & how they have recovered from national League to premier goes to show it can be done
So my question is who or what is holding us back
Is it the management Rupp& Sparks & Other before them for the mismanagement of our club

We don't want or can't afford to go up through the division
Or no ambition to do so

Or is it the team manager & Players who don't care as long as they are paid

Luton are not the only team to show are club up
Bournemouth Wigan & Brentford have also done so?

 

Not dermed good enough for them so on loan with us to pay his wages?

 

TBF apart from Luton, all those have had huge sums invested where our Owner won't do that.
All these clubs have had a plan. Up until 12 months ago it didn't feel we had one.
Luton are big and strong, physical with a high press. They buy athletes.
We've gone from Bowyer to McCall to Trueman to Adams to Hughes.
They're all very different with no consistency.

 

The cheap season ticket argument is a load of cr@p.If we raise the price of season tickets and we lose 4 to 5 thousand fans,wouldn't the new prices just be replacing the fans we have lost ?

 

And lessen the commercial opportunities

 

The reason we concede so many corners is we play our football round our own penalty box which makes it easy for teams to pressurise us into making mistakes

 

My take after reflection, is Hughes inherited an awful squad and over performed in the last four matches of his first season. Last season he improved the squad and massively improved our league position and points but just fell short.

Next season he has less that needs improving on. This is the crux. Either we go up, automatically, or at least by the playoffs, anything else and he is done.

After reflection, I think we will nw top three.

 

So up the price, reduce the crowd, alienate our future fan base, reduce corporate income.

Absolute genuis, well done Gerald Ratner.

 

Does he have a sponge

 

That is purely self inflicted in my view. All our players are in the box defending/zonal marking whatever that is! If we leave one or two players in the centre the opposition has to send one or two out to mark them. Plus it gives us a chance to clear the ball out, rather the repeated corners we had to defend.
I presume zonal marking is marking space? however you need to be able to read and anticipate where the ball is going and which opposition player will be challenging for the ball. At this level players are not skilled in decision making or ability to read the game. I think we need to keep it simple.

 

What's pleasing about the situation is we aren't having to guess which random, cheap League Two players might or might not make squad players. We have the squad already.

Now the focus is on pure quality.

It's way more important than last season that this year's crop of signings are top notch. It doesn't matter that we wasted time on Odusina or Young, for example. It will matter more this year.

 

I watched the game in its entirety. They won’t last 5 mins in the Prem with that squad. They will have to blast their entire Sky money and other non turnstile income , loans or “ gifts” to fork out circa £100 million just to hold water.

Exactly what Nottingham Forest did in Jan . Spent £150 MILLION.

They did well but the standard between the two leagues is as wide as the English Channel .