Most liked posts in thread: United we stand - divided we fall

Another bash the fans post. Support the ISG if you really care about the club.

 

Imagine trying to blame fans for not renewing their £250 season ticket saying it’s going to harm the club while the OWNER is worth 100m+ absolutely staggering peoples train of thought at the moment to even try and blame fans.

 

There is no standoff. People are voting with their feet right now. Rupp and Sparks need to look in the mirror and see why.

Stop being their apologist.

 

Don't renew like spoilt kids..Jesus wept

Read the room before posting mate, read the room.

 

As the Bulls found you only really get one chance at building an infrastructure off the back of a successful period. Parky gave us that chance to take this club to the next level, he alone gave the club it's soul back, the soul it lost after numerous admins and relegations. And that wasn't down to the owners, it was down to lucky home run off the back of a once in a lifetime period thanks to Phil Parkinson. It should have heralded the dawn of a new era, a club flirting with the championship.
Instead we are right back where we were just before Parkinson took over about 10 years ago, a lot closer to the national league than league 1.
Damn it pains me to say this but it was of the worst days in this clubs history when Rupp and Rahic walked through the doors at Valley Parade. Bar the first year of magic from Stuart McCall they've given us nothing but heartache and god awful football.

 

For the sake of liking this site i wont use the potty mouth language i would love to use

But you my friend are a grade A tool

 

That’s such weak mentality IMO, so we continue to be bent over a barrel with the fear that the club is going to go out of business. Putting our hard earnt money into a something that is failing and has been for a number of years now, add into that we have little to no say on how the business runs. A clueless and incompetent CEO who’s killing the club whilst earning probably more than anyone on this forum. Yet it’s the fans to blame, come on let’s get fecking real. Rupp won’t let the club die he’s got too much of an investment in it.

 

I get it's supposed to be some sort of rallying cry but it's tosh. How anyone could describe City fans as spoiled is beyond me. On the whole whats been served up has been really poor for years. The clubs not entitled to my renewal every season and if they think that way they need to wake up. In fact if it had been any other hobby/service I pay for I would have stopped long ago.

 

1) GA clearly isnt up to it.

2) Im not reknewing because I don't enjoy the football and Sparks/manager continue to waste all ST revenue on bloated squads filled with shite. Let them cut their cloth accordingly this summer.

 

Spot on. I want a new, completely interested, invested and ambitious owner.

 

Surely last Saturday has to be a lightbulb moment for Rupp.
Looking at the ground a quarter full when we are playing the top of the league in what should be one of the biggest games of the season is impossible to ignore.
Seeing our team completely capitulate and look so disinterested can’t have passed him by.
Sparks telling him every thing is rosy is one thing,fans openly questioning your ownership is a different level altogether.
If he does just believe everything Sparks tells him,then at 4.45 on Saturday when the ground has about 3 thousand people in it (2.5k of them being Mansfield fans) surely he is questioning RS about his previous claims of complete harmony among the fan base.

Completely ignoring what you witness with your own eyes shows once and for all that SR doesn’t give a flying fu@k about the club.

 

The ball is in Stefan's court.

He must take decisive action to prevent a mass exodus. If he can't be bothered, though, he'll find his sheer apathy is matched among the support. If he offers no hope at all, he will find fewer supporters (read: investors) as with any business endeavour.

It's time for some hard truths.

Rupp and Sparks have divided the fan base and already done a massive amount of harm. If we don't move towards damage limitation, you're right, the club might fall.

 

Some really interesting English there. Almost like it is not a first language. Anyway, despite everything, I feel no ill will to Herr Rupp. I just hope that he will make a decision soon with respect to the ownership, or more importantly, the running of the football side of the club. A positive change there might just help to cool things down. We will see.

 

I know people think Rupp buying the stadium would be a good thing, but do we really want to be saddled with him like that?

I want him gone, to be honest. He's totally inactive.

 

Cool story.

 

Sometimes with some of the ridiculous posts from our fans, I wonder if we don’t really deserve to have a club to support at all. The content with absolute tripe sickens me. WE ARE 17TH IN LEAGUE TWO YOU CLUELESS TOO HATS

 

If it means the club goes under to get rid of Rupp then it might have to be a price to pay. There are clubs further down the line than us, club such as Reading. But lets not kid ourselves we are on that road right now. Fans not turning up will hit Rupp in his pocket and will send the message more than any protest will.
The situation needs fixing now before the damage gets worse than what it already is. Cos that paper currently over the cracks is begining to split

 

I admit I don't want it to happen, I just have an awful feeling it will only get better after Rupp and Sparks have left. I genuinely don't believe Rupp understands the feeling of the supporter base, either it's because he's shut himself off from it all or because he hasn't been told.

 

Investors buy new businesses, because they see an investible plan for growth. The tangible value of the asset is just a feature of the balance sheet. Unless you're buying it to asset strip.

There's huge potential in this club, squarely because of its fanbase. But when that diminishes, the value and potential erodes.