Get what you’re saying. I’m also not a huge fan of the way the story is being told and broadcast but…Wrexham was on its backside before they came in and that area of North Wales always provided a huge potential catchment to the person(s) who could get it right (I.e spend a lot) at the football club. So I don’t decry their fans a little bullishness. And as is the way with group identities, there will always be a section that will play up to the label bestowed upon them, even if those labels are to some extent unfair, generalised, or stubbornly persistent. See Millwall (no one likes us), ‘dirty Leeds’, and even some god awful Franchise customers play up on ‘being the Franchise’. Yuk.
Judging by some of the comments on FB groups, we’re only a few more signings and a promotion away from a section of our fanbase becoming disgustingly ‘noveau riche’, and not in an ironic sense.
Yeah, exactly this. I’m a traditionalist but not a complete Luddite. I get that we can have our heads-up and looking forward now. And hopefully any long-term success will be underpinned by a leading academy that provides something of an organic platform to build from. However, I’m also not getting too carried away.
I think the answer is an inflatable stadium. If we stay in L1, you only pump it up a bit. If we get to the Champo, pump it up to a 20,000 bouncer. If the PL, all the way to a mega-funhouse!
Promotion? Completed it, I took Chesterfield from the Conference to League Two in one season. That kind of stuff doesn't go unnoticed by Dan Rice's computer.
I can’t be bothered wading through the regulations* but I believe there isn’t a particular distinction here - wages can also be covered by owner cash injections, it’s just the owner would be priced in to making those cash injections each year going forward.
I do believe there are plans to change the regulations.
The changes coming into effect next season to reduce the amount of equity injections eligible to be counted as "football fortune" when calculating the maximum a club can spend on their playing budget are almost certainly a reaction to Birmingham City's owners spending like there's no tomorrow before facing restrictions more in line with the actual turnover of a club. In the short term it seems to have made the owners of other League One clubs suddenly want to get a load of spending done before they too are forced to reduce their spending on transfers and wages to more realistic levels.
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seen Gape signed for Shrews ....not a surprising signing !
Get what you’re saying. I’m also not a huge fan of the way the story is being told and broadcast but…Wrexham was on its backside before they came in and that area of North Wales always provided a huge potential catchment to the person(s) who could get it right (I.e spend a lot) at the football club. So I don’t decry their fans a little bullishness. And as is the way with group identities, there will always be a section that will play up to the label bestowed upon them, even if those labels are to some extent unfair, generalised, or stubbornly persistent. See Millwall (no one likes us), ‘dirty Leeds’, and even some god awful Franchise customers play up on ‘being the Franchise’. Yuk.
Judging by some of the comments on FB groups, we’re only a few more signings and a promotion away from a section of our fanbase becoming disgustingly ‘noveau riche’, and not in an ironic sense.
I saw one guy on facebook talking about spending 2-3 years in the championship then building a new ground.
It's astounding how quickly people move their ambitions on!
Did he say anything about the chairlift?
He said the guy who keeps going on about it needs to find some new material 😋
Looks like the future is lazy flair players.
Could do with a Robin Friday type just to mix things up a bit.
I thought my Pope joke earlier was great new material!
Yeah, exactly this. I’m a traditionalist but not a complete Luddite. I get that we can have our heads-up and looking forward now. And hopefully any long-term success will be underpinned by a leading academy that provides something of an organic platform to build from. However, I’m also not getting too carried away.
I think the answer is an inflatable stadium. If we stay in L1, you only pump it up a bit. If we get to the Champo, pump it up to a 20,000 bouncer. If the PL, all the way to a mega-funhouse!
Promotion? Completed it, I took Chesterfield from the Conference to League Two in one season. That kind of stuff doesn't go unnoticed by Dan Rice's computer.
Or Gavin Friday to really confuse the opposition
Get Gavin Harris in
What the heck is that sponsor? BoohooMAN? HoohooMAN?
Boohoo.com is an online clothing/fashion company. The MAN part is the menswear section of it.
apparently 😬
Thanks! I am glad it is not just really lame football banter aimed at opposition fans!
That photo looks like he was on the inbetweeners
I genuinely had to zoom and to take my glasses off as I thought it was!
That's the joke, lads
You can never please some papal.
Genuine question - how is our current spending in line with ffp? And the salary cap that used to be an excuse why we couldn't spend more?
I believe at League One level the owner can just put in funds (as long as it isn’t a loan) and that counts as income to increase the limit.
£5m for Kone should cover it!
"Football fortune" applies in leagues 1 and 2 - where an owner can plough money in (non loans).
That's why Birmingham can suddenly lash out 15-20m on one player.
Wages seem to be more of a case of needing to fit in with the protocol rules. But the actual transfer fees I believe are fine in this division.
Am sure it's stricter rules in the tier above on both wages and transfer fees.
2 Danes, 2 lazy but gifted moptops. We must have a Noah's Ark thing going on.
The running gag is comedy gold - think Fast Show .
There is always room for a chairlift reference @flymofrank , don’t let the small mouthed cynics get to you.
Oh, ‘Nick Freeman’ by the way.
It's a sitting gag, actually
I can’t be bothered wading through the regulations* but I believe there isn’t a particular distinction here - wages can also be covered by owner cash injections, it’s just the owner would be priced in to making those cash injections each year going forward.
I do believe there are plans to change the regulations.
*https://images.gc.eflservices.co.uk/f7c08d20-beee-11ef-8785-9f0f88e05bc0.pdf if you fancy it
Unless it references a Spanish ski resort. Then it’s Jimmy Carr or Frankie Boyle.
The changes coming into effect next season to reduce the amount of equity injections eligible to be counted as "football fortune" when calculating the maximum a club can spend on their playing budget are almost certainly a reaction to Birmingham City's owners spending like there's no tomorrow before facing restrictions more in line with the actual turnover of a club. In the short term it seems to have made the owners of other League One clubs suddenly want to get a load of spending done before they too are forced to reduce their spending on transfers and wages to more realistic levels.