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[Mike N]

It’s clear to me that they need to get the resident poet back. Back to basics etc.

 

[Mostonisblue]

I think rylands were more of a draw than last year because of the return of the ex manager. He seems to have been a marmite figure that divided their fans. They either loved him or hated him.

Anyway Colin has asked their board an interesting question….looking forward to seeing this answered at the end of the month

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

I think rylands were more of a draw than last year because of the return of the ex manager. He seems to have been a marmite figure that divided their fans. They either loved him or hated him.

Anyway Colin has asked their board an interesting question….looking forward to seeing this answered at the end of the month

Explosive stuff!
They should also do the same thing for all these games where under 12's go free or community days when M40 people can get in for free etc. Show us how many paying spectators (Season Ticket or pay on the day) actually turned up.

The ship is slipping below the waterline..... and the 2 council bods on the board must be asking for the lifeboats so they can bail out

 

[Platt Lane 59]

I think rylands were more of a draw than last year because of the return of the ex manager. He seems to have been a marmite figure that divided their fans. They either loved him or hated him.

Anyway Colin has asked their board an interesting question….looking forward to seeing this answered at the end of the month

We'll drink a drink, a drink,
To Colin the King...

 

[Vienna_70]

You’re right, a quick look through here seems to indicate that was their worst ever home league crowd.

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I don’t think Warrington Rylands travel well, or are much of a draw. The second smallest home crowd they’ve had seems to have been the same fixture last season!

Maybe Rolands supporters feel the same way about SCUM as we do, and so boycott the away fixture.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Maybe Rolands supporters feel the same way about SCUM as we do, and so boycott the away fixture.

The Splitters must be seething that Salford have drawn City. They claim to despise the Salford model as it is the antithesis of fan ownership (like their model of ownership is a glowing example of a fan owned club….)

They would simply love to be in Salford's shoes this weekend, full house, live on TV (obviously they would put up their obligatory "protest about playing on TV" to claim the moral high ground and a couple of headlines (pointing the finger with one hand and taking the money with the other) whilst claiming to be “everybody’s favourite non league club” and raking the cash in for the one time this year. The funding from this game is money the Bucketeers can only dream off.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Hopefully going to get a right spanking by table topping Robbie Savage’s Macclesfield today

 

[Chappie]

Losing 2-0 after 65 minutes

 

[East Level 2]

Finished 2-0 to Macc.

 

[Mostonisblue]

1 of only 2 games on in their league today. They now sit 12th in the league, with nearly everyone below having several games in hand on them

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Despite playing more than a lot of other clubs & being in the middle of a spell of 4 home games in 2 weeks the board are complaining about those unprecedented postponements, for the second year in a row.

The tiny violins are out again complaining that their fans don’t go to watch them or buy a drink before hand on a Tuesday night. So if they could just give them an extra 10 grand on top of the twenty grand already thrown in the missing matches buckets that would be great, as they keep saying, unlike most clubs they “don’t have a rich backer waiting in the wings” totally overlooking how much the council & their own fans bail them out year after year.

 

[cheekybids]

1 of only 2 games on in their league today. They now sit 12th in the league, with nearly everyone below having several games in hand on them

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Despite playing more than a lot of other clubs & being in the middle of a spell of 4 home games in 2 weeks the board are complaining about those unprecedented postponements, for the second year in a row.

The tiny violins are out again complaining that their fans don’t go to watch them or buy a drink before hand on a Tuesday night. So if they could just give them an extra 10 grand on top of the twenty grand already thrown in the missing matches buckets that would be great, as they keep saying, unlike most clubs they “don’t have a rich backer waiting in the wings” totally overlooking how much the council & their own fans bail them out year after year.

I wonder who is into them for the most money outside the people of Manchester as a collective. Is there a doddering old fan who keeps getting taken for a new roof like a rogue trader.

 

[Mostonisblue]

Sadly there is. They raised £1.8 million in community shares before they moved into the ground. Sold them heavily in tax advantages. A guy I used to work with paid in far too much of his retirement money & now he’s still having to work, long after he planned to.

They have never paid back any of that money & other than write to him annually saying they can’t afford to pay any of it back they also ask him to donate the value of his shares back to the club to take it off the balance sheet. He stopped going because of that & also they increased the concession age from 60 to 65, so to add insult to his injury they voted for his season ticket price to increase substantially.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

1 of only 2 games on in their league today. They now sit 12th in the league, with nearly everyone below having several games in hand on them

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Despite playing more than a lot of other clubs & being in the middle of a spell of 4 home games in 2 weeks the board are complaining about those unprecedented postponements, for the second year in a row.

The tiny violins are out again complaining that their fans don’t go to watch them or buy a drink before hand on a Tuesday night. So if they could just give them an extra 10 grand on top of the twenty grand already thrown in the missing matches buckets that would be great, as they keep saying, unlike most clubs they “don’t have a rich backer waiting in the wings” totally overlooking how much the council & their own fans bail them out year after year.

They also steadfastly refuse to have a shirt sponsor.
Now although having a shirt sponsor won't pay off the crippling debts, just imagine if, after 20 years, the club had accepted £20,000 a year for a shirt sponsor.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Reading the continued requests to keep giving, reminds me of my days at Manchester Poly, there were 54 on the course but never more than 28 on any given day. I missed 2 days the whole 2 years. Some twats you only saw twice a term!

Yet every time we had a tutor / student meeting the poor attendance was brought up and we received a bollocking.
After the 2nd bollocking I spoke up and said “you are talking to the wrong people. We are here. All day every day. What are you doing about the ones not here who aren’t hearing this message?” And the tutors went silent.

Same here with the Splitters.
They keep telling those who are paying that not enough is being paid in and therefore as a result they have to dig a little bit deeper to save “their club”.
If I was one of the regular Bucketeers I’d be asking the board “what are you doing regarding co-owners who aren’t chipping in, aren’t attending, trying to get them more involved and committed?”
I’d tell them I’m not putting a penny more in until every single absent splitter has been harassed to contribute.
And then if every single absent splitter has been contacted and very little thrown in to the buckets, I’d suggest it’s time to call it a day.
Being a splitter is like getting divorced and having to give your ex 40% of your monthly wages to her despite having no kids or mortgage to pay and she’s shacked up with a new partner!

The club have proudly declared how affordable their football is and all this nonsense about “pay what you can afford” for a season ticket.
Yet the small print isn’t even printed on club communications.
The small print that isn’t there states “we need you to continually donate money every single month to enable us to keep the cost of watching football at Pallet Park affordable”.
How do the two council members keep a straight face when attending board meetings?
The whole thing is a joke. But that joke isn’t funny anymore……

 

[Bollo]

1 of only 2 games on in their league today. They now sit 12th in the league, with nearly everyone below having several games in hand on them

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Despite playing more than a lot of other clubs & being in the middle of a spell of 4 home games in 2 weeks the board are complaining about those unprecedented postponements, for the second year in a row.

The tiny violins are out again complaining that their fans don’t go to watch them or buy a drink before hand on a Tuesday night. So if they could just give them an extra 10 grand on top of the twenty grand already thrown in the missing matches buckets that would be great, as they keep saying, unlike most clubs they “don’t have a rich backer waiting in the wings” totally overlooking how much the council & their own fans bail them out year after year.

FC Catfish.

 

[Mostonisblue]

Reading the continued requests to keep giving, reminds me of my days at Manchester Poly, there were 54 on the course but never more than 28 on any given day. I missed 2 days the whole 2 years. Some twats you only saw twice a term!

Yet every time we had a tutor / student meeting the poor attendance was brought up and we received a bollocking.
After the 2nd bollocking I spoke up and said “you are talking to the wrong people. We are here. All day every day. What are you doing about the ones not here who aren’t hearing this message?” And the tutors went silent.

Same here with the Splitters.
They keep telling those who are paying that not enough is being paid in and therefore as a result they have to dig a little bit deeper to save “their club”.
If I was one of the regular Bucketeers I’d be asking the board “what are you doing regarding co-owners who aren’t chipping in, aren’t attending, trying to get them more involved and committed?”
I’d tell them I’m not putting a penny more in until every single absent splitter has been harassed to contribute.
And then if every single absent splitter has been contacted and very little thrown in to the buckets, I’d suggest it’s time to call it a day.
Being a splitter is like getting divorced and having to give your ex 40% of your monthly wages to her despite having no kids or mortgage to pay and she’s shacked up with a new partner!

The club have proudly declared how affordable their football is and all this nonsense about “pay what you can afford” for a season ticket.
Yet the small print isn’t even printed on club communications.
The small print that isn’t there states “we need you to continually donate money every single month to enable us to keep the cost of watching football at Pallet Park affordable”.
How do the two council members keep a straight face when attending board meetings?
The whole thing is a joke. But that joke isn’t funny anymore……

I don’t think they can blame the splitters that have left or don’t/can’t chip in everytime they shake the buckets. They donate by non league standards a phenomenal amount of cash over & over again. I think the problem with the club is they keep having ridiculous business plans which aren’t seen to fruition. They have champagne tastes on a beer budget and the only solution because the council have said no more emergency loans after the last £150,000 and two year repayment holiday is to keep tapping the fans, the same 1500ish people who’ve been tapped for 20 years, the well must be getting empty by now.

What they need to do is generate more fans but where are they going to come from? If your not middle aged, want a beer on a terraces whilst singing rag songs watching a rag tribute act why would you go?

They constantly refer to themselves as a community club but they’re not at the heart of the community, sure they organise holiday camps for the kids at broadhurst park but that’s paid for by council grants. The rest of Moston is not welcomed in. We took them to a judicial enquiry as nobody wanted it here & the white elephant of a ground either stands empty or gets the occasional corporate bookings of their conference facilities. A lot of non league social clubs genuinely are at the heart of the community, opening for drinks, bingo, bands, England games in tournaments etc. yet pallet park stands empty for most of the year. Locals don’t want to go there & apart from hand out a few free tickets a couple of games a year the bucketeers make no attempt to welcome people in.

Their club has an aging & decreasing fan base, non league football has seen attendance boosted elsewhere. As you can see from this report written by the board they know it but unless they can get more fans quickly they’re going to unravel

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

A guy I used to work with paid in far too much of his retirement money & now he’s still having to work, long after he planned to.

They have never paid back any of that money & other than write to him annually saying they can’t afford to pay any of it back they also ask him to donate the value of his shares back to the club to take it off the balance sheet.

A club with no stature, a club with no shame.
And David Conn still hasn’t said anything….. must be a very long piece he’s writing!

 

[cheekybids]

Sadly there is. They raised £1.8 million in community shares before they moved into the ground. Sold them heavily in tax advantages. A guy I used to work with paid in far too much of his retirement money & now he’s still having to work, long after he planned to.

They have never paid back any of that money & other than write to him annually saying they can’t afford to pay any of it back they also ask him to donate the value of his shares back to the club to take it off the balance sheet. He stopped going because of that & also they increased the concession age from 60 to 65, so to add insult to his injury they voted for his season ticket price to increase substantially.

Now there’s a story for an investigative reporter!

 

[cheekybids]

I don’t think they can blame the splitters that have left or don’t/can’t chip in everytime they shake the buckets. They donate by non league standards a phenomenal amount of cash over & over again. I think the problem with the club is they keep having ridiculous business plans which aren’t seen to fruition. They have champagne tastes on a beer budget and the only solution because the council have said no more emergency loans after the last £150,000 and two year repayment holiday is to keep tapping the fans, the same 1500ish people who’ve been tapped for 20 years, the well must be getting empty by now.

What they need to do is generate more fans but where are they going to come from? If your not middle aged, want a beer on a terraces whilst singing rag songs watching a rag tribute act why would you go?

They constantly refer to themselves as a community club but they’re not at the heart of the community, sure they organise holiday camps for the kids at broadhurst park but that’s paid for by council grants. The rest of Moston is not welcomed in. We took them to a judicial enquiry as nobody wanted it here & the white elephant of a ground either stands empty or gets the occasional corporate bookings of their conference facilities. A lot of non league social clubs genuinely are at the heart of the community, opening for drinks, bingo, bands, England games in tournaments etc. yet pallet park stands empty for most of the year. Locals don’t want to go there & apart from hand out a few free tickets a couple of games a year the bucketeers make no attempt to welcome people in.

Their club has an aging & decreasing fan base, non league football has seen attendance boosted elsewhere. As you can see from this report written by the board they now it. But unless they can get more fans quickly they’re going to unravel

Cross reference this with their budgets & no wonder they fail to meet budget, it’s massive contradiction.

 

[Bluesince1979]

Sadly there is. They raised £1.8 million in community shares before they moved into the ground. Sold them heavily in tax advantages. A guy I used to work with paid in far too much of his retirement money & now he’s still having to work, long after he planned to.

They have never paid back any of that money & other than write to him annually saying they can’t afford to pay any of it back they also ask him to donate the value of his shares back to the club to take it off the balance sheet. He stopped going because of that & also they increased the concession age from 60 to 65, so to add insult to his injury they voted for his season ticket price to increase substantially.

What was his reasoning for doing it?
Thought he was buying into something better than what his old team, united (but im sure still supports them which is total opposite of how it was supposed to be)?
Or was he trying to boost his pension pot?

Either way, what a stupid thing to do