FC United Thread

All moans and groans on the FCUM boards as fans get excited over potential new signings - and then get disappointed when they go and sign for someone else!
Former City youth player, James Poole, has left Salford City - apparently they have gone full time and he didn't want to. So FCUM fans got all giddy, believing he could sign for them - and why wouldn't he with 'big' crowds who sing songs throughout the game..... only Poole then rained on their parade by signing for Altrincham - a league below FCUM. Oh the hurt! This followed a conversation about how he has obviously only gone for the money and how dare he not consider a season at Broadhurst Park.
This caused one fan to hit a nail firmly on the preverbial head:
''Just a thought, but I've often wondered whether players are actually put off joining the club because of who we are. I know we've always said 'Oh, players should be desperate to join us due to the big crowds etc', but let's face it FC United aren't exactly everyone's cup of tea, to put it lightly. For every Chaddy and Torpey that were happy to ignore the banter, I'm sure there are players who think 'I'm not playing for them red/manc t**ts', and there are enough teams around us who have similar sized crowds nowadays.''
Now the main conversation is around money. Fans are being asked to stump up front season ticket money, including 3 year £1,000 season tickets which will help the club get through a summer with no income but a lot of expense on the ground and on new players. The club wanted 200 fans to pay a grand but only have 50 at the moment who have done so. The club have been awarded £300,000 of funding (from fuck knows where) to renovate the St Mary's Road End bar - but have to match it with £100,000 of their own money to be able to complete it - or they lose the funding. One fan sums up the situation.
Lad and Gramps said ''The times have changed. Fans are no longer enjoying it. The football on the pitch is shite, the atmosphere is crap, and the general feeling around the place is just gloomy. If people don't enjoy it they will stop coming and then revenue will drop even further. Then we wouldn't have a club to support. It's the people like you and me that turn up regardless that are keeping us going.''
mufc....ok said ''well that's pretty doomy in itself. unfortunately it's completely accurate. creditors tend not to accept positivity over banknotes. i called the position as being near-terminal when i saw the figures released in march 2016. whilst costs are finally under control there's another 12+ months of debt built up and the club is still only breaking even, at best. there's still no profit. the st mary's road end money seems unlikely to come through as the board don't have the imagination to make it happen, and if that's the result then it's seems clear to me: the club will implode next season. there's only around £10k in the Development Fund for fuck's sake. and yet you fuckers are all on here talking about what players will come in :lol: :shock: :evil: THERE. IS. NO. FUCKING. MONEY. get used to the idea now and you won't be disappointed in august.''
Geeo replied ''Yep, true enough. Board keep telling us we need cash and buy your season ticket early or preferably a three year one. Not enough of us have done so yet. SMRE bar probably shut at start of season, further loss of income etc. Maybe 200 three year tickets was too big an ask. Thought we'd get more than 50 though.''
mufc...ok replied ''i believe the budget is for 100, the target is 200. the club hasn't come up with any sort of strategy for pushing them, beyond the usual, useless "let's send an email out". er, no-one reads them mate. they were told exactly how to approach something like this in january when the idea was first mooted. not one bit of the suggestion has been taken on. so despite it being fundamental to the club's existence at this point in time, for the last 4 months the sole marketing that's been pursued is "email the membership". it's unbelievable. similarly, we were led to believe last summer and autumn that next season's sponsorship targets would all be in place and aimed to be signed up by last month. the brochure hadn't even been finished by then :roll: there's no main club sponsor in place either. hence the members being asked to dig the club out. apparently though, you're not allowed to whinge cos it affects confidence. well i've bought my 3 year ST and have seen how little effort is going into generating proper cash so, when i've little confidence i'll even get a year out of my "investment" i think it should at least buy me the right to rant on a forum and say "you were fucking told what to do and didn't do it" ''
Meanwhile the top scorer has just up and left and signed a full time contract with rivals Harrogate Town.
 
Tueartsoverhead kick said:
I was away the other month and when I returned I noticed a colleague of mine had done a quote for FCUM to carry out some work I've since had a PO off them to do the work hmmm payment up front I think before I set foot in the ground .....
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Don't panic, they will weigh you in with season tickets......
 
It seams a lot of people aren't to happy with the tee shirt being sold , all money's going to the club !!
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Not so happy days in Moston…. As FCUM lose a few pre season friendlies to teams in leagues below them, the natives are getting restless on the forums, with a handful of them fully aware that in 8 days time it could be the end…… tick tock tick tock…..

‘Some people are still not getting it! If we don't get enough cash by 31st July we are finished. How stupid are you?’
‘All of you mithering about the make up of the squad must be completely blind to the dire situation that the club is in. Otherwise you wouldn't be arsed about the team. THE TEAM WILL NOT EXIST IF WE DO NOT SAVE THE FINANCIAL SITUATION. WE ARE GOING BUST SOON UNLESS WE RAISE ENOUGH CASH IN THE NEXT TEN DAYS TO BUILD THE SMRE. Stop piddling on about the squad, we are on the brink of extinction’
‘Indeed. Now anyone who has yet to sort out their ST / membership get it sorted this week 'cos we need those funds in place by this time next week.’
‘On pitch matters are out of our hands. We can't do fuck all about that. What we can do in ensure we have a club to follow. We are paying back a loan to a mysterious person for a large amount without any fucking proof of the loan ever existing! We need to get our house in check. ‘
 
Tueartsoverhead kick said:
Not so happy days in Moston…. As FCUM lose a few pre season friendlies to teams in leagues below them, the natives are getting restless on the forums, with a handful of them fully aware that in 8 days time it could be the end…… tick tock tick tock…..

‘Some people are still not getting it! If we don't get enough cash by 31st July we are finished. How stupid are you?’
‘All of you mithering about the make up of the squad must be completely blind to the dire situation that the club is in. Otherwise you wouldn't be arsed about the team. THE TEAM WILL NOT EXIST IF WE DO NOT SAVE THE FINANCIAL SITUATION. WE ARE GOING BUST SOON UNLESS WE RAISE ENOUGH CASH IN THE NEXT TEN DAYS TO BUILD THE SMRE. Stop piddling on about the squad, we are on the brink of extinction’
‘Indeed. Now anyone who has yet to sort out their ST / membership get it sorted this week 'cos we need those funds in place by this time next week.’
‘On pitch matters are out of our hands. We can't do fuck all about that. What we can do in ensure we have a club to follow. We are paying back a loan to a mysterious person for a large amount without any fucking proof of the loan ever existing! We need to get our house in check. ‘
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8 days to save the club?
I appreciate if x amount of people stump up season ticket money it will keep the club going - but is anyone likely to hand over a wedge with a week to go and then find out not enough fellow fans did the same and the money you just handed over gets swallowed up and is lost? Are businesses going to hand over sponsorship money for a future game in the knowledge that that game may not take place?
 
Interesting comment about "We are paying back a loan to a mysterious person for a large amount without any fucking proof of the loan ever existing! "
I appreciate they are giving us punk football, anarchist football and general deluded dickhead football but surely their accounts are audited? And they wouldn't hide anything from the punters because they are all for open ownership. Aren't they?
 
East Level 2 said:
Interesting comment about "We are paying back a loan to a mysterious person for a large amount without any fucking proof of the loan ever existing! "
I appreciate they are giving us punk football, anarchist football and general deluded dickhead football but surely their accounts are audited? And they wouldn't hide anything from the punters because they are all for open ownership. Aren't they?
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I thought that.
There would be questions asked if my boys u13's team operated like that
I certainly wouldn't throw good money after bad.
 
Got a flyer through the door last week they are still doing there pay what you want scam for season tickets. they are also doing 3 seasons for a grand that included a free drink an programme per game. That is 200 people limit so they are hoping to make 200K from that little scam. think it came with the # support your local club. Get fucked you rag scum.
 
That 3 seasons for a grand deal is still ridiculously expensive. My own local team (Rochdale) have been doing a season ticket deal this summer where the more they sold the cheaper they were. You could have got one there for £200 for next season. And they are in league 1!
 
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