FC United Thread

[Ding Dong]

Go for it, make a few quid selling them in the shop

I can feel my IQ lowering just by replying to this but I'll give it a shot from the bits that are actually legible.

NorthWank and fscum, I really hope you aren't a grown adult for your sake.

I appreciate all the volunteers in non league and the hard work that goes into raising funds, from both my own club and others. I've spoken to many of these people outside of FCUM and have a lot of respect for them, as well of course for all those who give up their time and money for my club too, some of whom I know well. FCUM wouldn't exist without such dedicated people nor would many other clubs that dont have a rich benefactor.

The grant money was already in place for the Broadhurst Park development before we were involved, after we were the development obviously became a much larger project with the millions added from what we had raised. That money was due to be spent regardless.

All local hard working clubs deserve additional finances, it's up to the council where they decide to invest though isn't it. They obviously felt that a half million investment for a 6 million quid facility was a good investment, if you don't then fair enough.

Again your gripe is with the council, not us. My club didn't take over Monsall Rec because it was never an option for us to do that. We were offered Ten Acres Lane and then Broadhurst Park. Take the issue up with the council.

The club wasn't formed by anyone who demanded a return to green and gold, I think you are confused with the "protest" that happened a few years later. So yes i was more than happy with our name and playing in red. I was never a huge fan of Gigg Lane, it was blue, expensive and outside Manchester but it did us well for a few years so can't complain too much.

Can you specifically inform me which of the "boards friends" were offered big contracts for many years without anyone questioning it just so that I know what I'm supposed to be replying to?

Your post was somewhat BAFFLING.

I would have thought that with all you members being equal you may have had some insight into the contracts being awarded by who to who. Maybe some members are more equal than others.
And also you will never know the warm feeling i got from being patronized by your wonderful self. Thank you.



Not getting your money's worth then?

 

[Bozo]

NorthManc7, settling in for another night composing quips on internet forum Bluemoon

 

[mancityvstoke]

He has to fill his time somehow....may as well be on a Citeh forum

Massive

 

[NorthManc7]

I would have thought that with all you members being equal you may have had some insight into the contracts being awarded by who to who. Maybe some members are more equal than others.
And also you will never know the warm feeling i got from being patronized by your wonderful self. Thank you.

Right so you called us all thick and blind yet you're not actually aware of any examples of what you're referring to? Figured. I am aware of who was on what and who is on what by the way which apparently makes one of us.

Hey if you're gonna call me thick I'm allowed to point out playground insults, fairs fair.

He has to fill his time somehow....may as well be on a Citeh forum

Massive

Well if you will continue to talk about my football club I'll continue to join in. Bit boring on our forums at the moment everyone seems happy.

 

[Shirley]

Well if you will continue to talk about my football club I'll continue to join in. Bit boring on our forums at the moment everyone seems happy.

Which club is that exactly, the one currently with 1,437 pages or the one with 241 pages?

 

[Ding Dong]

Right so you called us all thick and blind yet you're not actually aware of any examples of what you're referring to? Figured. I am aware of who was on what and who is on what by the way which apparently makes one of us.

Hey if you're gonna call me thick I'm allowed to point out playground insults, fairs fair.


WHAT ??????????? I would suggest that you proof read what you type before posting.
From the small bit that I can understand I was asking if you or your fellow members were aware of the corruption/jobs for the boys going on in your equilibrium club ?

 

[yeseye]

Would you mind putting the word ‘New’ after My, when referring to ‘My Club’
Thanks.

 

[bakerdave76]

Which club is that exactly, the one currently with 1,437 pages or the one with 241 pages?

Ouch !

 

[Tueartsoverhead kick]

Deluded FC fan thinking that they're always the first - Just to give you an idea about how up their own arses some of their fans are, this is a thread on their fans forum about a band called Shame, who played a gig before a game at Pallet Park last year.

At least one clued up Splitter puts the OP right. Rather special indeed…

''Great to see them getting widespread acclaim - they are on the front page of today's Guardiannnewspaper and getting rave reviews for their debut album.

Which other football clubs put on unique new bands destined for stardom?!

This thing of ours is rather special...''


DietMarlboro




The funkster deluxe wrote:

Which other football clubs put on unique new bands destined for stardom?!



Manchester City.





seamus

Post subject: Re: Shame - band who played at FC back in April.

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 12:32 pm


DietMarlboro wrote:

Just to check, you do realise I was talking about their current "City Square" thing, not the murmurings of a half decent pub rock band from the mid-90s?


To be perfectly honest,I've never heard of it.

DietMarlboro

Post subject: Re: Shame - band who played at FC back in April.

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 1:43 pm


The funkster deluxe wrote:

I assumed you were referring to stadium gigs at the etihad

What's city square?!



It’s a thing at city where they have bands and entertainment on before the matches.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Deluded FC fan thinking that they're always the first - Just to give you an idea about how up their own arses some of their fans are, this is a thread on their fans forum about a band called Shame, who played a gig before a game at Pallet Park last year.

At least one clued up Splitter puts the OP right. Rather special indeed…

''Great to see them getting widespread acclaim - they are on the front page of today's Guardiannnewspaper and getting rave reviews for their debut album.

Which other football clubs put on unique new bands destined for stardom?!

This thing of ours is rather special...''


DietMarlboro




The funkster deluxe wrote:

Which other football clubs put on unique new bands destined for stardom?!



Manchester City.





seamus

Post subject: Re: Shame - band who played at FC back in April.

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 12:32 pm


DietMarlboro wrote:

Just to check, you do realise I was talking about their current "City Square" thing, not the murmurings of a half decent pub rock band from the mid-90s?


To be perfectly honest,I've never heard of it.

DietMarlboro

Post subject: Re: Shame - band who played at FC back in April.

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 1:43 pm


The funkster deluxe wrote:

I assumed you were referring to stadium gigs at the etihad

What's city square?!



It’s a thing at city where they have bands and entertainment on before the matches.

So as well as inventing non league football and singing songs at games, they have now invented putting bands on before games too - ooooh aren't they special.... I bet he goes to games with a warm glow in his heart....

 

[NorthManc7]

Which club is that exactly, the one currently with 1,437 pages or the one with 241 pages?

Read the thread title.

WHAT ??????????? I would suggest that you proof read what you type before posting.
From the small bit that I can understand I was asking if you or your fellow members were aware of the corruption/jobs for the boys going on in your equilibrium club ?

Yes and I asked you for specific instances of this "corruption" so I can answer whether or not I was aware of it.

So as well as inventing non league football and singing songs at games, they have now invented putting bands on before games too - ooooh aren't they special.... I bet he goes to games with a warm glow in his heart....

Haha I do enjoy this accusation of inventing everything, I challenge you to point out an instance where the club has claimed to invent any of those things.

The club's supporters embrace all things non league, some so much that they don't ever wish to leave it.

Singing at football was certainly around much before 2005 but match day atmospheres have plummeted in this country, I shouldn't have to tell you that you're a Premier League club. If you can tell me that your atmosphere is better / just as good now than it was a few decades ago or even in your Maine Road days then you're a liar. Like it or not FCUM usually make a noise when most don't.

Again, where has anyone said that we invented bands playing pre match? I don't know of any clubs doing that pre 2005 personally but I'm pretty sure somebody will have. Again like it or not match days at Broadhurst Park are different than at most other clubs and will only get better when the terrace bar gets redeveloped in the coming months.

We do things differently, doesn't mean we invented stuff.

 

[BlueNirvana]

LOL You do things differently, you play in red, black and white, you have the name united, you sing anti-city songs. not to different from the club you love from trafford

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Read the thread title.

Yes and I asked you for specific instances of this "corruption" so I can answer whether or not I was aware of it.

Haha I do enjoy this accusation of inventing everything, I challenge you to point out an instance where the club has claimed to invent any of those things.

The club's supporters embrace all things non league, some so much that they don't ever wish to leave it.

Singing at football was certainly around much before 2005 but match day atmospheres have plummeted in this country, I shouldn't have to tell you that you're a Premier League club. If you can tell me that your atmosphere is better / just as good now than it was a few decades ago or even in your Maine Road days then you're a liar. Like it or not FCUM usually make a noise when most don't.

Again, where has anyone said that we invented bands playing pre match? I don't know of any clubs doing that pre 2005 personally but I'm pretty sure somebody will have. Again like it or not match days at Broadhurst Park are different than at most other clubs and will only get better when the terrace bar gets redeveloped in the coming months.

We do things differently, doesn't mean we invented stuff.

The corruption / jobs for the boys - you need incidents pointing out to you? Just read that book recently out by one of your founders who was then denied membership!
What about the bar takings, with the word "taking" being the key....
jobs for the boys.... How many ex Militant members were on the payroll? Mates of Andy Walsh.
A full time bar man running a bar open one Saturday afternoon and the odd night...
Paying another mate of Andy Walsh something like £900 of members money to spy on members that officials at the club deemed being abusive on message boards, only to discover he himself had been fired from his previous job after being abusive on a message board! He gave the money back!
A key member of staff taking home 20 odd grand regularly and keeping it in his house overnight rather than banking it or keeping it in a safe.
Loans being secretly taken out and payments made with no member knowledge or receipts given or paper trail.
On leaving the club, the general manager wiping clean the company lap top and shredding any paperwork linking his name to any financial doing or connecting him to anything that could impliment him.
A board member applying for funding and receiving it, that meant his own company were paid a large sum to look at members data and studies made from such data and other research. This board member became known as "Brown Envelope" for a reason.

Do you want anymore or is that ok for starters?

 

[Vienna_70]

Read the thread title.

Yes and I asked you for specific instances of this "corruption" so I can answer whether or not I was aware of it.

Haha I do enjoy this accusation of inventing everything, I challenge you to point out an instance where the club has claimed to invent any of those things.

The club's supporters embrace all things non league, some so much that they don't ever wish to leave it.

Singing at football was certainly around much before 2005 but match day atmospheres have plummeted in this country, I shouldn't have to tell you that you're a Premier League club. If you can tell me that your atmosphere is better / just as good now than it was a few decades ago or even in your Maine Road days then you're a liar. Like it or not FCUM usually make a noise when most don't.

Again, where has anyone said that we invented bands playing pre match? I don't know of any clubs doing that pre 2005 personally but I'm pretty sure somebody will have. Again like it or not match days at Broadhurst Park are different than at most other clubs and will only get better when the terrace bar gets redeveloped in the coming months.

We do things differently, doesn't mean we invented stuff.

No one said that SCUM invented bands playing pre-match, but one of your lot reckons it’s unique to pallet park, which, as any match-going City supporter knows, is patently not the case.

 

[Blue tube]

Having a band on before the match wasn’t new with city square. I remember cleopatra cumin at ya before a match at Maine road once

 

[NorthManc7]

LOL You do things differently, you play in red, black and white, you have the name united, you sing anti-city songs. not to different from the club you love from trafford

Yes congratulations on naming 3 specific things that we don't do differently, we also play football too if you'd like to add a 4th.

The corruption / jobs for the boys - you need incidents pointing out to you? Just read that book recently out by one of your founders who was then denied membership!
What about the bar takings, with the word "taking" being the key....
jobs for the boys.... How many ex Militant members were on the payroll? Mates of Andy Walsh.
A full time bar man running a bar open one Saturday afternoon and the odd night...
Paying another mate of Andy Walsh something like £900 of members money to spy on members that officials at the club deemed being abusive on message boards, only to discover he himself had been fired from his previous job after being abusive on a message board! He gave the money back!
A key member of staff taking home 20 odd grand regularly and keeping it in his house overnight rather than banking it or keeping it in a safe.
Loans being secretly taken out and payments made with no member knowledge or receipts given or paper trail.
On leaving the club, the general manager wiping clean the company lap top and shredding any paperwork linking his name to any financial doing or connecting him to anything that could impliment him.
A board member applying for funding and receiving it, that meant his own company were paid a large sum to look at members data and studies made from such data and other research. This board member became known as "Brown Envelope" for a reason.

Do you want anymore or is that ok for starters?

No I don't need instances pointing out to me I'm aware of all of that and the book (by a current board member by the way). 'Tis however just one man's account in which there is bad blood between certain individuals as I'm sure you're aware. I'm sure you're also aware that there has never been any proven instances of wrongdoing or else there'd have been convictions so you can just as legitimately argue poor management and / or lack of transparency. Besides I was trying to work out if said person on here had a clue what they were talking about so thanks for ruining that, Was pretty obvious anyway.

No one said that SCUM invented bands playing pre-match, but one of your lot reckons it’s unique to pallet park, which, as any match-going City supporter knows, is patently not the case.

Well actually they did a few posts ago keep up, and one of our lot didn't state it was unique re-read it. Although I don't know many others that put bands on inside their ground on match days, so maybe it is ;)

 

[cleavers]

I don't know of any clubs doing that pre 2005 personally but I'm pretty sure somebody will have.

Arsenal had a spot for local bands underneath the north bank at Highbury in the 90's.

 

[dom]

Fscum = Rag mini me ........Ken. Loach mocked their hypocritical. Cake and. Eat it bollox.....ignore

 

[NorthManc7]

Arsenal had a spot for local bands underneath the north bank at Highbury in the 90's.

Well there we go then. However considering there are probably very few examples of this in the modern day and the fact that we don't just host bands we have all sorts of entertainment I think it's safe to say that what we do could be considered doing things a bit differently.

Fscum = Rag mini me ........Ken. Loach mocked their hypocritical. Cake and. Eat it bollox.....ignore

Still the same Ken Loach that is a big fan of the club? He decided not to ignore us anyway.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

No I don't need instances pointing out to me I'm aware of all of that and the book (by a current board member by the way). 'Tis however just one man's account in which there is bad blood between certain individuals as I'm sure you're aware. I'm sure you're also aware that there has never been any proven instances of wrongdoing or else there'd have been convictions so you can just as legitimately argue poor management and / or lack of transparency. Besides I was trying to work out if said person on here had a clue what they were talking about so thanks for ruining that, Was pretty obvious anyway.

Nice swerve there..... you asked for instances and you said you would respond saying if you were aware of them.
So Andy Walker's appointment..... job for the boys or decent honest appointment?
Brown Envelope..... was funding awarded that went to his company to do research on fan data?
The company lap top - wiped clean when the GM left? yes or no?

Those three are fine for now.
Of course no one was proven of anything untoward.... all the evidence was removed! Also, years ago I worked at a company and someone syphoned off 40K. He was sacked. Was he prosecuted? No. The company didn't want it getting into the news that management had been slack and inefficient and allowed someone to syphon money over a long period of time. Public image and all that.... plus, he had spunked the money anyway, so the company would be spending legal fees and getting nothing back.