Quick message for our simpleton contingent 22:06 - Mar 3 with 3540 views | Bluefish | Evans can't be "out" he is not an employee. He also finances one of the biggest budgets in the division | |
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Quick message for our simpleton contingent on 22:10 - Mar 3 with 3223 views | braveblue | You are simple if you believe that is the position. | | | |
Quick message for our simpleton contingent on 22:12 - Mar 3 with 3134 views | Bluefish |
Quick message for our simpleton contingent on 22:10 - Mar 3 by braveblue | You are simple if you believe that is the position. |
Which bit is wrong? | |
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Quick message for our simpleton contingent on 22:12 - Mar 3 with 3093 views | BluePG |
Quick message for our simpleton contingent on 22:10 - Mar 3 by braveblue | You are simple if you believe that is the position. |
Talk me through this. | |
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Quick message for our simpleton contingent on 22:12 - Mar 3 with 3095 views | WD19 | Somebody with comments votes heavily outweighing forum votes will be along to disagree with you shortly..... | | | |
Quick message for our simpleton contingent on 22:13 - Mar 3 with 3047 views | TheTrueBlue1878 | Burst the myth. Budget doesn’t equate to a good squad. That approach is simplistic approach and in football often lacks truth. | |
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What on earth is incorrect in the OP? on 22:13 - Mar 3 with 3043 views | Dyland |
Quick message for our simpleton contingent on 22:10 - Mar 3 by braveblue | You are simple if you believe that is the position. |
Thinking Evans is a total disaster zone for ITFC, but also understanding he owns the fooking club so he can't just "get out", are not mutually exclusive positions. I don't get why people who can write don't understand this really simple thing. | |
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Quick message for our simpleton contingent on 22:13 - Mar 3 with 3030 views | footers | I like the fact a poster called TheRealist is a downvoter. Lol. | |
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LOL on 22:15 - Mar 3 with 2970 views | Dyland |
Quick message for our simpleton contingent on 22:13 - Mar 3 by TheTrueBlue1878 | Burst the myth. Budget doesn’t equate to a good squad. That approach is simplistic approach and in football often lacks truth. |
Nice one Yoda :) That's not the point of the OP. You are right, generally, of course. | |
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Quick message for our simpleton contingent on 22:15 - Mar 3 with 2962 views | r2d2 | Evans can crawl up his own @rse and fkuc off from this club. Inept, useless t0ss wnka. | | | |
Quick message for our simpleton contingent on 22:15 - Mar 3 with 2964 views | Keaneish | I suppose dictators can’t be over thrown, monarchies can’t be abolished, a tyrant’s power seized, a shareholder dissolved or a CEO sacked either? Given Evan’s majority rule, it’ll take a revolt of some significance to force him out. Still, that’s what pitch forks were made for... | |
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Quick message for our simpleton contingent on 22:16 - Mar 3 with 2922 views | Bluefish |
Quick message for our simpleton contingent on 22:15 - Mar 3 by Keaneish | I suppose dictators can’t be over thrown, monarchies can’t be abolished, a tyrant’s power seized, a shareholder dissolved or a CEO sacked either? Given Evan’s majority rule, it’ll take a revolt of some significance to force him out. Still, that’s what pitch forks were made for... |
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Quick message for our simpleton contingent on 22:18 - Mar 3 with 2829 views | patrickswell | OK fair enough, let’s sit back, shut up and continue eating the gruel. [Post edited 3 Mar 2020 22:19]
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LOL on 22:18 - Mar 3 with 2826 views | TheTrueBlue1878 |
LOL on 22:15 - Mar 3 by Dyland | Nice one Yoda :) That's not the point of the OP. You are right, generally, of course. |
Apologises if I haven’t made myself clear. I’m trying to say, because you finance one of the biggest budgets, does that provide automatic success, I’d suggest not. Falls back to the constant underline of recruitment. | |
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Aye, I got it buh :) on 22:22 - Mar 3 with 2745 views | Dyland |
LOL on 22:18 - Mar 3 by TheTrueBlue1878 | Apologises if I haven’t made myself clear. I’m trying to say, because you finance one of the biggest budgets, does that provide automatic success, I’d suggest not. Falls back to the constant underline of recruitment. |
Worth reminding peeps about the cash Evans does actually put in though. Aye, he is still utterly failing. | |
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Quick message for our simpleton contingent on 22:25 - Mar 3 with 2700 views | Oxford_Blue |
Quick message for our simpleton contingent on 22:10 - Mar 3 by braveblue | You are simple if you believe that is the position. |
No it’s right. The club loses £6m a year. Evans pays that. He is trapped and we are trapped. | | | |
Aye, I got it buh :) on 22:27 - Mar 3 with 2652 views | TheTrueBlue1878 |
Aye, I got it buh :) on 22:22 - Mar 3 by Dyland | Worth reminding peeps about the cash Evans does actually put in though. Aye, he is still utterly failing. |
Oh I mean he puts in a pretty penny to keep us afloat, things are relative, and he’s a much wealthier man than all on here can even fathom to think about. His alternative businesses I would suggest comfortably cover the deficit he has here. I think it’s more of a problem of what he has bought, and how he spent that money. Very unwisely is a personal point of view. | |
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Quick message for our simpleton contingent on 22:34 - Mar 3 with 2593 views | Seablu |
Quick message for our simpleton contingent on 22:12 - Mar 3 by WD19 | Somebody with comments votes heavily outweighing forum votes will be along to disagree with you shortly..... |
That was only two minutes shy of being like absolutely literally totally psychic. Guess it was only a matter of time before one of them peered over the edge of the pond. | | | |
Aye, I got it buh :) on 22:38 - Mar 3 with 2544 views | Dyland |
Aye, I got it buh :) on 22:27 - Mar 3 by TheTrueBlue1878 | Oh I mean he puts in a pretty penny to keep us afloat, things are relative, and he’s a much wealthier man than all on here can even fathom to think about. His alternative businesses I would suggest comfortably cover the deficit he has here. I think it’s more of a problem of what he has bought, and how he spent that money. Very unwisely is a personal point of view. |
I don't disagree, but it's not a set market is it. The football business has changed and continues to do so. In poker terms it's more Midnight Baseball than Texas Hold 'em. Evans has lost, and is now stuck covering his losses. I agree it's not so bad for him, and he can and will cover it up to a point. He's loaded after all. I feel zero sympathy for him. Yes, he can fook right off, but only metaphorically and emotively. The reality of our situation is quite different. Lambert on the other hand needs to go, and now. | |
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Quick message for our simpleton contingent on 22:43 - Mar 3 with 2448 views | RegencyBlue | The simpleton contingent are those who still defend Evans and his inept ownership! | | | |
Quick message for our simpleton contingent on 22:48 - Mar 3 with 2385 views | Swansea_Blue |
Quick message for our simpleton contingent on 22:25 - Mar 3 by Oxford_Blue | No it’s right. The club loses £6m a year. Evans pays that. He is trapped and we are trapped. |
Football takeovers do happen though, and to clubs in a worse position than ours. Maybe that's the problem - if we were in crisis (ME could no longer cover the cashflow and debt) it would probably trigger quicker action. But he's obviously quite comfortable/able to keep pumping in a few million a year, so we're stuck in stasis with no real motivation for change. He puts in a lot, but I don't undrstand why he keeps doing so without apparently trying to do things differerntly. Unless he believes he's running the club well becasue he's got us as lean as he can and can manage the cashflow. | |
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Quick message for our simpleton contingent on 23:02 - Mar 3 with 2281 views | textbackup | but is it fair to say that his terrible ownership has ultimately led to the lack of ambition and apathy within the club? | |
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Quick message for our simpleton contingent on 23:08 - Mar 3 with 2213 views | Seablu |
Quick message for our simpleton contingent on 22:43 - Mar 3 by RegencyBlue | The simpleton contingent are those who still defend Evans and his inept ownership! |
You conflate defend with reluctantly tolerate. Quite happy to let you have a go once you’ve bought him out though. | | | |
Quick message for our simpleton contingent on 23:19 - Mar 3 with 2146 views | Coco | I’m sure they’ll leave your father alone soon enough. | |
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Quick message for our simpleton contingent on 06:52 - Mar 4 with 1821 views | daisyisabaddog |
Quick message for our simpleton contingent on 22:48 - Mar 3 by Swansea_Blue | Football takeovers do happen though, and to clubs in a worse position than ours. Maybe that's the problem - if we were in crisis (ME could no longer cover the cashflow and debt) it would probably trigger quicker action. But he's obviously quite comfortable/able to keep pumping in a few million a year, so we're stuck in stasis with no real motivation for change. He puts in a lot, but I don't undrstand why he keeps doing so without apparently trying to do things differerntly. Unless he believes he's running the club well becasue he's got us as lean as he can and can manage the cashflow. |
I would take issue with the comment "clubs in a worse position than ours". I'm not sure that there are any. Next season will see us in a relegation fight. We have no assets to speak of apart from 2 good young players whose transfer fees won't even cover our annual losses. We have found ourselves in this position when austerity is hitting football hard and we will find it harder and harder to comply with L1 financial fair play rules. I would guess that ME will be looking for around £30m to walk away from this mess but who would hand over that sort of money? There will be a lot of people calling for Lambert to be sacked but FFP means that if he goes we effectively have to ask his replacement to work for nothing. Norwich were in a similar position 25 years ago and their fans drove Robert Chase out of the club with a vicious hate campaign. I wouldn't condone doing the same to Evans but even if we did, do you really think he would care? | | | |
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