FPP to take full control

I might be wrong but it stinks of this club isn't getting sold.

 

My thoughts exactly...

 

I’m guessing Manson, Savile and Hitler turned us down!

 

That’s how I’ve interpreted it although I could be wrong.

 

Let's hope were both wrong

 

Even allowing for the fact those 3 are dead, they would probably contribute more to the club than Jim Rodwell's namesake Jack

 

I think we will be lucky to break 10,000 season ticket holders when it eventually resumes, once the mags sale goes through and they start splashing the cash, it will really piss a lot of good folk off and they will just sack SAFC off until the chuckle brothers disappear out of existence. Maybe that is what is needed to get rid of these 2.

 

Donald and Methven have drawn so much attention to themselves that they seem to be taking up all the focus and not the actual football. There obviously hasn't been a coherent plan from the start and they probably saw their initial investment as a short term loan that they would quickly profit from but now they're stuck.

For me one of the worst things about STID2 was seeing how much Donald seems to think he can run the club from an insurance office presumably in Oxford. Maybe the appointment of Rodwell is to counterbalance that appearance.

 

Eh? Why on Earth would anyone sack us off as they are doing well? Where are their backbones?

 

It won’t happen. The fans are the only good thing about this club. To get the numbers that we get for being very ordinary in the third tier is fantastic, and we should never ever let people forget that either.

 

Because they are absolute sopping wet fannys

 

And that’s a reason to sack em off I thought we would get more fans

 

tad harsh on the dead people, i think they would contribute a hell of a lot more.

 

Very strange logic that people stop coming because the mags are doing well
Do agree that people are close to the edge with the current owners mind
They need to go or pull something big out of the hat
I'm truly amazed with our support but there is only so much of league one people can take

 

nothing to do with the mags doing well, my old man has always said, if Sunderland supporters aren't happy, they stop going.

 

Have we ever had a CEO who's been a Board Director at the Football Association and the EFL ...

... perhaps he's just been learning his trade at clubs like Boston, the Scunthorpe owner certainly speaks highly of him.

 

One of their biggest ****-ups was going for too many proven League one players. Higher wages than average, because they are proven, and little room for development due to being near the ceiling of their ability.

Where was the raw talent that we should have been going for, for the likes of Power and Flanagan to bring along? To give us the spark going forward.

I think it was short-termism. Looking ahead to the end of the 18/19 season and not beyond.

 

I agree - everything they've done smacks of short term-ism right across the board. I was chuffed when in one of their first interviews Methven said that their aim was for us to be one of the top 5 academies in the country, as i saw that as being ambitious but pragmatic, with the side effect being a well run club, and i thought the rest would probably start to take care of itself - but obviously it's unravelled quickly.

They don't seem to have considered that they'd be here if/when it didn't pan out - and the league one signings like you say are testament to that.

Gavin McCann was asked about these types of signings at a talk in late last year, and he suggested that the pressure of playing in front of the bigger crowds at Sunderland made some of these players shrink, and that their performances would improve once they'd moved on (and back) to clubs that average about 3000 per game, and to me that sounded fair.

 

Mike Ashley anyone?

 

We really are at a crossroads. If either the league is cancelled or its managed to finish off somehow and we are still in league 1 at the end, I see bad news waiting for the club. As some have said I beleive our season ticket sales will plummet, and cash at the turnstiles on the day will also suffer dramatically. I know what is happening up the road should have no meaning what happens at Sunderland, but it does. When our fans see superstar signings and glamour ties in-front of full houses 12 miles up the road and we have a trip to Lincoln City to look forward to...only the real dyed in the wool red and whites will be there. The other worry is, if thats where the club is heading, ANY investors will think twice as the resurrection of our club will just get more expensive.
Donald really needs to see the big picture..His somewhat minor investment in SAFC with the hope of promotion at the first attempt and then cash in for a nice earner...has gone. He is now left with a club that could literally break him. I just hope that he sees that.