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From Chesterfield message board:
“when Caldwell was appointed we were in a relegation scrap with a realistic chance of staying up, he came in and tried wholesale footballing changes and treated it like a pre-season campaign to experiment, result we dropped like stone. ”
Yep. Sounds about right.and we had a £9m parachute payment to bankroll our promotion charge.Its a lot tougher in this league when its a level playing field.
Not really relevant.
We have built a very good team, without parachute payment now, under a good manager.
We had a bad day. Things like this happen. Bad days happen.
The team we have should be good enough to see us alright.Voted in. Window ends August 9th.
This is only the Premier League window, the FL window stays unaltered.
Further discussions with stakeholders have to take place before a decision is made.
Hopefully common sense will prevail and ours will also close before the season starts.[/quote]TBH I think it will
Even with a couple of million being banked and the wage bill reduced, we will certainly still be running at a pretty sizeable loss that the chair will hopefully get Uncle Dave to subsidise, rather than it being held against the club.It has to be handled carefully due to Financial Fair Play rules.
DW can’t just write off the debt, but what he has done in the past is convert the debt to equity which loses value if there isn’t long term success (it does gain in value if we have success, but that’s OK as our external income grows), and so effectively he takes a loss on money he has invested in equity, and hasn’t just written off a debt.Probably the worse transfer window I can remember slash the wage bill and about £2million banked.
Lang should have been stuck on the bench and Grigg unloaded especially with his contract up next summer.
Gilbey gone ?, gotta be a personal thing,Lang will probably get a bag full at Morecambe then we’ll flog him rather than use him
“He’s one of our own” song is the kiss of death for our youngsters, hear that and your offA song for you, Cup Winners:
A nice little good-PR clip on Northwest Tonight (or whatever it’s called these days).
PC was interviewed (behind the glass) but seemed to just be letting the players bond with the fans without getting in the way.Not included in squad at Blackpool with no weekend game to help his match fitness .Does this all add up to bye bye come Thursday ?….I notice Powell wasn’t in last night’s squad, so he must be off.
Oh – and Dan Burn; he wasn’t there either.
And Sam Morsy. And Gavin Massey. etc etc etc.It may have been more a sign if he WAS in the squad.
And Paul Cook didn’t seem to be there either. What do you read into that?
I read that it was considered a reserve game for youngsters and fringe players to get some game time in a competition we have to enter.
Along with Hunt these are just jobs for Cooks mates and drinking pals.Did you go last night? Did you see Hunt? In a low=level game in front of a small crowd, coming on as sub – surely no reason for him to bother trying.
But he did. He ran at them and created quite a few openings.It wasn’t. It was pay on the night. Queue up at an hut to purchase ticket then entry on other side of ground.
Good turnout of Latics fans to see the youngsters. Over 600 there tonight.I know. It was a farce.
Tried to pay on the gate and they sent me round the corner. Went in to a big place marked “ticket office” but when they realised I was from Wigan said I couldn’t buy a ticket in the ticket office, they sent me on to “the hut”.
On and on and on to said hut, purchased ticket, but it was right at the opposite side of the ground.
I got ticket for Block L, Row J, seat 28.
In teh concourse there’s big signs, one showing the way to J15-J28. So I head there.
Only to be told by a snotty steward that I should be in Block L, over there.The J28 didn’t refer, as it does in every other ground, but block J, seat 28 with no mention of row.
God help them if anyone ever bothers going back to them and they get crowds in.
And … no programme!Not just a midfielder – he’s really a winger/attacking midfielder, so more forward looking than just a “midfielder”
