Let down from the top.

it really wateres me of how people jump on your back. Just so you know people do want the info you provide be it true or false. I personally am on the side of thinking there is no smoke without fire. At the moment there is a lot of smoke.

At saturdays shambolic game I was given information from a club member that our manager was promised a playing budget of £4 million in the summer for a big push for championship football. He then signed his 5 year contract exstension but has not seen any of this money appear. If this is true then he/we have been badly let down.when Hamer made the “top six budget statement” it makes you wonder if He was lied to also! What the hell is going on?

You want information even if it's false?

well in my opinion if it turns out to be false I don't believe it would be because gasincider is trying to mislead or wind us up, it would be because plans change or never materialise. That's not to say it's all made up.

Too an extent- I agree. How much do we really ever know??? But where I think gasincider needs to be careful is sticking all the stories together to come up with 11

The post regarding Chris Jelf being drip fed to us, is purely his interpretation. I hadn’t heard his name for a number of years. I certainly had not felt that. That’s purely conspiracy making.

If you report what you’ve been told- fair. But there’s too much nonsense. I suspect there could be an element of truth, in what he says. He’s covered more basis than the chimp.

Sorry but I’ve think you’ve been fed utter nonsense.

Our manager was promised a playing budget of 4m?

Financial FairPlay just does not allow that. League 1 limits are capped at 60% turnover. Even in a good year, if we made- 5m. (We have never made 5m) We would be capped at 3m. This is going by our accounts.

There is possibility for a small variation concerning turnover, As FFP only counts money actually received concerning transfers. And direct costs of hospitality but the net affect would neglictable

It could be true. But personally I’d find it alarming. It’s why a cup run is so important. But we’ve been mixed in that recently.

No doubt, gasincider can use this to bulk up his fairy tale.

In league 1 an owner can make a donation to the club that will count as part of the clubs turnover as long as the owner dosnt expect to get the money back.
so a steve lansdown type of owner can make a mockery of ffp in league 1.

The simple answer is that the whole atmosphere around the club has changed since the cancelling of the UWE. Even Clark is now public in his criticism of the status quo.

I was asked recently what I hoped to achieve by going public with various bits of info from behind the scenes. My answer, honestly, was to hope the fan base would wake up and see what was staring them in the face. It now seems they are beginning too. That gives me hope that in turn, our owners wake up, to either sell up and go, or invest in a new stadium, preferably the UWE, and the team. I still don't believe the reason given for calling it off, and find it laughable that anyone would believe it.

We have had 50 years of bullsh*t from owners. The Mem is obviously not a plan b, and the training ground is now on hold. Invest or go is the only hope. Trouble is, if they don't, it begins to smack of asset stripping, and there is not long before even that becomes non viable.