Wages cuts

Please tell Topper this, seems hes only right when hes not wrong. 

I wonder if this includes the manager and his staff ? 

Check this you quoted, say no more

Thanks mate

Why is everyone so negative? Times are bloody awful and we are having a bloody awful season but there is no need to be quite so negative.
I was anti Joey Barton and said so but I think he’s doing a decent job under the circumstances. I wish he’d stop blaming others quite so much, even if he is right most of the time - however, I thought the ref was right that the Sunderland defender headed the ball before he headed Brendon.
If we go down to L2 we have more than just Ansii and Nicholson who’d do well imo.
Joey has identified that Alfie did a good job on Wyke and we need him back for the run in. Alfie has improved immensely since JB came in. He was good under GC with Big Tone alongside him and is still learning - he certainly didn’t look out of place against The Blades did he.
Jonah Ayunga has promised but not quite delivered yet. However, a spell in L2 might be just what he (and others) need to regain confidence.
Pablo Martinez didn’t look at all out of place against Sunderland on his debut. He’s only 20 so surely deserves support for a run?
Zain Walker also did ok and JB is saying - albeit because he has no choice - that he has to rely on ‘the boys’ to keep us up. Maybe that means he’s given up but wants to see how the youngsters can do?
Josh Grant is much better than some people seem to think - we play much better with him on the field than not. His work off the ball in blocking routes and pressing is immense. He sometimes seems to lose focus after getting forward and people notice him not rushing back - hopefully he can improve this aspect but he has a lot of positives. Macca plays better with Josh than other partners. Macca is probably off but who knows? I’d keep him if we can.
There are others worth some thought but we also have the issue of injuries - why so many this season? Nicholson hopefully comes back to full health next season but what about others? Rodders for instance? When we finally got him on the pitch this season he was a revelation. Still had enough pace and far more ideas than most. The big thing for me was he had confidence to take people on.
The big issue this season has been stated as lack of strikers. There is truth in that the recruitment was poor on stokers, compounded immensely by selling JCH after preseason. With good coaching and a good start (a bit of luck?) we might have got away with it. Daly (another I’d keep) started to come good before injury and Ayunga never got a proper run with him - I’d like to see that combination even now as Daly is a natural poacher and will pick things up when Jonah creates panic in defences, which he has shown he can. However, even more important than the strikers for me has been confidence - we got close to a bit at times but it got snatched away each time it appeared. Enforced changes of personnel, including managers, haven’t helped and neither have decisions- some about who and how to play, when to change managers and some by ‘officials’. All of these have undermined confidence along with a terrible lack of luck.
‘You always make your own luck’ and ‘It evens out over the season’ are two regular sayings that I’m doubting this season. If things change dramatically and we stay up maybe my faith will be restored but this is my 59th season of support and I’ve never seen worse.

Brilliant post.

Its true what your saying and I been supporting them since the late Tote days. However you half expect it from previous owners like Higgs who was worth what £20 mil plus ?. But if you click on link below our owner is worth £550 million just behind the giants like Sunderland Pompey Ipswich .

Why nearly every fan are shaking their heads is this . If our owner is worth this much why are we going back to basement division and the ground ain't been touched since 1997 ?.

And if my expectations were too high and I was expecting too much ,( reasonable challenge to me). Why on earth did he take a football club on ?.

Its the high of WAEL taking over to the low of being worst than the 1997 return. Maybe I was being totally unrealistic that a bloke worth £550 million might progress the club maybe I was !.


en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_owners_of_English_football_clubs

If you follow the link in Wikipedia, it's not £550m but $550m and it's attributed to the family members of DS (all 4 at the time) so not Wael in his own right.

The club was limited by the budget rules (I know he could have granted funds).

However it's all supposition as his wealth is not in the public domain and nor should it be.

I do agree that we need a resolution on the stadium, I would hope that if nothing is imminent then something could be done at the Mem, even one or two stands. He has funded the training ground which is a long overdue project.