League 1 General Chat Thread

[valefan16]

Proposals being explored for a Community Sports Campus in Burslem

Discussions have commenced between Stoke-on-Trent City Council and Port Vale Football Club over creating a community sports campus in the city.

www.port-vale.co.uk

Interesting, should be good if it comes off and really develop the Vale Park area, especially with away fans being down the far side of the ground from next season which will likely incorporate part of the plans with Dimensions Centre.

 

[Moomin]

Typical, the one time you guys could potentially do us a favour against a few of our rivals your best player ends up in prison

Hopefully we’ll take 4 points off Accy and Fleetwood then I’d happily lose to all your rivals.

 

[PlymouthCasual]

Hopefully we’ll take 4 points off Accy and Fleetwood then I’d happily lose to all your rivals.

Best of luck in those mammoth ties

 

[eric read]

Enjoy Harrogate Town away next season. Prick.

No, we'll enjoy playing Ipswich again, in League One, when you bottle the play-offs.

Enjoy your winnings. Liar.

 

[White horse]

I see Wigan players have still not been paid and have now gone on strike. Their wage bill last season was 13 million pounds yet their season ticket/matchday income for all cup and league games was 2.2 million. Told a Wigan fan last year on here they were paying huge wages and heading for trouble but got loads of abuse. Their previous owners waived £36 million owed to them when they were in administration in order for them to survive. . After starting from scratch they have managed to spend their way into massive trouble again. Feel sorry for their decent fans but not the cretin who came on here,

 

[WhiteRussian]

I see Huddersfield have been bought out by a yank consortium which according to the article will wipe all their debt's off, £40 million. Ridiculous really. Sell the club, write off all the debts (in other words throw £40 mill of fresh money with no consequences on the pitch) and start again with no punishment for financial incompetance.

 

[BarrieOwl]

I see Huddersfield have been bought out by a yank consortium which according to the article will wipe all their debt's off, £40 million. Ridiculous really. Sell the club, write off all the debts (in other words throw £40 mill of fresh money with no consequences on the pitch) and start again with no punishment for financial incompetance.

Still better than stealing a clubs place in the league

 

[valefan16]

I see Huddersfield have been bought out by a yank consortium which according to the article will wipe all their debt's off, £40 million. Ridiculous really. Sell the club, write off all the debts (in other words throw £40 mill of fresh money with no consequences on the pitch) and start again with no punishment for financial incompetance.

Some of the debts are eye watering, I know how much Stoke were writing off was bonkers money, didnt Bolton have over £100 million debts at one point?

Even Colchester had a massive figure IIRC a couple of years back, all be it owed to the chairman/owner.

 

[SF_]

Not sure if Wigan will ease back to the Championship this time around.

The new Huddersfield owners sound like they're wadded though. I'd rather see Cardiff drop instead, personally. Rotherham are far from safe too.

Can't see minnows Blackpool creating many waves down here if they don't rag survival.

 

[SF_]

Actually, just read the Huddersfield owners are a complete mystery, think I just saw a Huddersfield fan let his imagination run away with him on Twitter and took it as gospel. That could be another dodgy situation like Wigan.

 

[White horse]

Bolton had debts to Eddie Davies, the Bolton fan and owner, he wrote £200 million off and Ken Anderson started with a clean slate, apart from £10 million payable on if we were promoted back to the Premiership. Believe it or not the first 2 or 3 years in the Premiership Bolton actually posted a small profit. Anyway Ken Anderson took over and saw Bolton as a way of making money which he had little of. He had to lend money with huge interest and loaded the loans on to the club. Also inherited a poor squad of very average overpaid players on huge wages. He couldn't afford to run the club and the club's turnover wasn't high enough to pay the players, the loans and the interest, Recipe for disaster. Anderson walked out with his pockets full though. Still think we have debts from the previous administration. I think nearly every club in the Championship are at the mercy of their owners. They overspend and rely on their owners to subsidise them.

 

[SF_]

Bolton had debts to Eddie Davies, the Bolton fan and owner, he wrote £200 million off and Ken Anderson started with a clean slate, apart from £10 million payable on if we were promoted back to the Premiership. Believe it or not the first 2 or 3 years in the Premiership Bolton actually posted a small profit. Anyway Ken Anderson took over and saw Bolton as a way of making money which he had little of. He had to lend money with huge interest and loaded the loans on to the club. Also inherited a poor squad of very average overpaid players on huge wages. He couldn't afford to run the club and the club's turnover wasn't high enough to pay the players, the loans and the interest, Recipe for disaster. Anderson walked out with his pockets full though. Still think we have debts from the previous administration. I think nearly every club in the Championship are at the mercy of their owners. They overspend and rely on their owners to subsidise them.

That's us, think Luton are the only exception.

Unless you have a very rich owner, you just can't compete with the parachute clubs.

Obviously Sunderland are massive so are an exception but clubs coming up don't seem to last more than two seasons these days.

Still a chance the bottom 3 could be Rotherham, Blackpool, and Wigan. Last season Peterborough went down at the first attempt, and Barnsley lasted three seasons, actually making the playoffs against all odds before being picked apart. Hull have just pissed about in the bottom half.

The most fucked up league there is I'd guess.

 

[valefan16]

Be interesting to see with the Championship in the next couple of years as seems to be a lot of basket case clubs developing there!

 

[Super_horns]

Be interesting to see with the Championship in the next couple of years as seems to be a lot of basket case clubs developing there!

At the top and bottom of the league !

 

[TractorBoys]

No, we'll enjoy playing Ipswich again, in League One, when you bottle the play-offs.

Enjoy your winnings. Liar.

Everything is pointing towards Oxford safety and Ipswich remaining at this level, sure, sure.

Team to beat, my man. <3

 

[Luke Imp]

I see Huddersfield have been bought out by a yank consortium which according to the article will wipe all their debt's off, £40 million. Ridiculous really. Sell the club, write off all the debts (in other words throw £40 mill of fresh money with no consequences on the pitch) and start again with no punishment for financial incompetance.

That might be an additional £40m but their former Chairman wrote off £40m owed to him as part of the deal.

 

[geg1992]

A bit random, but our CEO has said we've sold around 50,000 'football kits' this season. That's an astonishing figure for league one.

 

[K-Win]

A bit random, but our CEO has said we've sold around 50,000 'football kits' this season. That's an astonishing figure for league one.

Did he break it down by club?

 

[valefan16]

A bit random, but our CEO has said we've sold around 50,000 'football kits' this season. That's an astonishing figure for league one.

Should be about right, think we've done 15k although we've gone for the vivid goal kits short sleeved so we sell a lot of them too (they often look better than the normal kits).

May change though as believe we are leaving Errea for Puma.

 

[geg1992]

Should be about right, think we've done 15k although we've gone for the vivid goal kits short sleeved so we sell a lot of them too (they often look better than the normal kits).

May change though as believe we are leaving Errea for Puma.

15K is impressive too! I think ours have been boosted by Ed Sheeran, this season has been a new record.

 

[valefan16]

15K is impressive too! I think ours have been boosted by Ed Sheeran, this season has been a new record.

We had Robbie Williams reveal ours which probably helped a bit (at his Vale Park concert), which is probably better than when he designed the kit a couple of years ago which was a bit "out there" in terms of design.

On a side note looking a bad situation developing at Morecambe, Nixon has tweeted they are set to potentially not have the funds to pay the wages this month on time.

 

[geg1992]

We had Robbie Williams reveal ours which probably helped a bit (at his Vale Park concert), which is probably better than when he designed the kit a couple of years ago which was a bit "out there" in terms of design.

On a side note looking a bad situation developing at Morecambe, Nixon has tweeted they are set to not have the funds to pay the wages this month.

Wow, I didn't realise Morecambe were in any trouble, didn't they recently have the boxer invest money?

EDIT: just seen that didn't go as planned.

 

[valefan16]

Wow, I didn't realise Morecambe were in any trouble, didn't they recently have the boxer invest money?

EDIT: just seen that didn't go as planned.

Could be subject to a points deduction similar to Wigan if not paid, although unsure on the exact ruling these days as they had a suspended deduction and had missed more than 1.

 

[thewwfc]

ah no, players not getting paid is the last thing you need at the best of times, but even less so when it’s a team up against it in a relegation dogfight. Hope this gets sorted.

 

[BRFC_Gas]

Southampton did the same when they came down to L1. Then signed Lambert from us for a million before climbing back to the top

 

[masi51]

A bit random, but our CEO has said we've sold around 50,000 'football kits' this season. That's an astonishing figure for league one.

Ed Sheeran bought 40,000 of those !!

 

[UppaTowen_ITFC]

Ed Sheeran bought 40,000 of those !!

The Ed Sheeran link gets mocked by so many fans of other clubs but imo it’s genius that we’ve got him on side. Not only does he come from the area and has been attending games for years now (so the connection is not made up like some celebrity/football combos), he sponsored the kit, gave it enough of a twist to make his fans buy the shirts and then we get most of the profits. He gets his new album on the shirt and we get the dosh. It’s genius marketing from both and we’re quite fortunate to have him.

As he said himself on The One Show a few months back, he likes the idea of his album and name being on display on an Ipswich training top that he and his mates would be wearing anyway at somewhere like Accrington Stanley. I don’t know if he actually came to that game but it’s a nice idea anyway.

 

[UppaTowen_ITFC]

No, we'll enjoy playing Ipswich again, in League One, when you bottle the play-offs.

Enjoy your winnings. Liar.

To be fair that draw with Morecambe last weekend is a great result for you guys. Just keeps you above the drop - for now at least. Well done pal.

 

[Grumpy Grecian]

Hopefully we’ll take 4 points off Accy and Fleetwood then I’d happily lose to all your rivals.

Even better, take 6 points off Accy and Barnsley!

 

[Laker]

Peterborough look like they’re in a bit of a mess financially. Their ground is owned by a company which in turn is owned three parties (McAntony being one) and one of the others has a fund which has loaned the company owning the ground £5.2m. Anyway, that fund has now called in the debt.

There are 13 or so charges on the property by the looks of things. All looks like a bit of a mess.

They might be fine and they usually are (that’s generally the tone McAntony is taking) but it is certainly raising a few eyebrows this time round.