Smiley Culture Posted May 11, 2019 Share Posted May 11, 2019 Beat Fylde 3-0 today. No fairytale here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tlr Posted May 11, 2019 Share Posted May 11, 2019 Pleased the utter cunts have fucked off to the EFL. Just over 8,000 at Wembley today for the occasion. Will grant you both teams are plastic and then some but fucking hell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Artful Dodger Posted May 11, 2019 Share Posted May 11, 2019 Pleased for nicky butt's wife they won. That's about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 11, 2019 Share Posted May 11, 2019 3 hours ago, tlr said: Pleased the utter cunts have fucked off to the EFL. Just over 8,000 at Wembley today for the occasion. Will grant you both teams are plastic and then some but fucking hell. Get why you don't like Salford but what's wrong with Fylde? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tlr Posted May 11, 2019 Share Posted May 11, 2019 2 hours ago, Gunnersauraus said: Get why you don't like Salford but what's wrong with Fylde? They're basically the same as Forest Green, Billericay and Salford etc. in that their success is because they've been bankrolled for their every whim. They've come from nowhere in the space of about a decade with a new club name, colours and stadium to broaden their appeal, especially attractive as they are only a handful of miles from Blackpool, who have had a very unhappy fanbase over the same period - the bloke who owns Fylde has also sniffed around buying Blackpool off the Oystons in the past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 11, 2019 Share Posted May 11, 2019 35 minutes ago, tlr said: They're basically the same as Forest Green, Billericay and Salford etc. in that their success is because they've been bankrolled for their every whim. They've come from nowhere in the space of about a decade with a new club name, colours and stadium to broaden their appeal, especially attractive as they are only a handful of miles from Blackpool, who have had a very unhappy fanbase over the same period - the bloke who owns Fylde has also sniffed around buying Blackpool off the Oystons in the past. Fair enough. Although you could argue that those clubs come from small towns and have no way of competing without investment. I also think all clubs have had investment at some point in their history Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber Dan+ Posted May 11, 2019 Subscriber Share Posted May 11, 2019 Another utterly dull side enters the FL then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan Posted May 12, 2019 Administrator Share Posted May 12, 2019 Hope they go back down to be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tlr Posted May 12, 2019 Share Posted May 12, 2019 12 hours ago, Gunnersauraus said: Fair enough. Although you could argue that those clubs come from small towns and have no way of competing without investment. I also think all clubs have had investment at some point in their history Does all come back down to how you define 'buying' your way as a football team. All clubs at every level above Sunday league have investment (usually); I think what pissed me off with Salford more than anything is that the BBC and other media paraded them around like they were the Second Coming or some plucky underdog standing face to face with aversion or something. Don't have a problem with Fylde per se, nor FGR, Fleetwood, Eastleigh, Crawley etc. like them. What inspired the plastic comment more than anything was that they could muster less than five figures between them for what is the biggest match in either's history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 12, 2019 Share Posted May 12, 2019 48 minutes ago, tlr said: Does all come back down to how you define 'buying' your way as a football team. All clubs at every level above Sunday league have investment (usually); I think what pissed me off with Salford more than anything is that the BBC and other media paraded them around like they were the Second Coming or some plucky underdog standing face to face with aversion or something. Don't have a problem with Fylde per se, nor FGR, Fleetwood, Eastleigh, Crawley etc. like them. What inspired the plastic comment more than anything was that they could muster less than five figures between them for what is the biggest match in either's history. To be honest from what I have seen the media has mentioned their investment quite a lot. As you said all clubs have had investment. I think it is hard for a club like Salford to get much support when they are competing with man utd and city. I think Salford are the worst though. There wage has been ridiculous for the level they are at and it is unfair in my opinion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pig on the Wing Posted May 12, 2019 Share Posted May 12, 2019 The BBC love-in for Salford City has been truly tiresome. So many clubs with centuries of history rattling around in non-league who have simply been mismanaged/poorly run in recent times, with still-loyal fanbases keeping the clubs solvent. Usurped by a club which had gates in the low hundreds a few years back, yet can now pay annual salaries of £250,000 to their players. Wrexham, Hartlepool, Chesterfield, York, Stockport, Torquay, Hereford, Chester, Darlington... in an ideal world, I would have any one of those clubs back in the League over a hateful tin-pot folly like Salford. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smiley Culture Posted May 13, 2019 Author Share Posted May 13, 2019 Salford City just feels manufactured. The badge has changed and the club’s colours have changed from orange and black to red, it surprises me that they’ve not changed the club’s name to Salford United, given the connection between the word City and Manchester. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honey Honey Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 Read somewhere they lose £32,000 a week. That's a £1.6m loss per year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan Posted May 13, 2019 Administrator Share Posted May 13, 2019 1 hour ago, Harvsky said: Read somewhere they lose £32,000 a week. That's a £1.6m loss per year. I'm guessing wages are the issue there? Can't have been cheap to sign that Rooney guy from Aberdeen. Promotion to EFL surely covers those costs though? I imagine they'll be on TV a few times whenever there's international weekends which will give them extra bit of money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smiley Culture Posted May 13, 2019 Author Share Posted May 13, 2019 2 hours ago, Stan said: I'm guessing wages are the issue there? Can't have been cheap to sign that Rooney guy from Aberdeen. Promotion to EFL surely covers those costs though? I imagine they'll be on TV a few times whenever there's international weekends which will give them extra bit of money. Rooney’s allegedly on £4/5k a week if you believe reports. Promotion will probably keep them running at a loss, I imagine. Granted they’ll receive more money for being a Football League side but I fully expect them to add a handful of players on very good money for that level of Football. I can’t see them scrimping now they’re a Football League side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan Posted May 13, 2019 Administrator Share Posted May 13, 2019 2 minutes ago, Smiley Culture said: Rooney’s allegedly on £4/5k a week if you believe reports. Promotion will probably keep them running at a loss, I imagine. Granted they’ll receive more money for being a Football League side but I fully expect them to add a handful of players on very good money for that level of Football. I can’t see them scrimping now they’re a Football League side. Yep. Those wages for a non-league side are crazy. Even if they did scrimp next season, the gap from non-League to League 2 isn't that much and they'll probably survive. It's getting promotion which can sometimes be a bit more difficult and then surviving in League One even more so. Can see them being a good option for investment in the future and the class of 92 lot who already have some investment in the club raking the money in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Artful Dodger Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 They're a smaller version of PSG. The 'Class of 1992' seem immune from media scrutiny too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honey Honey Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 I'm surprised SkySports haven't arranged for Salford City to just go straight into the League Two playoffs tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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