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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Open House Event - Questions.
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on: Today at 13:28:25
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Is there any chance that people could respect others questions, rather than jumping straight on them with your personal agendas. This is a good idea for a thread. Let's try not to fall into petty back biting. I don't want to delete things, but I will if it goes way off track. Once we have some questions, I will submit them to the club to be answered on the night.
Thanks
On this forum, really? That would require maturity, a lack of ego and a balanced perspective. Anyone know someone like that?
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Open House Event - Questions.
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on: Today at 08:18:53
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That question will have the same effect as piššing in the sea, none. My question would be when are you going to fix the windows in the west stand? I have long given up on any other infrastructure being updated under the current owners.
Not strictly true, attracts sharks that does. You might get your leg chewed mate.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Redevelopment Closer Than Ever?
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on: May 29, 2023, 08:30:09 am
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Wolves, Palace, Everton also did and didn’t.  True, but there's only 3 that can go down mate. I thought it was interesting how Forest looked dead and buried in November and clawed their way out, whilst Leeds were mid table and sunk like a stone.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Redevelopment Closer Than Ever?
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on: May 29, 2023, 06:33:13 am
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The rather rotund "big Sam" hoovers up half a million quid, in return for four games, and overseeing Leeds relegation. Footballs fckud up.
Interesting how all the clubs that changed managers in a panic went down the tubes and Forest who didn’t, didn’t, and dug themselves out of a hole. Watch and learn next season if necessary.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: League 2 play-offs
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on: May 29, 2023, 02:13:12 am
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Some people having a pop at Horsfall on social media . If you were offered just short of £1 million over 3 years to change job - would you go !? Some of our lads went down to support him today and fair play to him .
I wouldn't get out of bed for that.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Redevelopment Closer Than Ever?
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on: May 29, 2023, 01:11:58 am
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I think there is perhaps the beginnings of a new financial dynamic in football. It seems that significant commitment is not returning the results it once did. At one end of the spectrum neither Stockport or Salford got promoted. At the other Chelsea’s eye watering expenditure in both transfer windows didn’t deliver even European football. There was a time when chucking money at a club pretty much guaranteed success, at the expense of the have-nots. Not any more apparently. This adds a complication for those considering picking up the tab for a club. The possibility of pouring money into the abyss, with nothing to show for it? Once clubs with a formidable history and finances start getting relegated, which they will, the European Super League will be back on the agenda faster than you can say administration. Where that leaves the likes of Brentford and Brighton, that remains to be seen. It seems to me that football is walking blind into an uncertain future. On the one hand clubs are crying out for a benefactor, upon whose departure often leaves the club in a precarious position. That’s if the failure of their outside business interests don’t drop the clubs in it before then. On the other is the other obvious conclusion to all this. Like every opportunity reliant on have nots, once most clubs have a benefactor then no amount of expenditure will protect against failure and we are back to square one, this time with debts that are unserviceable without an endless conveyor belt of cash rich entities prepared to pick up the reigns. Of course these glory hunters who claim to have the best’s interests of NTFC at heart don’t give a shít about that as long as they get to put 3 inches on their cóck. And there in lies the problem, too much thinking with the heart rather than the head. Anyone who believes this situation will continue indefinitely is away with the fairies. To repeat, the model of huge expenditure in football is completely reliant on being able to outspend the competition to a considerable degree. Once that variable is removed the football pyramid model and any clubs over committed in it will be fúcked, probably leaving the giants in their super league and carnage in their wake. I don’t know what can be done about it, but banging on about huge expenditure without a benefactor prepared to back it up is absolute bóllocks. And even if we get one, the overwhelming likelihood is it will be a short term ride. Get over it, and enjoy what we have whilst it lasts. Cue the “football clubs are invincible” brigade with the brains of a rocking horse, worried that they have a cóck to match, who couldn’t run a bath.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Summer Transfer Window 2023
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on: May 27, 2023, 01:09:35 am
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We really need a quality experienced player. They will invariably come with issues though, legs going, injury problems, something. The question is, is it reasonable and manageable and that is a bit of an unknown until you do it. Got to have a player of that standard though IMO.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Iconic Cobblers goals...
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on: May 26, 2023, 15:03:49 pm
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We needed to win to preserve league status. We hadn’t won away all season and we were playing a side who needed to win to get promoted. Despite being at the bottom of the league our goalkeeper was player of the season. We were 2-0 down at half time and dead and buried. The only reason everyone stayed for the second half was to watch our final minutes as a league club. What came next defied belief, never have I gone from so low to so high in such a short space of time. Pat Gavin’s “arse of god” goal is head and shoulders the most iconic goal in our club’s history, nothing else comes close.
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