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Post by coops on Nov 30, 2008 0:21:15 GMT
So, it's a sponsorship deal? Does it last forever? They will drop like a stone when the money goes. Just a club built on dodgy money. Dog sh it. At this point I'd just like to say: so what? I know where you're coming from Jase, but sometimes you should just let a little romance into your non-league heart, yes they will probably eventually implode, hopefully this will be a gentle slip down the leagues rather than a CVA but either way their fans are having a ball, let them enjoy putting loads over Cambridge United, let them dream of away days at Hartlepool.
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Post by amberaleman on Nov 30, 2008 17:43:20 GMT
Any team that can make mugs out of Leeds United is surely worth a few cheers!
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Post by J Esaj PRA on Dec 1, 2008 17:41:42 GMT
At this point I'd just like to say: so what? I'll tell you what. Their 'success' comes at the expense of better, more financially sustainable clubs that are pushed out. They contribute to the money madness that renders the upper levels on non-league (and the entire pro league) utterly worthless. They are the cancer of football. I'm surprised the people on here can't see the kind of damage this kind of club does to non-league football. Tinpot village club with no hope of progressing to the top level? Meh, just buy your way there and hammer a few more nails in the coffins of traditional clubs. No problem with them doing Leeds though. I see they employed the Hereford tactic - play them on a cabbage patch! I'm sure all the Conference fans that usually moan if their side has to play on anything other than a green carpet were lapping it up.
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Post by ojiveojive on Dec 1, 2008 18:13:50 GMT
All non league clubs owe their position to a sugar daddy or group of sugar daddies, it's just that some have more sugar than others! Taken to its logical conclusion the only worthwhile football would be amateur football, played on a quagmire on the park, on a Sunday morning, in front of three dogs and a perve - I'm not knocking it but I prefer a slightly higher standard, myself.
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Post by ambersalamander on Dec 1, 2008 20:39:58 GMT
Jase, with all due respect, how do you know exactly what's going on with Histon's finances?
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Post by J Esaj PRA on Dec 1, 2008 20:52:09 GMT
All non league clubs owe their position to a sugar daddy or group of sugar daddies, it's just that some have more sugar than others! Taken to its logical conclusion the only worthwhile football would be amateur football, played on a quagmire on the park, on a Sunday morning, in front of three dogs and a perve - I'm not knocking it but I prefer a slightly higher standard, myself. Taken to its logical conclusion the only worthwhile football would be amateur football... Almost certainly. Non-league gave a happy compromise for a while, but money has destroyed the top 4 levels of semi-pro football to the point where it probably won't recover. Flash in the pan clubs like Histon only make things worse. All non league clubs owe their position to a sugar daddy or group of sugar daddies... I don't think that is quite true, unless you are including the fans in the definition of a 'Sugar Daddy'! I do think it is hard to find clubs in the top 4 divisions of semi pro football that don't have someone pumping in cash behind the scenes. They have to do that just to stay afloat, because of all these 'little' clubs spending way more than the can sustain to get their ugly mugs on the TV. Take a look at the Conference tables - they just show who is splashing the cash.
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Post by ojiveojive on Dec 2, 2008 19:32:46 GMT
Take a look at the Conference tables - they just show who is splashing the cash. They just show who's splashing the most cash - our 'sugar daddy' has been with the club for about fifteen years and without his cash the club would not exist, just above our relegation zone. This is what I mean by 'sugar daddies', I think you'll find that without the cash injection of lunatic footie fans with more money than intelligence there would not be any non-league semi-pro football. Your own club's shareholders must have put money into the club in order to sustain it.
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Post by Giggy of Telford on Dec 8, 2008 15:19:40 GMT
I've bought a share in the Telford United Supporters Trust. Does that make me AFCTU's sugar daddy? Incidently I can't dislike Histon, they showed up Sewersbury good and proper a few years back in the FA Cup. I don't really know a great deal about the goings on at Histon so my view from the outside was just that is was nice to see them surprising a few people this year. However i can't help but think surely there has been enough stories of the dream turning into a nightmare in recent years to put clubs off risking it all for instant success.
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Post by ojiveojive on Dec 8, 2008 18:36:33 GMT
I think the fact that Histon's chairman has been there for seventeen years belies the claims of flash in the pan - ness.
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