aintforever

Why does everyone go on about it like we have a choice, if someone wants to takeover the club they will just do it regardless of opinion on here.

If his style only works long term why didn't he say something before hand and save spending all that money? It's all bull****, he's quick to claim all the glory is results go his way but weasles away with excuses when things go totally wrong. Facts are when he was with us we were rubbish and he cost a fortune - there is no excuses, if you pay a performance director a truck load of cash performances need to improve. We have proper football people running the team now, they appear to have a well organised, motivated team punching above it's weight - and guess what, no self-promoting guru is in sight.

Shearer would only come if there was a shed load of money to spend so in that respect you would have to welcome it. JP and co seem to be doing a good job but without investment there wll always be a ceiling to what we can achieve.

na doubt it

Anyone with a decent amount of cash to put in is welcome IMO.

If the football's good and we are winning the fans will come back, regardless of Lowe. If people want to boycott that's up to them - it's a free world, I couldn't give a monkeys.

Burley massively underachieved and wasted a shed load of cash the whole time he was here IMO.

What are you on about? We flirted with relegation the first season when Burley took over from saggy chops, we reached the playoffs the season Wilde was in charge!!

Burley was Lowe's choice - he has to take responsibilty for that waste of time and money just as much as he can take credit for Portvliet if it proves a success.

He certainly looks like proving everybody wrong and has to take the credit if we do well. We've only won one game so far though, it's where we finish at the end of the season that counts.

Lets hope they can keep it up, the confidence this win will give them will be huge boost for the next few games.

Great stuff, wish I had gone now, would have been great to see those Derby ****s again.

I think the crux of the issue is what the standard of team is that Lowe believes we need to be able to operate effectively. Lowe may be good with numbers but when it comes to judging how well equiped we are to compete in the Championship we might as well have Father Christmas in charge.

IMO cheering and encouragement obviously helps, as much as booing/abuse has the reverse effect. The idea that a player tries harder because of chants etc is rubbish. I think players tend to score against their old clubs for a number of reasons, but this seems regardless of wether they get a good or bad reception. The problem is when players get abuse and they score everyone remembers it, you instantly forget the games where you give the player all-sorts of grief and they have an absolute stinker. I remember at The Dell the players used to hate it when they got abuse, you could see it on their faces.

So in your simplistic world if we need to raise £6mill the bank will make us do it no matter what, even if that means selling every single player and the SFC backroom staff have to take to the field for the season? rubbish The whole future of the club relys upon the quality of the first team, if we get relegated we will go into admin and the bank will lose more money, even Barclays will understand that.

I never said we didn't have to sell players, we obviously do. But there comes a point where getting rid of too many will be a false economy because relegation will lose us a fortune. There's no point you or I doing our basic maths because neither of us know exactly what the bank's policy is, or what our current costs are. But the fact that the bank let us gamble 1.5mill euros a couple of months ago means that it is not as simple as the bank manager telling us what to do - we obviously have options.

We do have a choice, we spunked 1.5mill euros on an untried French kid during the summer without making any major sales. Now if it is the bank manager making descisions on playing staff then we have the first bank manager in history to tell a club on the verge of admin to gamble a ton of cash on a player. Lowe would like us to think he has no choice - it's easier for him that way. The fact is the bank even backed Crouch and his "who cares if we lose money" policy, I'm pretty ****ing sure that he will understand that if we reduce the quality of the team too much we will go down and into admin and he will see even less of his money.

Anyone who thinks fans songs cause opposition strikers to score goals has the brain of a 12 year old.

The idea of an old fart like Merrington fronting a multimillion pound consortium is just too bizarre to take seriously. Doesn't he still commentate on local radio to earn a few extra bob?

But there still HAS to be a balance between cutting costs and maintaining a competitive side. We obviously have to cut our cloth but there will be a point where it becomes a false economy to sell a player if it means inevitable relegation because the amount lost by going down would be far more than that gained by selling. The question is do we trust Lowe to get the balancing act right?

Stewards rank just below "****ed bloke in pub" in the ITK status league table, purely because of their desperate need to feel important.

It's not a case of giving up it's a case of being realistic. Only 4 teams were worse than us last year, since then we have lost over 15 first team players, brought in a few on the cheap and hired a manager with no experience of English football. Staying up would be a massive achievement, there isn't a manager alive who could get that team promoted this season IMO. Some people need to wake up and smell the coffee, us staying up this year will be as good an achievement as Hull or Stoke staying up in the Prem.

Kids are w****rs

I will be over the moon if we finish 4th bottom.

i agree that most of those players did not do the business for us last season and that the quality of some of the youngsters shows what a hideous waste of money many of them were. BUT most of them did play a role at some point and did a job, wether the quality of the first XI is better or worse is up for debate but over a season it's the quality of the squad that makes the difference and we are a whole squad of capable CCC players down on a sqad that last year finished 5th bottom. How would our current squad cope with say 7-8 of the first team injured? If Coventry had lost the players we had then we would all be saying they are dead certs for relegation.