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Ian Botham and Kevin Keegan then?
Both got a net worth of around $12 million according to Wiki.
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Under the present regime (Swann as absentee landlord and Turnbull as COO) it will be more of the same.
If Lee is given a say in recruitment it may be slightly better, but let’s not forget he was given the elbow from that job in favour of Will Swann. And to my knowledge WS has not stood down from his role.
I just don’t see how recruitment can improve. It’s all well and good wanting top NL/L2 players, but would they come here? Could we afford them?
The squad will have to be smaller, which means we can’t afford to carry passengers. We certainly can’t afford the sort of injury list we’re used to seeing, yet we’re going to be starting the 22/23 season with at least two of the above.
Miracles do happen, and managers and scouts can pull a rabbit out of the hat occasionally, but I just don’t see it happening this summer.
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So let’s go after some TOP players who are proven at national league prem level or really good league 2 pros
How’s that going to happen?
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GP next Saturday?
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Surely you’re not suggesting our beloved owners made yet another wrong decision?
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Possible “don’t wants” – Hackney, Sinclair, Burns & maybe Grant & Taft. Doubtful if Jarvis, Perry & KDT were given the option of playing.
So the loanees basically? The ones who’ll be looking to get a deal with another club.
Is Grant just here til the end of the season?
No one offers contracts to injured players. Apart from us of course!
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When we won at Wembley in 1999 I lifted my son up. When we won in 2009 he lifted me up!
One of the joys of being a dad!
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Some of us were at Wembley a few weeks earlier to watch us lose the JPT to a Luton side that were on their way out of the Football League.
Oh, to swap places with them now!
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maybe you can give us some stories on that episode NI living up there.
I was in my last year at college. I went with a couple of neutral mates and for reasons I can’t recall went in the rather partisan Gallowgate End, which in 1974 was still a standing only terrace.
Remember Chris Simpkin clattering SuperMac early on, then when Nolan Keeley scored I went down on my knees, waving both fists in the air. My two mates moved away, and then I realised I was surrounded by several thousand Geordies.
I was expecting a good kicking but they just looked down at me and shook their heads.
McDermott’s equaliser was a hell of a shot. Neil Warnock could have won it for us but with McFaul lying on his back and the goal wide open he narrowly missed the corner flag!
Never made it down to the replay, of which I wasn’t too disappointed.
The previous year I’d been at Roker Park when we beat Hartlepool 2-1 in a second replay after two 0-0 draws.
Replays eh? Tell today’s kids about it and they won’t believe you!
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We’ve been through all of this population and “punching above their weight” nonsense many times before.
If every club has its place in the footballing pyramid you might as well do away with promotion and relegation all together.
There are many clubs who would absolutely love that to happen.
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But you’ll get there with your bus pass!
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Get the game abandoned? Pointless!
Pity we couldn’t have got the season abandoned in August!
Everyone on at the final whistle chanting “we want Swanny out!” Better.
Although I think the penny may have dropped by now.
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