After watching the Man on tv this morning i felt obliged to share his his own brand of Genius
Shoplifters
14.3.09
13.3.09
Good Spin
From the new commercial director , I am liking it a lot ... good times ..
John Thaxton as well.... Good Good PR .... Should get a few more through the gates ....
Boxing at the walks in the summer months ??.... Who needs Vegas?
Next on my agenda is the issue of forming a Supporters Trust ... This will follow tomorrow
12.3.09
The Financial Situation At the Club
Before anyone gets on their high horse the following is how i see it.
Anyone that has read the blog over the last year or so know my opinion of Mr Chinn.
I hear that times are tough in the employment agency world at the minute is all that i am going to say..& my opinion is that the current situation is as much down to a cash flow problem with all of the directors seeing their cash and assets being squeezed as they are at all clubs.
Goodbye to Mr Chinn , thanks for opening them legs for us.
I hear that our wage bill is far too high ( 5 figures per week ) and that the costs have been based on gates that were never going to attainable ( 1500).... A comment was made a week ago by a friend is what happens to general business sense when successful businessmen get involved in football clubs.... We all want the best for the club in positional terms but a strong business sense is an absolute must ...
An absolute business sense seems to of been realised only on the last few weeks at the expense of actually paying anyone or even being honest with people over that payment situation ..
If we had not paid the players another week then the fa could of stepped in and caused all sorts of problems....Guess cash is the word now. Did we all know that no one(bar staff,reserves,reserve players travel expenses) had been paid for a few weeks , well they had with rubber cheques.Why issue Cheques when there is no money in the account ?
One word Transparency.. is what is needed,it will stop the rumours and all of the trouble that causes..
Lets hope i am correct in it just being a cash flow problem because if it is not then it certainly is not gonna get any easier in a very long summer.
11.3.09
Solihull Away
Nearly a local derby for us this one with the journey only 2 hours each way ...
A Lego style ground with one covered end and two flat open sides with a Swedish style bar area that seemed to go on and on ... Nice to see that the Gobby brum women is not a myth ... for the record love your girlfriend needs to lose a few pounds ....
The food was good ... a quality bacon roll.
Great to see Dom Dwyer starting and he had a good full debut ... working hard and causing trouble to the centre halves.It was another good hard working performance all over the pitch with Thomas scoring the goal with a cheeky back heel..But what a way to give away the win ... I asked my lad ( aged 10 ) what he would do in the last minute of a game when you have the ball in the opposition corner .....
Do you look to keep the ball and get a corner/throw in ?
Give away a free kick?
Or cross the ball into the area when you only have one person forward?
Even he got the right answer ... So why did Mitchell cross it and give the Solihull the chance to attack... Why Why Why ???
We left the game inconsolable as were the management who we spoke to on the way out .. I even felt some sympathy for them.
If it goes to the wire then games like this are exactly the root cause ... We need to be much more professional.
Quincy Coleman - Baby Don't You Cry ( the pie song )
A Sweet Little ditty from the film "Waitress".. which is pretty good
10.3.09
Telford Away
Back to the minibus we went with a cracking old school crowd , which meant a no holds bar level of banter on both journeys ... Tune wise it was the Shrimp man who stood up to the plate first and a new level of technology was reached with a Bluetooth I-pod being used.. Impressive !!... A mix cd from the Merthyr day out was also sourced plus the usual Dance tunes for the journey home to warm up the dancers and lovers on the bus... !!
After getting misplaced we toured Wellington (Telford's original footballing name until the new town swallowed it up)Eventually we spotted the ground hidden behind a hotel and parked up at the cost of £2 English pounds... Then the fun began... The steward assigned to us had to get clearance for us to get off the bus ... WTF? So we were asked to stay on the bus ..and then we were not allowed in the same bar as our other fans and were directed to a home bar !! We think you may cause trouble so we will put you in a small home bar not the main one ??
The ground was impressive if not finished .. They refused to open the bar in the stand for us but did manage the food part in the end.The excuse they had been told we would only have 20 fans at the game .. Even for Gateshead on a Tuesday night we managed that many ... Muppets .
Continuing in the same direction we counted 35 stewards in the ground at one point... now that must be the highest in the league by far.
The game was all huff and puff and little else of any interest. We worked hard and kept them at bay until the schoolboy injury time defending.Good goal for the boy Dwyer..Renton looked miles away from fitness in fact the word oaf was used to describe him on the journey home ., harsh ? only maybe.It was an impressive away support with the scarfers joining in with the old standard songs... Some song writing is needed ... please send me suggestions.
Whether the man Keith has a wire tap on our bus i am not sure but much of his comments reflect conversations that were held on the bus.Perhaps we should be manager, as a co-op.
I felt more than happy with a point in the end although several of those around me were more than gutted and took solace in the bottle for the journey home.
I would like to give thanks to the steward that got the police nosing around our van and got me pulled over for a chat about the big brother laws in this country. Cheers bud ... But he was a blue nose with some common sense..( yeah really ) Taking beer from us is like taking sweets from a child .. the reaction would of been interesting to say the least and a night out in Telford would of been the result without doubt.. Good times !!
Superb fish and chips in Thrapston on the way home ... Visit Bens Chippy if passing always excellent and yeah i did get free food to say this ..
Onto Solihull tonight and hopefully the full 3 points to edge closer to safety ... See you There ...
As a footnote .. anyone else get a little creeped out by the behaviour of the steward that was giving art classes to sheep head and his pals ?
Bearsuit - More soul than Wigan Casino
All 3 bands last night were equally good in different ways ...
Chew lips .. oozing new band full of coolness & attitude with great synth tunes....Great front lady ... very cute indeed in an out of reach way.Bless she watched most of the HB stood just in front of me after gently pushing in .. of course i let her in !!
Joy F -very good even with a few sounds hitches .. real attitude backed up with powerful tunes ..
Howling Bells - very good as well , Juanita is amazing as the front woman ... great new atmospheric tunes from both albums .. the new LP is very good .
All in all a great night out with a sell out crowd who were very quiet but appreciative ... No moshing at all ..
It seemed a very grown up crowd.Is that a bad thing ? I am not sure .
Onto the next gig on Sunday and Bearsuit plus the Brownies ... with Bearsuit using it as a fundraiser for their SXSW excursions next week hopefully without any deportations this time ..
9.3.09
Catch up time ...Redditch Away
A good win against a very poor side that we nearly let back into the game in the last 20 min's ...well until Bradley Thomas showed great timing in his headlock release and as the referee turned to look got a little slap in retaliation .... I wonder if tells jokes with such great timing ??
A tin pot ground that looks like it has struggled over the years with a gazebo over the far bit of seating.An odd cheap musty bar that kept us in Magners... I had a chance to escape the driving as the Fighter and the shoe salesman took their vehicles.Funniest thing of the day was the Fighter parking his car getting in as a kid then buying a beer ... Quality Jibbing ...
A Good turn out of fans witnessed another poor game but 3 points that were needed.
My Memory is shot on the rest but very little was memorable...
Another Gig calls
This time the wonderful Aussie group "The Howling Bells" supporting by the gonna be huge this summer "Joy Formidable" plus the hotly tipped "Chew Lips" as support also ... Its gonna be a cool night at the Norwich Arts Centre especially with the gig selling out 2 weeks ago... Good Times ...
Howling Bells - Low Happening
Joy Formidable - Austere ..the original Video .. ( poor-ish sound)...
Video is very cool have a watch
Video is very cool have a watch
Chew Lips - Twin galaxies and Solo
8.3.09
Southport , Harrogate & Hucknall at Home
Catch up time .... Lets see how the memory is
Southport ... well a good battle and a well earned point that helped towards survival ... can't remember too much about the game but i seem to sort of think that we should of put away early chances but a draw was a fair result.
Harrogate ... An abject last 15 minutes meant that we threw away the points when they should of being long secured... Lots of positives apart from Murray losing it ( after several good displays ) in the last ten minutes & being rooted to the spot for the free kick , Chapman showing why his recent departure is not a loss when he again conceded a free kick in a dangerous position..This is the game when Webb lost Joe Francis for the club by slating him in the dressing room for not passing to Mitchell to maybe make the score 3-0... and then following this up in the radio later .... Management skills ?? Guess the defending and goalkeeping were adequate then !!
Hucknall..... Thanks to whoever woke me up when the game ended ?
A quote after this game in the press was that as long as he was manager at the club then Francis would still be at athe club...
Is our manager a Man of his Word ?
Gaslight Anthem
Gaslight Anthem played in Norwich last Monday along without support from Frank Turner and The Polar Bear club ...
Polar Bear club were good in there own way but in truth i missed half of the set getting there late and getting a beer ... Frank was on his own and played a storming set ....He deserves to be huge and the third LP out later in the year may will be his launching pad ...Check him out on YouTube or google ...Quality... He is also at loads of festivals and has a full tour in October ... Cambridge Junction being our nearest date on Oct 23rd.
Gaslight Anthem were pure rock n roll .... A band who looked like they were enjoying every second of being on stage,playing tunes that were sing along , danceable and oozing with quality ... This is another band that deserve much bigger stage ...and not just the lazy comparisons to the utterly shit Killers .. Good times
We Came To Dance
Apologies
Firstly apologies for the blog going off line for a few weeks ... I initially took it off so that i did not get involved in any arguments / discussions over the Chinn affair and the perilous state of the clubs finances .. Much of what has been said has been wholly inaccurate and i did not wish to play a part in this .
I am now back and will catch up on the last few weeks games and add my two Penney towards what has happened and where i think we should go forward ..
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