Have we gone about as far as we can go ?

[Banksy]

Quietly musing on the Harley dabacle , I wonder if we've now reached the heights as far as our league status is concerned. We've done very well lately and if we can establish ourselves in League 1 then this is , of course , an excellent result. However , because of our limited finances and our Westcountry location can we really expect any more now. It's not that we don't have the ambition , just our circumstances won't permit it . I started thinking about this because of our inability ( can be a good thing in some ways I know ) to be able to offer players anything other than short term contracts. This has obviously backfired badly on us with Harley and I wonder how many other key players are on our books now whose contracts also run out in the near future and who won't negotiate a fresh one. In other words , given this is the way that we are forced to operate , how can we ever expect to build up a stable team capable of making the push on to the Championship. As soon as a good combination ( almost this year with just a few tweeks ) comes along it's broken up. And we also have to sell good players like Moxey and Friend to balance our books which adds to the equation . Then, I suppose it's the same for 75% of the rest of the teams in the league , no way round it I guess.

 

[Alistair20000]

Quietly musing on the Harley dabacle , I wonder if we've now reached the heights as far as our league status is concerned. We've done very well lately and if we can establish ourselves in League 1 then this is , of course , an excellent result. However , because of our limited finances and our Westcountry location can we really expect any more now. It's not that we don't have the ambition , just our circumstances won't permit it . I started thinking about this because of our inability ( can be a good thing in some ways I know ) to be able to offer players anything other than short term contracts. This has obviously backfired badly on us with Harley and I wonder how many other key players are on our books now whose contracts also run out in the near future and who won't negotiate a fresh one. In other words , given this is the way that we are forced to operate , how can we ever expect to build up a stable team capable of making the push on to the Championship. As soon as a good combination ( almost this year with just a few tweeks ) comes along it's broken up. And we also have to sell good players like Moxey and Friend to balance our books which adds to the equation . Then, I suppose it's the same for 75% of the rest of the teams in the league , no way round it I guess.

Looking on the other thread at the list of players likely to be out of contract by the summer the 2011/12 starting line up may be unfamiliar. Bertie may need to defer cooking the crepes.

 

[greenawayr]

The positive to come from this is that seemingly, the club are happy to miss out on a transfer fee. Whether the book balancers had a say in this I don't know, but not many occasions in years gone by can I remember us turning down an offer because we didn't need the money.

 

[Lister]

Quietly musing on the Harley dabacle ,

Why is it a debacle?

 

[wemissmoxey]

The positive to come from this is that seemingly, the club are happy to miss out on a transfer fee. Whether the book balancers had a say in this I don't know, but not many occasions in years gone by can I remember us turning down an offer because we didn't need the money.

I think we do need the money however Cheesedale wears the trousers around here and whatever he says seems to go.

 

[ecfc01]

I think we do need the money however Cheesedale wears the trousers around here and whatever he says seems to go.

What I say goes, Its time forget about that Ginger SheepShagger

 

[Alistair20000]

I think we do need the money however Cheesedale wears the trousers around here and whatever he says seems to go.

Andy Cole said the same. Would you say Double Gloucester ?

 

[BASH]

What I say goes, Its time forget about that Ginger SheepShagger insults already deary me :/

 

[DB9]

I think if Tis thought this he would have gone to another club by now, I believe he thinks he still has work to do here so until he moves and say this i reckon we could still one day go further

 

[Red & White Knight]

Andy Cole said the same

Andy Cole said what? and When?