Are TUFC Fans All Heartless?

I have read “Floodlit Dreams” albeit a few years ago and what I recall of it seems to more or less support what Dave says.

Before Ridley got involved the club was surviving o.k. by “cutting its cloth” but was not really going anywhere and would have been accused by some of “lacking ambition”. The parallel to our club would possibly be the Bateson regime.

Ridley came in with plans to shake the club up and reinvigorate it. He was accused by some of spending silly money and jeopardising the club’s finances, but the book explains the reasoning behind the plan. The money paid out was not as excessive as some believed. In the short-term, the club was operating at a fairly substantial loss but this was planned and covered by inward investment – new shares issued broadly covered the losses. The plan was that giving the club a kick-start would improve revenue to the point that a higher level of expenditure would be sustainable in the medium term without further investment. The parallel to our club would possibly be the current consortium who seem to have a plan that involves pumping money in initially, hoping that the club will become self-sustainable at a higher level of income and expenditure but with a fallback position of a managed retrenchment.

There was a power battle between Ridley and Martyn Harrison because Harrison had a bigger dream of pumping in much larger sums of money but did not really have a sustainable plan – although I assume Dave is suggesting that the fallback plan was to recover losses from the sale of land. I can’t remember how the politics unfolded, but Harrison’s vision – which would be far more appealing to those who don’t think these things through – won the day. I don’t think Harrison’s good intentions are questioned, but Ridley did warn that it would all end in tears. He was right.

I’m glad to see that it seems that the Terras have been saved. Of course they will now be a weaker team having lost a number of key players, but they should still be competitive and the fact that sometimes you meet a team on a high and sometimes one on a low is part of life. Fortunately, Rushden are unlikely to be involved in promotion or relegation issues so there has been no harm done where it matters. If one 9-0 drubbing is the price of Weymouth’s survival, it is a price worth paying.

If nothing had been sorted out, Weymouth could not have been allowed to continue taking 9-0 drubbings to the end of the season. A deal would have had to be done that they could have a place in Southern League SW Division (where Taunton and Truro currently operate) next season if they agreed to withdraw from the BSP now. That could have kept the club alive and allowed it to regroup without distorting relegation and promotion issues in the BSP.

Good to see that Weymouth only lost by two gaols away today and if they can get things sorted out on Monday, then not only will they be saved from going under, but will be able to have a team that will be more completive and should stop those moaning about them and shut them up for a while.

I think you are saying you agree ;D bloody college people using words I do not know Fonda was right to say that Bucks should not have been talking about Weymouth, it is down to our team and manager to win games and then no matter what happens with Weymouth, or the results of any of their games, we will be in the play-offs.

Just checked out the word


To exhibit similarity or likeness to.

even more confused now

stuartb, those long lonely nights on the hills of wales has made you a hard and heartless man no they will not be fielding a side that will be looking to get in the play-offs, but if the club is saved and they can bring in a some loan players, who might just get the team more completive, then they will have the close season to rebuild a proper team and the fans of the club will rejoice.