posted Feb 8, 2008

Football is a business and this business is failing. No one bleats when a bakery closes or a courier company has to sell its vans off. Get over it.

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posted Feb 8, 2008

Yeah, WayOutLondonWest, but:

1. You did go into administration to avoid paying creditors
2. You did carry on buying players (notably Dan Shittu when a mysterious benefactor suddenly stumped up £250k)
3. You had no points deducted; and
4. You were one of the main reasons why the 10 point deduction rule was introduced.

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posted Feb 8, 2008

As a Swindon fan, I really hope things work out for Bournemouth. It's an awful time for the club and its supporters. What riles even more, is that the FA are to rake in £240m if PL games are played abroad. How about that £240m being dished out amongst lower league clubs so that they don't have to face the indignity of administration?
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Because that's communism, isn't it?

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posted Feb 8, 2008

As a Liverpool fan who has seen quite a few Bournemouth games (family live down there) i wish the club all the very best in sorting this out. However its a sad indicment of english football that the PL make millions and millions and cant help out the smaller clubs. It sickens me that the PL (including my club) cant or WONT do a thing to help the FL clubs. Fat cats getting fatter. As a personal protest im about to cancel my subscription to SkySports...if the PL wont help they wont get my money.

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posted Feb 8, 2008

I think the BBC website sums it's own attitude and that of the higher echelons of football up nicely...

Ferguson's a bit upset about not being told that he might have to go abroad on holiday at the end of the season where his club might make $10 million...

Micah Richards has signed a new deal at Man City probably for £40,000 + a week...

Yakubu turns up late after his team is knocked out of the African Nations Cup and is left out of the side for Saturday's game...

Oh yeah sorry forgot to mention that Bouremouth have gone in to administration...

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posted Feb 8, 2008

Teams like Bournemouth are forced into administration because of the flow-on effect of ridiculous wages being paid in the Premier League. Teams relegated from the PL import those wages into the Championship with their parachute payments and the result is that inevitably clubs have to pay more than they can really afford to keep players that will make them competitive. The alternative is repeated relegation and ultimately non-league football or even extinction.
English football is in grave danger of dying because the rich clubs are exorbitantly rich while the poor are getting poorer. Until now the big clubs have needed the lower division clubs to keep the production line of young players going. But do they now?
Maybe soon we will have a premier league made up only of foreign players and no lower divisions whatsoever.
In the past small clubs could keep afloat by selling their best players to the big boys but now, with short-term contracts, players can move almost at will without a big fee being involved, exacerbating the financial difficulties of the smaller clubs.
It's time for the football authorities that a fair chunk of the vast amount of money being poured into the Premiership needs to find its way down to the lower levels or English, and I mean English, football will die.

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posted Feb 8, 2008

My very first live football match was Bournemouth v Lincoln City in April 1981. My dad drove me down there (we lived near Andover then) and I was really happy to see the Imps in action (and a 0-1 win!). A typical small town friendly club.
Keep battling Cherries! The Imps almost went bust ten years ago but we pulled through (and later got beat by you at the Millenium stadium!). All the best.

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posted Feb 8, 2008

I think the best way for lower league clubs is for them to go back to the old version of the league i.e. Division 2/3 North & South that way clubs with lower incomes can reduce the costs of travel & improve crowds as there would be more local derby's.

The conference has North & South League as does the The Johnstones paint Trophy & that is done for a reason to improve the size of the crowds.

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posted Feb 9, 2008

Thank god, sorry Bournemouth fans but if you and Luton had been financially stable Millwall would have had no chance of staying up this season!!!

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posted Feb 9, 2008

leeds fan living and born in bournemouth, pick yourselves up and never lose sight of you pride your passion and hope........

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