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Title: Fleetwood Town
Post by: Campsall rover on January 30, 2023, 05:13:43 pm
They have just signed Stockley from Charlton and Marriott from Peterborough.
Don’t know what wages they are on but I thought Fleetwood had off loaded their biggest earners over the last 18 months.

They would both have been good signings for us.
Title: Re: Fleetwood Town
Post by: steve@dcfd on January 30, 2023, 05:42:08 pm
They have just signed Stockley from Charlton and Marriott from Peterborough.
Don’t know what wages they are on but I thought Fleetwood had off loaded their biggest earners over the last 18 months.

They would both have been good signings for us.

If we were league 1 we wouldn’t have signed them.
We need to be looking differently but we won’t our transfers this month have shown that.
Title: Re: Fleetwood Town
Post by: bpoolrover on January 30, 2023, 06:36:22 pm
Fleetwood have a local owner who has spare money and doesn’t mind spending it, he will never get any of it back, allegedly a bit of a dodgy character thou
Title: Re: Fleetwood Town
Post by: vaya on January 30, 2023, 06:39:42 pm
Fleetwood have a local owner who has spare money and doesn’t mind spending it, he will never get any of it back, allegedly a bit of a dodgy character thou

He's currently on trial for money laundering. I seem to remember reading a while ago the football club owed tens of millions in loans to other companies owned by him.

Whether he has spare money and will never see it back is somewhat questionable.
Title: Re: Fleetwood Town
Post by: roversdude on January 30, 2023, 06:47:36 pm
Fleetwood have a local owner who has spare money and doesn’t mind spending it, he will never get any of it back, allegedly a bit of a dodgy character thou

He's currently on trial for money laundering. I seem to remember reading a while ago the football club owed tens of millions in loans to other companies owned by him.

Whether he has spare money and will never see it back is somewhat questionable.

Hmmm would rather have our owner it is going to end in tears at  Fleetwood
Title: Re: Fleetwood Town
Post by: scawsby steve on January 30, 2023, 07:02:52 pm
They have just signed Stockley from Charlton and Marriott from Peterborough.
Don’t know what wages they are on but I thought Fleetwood had off loaded their biggest earners over the last 18 months.

They would both have been good signings for us.

If we were league 1 we wouldn’t have signed them.
We need to be looking differently but we won’t our transfers this month have shown that.

To be fair, Steve, I think Brown and Lavery looked pretty good at Mansfield. I don't know about the others; we'll have to wait and see.

We all know now that it's good defenders we're short of.
Title: Re: Fleetwood Town
Post by: Campsall rover on January 30, 2023, 07:10:26 pm
Fleetwood have a local owner who has spare money and doesn’t mind spending it, he will never get any of it back, allegedly a bit of a dodgy character thou

He's currently on trial for money laundering. I seem to remember reading a while ago the football club owed tens of millions in loans to other companies owned by him.

Whether he has spare money and will never see it back is somewhat questionable.

Hmmm would rather have our owner it is going to end in tears at  Fleetwood
I have been saying that for quite some time roversdude. 
The fact is they are a very very small town living in the shadow of Blackpool.
They will never get gates of 6.000 even  if they were in the championship ( not because of the capacity of the ground ) They just do not have the population and Blackpool fans will always remain Blackpool fans.
They will only pull in an extra couple of thousand floating fans at best.

So the owner would have to keep pumping in millions every season to keep them from melt down.
It will only last so long before it all goes belly up because he is going to either run out of money, be borrowed up to the eye balls or both.
Both is the most likely scenario.

Yes there are an awful lot of Rovers fans that need to be careful what they wish for.
Title: Re: Fleetwood Town
Post by: Upton Rover on January 30, 2023, 07:16:04 pm
Some jealousy there I think
Title: Re: Fleetwood Town
Post by: normal rules on January 30, 2023, 07:24:02 pm
Enjoy it while you can Fleetwood.
It’s only going to end one way.
It’s just a matter of time.
Title: Re: Fleetwood Town
Post by: roversdude on January 30, 2023, 07:26:07 pm
Think there will be a few more too besides Fleetwood
Title: Re: Fleetwood Town
Post by: Campsall rover on January 30, 2023, 07:30:44 pm
Some jealousy there I think
What on earth are you talking about Upton. Please explain why on earth you think I am jealous of Fleetwood town.
I can promise you I would not swop with them if they were in the League 1 promotion places.
Any success they have had and may get will be very short lived and they will come crashing down much faster than there rise.
No I would much rather have our business model because long term it will give us the opportunity for sustained success on the pitch. 
Title: Re: Fleetwood Town
Post by: donnievic on January 30, 2023, 07:56:17 pm
He will be getting the money on the his other company hiring out on of the rooms in the stand
Title: Re: Fleetwood Town
Post by: DonnyBazR0ver on January 30, 2023, 08:38:57 pm
Just a couple of snippets giving a glimpse into Fleetwood Finances from 2021/22. Can't see any further reporting of the alleged fraud case.

https://mobile.twitter.com/KieranMaguire/status/1440681467135205376

https://avftt.co.uk/index.php?threads/fleetwoods-accounts-for-20-21.30406/

Title: Re: Fleetwood Town
Post by: Chris Black come back on January 30, 2023, 08:48:44 pm
Laughable gearing - a wage bill in 2020/21 of £6.2m on average gates of around 3,000.
Title: Re: Fleetwood Town
Post by: Lesonthewest on January 30, 2023, 09:39:38 pm
Good luck to them, showing some real ambition.
Title: Re: Fleetwood Town
Post by: bpoolrover on January 30, 2023, 10:03:42 pm
Just a couple of snippets giving a glimpse into Fleetwood Finances from 2021/22. Can't see any further reporting of the alleged fraud case.

https://mobile.twitter.com/KieranMaguire/status/1440681467135205376

https://avftt.co.uk/index.php?threads/fleetwoods-accounts-for-20-21.30406/


think the trial is on at the minute but could be mistaken
Title: Re: Fleetwood Town
Post by: bpoolrover on January 30, 2023, 10:05:11 pm
I think he must have quite a bit of cash as he was the front runner to buy Blackpool
Title: Re: Fleetwood Town
Post by: dickos1 on January 31, 2023, 05:22:41 am
I think it’s more stupidity rather than ambition and eventually they’ll end up the way of bury or Scunthorpe
Title: Re: Fleetwood Town
Post by: normal rules on January 31, 2023, 07:25:18 am
Boom. And then bust.
Title: Re: Fleetwood Town
Post by: steve@dcfd on January 31, 2023, 08:38:02 am
Same old cliches
By the way Scunthorpe didn’t overspend the owner stopped spending.
Title: Re: Fleetwood Town
Post by: silent majority on January 31, 2023, 09:38:25 am
Same old cliches
By the way Scunthorpe didn’t overspend the owner stopped spending.

Nope! They overspent for many years and then they tried to cut back when it was too late.
Title: Re: Fleetwood Town
Post by: steve@dcfd on January 31, 2023, 12:02:24 pm
Same old cliches
By the way Scunthorpe didn’t overspend the owner stopped spending.

Nope! They overspent for many years and then they tried to cut back when it was too late.
They are still business just and will endeavour to recover.
Financially we are not in that position but on the field and level of players we have
is declining we all hope we don’t end up going out of the league. Because we won’t have the financial overspending as an excuse.
Title: Re: Fleetwood Town
Post by: Campsall rover on January 31, 2023, 04:10:35 pm
Same old cliches
By the way Scunthorpe didn’t overspend the owner stopped spending.

Nope! They overspent for many years and then they tried to cut back when it was too late.
They are still business just and will endeavour to recover.
Financially we are not in that position but on the field and level of players we have
is declining we all hope we don’t end up going out of the league. Because we won’t have the financial overspending as an excuse.
Steve we are not going to go out of the league.  You are rightly concerned about where we are I understand that but we are far more likely to finish 7th than 7th from bottom so finishing 23rd or 24th would be catastrophic from where we are points wise at present. It ain’t going to happen.

Next season we should be much stronger. Have a little patience and let the manager get on with it.
This season we are going to be inconsistent, just accept it.  As long as we start to see an definite improvement of performance  over the last 20 games then that’s what’s important.
Title: Re: Fleetwood Town
Post by: bpoolrover on January 31, 2023, 04:19:12 pm
Same old cliches
By the way Scunthorpe didn’t overspend the owner stopped spending.

Nope! They overspent for many years and then they tried to cut back when it was too late.
They are still business just and will endeavour to recover.
Financially we are not in that position but on the field and level of players we have
is declining we all hope we don’t end up going out of the league. Because we won’t have the financial overspending as an excuse.
Steve we are not going to go out of the league.  You are rightly concerned about where we are I understand that but we are far more likely to finish 7th than 7th from bottom so finishing 23rd or 24th would be catastrophic from where we are points wise at present. It ain’t going to happen.

Next season we should be much stronger. Have a little patience and let the manager get on with it.
This season we are going to be inconsistent, just accept it.  As long as we start to see an definite improvement of performance  over the last 20 games then that’s what’s important.
out of interest why should we be stronger next year? We have 12 players out of contract amd will probably sell less season tickets than this year so have a reduced budget
Title: Re: Fleetwood Town
Post by: Campsall rover on January 31, 2023, 04:31:28 pm
Same old cliches
By the way Scunthorpe didn’t overspend the owner stopped spending.

Nope! They overspent for many years and then they tried to cut back when it was too late.
They are still business just and will endeavour to recover.
Financially we are not in that position but on the field and level of players we have
is declining we all hope we don’t end up going out of the league. Because we won’t have the financial overspending as an excuse.
Steve we are not going to go out of the league.  You are rightly concerned about where we are I understand that but we are far more likely to finish 7th than 7th from bottom so finishing 23rd or 24th would be catastrophic from where we are points wise at present. It ain’t going to happen.

Next season we should be much stronger. Have a little patience and let the manager get on with it.
This season we are going to be inconsistent, just accept it.  As long as we start to see an definite improvement of performance  over the last 20 games then that’s what’s important.
out of interest why should we be stronger next year? We have 12 players out of contract amd will probably sell less season tickets than this year so have a reduced budget
Let’s see then. I don’t have a crystal ball ( BB has one ).
Hopefully we keep the ones we want to keep and I suspect we will. Clear out the dead wood. Sign 4/5 good players in the summer. 

I am sure that’s the plan.  If all the out of contract players go then let them go. If they don’t want to play for us then they aren’t worth keeping. We would just have to recruit more players.
There are hundreds out of contract in the summer.

There is no way they will reduce the playing budget next season.
The fact we are now in the current healthy financial position means that won’t happen.

If the budget was reduced, then yes the Board are not interested in promotion and then we can justifiably have a serious moan.

The fact is of course they want promotion.

Do you seriously think either Wellens or Schofield would have taken the job if they thought the club had no ambition?
Do you think Copps would have entertained taking his current role if their was no ambition from the board?
Title: Re: Fleetwood Town
Post by: Upton Rover on January 31, 2023, 04:33:19 pm
Some jealousy there I think
What on earth are you talking about Upton. Please explain why on earth you think I am jealous of Fleetwood town.
I can promise you I would not swop with them if they were in the League 1 promotion places.
Any success they have had and may get will be very short lived and they will come crashing down much faster than there rise.
No I would much rather have our business model because long term it will give us the opportunity for sustained success on the pitch.
Our business model isn’t working though
Title: Re: Fleetwood Town
Post by: dickos1 on January 31, 2023, 04:41:05 pm
Same old cliches
By the way Scunthorpe didn’t overspend the owner stopped spending.

Scunthorpe massively overspent
Title: Re: Fleetwood Town
Post by: Campsall rover on January 31, 2023, 04:46:03 pm
Some jealousy there I think
What on earth are you talking about Upton. Please explain why on earth you think I am jealous of Fleetwood town.
I can promise you I would not swop with them if they were in the League 1 promotion places.
Any success they have had and may get will be very short lived and they will come crashing down much faster than there rise.
No I would much rather have our business model because long term it will give us the opportunity for sustained success on the pitch.
Our business model isn’t working though
Upton with all due respect, the business model IS WORKING.
The managerial appointments and player recruitment is the bit that has not worked. 
Crikey how many times does this have to be said by so many of us.

Hopefully we have now got it right with Copps and DS.  Give them time for crying out loud.
If we are not top 7 minimum by end of Nov 23 then start moaning because I promise you I will be more than moaning.
Title: Re: Fleetwood Town
Post by: DonnyBazR0ver on January 31, 2023, 04:46:49 pm
Some jealousy there I think
What on earth are you talking about Upton. Please explain why on earth you think I am jealous of Fleetwood town.
I can promise you I would not swop with them if they were in the League 1 promotion places.
Any success they have had and may get will be very short lived and they will come crashing down much faster than there rise.
No I would much rather have our business model because long term it will give us the opportunity for sustained success on the pitch.
Our business model isn’t working though

Debatable. The business model, the structure within the model then the people employed within the structure are all integral components.

The HoF and head coach structural element has not had enough time yet to bear fruit.
Title: Re: Fleetwood Town
Post by: bpoolrover on January 31, 2023, 05:00:49 pm
Same old cliches
By the way Scunthorpe didn’t overspend the owner stopped spending.

Nope! They overspent for many years and then they tried to cut back when it was too late.
They are still business just and will endeavour to recover.
Financially we are not in that position but on the field and level of players we have
is declining we all hope we don’t end up going out of the league. Because we won’t have the financial overspending as an excuse.
Steve we are not going to go out of the league.  You are rightly concerned about where we are I understand that but we are far more likely to finish 7th than 7th from bottom so finishing 23rd or 24th would be catastrophic from where we are points wise at present. It ain’t going to happen.

Next season we should be much stronger. Have a little patience and let the manager get on with it.
This season we are going to be inconsistent, just accept it.  As long as we start to see an definite improvement of performance  over the last 20 games then that’s what’s important.
out of interest why should we be stronger next year? We have 12 players out of contract amd will probably sell less season tickets than this year so have a reduced budget
Let’s see then. I don’t have a crystal ball ( BB has one ).
Hopefully we keep the ones we want to keep and I suspect we will. Clear out the dead wood. Sign 4/5 good players in the summer. 

I am sure that’s the plan.  If all the out of contract players go then let them go. If they don’t want to play for us then they aren’t worth keeping. We would just have to recruit more players.
There are hundreds out of contract in the summer.

There is no way they will reduce the playing budget next season.
The fact we are now in the current healthy financial position means that won’t happen.

If the budget was reduced, then yes the Board are not interested in promotion and then we can justifiably have a serious moan.

The fact is of course they want promotion.

Do you seriously think either Wellens or Schofield would have taken the job if they thought the club had no ambition?
Do you think Copps would have entertained taking his current role if their was no ambition from the board?
I’m normally quite optimistic during pre seasons, but the last couple of years has knocked yhat out of me, we need a massive rebuild we have lost more permanent signings than have made, we have not had a decent defensive midfielder for 3 years the only real defensive midfielder we have on the books has left for Bradford, one of the best right backs in this division has left us and been replaced by a loan signing, we have had several opportunities to rebuild a decent squad bus as wellens found he signed 3 players and all the money had gone
Title: Re: Fleetwood Town
Post by: Campsall rover on January 31, 2023, 05:22:02 pm
Same old cliches
By the way Scunthorpe didn’t overspend the owner stopped spending.

Nope! They overspent for many years and then they tried to cut back when it was too late.
They are still business just and will endeavour to recover.
Financially we are not in that position but on the field and level of players we have
is declining we all hope we don’t end up going out of the league. Because we won’t have the financial overspending as an excuse.
Steve we are not going to go out of the league.  You are rightly concerned about where we are I understand that but we are far more likely to finish 7th than 7th from bottom so finishing 23rd or 24th would be catastrophic from where we are points wise at present. It ain’t going to happen.

Next season we should be much stronger. Have a little patience and let the manager get on with it.
This season we are going to be inconsistent, just accept it.  As long as we start to see an definite improvement of performance  over the last 20 games then that’s what’s important.
out of interest why should we be stronger next year? We have 12 players out of contract amd will probably sell less season tickets than this year so have a reduced budget
Let’s see then. I don’t have a crystal ball ( BB has one ).
Hopefully we keep the ones we want to keep and I suspect we will. Clear out the dead wood. Sign 4/5 good players in the summer. 

I am sure that’s the plan.  If all the out of contract players go then let them go. If they don’t want to play for us then they aren’t worth keeping. We would just have to recruit more players.
There are hundreds out of contract in the summer.

There is no way they will reduce the playing budget next season.
The fact we are now in the current healthy financial position means that won’t happen.

If the budget was reduced, then yes the Board are not interested in promotion and then we can justifiably have a serious moan.

The fact is of course they want promotion.

Do you seriously think either Wellens or Schofield would have taken the job if they thought the club had no ambition?
Do you think Copps would have entertained taking his current role if their was no ambition from the board?
I’m normally quite optimistic during pre seasons, but the last couple of years has knocked yhat out of me, we need a massive rebuild we have lost more permanent signings than have made, we have not had a decent defensive midfielder for 3 years the only real defensive midfielder we have on the books has left for Bradford, one of the best right backs in this division has left us and been replaced by a loan signing, we have had several opportunities to rebuild a decent squad bus as wellens found he signed 3 players and all the money had gone
Don’t you think Wellens would have asked or been told what budget he had when he took the job.

Title: Re: Fleetwood Town
Post by: bpoolrover on January 31, 2023, 05:44:54 pm
Same old cliches
By the way Scunthorpe didn’t overspend the owner stopped spending.

Nope! They overspent for many years and then they tried to cut back when it was too late.
They are still business just and will endeavour to recover.
Financially we are not in that position but on the field and level of players we have
is declining we all hope we don’t end up going out of the league. Because we won’t have the financial overspending as an excuse.
Steve we are not going to go out of the league.  You are rightly concerned about where we are I understand that but we are far more likely to finish 7th than 7th from bottom so finishing 23rd or 24th would be catastrophic from where we are points wise at present. It ain’t going to happen.

Next season we should be much stronger. Have a little patience and let the manager get on with it.
This season we are going to be inconsistent, just accept it.  As long as we start to see an definite improvement of performance  over the last 20 games then that’s what’s important.
out of interest why should we be stronger next year? We have 12 players out of contract amd will probably sell less season tickets than this year so have a reduced budget
Let’s see then. I don’t have a crystal ball ( BB has one ).
Hopefully we keep the ones we want to keep and I suspect we will. Clear out the dead wood. Sign 4/5 good players in the summer. 

I am sure that’s the plan.  If all the out of contract players go then let them go. If they don’t want to play for us then they aren’t worth keeping. We would just have to recruit more players.
There are hundreds out of contract in the summer.

There is no way they will reduce the playing budget next season.
The fact we are now in the current healthy financial position means that won’t happen.

If the budget was reduced, then yes the Board are not interested in promotion and then we can justifiably have a serious moan.

The fact is of course they want promotion.

Do you seriously think either Wellens or Schofield would have taken the job if they thought the club had no ambition?
Do you think Copps would have entertained taking his current role if their was no ambition from the board?
I’m normally quite optimistic during pre seasons, but the last couple of years has knocked yhat out of me, we need a massive rebuild we have lost more permanent signings than have made, we have not had a decent defensive midfielder for 3 years the only real defensive midfielder we have on the books has left for Bradford, one of the best right backs in this division has left us and been replaced by a loan signing, we have had several opportunities to rebuild a decent squad bus as wellens found he signed 3 players and all the money had gone
Don’t you think Wellens would have asked or been told what budget he had when he took the job.


yes but he was probably told our injured players would return very soon, once it was clear that they were out for months he was still left with no money
Title: Re: Fleetwood Town
Post by: Upton Rover on January 31, 2023, 06:16:10 pm
Some jealousy there I think
What on earth are you talking about Upton. Please explain why on earth you think I am jealous of Fleetwood town.
I can promise you I would not swop with them if they were in the League 1 promotion places.
Any success they have had and may get will be very short lived and they will come crashing down much faster than there rise.
No I would much rather have our business model because long term it will give us the opportunity for sustained success on the pitch.
Our business model isn’t working though
Upton with all due respect, the business model IS WORKING.
The managerial appointments and player recruitment is the bit that has not worked. 
Crikey how many times does this have to be said by so many of us.

Hopefully we have now got it right with Copps and DS.  Give them time for crying out loud.
If we are not top 7 minimum by end of Nov 23 then start moaning because I promise you I will be more than moaning.
As much as I like Copps, it’s simply not working, if anyone believes he’s doing a good job, then they’re incorrect
Title: Re: Fleetwood Town
Post by: BobG on January 31, 2023, 06:23:02 pm
Thus spake Zarathrustra....

BobG
Title: Re: Fleetwood Town
Post by: Leedsrover on January 31, 2023, 07:42:26 pm
I think both Wellens and Schofield took the job because they were unemployed!
Title: Re: Fleetwood Town
Post by: DonnyBazR0ver on January 31, 2023, 09:13:13 pm
So were Ferguson, McCann & Moore.