The FC United Season 2016-17 Thread

Originally Posted by ryanMUFC

Surprises me also. The club screams amateur football club. It seems like they have unskilled volunteers occupying a lot of roles within the club. From the outside, it seems to be ran by cretins and amateurs. It's like some of them stopped going to United because they felt like it was their chance to become relevant.

Ideologues running things never seems to work because they won't compromise. The place has always been more obsessed with being a virtue-signalling political movement rather than a football club, more obsessed with sticking 2 fingers up at the establishment and patting themselves on the back for not being manchester united.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Ideologues running things never seems to work because they won't compromise. The place has always been more obsessed with being a virtue-signalling political movement rather than a football club, more obsessed with sticking 2 fingers up at the establishment and patting themselves on the back for not being manchester united.

That's honestly really wide of the mark...

They've been skanked by a regime that tried to oust any objection to being 'sound' again..

To me it just looks like the reality is that running a financially stable football club above a certain level requires getting into bed with the suits to a certain extent, which presumably they've been reluctant to do, and are now panicking at the position it's left them in as a result.

I know £#%&! all about it though tbf

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Ideologues running things never seems to work because they won't compromise. The place has always been more obsessed with being a virtue-signalling political movement rather than a football club, more obsessed with sticking 2 fingers up at the establishment and patting themselves on the back for not being manchester united.

That's really not what is was like at first though. It was just a laugh. Everyone was in a good mood. As bent as it sounds the main reason I kept going was the chants were really funny. I think the rot set in when some goons started a song about Andy Walsh to the tune of the Frog Chorus.

Originally Posted by Knockers

That's really not what is was like at first though. It was just a laugh. Everyone was in a good mood. As bent as it sounds the main reason I kept going was the chants were really funny. I think the rot set in when some goons started a song about Andy Walsh to the tune of the Frog Chorus.

That's £#%&!ing tickled me....(we must of bumped into each other knockers, I might be thick here)

Went myself from the start 2/3 years...been V sporadically since

That frog song.....

Originally Posted by Bunker Buster

That's honestly really wide of the mark...

They've been skanked by a regime that tried to oust any objection to being 'sound' again..

It's exactly that. People can put whatever slant on it but how certain people are turning up at games without being attacked is beyond me with the amount of people's money that is now at risk.

Originally Posted by Ethers

To me it just looks like the reality is that running a financially stable football club above a certain level requires getting into bed with the suits to a certain extent, which presumably they've been reluctant to do, and are now panicking at the position it's left them in as a result.

I know £#%&! all about it though tbf

Feels like that to me albeit you kind of have to take the word of those closest to the club. But that kind of statement describes the normal financial position of probably all but the top flight clubs. Bury is contantly £#%&!ed financially for example. The only obvious potential mis-management bit is to have that level of support and it still be as financially stretched.

Originally Posted by forwardirektion

It's exactly that. People can put whatever slant on it but how certain people are turning up at games without being attacked is beyond me with the amount of people's money that is now at risk.

Tell me about it......

Wish I could go into it all but the threads have ears..

Originally Posted by Knockers

That's really not what is was like at first though. It was just a laugh. Everyone was in a good mood. As bent as it sounds the main reason I kept going was the chants were really funny. I think the rot set in when some goons started a song about Andy Walsh to the tune of the Frog Chorus.

£#%&! off!?

Originally Posted by Knockers

I went quite regularly in the first few years but it would never occur to me to bother these days. Never seen or set foot in Broadhurst Park. Have FC done any work in persuading fairweather, non-committed cats like my bad self to attend games? I would've thought the blindingly obvious thing to do is target the matches that don't clash with MUFC games and go demented on twitter and facebook getting reds to give it a try. I've never seen anything like that.

It goes without saying that all the financial, political stuff is a gigantic turn-off to people who just want to have a drink and get out of the house with their mates on a Saturday.

What this man said.

Originally Posted by Bunker Buster

That's £#%&!ing tickled me....(we must of bumped into each other knockers, I might be thick here)

Went myself from the start 2/3 years...been V sporadically since

That frog song.....

Think we did. I used to go with Hong Kong Pete and I'm positive I remember one Sat post-game in one of the pubs near Gigg we were in company with a bearded lad who was about to go away with the army. Did your mrs come sometimes...? Thrillspills etc was there, I know his face.

Originally Posted by Knockers

That's really not what is was like at first though. It was just a laugh. Everyone was in a good mood. As bent as it sounds the main reason I kept going was the chants were really funny. I think the rot set in when some goons started a song about Andy Walsh to the tune of the Frog Chorus.

To me it always seem the business of the actual football was about 4th on the list of importance for the place. Nobody ever talks about the £#%&!ing shit on a stick football it's all about "oooh look at us singing and standing up....oooh everyone was having a laugh with their mates for thruppence......look at how many of us there are, acknowledge us, give us internet fan-cred...oooh flares.....you couldn't do this at THE GLAZERDOME, no way, not like us cool socialists here"

No sympathy at all. Now get on the £#%&!ing phone to wonga.com. (no you obviously)

Originally Posted by Jack Duckworth

£#%&! off!?

Andy Walsh
Andy Walsh
He doesn't make promises that are all false
He's FC
And so are we
We all stand together

Originally Posted by Bunker Buster

Tell me about it......

Wish I could go into it all but the threads have ears..

It's literally millionso pounds of people's savings that were sold as safe in the community shares. I'd be massively surprised if people ever see a penny back

Originally Posted by Knockers

Andy Walsh
Andy Walsh
He doesn't make promises that are all false
He's FC
And so are we
We all stand together

oh ffs

Originally Posted by Knockers

Andy Walsh
Andy Walsh
He doesn't make promises that are all false
He's FC
And so are we
We all stand together

had sympathy for you, but you deserve to go bust after that abomination.

Shocking stuff. The amount of money they've had coming in every other week, along with some huge cup money, unbelievable how they've got into this mess.

Originally Posted by Jack Duckworth

had sympathy for you, but you deserve to go bust after that abomination.

One of fowarders

Originally Posted by Jack Duckworth

had sympathy for you, but you deserve to go bust after that abomination.

Thought he was doing a good job when I penned it

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Ideologues running things never seems to work because they won't compromise. The place has always been more obsessed with being a virtue-signalling political movement rather than a football club, more obsessed with sticking 2 fingers up at the establishment and patting themselves on the back for not being manchester united.

its almost like the club and some (most?) supporters are happy with mediocrity as long as they can stick with the notion that they're rebellious and against the establishment.