Philly The Kid

I have to say, that looks like something out of a bad episode of The Apprentice..... You can just imagine Alan Sugar lambasting project leader Jon for his amateurish and poorly thought out concept....

SL won't lose anything. The club's budget will lose the million. You see, it's a double edged sword. Whilst I fully agree that withholding your season ticket renewal sends a message, and a powerful one at that, such is the decline in SL's interest in the club, it means he won't underwrite the losses like he used to. I think he will simply order the clubs playing budget to be adjusted accordingly. When we then clamour for quality signings, they will simply say there is insufficient money in the budget to accommodate those signings and we'll be back to bargain basement freebies. I think the supposed war chest people speak of is a red herring, certainly in terms of transfers. I think the bulk of it will be used to offset losses. We may get the quality forward we've been promised and one or two others but anyone who thinks we've got a transfer fighting fund of £25m is, frankly deluded. I don't have a season ticket as work patterns prevent me from going regularly but if I did, I'd be renewing but demonstrating. Or, just not going. Anything really, but withholding the money the club needs badly to compete is understandable but ill-judged imho. Neither Tinnion or the Lansdowns are going anywhere soon which is the real crux of the problem.

I don't think he'll get the sack this season (Unless we were in real danger of relegation) simply because the pressure all goes back on the owners and Tins who've led us down this road. They won't admit failure. I think they'll say that he deserves a full pre season with some new faces specifically recruited to suit his style of play (Whatever that is) and he'll then get 10 games. There will be be exits and incomings, I don't think Conway will stay and I'd be surprised if there aren't 3 or 4 out the door also. The incomings (In addition to those already planned) are the key. If he loses the first 5 he's gone and if he gets us off to a good start then confidence will grow and who knows what could happen. My worst fear is we win a couple lose a couple a draw a few, that doesn't do anything for progression and leaves us back where we are. Bit like the Chinese water torture. FWIW, I don't think he's the right fit here, he possibly could be with an experienced director of football who knows what he's doing but the tri party structure of JL, tins and Manning doesn't work. There's very little proper football experience there. Coaching is one thing, running a championship club is quite another.

He did!!! - "The great John Atyeo..."

And certain posters on here enjoying a large slice of humble pie...

Already a topic for discussion.

Fair enough, I was given to understand (Probably incorrectly) that a foreign club and it's @£300k and English club up to £1.5M.

What happened about the Massengo compo? Have we had that or is there a deal to done there? I read I think upwards of £1M in compo as it was an English club so maybe the deal could be structured in the same way it was with Brownhill/Wells....

And we should have won as well. We've got a top 6 squad which should be competing at the right end of the table..... remember?

I let my season ticket go when stadia became all seater. I always felt the atmosphere became diluted and having been spoilt by the old first division days where you were packed in, swaying around and getting the crush when we scored was all part of the thrill of going. For me it all became a bit too sanitised, you suddenly had to mind your P's&Q's! I don't think football will ever be the same as the modern way isn't the blood n' guts it used to be, something which made you want to stand. Tippy tappy football is fine on the telly but live doesn't get my pulse racing! Won't be renewing purely because I can't justify the outlay. Shame because when your team's playing well and the football's exciting it's much easier to justify against the other outgoings.

Yeah I could be wrong or misheard. The discussion on the day was about the numbers of managers sacked at that time and their compo for going. can't remember who the bloke was but he said they were working towards a common template.

I'm sure I heard on Talksport a while ago that the standard was one year's salary on termination. Obviously this can probably vary in an upward direction but I'm sure some bloke from the LMA said it was a years money.

What a presumptuous and ill considered response! My laughing emoji relates entirely to SL's reaction to whenever Warnock's been mentioned to him in fans forums. He's about the last person (along with Hollowhead) that SL would let anywhere near the club. Let's be honest, with their track record of appointments anything is possible but appointing someone who would've taken us to the PL when we should've appointed him is about as laughable as it gets.

There's bound to be a few ITK posters on the Oxford forum!!!!

Let's hope he's not flying out of Hamburg then!!!