Sometimes it's hard to know whether a Franchise customer really believes the tosh they spout or are just lying to try to curry favour or impress. Take this delusional nut:
"It's that factor that ensures we're so well run off the pitch and ensures that we don't take risks financially (we certainly don't mortgage our future on a doomed WC2018 bid like some clubs. I think we stretched to a champagne reception and a couple of photo-calls) . We know we'd be the last club to be able to get the collection buckets out across the country if we were ever to hit real trouble and it's that "us against them" factor that ensures the fanbase continues to grow strengthen it's resolve. We just feed on the hatred."
Let's take it piece by piece to see just how totally this falls apart when you actually look at the facts.
"It's that factor that ensures we're so well run off the pitch and ensures that we don't take risks financially..."
A club that has never made a profit, that has lost a bare minimum of £1.5m per year and usually much more, that is over £10m in debt and has a massive bank loan of £5.5m. Makes you wonder what this loon would consider taking risks financially!
"we
certainly don't mortgage our future on a doomed WC2018 bid like some
clubs. I think we stretched to a champagne reception and a couple of
photo-calls"
Funny how that stadium that was going to get a third tier for the World Cup still doesn't even have its second tier finished then. Since Franchise has basically been insolvent and entirely dependent for its survival on money from the supermarket property deal and now the bank, it really is beyond belief that this individual thinks it's other clubs that have a problem and not Franchise. And what is a £5.5m bank loan if not a mortgaged future?
"We know we'd be the last club to be able to get the collection buckets out across the country if we were ever to hit real trouble"
"We know we'd be the last club to be able to get the collection buckets out across the country if we were ever to hit real trouble"
Wow! A statement that actually resembles reality. Except for one thing - Franchise has been in "real trouble" from the start. Every set of accounts has had to state that the club is only a going concern because the parent company agrees to keep funding the huge losses on a year by year basis. Presumably this poster thinks "real trouble" isn't losing millions of pounds, but having the bank say 'We'd like our £5.5m back please'. That's due to happen in July 2012, so the club had better sell some more players or the parent company sell some more land by then.
"it's that "us against them" factor that ensures the fanbase continues to grow strengthen it's resolve. We just feed on the hatred."
"it's that "us against them" factor that ensures the fanbase continues to grow strengthen it's resolve. We just feed on the hatred."
Except the customer base isn't growing - it shrunk rapidly last season and has stayed that way so far this season, despite being high in the table. Indeed the attendances have fallen for the last two years - 2009-10,551, 2010-10,290, 2011-8,512 http://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attnclub/mkd.htm So is it a lie or plain delusion on the poster's part? Pure wishful thinking in denial of the facts I'd say. They desperately want these things to be true, but a brief look at the financial facts and the attendances show it's hollow words with no basis in fact.
As for feeding on the hatred? Ha! That's the most wishful thinking of all. Remember, Franchise is still attended by a higher proportion of children than any other Football League team - something like a third of their season tickets - so all this talk of feeding off the hatred is simply nonsense. Either that or Franchise customers will be bringing up some very odd youngsters indeed!
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