Southampton Gull wrote:
No more silly than you thinking you have more rights because you supported them when you were a little boy, as if that makes any difference to anyone except you. The club is a business and in that sense the analogy is more appropriate than you thinking you have rights based on your length of time as a customer. You have no more rights than Auntie Gladys who has just moved to the Bay from London and wants to take in a game or two and maybe pull a bloke like Brucie. She is a customer just the same as you are.
Except I didn't say anything of the sort. I didn't say I had any rights. I do have opinions, though. The new people have the "right" to change our colours to red and white stripes if they so pleased. I would like to think that a great many of us would voice our opposition to such a thing. I'd also like to think that our new owners would listen to us. Your words imply that we shouldn't have any say in something like that because we're just customers and we can just find another club who play in yellow.
My primary objection to your analogy is that football is only a business in a very basic sense. Especially at our level. The majority of us on this forum aren't just customers. I certainly wasn't a Torquay United customer when I went to Bromley or to Gateshead. The hundreds of us who regularly go to away matches don't go to put money into Torquay United. With your analogy, we went to Sainsbury's car park with a giant Tesco banner celebrating a 20% off cat food promotion. Hence "silly". Plus, if the owners aren't up to scratch, Auntie Gladys might go to Bideford AFC to get her Brucie Bonus!
And to be very clear, I have no issues with the new owners. I look forward to hearing what they have to say.
In terms of support I don't disagree with you at all, however the business side of the club is something we have no control over and my point is that calling for statements and meetings with the prospective new owners is premature to say the least. In that sense my analogy is correct. Once the takeover is complete then crack on and request what you like. For now it's purely the normal state for any business in contractual discussions with potential new owners.
Some of you want to hear from a company that are buying another company before they've completed buying said company. It doesn't work like that whether you all throw your toys out of the pram or not.
Get real, you won't hear from them until the takeover is complete no matter how much whining you do. (Not aimed at you personally, Chris, just those sharing your views )
Forever likes this, exactly what I've been trying to say.
Forever likes this, exactly what I've been trying to say.
