Gratters
11-01-2008, 13:59
A real shame that clubs aren't given a tad more protection to help them get out of the $$$$.
Maybe Franchise FC (MK Dons) is the future of football !
Maybe Franchise FC (MK Dons) is the future of football !
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BridgnorthWolf Inc
11-01-2008, 14:05
This really is disappointing. But what is the answer?..
Wolv3nsam
11-01-2008, 14:19
Shame, I think they're done for now to be honest..
Paul76
11-01-2008, 14:35
Sign them all up.
Wolv3nsam
11-01-2008, 14:42
Sign them all up.
Management, players or both?
Management, players or both?
Adrian_Monk
11-01-2008, 14:47
I'm glad they've gone. Their biggest success was depriving teams that play the game fairly of success in the 80s thanks to that awful plastic pitch they used to play on. After years of mismanagement why should they be protected like some kind of national institution. Good $$$$ing riddance.
The_Blade
11-01-2008, 14:58
Why should they have protection. They got themselves there.
The_Blade
11-01-2008, 14:58
I'd like that Bell player.
Wolv3nsam
11-01-2008, 14:59
I'd like that Bell player.
I'd happily take Bell and perhaps Currie.
I'd happily take Bell and perhaps Currie.
Wolv3nsam
11-01-2008, 15:05
http://www.lutontown.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10372~1212709,00.html
Flitwick Wolf
11-01-2008, 15:19
Why should they have protection. They got themselves there.
The fans didn't, it was the owners and their greed.
I'm surprised that you guys think like this when we were once in a similar position.
It's always the fans that suffer and I feel for them.
The fans didn't, it was the owners and their greed.
I'm surprised that you guys think like this when we were once in a similar position.
It's always the fans that suffer and I feel for them.
Langdale Wolf
11-01-2008, 15:23
The fans didn't, it was the owners and their greed.
I'm surprised that you guys think like this when we were once in a similar position.
It's always the fans that suffer and I feel for them.
I agree and hope they get themselves out of it. Very sad to see.
I'm surprised that you guys think like this when we were once in a similar position.
It's always the fans that suffer and I feel for them.
I agree and hope they get themselves out of it. Very sad to see.
wolvesman
11-01-2008, 15:31
The fans didn't, it was the owners and their greed.
I'm surprised that you guys think like this when we were once in a similar position.
It's always the fans that suffer and I feel for them.
Agreed..no football fan should rejoice in such a demise. Its easy to underestimate the importance of local football to the well-being of the local community.
I'm surprised that you guys think like this when we were once in a similar position.
It's always the fans that suffer and I feel for them.
Agreed..no football fan should rejoice in such a demise. Its easy to underestimate the importance of local football to the well-being of the local community.
Kenny-11
11-01-2008, 15:39
Agreed..no football fan should rejoice in such a demise.
unless it's Leeds
unless it's Leeds
Still Proud
11-01-2008, 15:43
I'm glad they've gone. ........ After years of mismanagement why should they be protected like some kind of national institution. Good $$$$ing riddance.
You are obviously under the age of 25 or have a short memory! But for the grace of God we could have "gone" too.
As the management have said in their statements boards come and go.... the fans don't. The board have screwed up not the fans.
Where would we have been without the support we recieved in the 1980's even if we didn't play on plastic!
You are obviously under the age of 25 or have a short memory! But for the grace of God we could have "gone" too.
As the management have said in their statements boards come and go.... the fans don't. The board have screwed up not the fans.
Where would we have been without the support we recieved in the 1980's even if we didn't play on plastic!
Still Proud
11-01-2008, 15:45
http://www.lutontown.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10372~1212709,00.html
Fair play to them staying with the club for the next month. Mr Blackwell has gone up in my estimation.
Fair play to them staying with the club for the next month. Mr Blackwell has gone up in my estimation.
Flitwick Wolf
11-01-2008, 15:47
Fair play to them staying with the club for the next month. Mr balckwell has gone up in my estimation.
He also gave up his own salary to help pay the players wages a while back.
He also gave up his own salary to help pay the players wages a while back.
HIGHLANDER
11-01-2008, 16:33
A lot of people absolutely despised them back in the late 80's, early 90s due to their plastic pitch and ban on all away fans. I seem to remember as well that even their own sopporters had to have i.d cards to gain entry. The away fans ban was extremely unpopular and $$$$ed everybody off at the time.
I recall Danny Baker on 606 saying " It's never too late to start hating Luton Town"
Dreadful town, dreadful pubs, dreadful beer and dreadful ground. I can't think of many worse town which I have been to apart from maybe Rotherham or Barnsley.
I recall Danny Baker on 606 saying " It's never too late to start hating Luton Town"
Dreadful town, dreadful pubs, dreadful beer and dreadful ground. I can't think of many worse town which I have been to apart from maybe Rotherham or Barnsley.
Gratters
11-01-2008, 16:33
I'm glad they've gone. Their biggest success was depriving teams that play the game fairly of success in the 80s thanks to that awful plastic pitch they used to play on. After years of mismanagement why should they be protected like some kind of national institution. Good $$$$ing riddance.
Go and google 'Bhatti Brothers' - it will double your IQ !
Go and google 'Bhatti Brothers' - it will double your IQ !
Flitwick Wolf
11-01-2008, 16:37
A lot of people absolutely despised them back in the late 80's, early 90s due to their plastic pitch and ban on all away fans. I seem to remember as well that even their own sopporters had to have i.d cards to gain entry. The away fans ban was extremely unpopular and $$$$ed everybody off at the time.
I recall Danny Baker on 606 saying " It's never too late to start hating Luton Town"
You can blame Millwall for that!!
Rioting with police in the ground and then going around Luton smashing the place up(and doing £1m worth of improvements, boom boom).
I recall Danny Baker on 606 saying " It's never too late to start hating Luton Town"
You can blame Millwall for that!!
Rioting with police in the ground and then going around Luton smashing the place up(and doing £1m worth of improvements, boom boom).
Woburn Wolf
11-01-2008, 16:38
The fans didn't, it was the owners and their greed.
I'm surprised that you guys think like this when we were once in a similar position.
It's always the fans that suffer and I feel for them.
Me too
I'm surprised that you guys think like this when we were once in a similar position.
It's always the fans that suffer and I feel for them.
Me too
19th Holer
11-01-2008, 16:41
unless it's Leeds
Agreed.
Agreed.
HIGHLANDER
11-01-2008, 16:47
You can blame Millwall for that!!
Rioting with police in the ground and then going around Luton smashing the place up(and doing £1m worth of improvements, boom boom).
It was a little bit hyprocritical of Baker coming out with that really, seeing that it was his teams mob that brought about the i.d scheme and ban.
That was one hell of a ruck there that night, probably one of the worse outbreaks of hooliganism, certainly inside a ground, since the previous decade. Thatcher was even on telly the next day saying that she was going to sort the problem out once and for all. Of course she didn't as we all know. It wasn't until a few years later, after people started dying in stadiums, that things improved.
Rioting with police in the ground and then going around Luton smashing the place up(and doing £1m worth of improvements, boom boom).
It was a little bit hyprocritical of Baker coming out with that really, seeing that it was his teams mob that brought about the i.d scheme and ban.
That was one hell of a ruck there that night, probably one of the worse outbreaks of hooliganism, certainly inside a ground, since the previous decade. Thatcher was even on telly the next day saying that she was going to sort the problem out once and for all. Of course she didn't as we all know. It wasn't until a few years later, after people started dying in stadiums, that things improved.
Adrian_Monk
11-01-2008, 16:51
You are obviously under the age of 25 or have a short memory! But for the grace of God we could have "gone" too.
As the management have said in their statements boards come and go.... the fans don't. The board have screwed up not the fans.
Where would we have been without the support we recieved in the 1980's even if we didn't play on plastic!
If I can remember Luton playing on plastic it's probably fair to say I remember the mess we were in don't you think?
Yes we could have gone and I would have been even more depressed than I was at the time. But we didn't, Luton have, and I'm happy they've gone.
As the management have said in their statements boards come and go.... the fans don't. The board have screwed up not the fans.
Where would we have been without the support we recieved in the 1980's even if we didn't play on plastic!
If I can remember Luton playing on plastic it's probably fair to say I remember the mess we were in don't you think?
Yes we could have gone and I would have been even more depressed than I was at the time. But we didn't, Luton have, and I'm happy they've gone.
fenella
11-01-2008, 16:56
Perhaps strangely, I've always had a soft spot for Luton for no other reason than Eric Morecambe supported them and I worshiped him when I was about nine.
Flitwick Wolf
11-01-2008, 17:01
If I can remember Luton playing on plastic it's probably fair to say I remember the mess we were in don't you think?
Yes we could have gone and I would have been even more depressed than I was at the time. But we didn't, Luton have, and I'm happy they've gone.
Jesus. They've not gone anywhere.
Yes we could have gone and I would have been even more depressed than I was at the time. But we didn't, Luton have, and I'm happy they've gone.
Jesus. They've not gone anywhere.
BlahBlah
11-01-2008, 17:34
A lot of people absolutely despised them back in the late 80's, early 90s due to their plastic pitch and ban on all away fans. I seem to remember as well that even their own sopporters had to have i.d cards to gain entry. The away fans ban was extremely unpopular and $$$$ed everybody off at the time.
I remember that riot V Millwall in 85 when about 10-12000 Millwall knocked down 2 turnstiles, then smashed the place to pieces after half time. First time i'd seen anything that bad on TV.
I remember that riot V Millwall in 85 when about 10-12000 Millwall knocked down 2 turnstiles, then smashed the place to pieces after half time. First time i'd seen anything that bad on TV.
Paul76
11-01-2008, 17:44
Management, players or both?
Just the ball boys.
Just the ball boys.
HIGHLANDER
11-01-2008, 17:52
I remember that riot V Millwall in 85 when about 10-12000 Millwall knocked down 2 turnstiles, then smashed the place to pieces after half time. First time i'd seen anything that bad on TV.
The bit I remember was hundreds of Millwall fans running across the pitch an showering the police with torn up seats.
In the 70s there were a lot of similar incidents. The tv companies used to show the trouble as well in those days, until they were accused of glamourisig hooliganism, then they stopped broadcasting it mainly. I remember watching a 'match of the day' in 76, when Chelsea were playing Palace in the cup. There was a lot of trouble at the ground, and the cameras picked up one supporter kung fu kicking another. In Jimmy hills analysis at the end of the game they must have replayed this Kung Fu kick half a dozen times:D At school the following Monday everybody was Kung Fu kicking their mates:D
The bit I remember was hundreds of Millwall fans running across the pitch an showering the police with torn up seats.
In the 70s there were a lot of similar incidents. The tv companies used to show the trouble as well in those days, until they were accused of glamourisig hooliganism, then they stopped broadcasting it mainly. I remember watching a 'match of the day' in 76, when Chelsea were playing Palace in the cup. There was a lot of trouble at the ground, and the cameras picked up one supporter kung fu kicking another. In Jimmy hills analysis at the end of the game they must have replayed this Kung Fu kick half a dozen times:D At school the following Monday everybody was Kung Fu kicking their mates:D
Sheriff Woody
11-01-2008, 18:03
Any club that goes to the wall is a loss to football. The supporters young and old who follow Luton Town deserve better. I hope that they see this through and come back stronger just like we did.
HIGHLANDER
11-01-2008, 18:36
Any club that goes to the wall is a loss to football. The supporters young and old who follow Luton Town deserve better. I hope that they see this through and come back stronger just like we did.
I'm sure somebody will come in and save them, they usually do.
During my time following football I reckon nearly every single club has been in some sort of financial trouble at one time or another. Out of those clubs I can only recall Maidstone and Aldershot getting kicked out of the league beacause of it.
I'm sure somebody will come in and save them, they usually do.
During my time following football I reckon nearly every single club has been in some sort of financial trouble at one time or another. Out of those clubs I can only recall Maidstone and Aldershot getting kicked out of the league beacause of it.
Deutsch Wolf
11-01-2008, 18:39
Scarborough went bump at the end of last season, although they've been out of the league for a while.
It'll happen to someone like Luton sooner or later.
It'll happen to someone like Luton sooner or later.
leedswolf
11-01-2008, 18:53
I can only recall Maidstone and Aldershot getting kicked out of the league beacause of it.
Did they? I thought that they resigned from the Football League.
Did they? I thought that they resigned from the Football League.
HIGHLANDER
11-01-2008, 18:54
Scarborough went bump at the end of last season, although they've been out of the league for a while.
It'll happen to someone like Luton sooner or later.
It's happened before, it could happen again.
Some of the premier league clubs are in debt to the tune of tens of millions, you have to wonder if one of these clubs gets in trouble whether they might be as lucky as Leeds.
It'll happen to someone like Luton sooner or later.
It's happened before, it could happen again.
Some of the premier league clubs are in debt to the tune of tens of millions, you have to wonder if one of these clubs gets in trouble whether they might be as lucky as Leeds.
HIGHLANDER
11-01-2008, 19:03
Did they? I thought that they resigned from the Football League. They were both ' obliged to resign' (kicked out)
Sam Allardyce we are told left Newcastle by 'mutual consent'.....We all know he was sacked though...... Much the Same sort of thing.
Sam Allardyce we are told left Newcastle by 'mutual consent'.....We all know he was sacked though...... Much the Same sort of thing.
Deutsch Wolf
11-01-2008, 19:09
It's happened before, it could happen again.
Some of the premier league clubs are in debt to the tune of tens of millions, you have to wonder if one of these clubs gets in trouble whether they might be as lucky as Leeds.
I get the impression that Coventry accepted Ranson/SISU's bid for the club out of desperation more than anything else, given how many clubs have told him to do one previously.
Haven't Sheff Wed been in tens of millions of pounds of debt for about a decade now?
Some of the premier league clubs are in debt to the tune of tens of millions, you have to wonder if one of these clubs gets in trouble whether they might be as lucky as Leeds.
I get the impression that Coventry accepted Ranson/SISU's bid for the club out of desperation more than anything else, given how many clubs have told him to do one previously.
Haven't Sheff Wed been in tens of millions of pounds of debt for about a decade now?
HIGHLANDER
11-01-2008, 19:45
I get the impression that Coventry accepted Ranson/SISU's bid for the club out of desperation more than anything else, given how many clubs have told him to do one previously.
Haven't Sheff Wed been in tens of millions of pounds of debt for about a decade now? Wednesday and Forest I believe are pretty much in the same shoes, both owe twenty or thirty million as far as I know. Coventry accepted the SISU bid, like you say, out of desperation. Prior to SISU taking over at Coventry they put in a bid for Southampton which was subsequently turned down. Saints are apparently in big financial trouble and reportedly losing over half a million quid every month.
Check out the link below.
http://www.footballeconomy.com/
Haven't Sheff Wed been in tens of millions of pounds of debt for about a decade now? Wednesday and Forest I believe are pretty much in the same shoes, both owe twenty or thirty million as far as I know. Coventry accepted the SISU bid, like you say, out of desperation. Prior to SISU taking over at Coventry they put in a bid for Southampton which was subsequently turned down. Saints are apparently in big financial trouble and reportedly losing over half a million quid every month.
Check out the link below.
http://www.footballeconomy.com/
leedswolf
11-01-2008, 19:49
Haven't Sheff Wed been in tens of millions of pounds of debt for about a decade now?
Didn't Ken Bates try to buy Sheff Wed?
Didn't Ken Bates try to buy Sheff Wed?
Stewarton Wolf
11-01-2008, 20:05
McCarthy for Luton
London Wolves
11-01-2008, 20:32
Can't say I'm bothered one way or the other, there's a lot worse bad things happening in the world at the mo. But I would love to say something to the little Stone Island Hatter herberts who followed me up the road the last time we played there, in their words "Jog on!" I almost $$$$ed myself laughing :)
MK Panther
11-01-2008, 21:37
It is sad that players over-inflated wages and commercial greed are sucking the the smaller clubs dry. We are lucky insofar we get good gates but if we had gates of 15,000 on regular basis we would be in trouble.
Paul76
11-01-2008, 21:39
It is sad that players over-inflated wages and commercial greed are sucking the the smaller clubs dry. We are lucky insofar we get good gates but if we had gates of 15,000 on regular basis we would be in trouble.
Not with Jez Moxey in charge. He does a good job.
Not with Jez Moxey in charge. He does a good job.
Florida Wolfey
11-01-2008, 21:59
The fans didn't, it was the owners and their greed.
I'm surprised that you guys think like this when we were once in a similar position.
It's always the fans that suffer and I feel for them.
Completely agree. Some of our fans need to think before they start speaking out. "There but for the grace of God go I"
I'm surprised that you guys think like this when we were once in a similar position.
It's always the fans that suffer and I feel for them.
Completely agree. Some of our fans need to think before they start speaking out. "There but for the grace of God go I"
Dewsburywolf
11-01-2008, 22:13
Well said on the Jez Moxey statement Paul76. Most people blame him for the bad stuff without realising the good he does. The fact we're solvent is down to Jez in more ways than most could ever imagine.
Adrian_Monk
11-01-2008, 23:04
Don't know why people are so concerned. If clubs can't operate within their means they deserve to go bust. Luton have sold millions of pounds worth of talent in the last few years- Barnett, Howard, Foley, Nicholls and Vine alone brought in £7.5m worth of funds. The directors sacked their manager for daring to ask questions about the financial status of the club.
A $$$$ty town with $$$$ty people and a $$$$ty club that deserves to go down the pan.
A $$$$ty town with $$$$ty people and a $$$$ty club that deserves to go down the pan.
purplepault69
16-01-2008, 16:27
Fair play to them staying with the club for the next month. Mr Blackwell has gone up in my estimation.
It now appears that the Administrators have "sacked them", so much for the loyalty shown by messrs Blackwell and co !
It now appears that the Administrators have "sacked them", so much for the loyalty shown by messrs Blackwell and co !
donwolf
16-01-2008, 16:41
Din't Birmingham have trouble with Luton aswell in that era
Toon Wolf
16-01-2008, 16:45
Don't know why people are so concerned. If clubs can't operate within their means they deserve to go bust. Luton have sold millions of pounds worth of talent in the last few years- Barnett, Howard, Foley, Nicholls and Vine alone brought in £7.5m worth of funds. The directors sacked their manager for daring to ask questions about the financial status of the club.
A $$$$ty town with $$$$ty people and a $$$$ty club that deserves to go down the pan.
I bet there were a lot of fans around the country who thought exactly the same when we were in trouble 20 odd years ago. Any time something like this happens it is a sad day for football. There but for the grace of God...
A $$$$ty town with $$$$ty people and a $$$$ty club that deserves to go down the pan.
I bet there were a lot of fans around the country who thought exactly the same when we were in trouble 20 odd years ago. Any time something like this happens it is a sad day for football. There but for the grace of God...
