Macclesfield 2 Crystal Palace 1

[Swanjaxs]

Agree. You’d get that and possibly one of the European finals if am English or Scottish club was involved. They felt like events then. I still love the FA cup mind.

 

[exiledclaseboy]

I was thinking more of the Aberdeen Cup Winners Cup final from 83 ( I think). Sorry.

 

[Swanjaxs]

I was thinking more of the Aberdeen Cup Winners Cup final from 83 ( I think). Sorry.

A wee diddy cup...

 

[Swanjaxs]

Charlton v Chelsea up now. Eyes down

 

[Longlostjack]

They didn't step in, the FA Cup I believe is on the 'crown jewel' list of sporting events and so TNT knew they would have to "sub-let" (so to speak) some of the games to a terrestrial provider.

Government should expand crown jewel list!

 

[jack123]

Government should expand crown jewel list!

I doubt they will, and I expect things to get a lot worse in the good sporting events for free category. Just look at the champions league final, has always been free to air via YouTube, also the Europa final, but last year they stopped that. IMO it’s not a very good outlook for watching top events on terrestrial tv.

 

[Frankie Burrows Cap]

I was expecting to see them top of their league, but theyre around 14th

Didnt Savage take 3 or 4 of their best players with him to Forest Green in the summer as well. Incredible result!

 

[Longlostjack]

I doubt they will, and I expect things to get a lot worse in the good sporting events for free category. Just look at the champions league final, has always been free to air via YouTube, also the Europa final, but last year they stopped that. IMO it’s not a very good outlook for watching top events on terrestrial tv.

Agree mate. It’s called progress. Money ruins everything.
Best regards
Victor

 

[cmajack]

Absolutely amazing achievement

 

[Martyn - Derwydd]

I was expecting to see them top of their league, but theyre around 14th

Yup Merthyr 11 places above them

 

[MrSwerve]

It made me have a nose through the National League tables…and it’s quite scary how may ‘big’ names are down there, ones that we would play regularly in the 90s and early 00s. Makes you think what could have happened to us had we not won that Hull game.

I know Jenkins and co. aren’t too popular here, but it really is incredible what they did, until they sold our soul.

 

[Martyn - Derwydd]

Him, Morgan et al had no choice but to sell our soul. If they hadnt we would have been in administration / bankrupt / defunct and flying back down the leagues just like we did in the 80's. Given that he, Morgan et al had to sign NDA"s they were not able to tell us anything so we were all left thinking of them as money grabbing aholes

Not saying it all OK. BUt Potter's recent story of how after he joined and expecting a push back to the Premiere League found out the club had a 100m black hole and everyone had to be sold and left him with some youth players like McBurnie and James

6 months later in the Jan transfer Huw stood up to the new owners over James. Leeds wanted James for free for 1/2 season with the promise they would pay 5m in the summer if they were fortunate enough to get promoted. Ridiculous deal. And with James in Leeds Huw refused to take the calls from Leeds to close the deal on deadline day night. Another 5 months later and James was sold for 20m to Man Utd. Huw was still fighting for Swansea then and got tossed out of the club because he wanted to do the right things for us still

Thanks to Huw and co, and that sale, we still have top flight football and not hoofball in the lower leagues. We have since progressed to the current owners and a positive future

We wouldnt be here if Huw and co hadnt sold

Granted the Trust got screwed

 

[Martyn - Derwydd]

Anyway 5 Premiere League teams already out of the cup and counting. This may be a good year for a non prem team to go a long way in the cup with at least 1 more Prem team guaranteed to go out

 

[Frankie Burrows Cap]

Him, Morgan et al had no choice but to sell our soul. If they hadnt we would have been in administration / bankrupt / defunct and flying back down the leagues just like we did in the 80's. Given that he, Morgan et al had to sign NDA"s they were not able to tell us anything so we were all left thinking of them as money grabbing aholes

Not saying it all OK. BUt Potter's recent story of how after he joined and expecting a push back to the Premiere League found out the club had a 100m black hole and everyone had to be sold and left him with some youth players like McBurnie and James

6 months later in the Jan transfer Huw stood up to the new owners over James. Leeds wanted James for free for 1/2 season with the promise they would pay 5m in the summer if they were fortunate enough to get promoted. Ridiculous deal. And with James in Leeds Huw refused to take the calls from Leeds to close the deal on deadline day night. Another 5 months later and James was sold for 20m to Man Utd. Huw was still fighting for Swansea then and got tossed out of the club because he wanted to do the right things for us still

Thanks to Huw and co, and that sale, we still have top flight football and not hoofball in the lower leagues. We have since progressed to the current owners and a positive future

We wouldnt be here if Huw and co hadnt sold

Granted the Trust got screwed

That’s an interesting take and there’s some truth in there but also some rewriting of history.

If we were in danger of bankruptcy/administration after relegation, than some of the blame lies at the feet of Jenkins, Morgan et al, as the contracts with no relegation clauses and ridiculously high salaries were being given out before the Americans were on the scene. That was the cause of any ‘black hole’. Clubs that end up in that position after the PL finances do so entirely of they’re own making, albeit under the pretence of ‘wanting to compete’ in most cases.

I don’t know anyone who doesn’t think that they didn’t deserve to make a healthy profit and set their families up for a couple of generations by selling the club. The issue was how they went about the sale, the impact it had on the trust and the lack of due diligence on the owners. In hindsight, I guess we were lucky that they sold to absentee owners who had no real interest in the club as opposed to some more malevolent people that other clubs have ended up with.

 

[Smurph]

Him, Morgan et al had no choice but to sell our soul. If they hadnt we would have been in administration / bankrupt / defunct and flying back down the leagues just like we did in the 80's. Given that he, Morgan et al had to sign NDA"s they were not able to tell us anything so we were all left thinking of them as money grabbing aholes

Not saying it all OK. BUt Potter's recent story of how after he joined and expecting a push back to the Premiere League found out the club had a 100m black hole and everyone had to be sold and left him with some youth players like McBurnie and James

6 months later in the Jan transfer Huw stood up to the new owners over James. Leeds wanted James for free for 1/2 season with the promise they would pay 5m in the summer if they were fortunate enough to get promoted. Ridiculous deal. And with James in Leeds Huw refused to take the calls from Leeds to close the deal on deadline day night. Another 5 months later and James was sold for 20m to Man Utd. Huw was still fighting for Swansea then and got tossed out of the club because he wanted to do the right things for us still

Thanks to Huw and co, and that sale, we still have top flight football and not hoofball in the lower leagues. We have since progressed to the current owners and a positive future

We wouldnt be here if Huw and co hadnt sold

Granted the Trust got screwed

Only thing we can thank Huw and co for is shafting the club.