I'm sure they commented on Rochdale's youth approach and had a 5-6 year plan, and now are seeing fruits of their labour......
It got me thinking about out lack of plans for the future and have come to the conclusion that because of our lack our finances we simply cannot...
Think about it, managers and players are lasting x1 season max.
Any player owned by us, if shows any sort of form or promise, is sold (normally for undisclosed roughly around £250k).....ASAP
If Manager shows they are good or decent, they get frustrated with lack of funds and look elsewhere and leave for better surroundings.
Also, questions were asked about the going rate for Oldham to be sold but was given a nothing answer of 'too tough to say as don't know what potential buyer would want to buy'. Meaning just the name (effectively) or plus the land or stand etc.
What kind of buyer is going to want to buy a club that then has to rent the ground / stand, everything, at this level with this kind of fan base? Who would want to buy us with land and stand at a massively inflated price?!
No one, which is why there are no buyers out there!!
So SC, we were told, went to China to look for potential investors....great but who would want to invest into what? Nothing? The OEC? Great but that doesn't fund what happens on the pitch....OAFC? Great but where is the return on investment? Massive gamble to invest in OAFC as are reliant on what happens on pitch and with current manager showing only how not to score a goal....for me it's not gonna happen....
The Scoreboard debacle, why did they wait x1 year to then seek a cheaper scoreboard when SC went to China? A year..! Really?
This all adds up to one thing, TTA have picked apart and made it far too tough to sell and far to tough to keep us afloat and plan for a decent future.
I know some of us fans think SC has done a good job keeping us afloat and maybe he has. But what's also happened is our crowds have shrunk due to chop and change, lack of identity of players etc and quality of football and cost of watching it.
I didn't think the phone in answered anything really as answers we didn't already know or gave us any new hope.....