Spare a thought for Mansfield Town !

la gran siete

It reminds me of Brighton and Hove albion which basically nearly went out of existence because of the actions of wide boy directors/ chairman back in the eighties They lost their ground and now have to make to do with an inadequate ground that barely houses 8000 fans. How they have managed to survive in the league is extraordinary, even more so given they are challenging for playoff place in div1. They now have decent chairman a good academy and good manager in Dean Wilkins( Rays brother).

la gran siete

probably not  a bad idea

"C'mon you Harchers"Sounds good.

HMHB

Not to the good folk of Mansfield it doesn't !!
The other annoying thing this bloke has said is that he's purely in it for the money and is not interested in talking to supporters, he's only interested in talking to customers.

HMHB

Something else to mention is that the current owner (Haslam) spent £500,000 of the clubs money on some land jsut outside of town in order to build a training academy a couple of years ago. This has never been built and he still owns the land and the club hasn't received the money back.

Solomon Grundy

Harchester?  The guy should be ashamed...he's obviously not a football man.  Depressing story.

HMHB

Again proof that people are staying away from home games. Yesterday Mansfield played at Notts County and took 3,300 fans, which is far more than their home attendances this season. People have refused to give the current owner any more of their money.
People are now suspicious about this pratt Batchelor and some believe it's the current owner Haslam trying to get his own back on the people who are campaigning against him by bringing in someone worse than himself.
I notice Jeff Stelling made a comment yesterday afternoon and said that people like Batchelor should be stopped from taking control of football clubs.

Solomon Grundy

Can't the FA step in?  I guess not but this is ridiculous.

HMHB

You would hope that someone could step in and stop this madness. Hes now talking about a 4 million pound mortgage to fund it all see here which could leave the club in deep trouble if he left quickly as he has done with other things he's done.

overkill

Seems the nutters run from top to bottom of football these days John. If it's not PL owners squabbling it's nutcases like Ridesdale getting into another mess, or some egomaniac taking Wrexham to the cleaners, while another tries to run Mansfield down.

There is some form of regulation among banks as too who can take charge, so why the hell can't football do it? It's obviously BS that there can't be regulation.

HMHB

One of the supporters groups have issued a statement Batchelor is not a fit or proper person to own a football club giving their views and responses to this farce.
A couple of interesting paragraphs :-