Just shows it is ALL down to money.......

[qprsouth]

4-0 flattered us mate......back down to earth tuesday....oh and apart from southampton all have spent more on players than us.......And we have the so called ritchest owners in football....They have made more from transfers that they have spent....They have invested very little.....As for managers we have had a few of them of have the rose tinted glasses failed to remember that bit....FITZ HALL 15k vine 12k Dave 10k there is 37k a week on crap.....Who does the contracts i wonder???

[3London]

4-0 flattered us mate......back down to earth tuesday....oh and apart from southampton all have spent more on players than us.......And we have the so called ritchest owners in football....They have made more from transfers that they have spent....They have invested very little.....As for managers we have had a few of them of have the rose tinted glasses failed to remember that bit....FITZ HALL 15k vine 12k Dave 10k there is 37k a week on crap.....Who does the contracts i wonder???

Had the team that played Sat played tues we would have beaten port vale easily! Yes they may have all spent more on players than us and where are they? apart from bolton? all in the same league..leicester have changed managers almost as much as us. Which of the managers we have had would you still have managing us instead of warnock (apart from di canio) who left through choice. there are too many people on this board talking with too little knowledge and presenting it as fact!!! and that is a fact!!

[qprsouth]

Sousa was building from defence and given the chance would have made a good manager....But we know who we can thank for his departure!!!!!!

[Kit]

Heard NW on Talksport this morning and he and Alan Brazil both commented on how football has changed and that they cannot understand why a player won't drop his demands so as to actually play regular football rather than sitting in the reserves or on the bench !

[RLHoop]

lots of footballers are greedy and only care about money - but we all know that already....hardly news is it???

Steven Ireland wants £2 million lump sum to move to villa....what for??? The inconvenience? He would rather not play. That is what footballers are like.

But it hasn't affacted our gates one bit.

The Bentley needs a new pink front grill.

[Scarlet pimple]

if we had a decent ground with decent facilities and decent leg room along with decent owners who want the club to move forward then crowds would be at the 20 k mark...Many people moved out to the burbs in the 70's hence the big fan base around Hillingdon and such like...Reading had a pony ground and gates increased when they moved...as did southampton,boro,bolton,derby,leicester, face it a lick of paint and a poxy big screen aint improved nothing.....that 2005 season was when the club was at its lowest money wise and away support at loftus road was about 300 apart from the odd 1500 so we averaged over 15000 home fans every game....

Spot on.

[RLHoop]

Sousa was building from defence and given the chance would have made a good manager....But we know who we can thank for his departure!!!!!!

Are you the guy in the video?

[Stanley]

vicious cycle

It becomes a vicious cycle:

More and more fans become disillusioned and cynical, so they drift away and gates decrease. The board tries to get them back on side with various token gestures/offers but the fans don't buy it because of their inherent scepticism, but the board can't back down by lowering prices/spending big etc arguing that the club needs to be run prudently and stand on its own feet...and so you reach an impasse...sooner or later something has to give of course...