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The B-Ark / Re: Does Housham........

« on: February 24, 2013, 11:59:24 AM »

So whats your point?

I said in my post did I not that Boston WILL begin to achieve and climb the ladder in the future?

I have also openly stated we rely heavily on Peter Swann.

He has however said that his aim is to make Trinity self sufficient in the future and that in the mean time he will fund the club so that he is able to heighten the profile and attract more investment through sponsorship etc. Can this be achieved, only the future will tell. One thing is for sure however, Trinity will be no worse off as a consequence and we the fans will have some good memories which we otherwise probably wouldnt have had.

I also agree that not many fans of boston are not ashamed of the past. The fact remains however the period which the regime in question were in charge resulted in prosperity and achievements which probably wouldnt have happened otherwise. It was success built on cheating the system. In my opinion a club cheating the system in the way boston did is no different to the way lance armstrong cheated the system and like him had the regime at boston not been caught they would never have admitted it.

Lance has had his achievements stripped from his record yet your club and its supporters seem keen to publicise the success during the period. cake and eating it springs to mind.

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The B-Ark / Re: Does Housham........

« on: February 24, 2013, 10:39:37 AM »

Anybody with money can turn up and make a horrible little club at this level a top side. This however doesn't stop them being a horrible little club

A horrible little club?

What makes you class Trinity as horrible? No other club has a gripe with us.
We admit we have a chairman who spends his money but it is that, his money. If he wishes to waste it on our little club that his choice. We also know he will leaveone day, again that will be his choice but as a football club we will owe nothing to anyone.

On the other hand you could define a horrible club as one which buys success with the money of the tax payer and local businesses.


On the other hand you could define a horrible little club as one wh

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The B-Ark / Re: Does Housham........

« on: February 24, 2013, 10:33:45 AM »

The way it seems from a Trinity fan looking into Boston is as follows:

Boston are now no more than an average BSN club playing in a ground which they do not own, pay extortionate rent on and are struggling to maintain. I believe youhave 5 years left on the lease and are then looking to move to a ground you would ultimately own.

So what will the new ground be like? Well unless you suddenly get an investor with 10 times the spending power of Peter Swann I dont forsee your new ground being much more than the one he anticipated building for Trinity. So we are therefor talking a 4000-5000 capacity with only the required number of seats to make the ground grading criteria installed.

The ground will be out of town and you will therefore lose the "nothing else to do crowd" that may attend on a Saturday.

The ground will need to be financed and whilst your chairman istrying to source funding and partnerships some of the costs will have to come from the football club. Some of your operating revenue will therefore be taken up in paying off this debt.

Your team is withering away and your manager appears to be signing unknowns in desperation of trying to get results and as a result you are sliding further and further down the league table.

So what does all this mean?

In 5 years time (hopefully if you manage to build it) you will be playing in a smaller, more suitable ground not much bigger tahn the Northolme. Your attendances will have dwindelled due to lack of squad investment and a move out of town leaving you with less income yet still huge amounts to pay out in finance. The road to the big time begins to look more and more bleak and you begin to feed on every scrap of success you can get.

It hurts I know, as a trinity fan looking at clubs around us getting success isnt nice but in the end you have to take stock and realise its not where you have come from that is important but where you are going.

Boston need to ditch the "big club" attitude and realise that the sooner they start thinking "Tinpot" the sooner they WILL begin to make the climb back to where you feel you belong

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The B-Ark / Re: Does Housham........

« on: February 24, 2013, 10:10:48 AM »

define bigger and better?

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The B-Ark / Re: today

« on: February 24, 2013, 09:46:56 AM »

Can you afford to sack another manager?

Its only 3 weeks since you couldnt afford to put jonah on a contract

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The B-Ark / Re: Does Housham........

« on: February 24, 2013, 09:45:58 AM »

Great performance from Trinity today to beat a wrexham side unbeaten in 13.

Guess it just wasnt to be. Oh well we shall just have to concentrate on the league now and reaching the playoffs.
 
That and increasing the gap between us and your joke of an outfit. 1200 fans a week a FL groundand still 11 points behind the counties joke club who also have 4 games in hand.

You lot Embarressed?

 I would be!

UTB

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The B-Ark / Re: Hire The Pilgrim Lounge for FREE!

« on: February 19, 2013, 08:43:53 PM »

Is it available for Lincoln city relegation party. We were going to hold it in the blues club but seeing as you have a car park....

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The B-Ark / Re: Newsham for England!

« on: February 19, 2013, 05:18:16 PM »

On 20 for the third season with a few games to go, may get his best tally this year.
Still managing to score in a "difficult" season.
Top player!

Maybe GD should look at the selection criteria for England C and then think about why he isn't being called up

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The B-Ark / Re: Lincoln manager departs

« on: February 17, 2013, 06:29:20 PM »

Yeah but hes saying Gainsborough's manager is going to lincoln so swann will need a new manager

Houshy is a gainsborough lad who played his fl career for Scunthorpe.

Explain to me why he would go to lincoln?

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The B-Ark / Re: freesat 120 trophy semi!

« on: February 17, 2013, 05:30:57 PM »

lets just see at the end of the season because i think unless you go up this season there will be a lot of surprised and upset GT fans because there will be big changes at your club in the summer!

We won't be upset. We know the only reason we are where we are is because our chairman allows us to punch above our weight.

If he goes and we return to mediocrity so be it. It's been a great few years though and some none of us will forget.

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The B-Ark / Re: Gains v Droylsden

« on: February 13, 2013, 03:24:05 PM »

Lol you always get the glory Hunters. Hopefully some will come on a regular basis

That is the whole point. We all know Trinity have never had the greatest support but people are trying to put that right. Hopefully a couple of good performances against Wrexham may encourage a few more to visit regularly.

The only way to attract supporters is through success and the only way to lose them is through failing to meet expectations.

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The B-Ark / Re: Anthony Tansley

« on: January 30, 2013, 05:47:37 PM »

Just think if any of these players are any good they will be playing in the blue of the best team in the county before long.

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The B-Ark / Re: another low gate....another beating

« on: January 29, 2013, 09:55:14 PM »

Ground rent!

perhaps.....but other non-league clubs at our level must have similar issues,attract much lower gates than we do and still beat us...

It's because you have poor management, poor players and mounting debts.

most non league clubs I suspect have debts

Probably, still on a lighter note Hinckley conceded 8 at alty

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The B-Ark / Re: another low gate....another beating

« on: January 29, 2013, 09:49:34 PM »

Ground rent!

perhaps.....but other non-league clubs at our level must have similar issues,attract much lower gates than we do and still beat us...

It's because you have poor management, poor players and mounting debts.

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The B-Ark / Re: Let go ..........

« on: January 20, 2013, 12:53:24 PM »

I think a better observation would be over the last 20 years since 1992 when we came out of the Conference and down into the NPL. For probably 10 of those 20 years we've been in the same division so a better comparison can be made.

However, I know who's going to be portrayed as the bigger, better supported club, even though by their standards they were in the doldrums......

I'll provide the attendance figures from our end, steelihat can dig them out from the massive club and prove me wrong.......

http://www.bufc.drfox.org.uk/attend.gif

I am guessing red means conf and blue means Npl/conf north.

If so all I see is your attendances dropping to below 1000 average upto the time you began to stop paying taxes. At this point you began to see a little success and as such your attendances grew. However you are now back at your level and your attendances are reverting back to about a thousand. Still more than trinity but no where near that of a club your fans like to claim you are.

You have not been a fl or conf prem club on merit for nearly 20 years unless of course you are happy to claim Evans' antics as being of merit