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If it had gone through, i wonder what the last 20 years would have been like. Champions league every season? Mid table prem side? Prem/champ yo yo club.? Champ? Lower leagues? Non league oblivion?
 
brassmonkey said:
If it had gone through, i wonder what the last 20 years would have been like. Champions league every season? Mid table prem side? Prem/champ yo yo club.? Champ? Lower leagues? Non league oblivion?
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Impossible to be sure but I always keep Rushden (Town) and (Irthlingborough) Diamonds in mind as an example of a merged club created by one moneyed bloke in a new ground not quite in either place. I am not convinced that squidging two clubs together ever really works.
 
brassmonkey said:
If it had gone through, i wonder what the last 20 years would have been like. Champions league every season? Mid table prem side? Prem/champ yo yo club.? Champ? Lower leagues? Non league oblivion?
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We would have collapsed into bankruptcy and lower down the pyramid than Oxford City once Fat Bob`s accounting practices came to light.
Although Ghislaine & the boys seem to be doing well keeping out of the spotlight these days............................
 
unification said:
MK Dons had a new town to form their fan base (or at least those you see turning up). Who would have followed the Thames Valley Royals? Neither Oxford or Reading fans would have done. Would even the residents of Didcot turned our to watch them?
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if they had a decent ground some folks would probably have gone and then a new generation of Didcot kids. But it would have been a fairly sad affair
 
Merging two sports teams together is something you do at the grassroots level when one or both sides are struggling for players.
Buying two professional football clubs to merge together can’t make any financial sense at all? You are essentially folding one functioning business and transferring the assets.
You are just reducing your output from 92 games per season to 46.
 
Oslernorth said:
Merging two sports teams together is something you do at the grassroots level when one or both sides are struggling for players.
Buying two professional football clubs to merge together can’t make any financial sense at all? You are essentially folding one functioning business and transferring the assets.
You are just reducing your output from 92 games per season to 46.
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If both sets of fans came to support the merged team then it would make sense, half the costs twice the revenue.
However both sets of fans won’t do that so you end up with half the costs but near zero revenue.
 
Oslernorth said:
Merging two sports teams together is something you do at the grassroots level when one or both sides are struggling for players.
Buying two professional football clubs to merge together can’t make any financial sense at all? You are essentially folding one functioning business and transferring the assets.
You are just reducing your output from 92 games per season to 46.
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I think Maxwell thought Oxford are getting 6k fans, Reading are getting 5k fans, if I merge them the new club will get 11k fans...


A fundamental misunderstanding of how football fans and football works. If it had happened you would have needed 3 segregation areas, one for Oxford, one for Reading, and one for the away team fans. And that is on the rather big assumption that any of the Oxford or Reading fans would have actually gone to games in the first place... which they wouldn't.
 
The first of the Phoenix clubs wouldn't have been AFC Wombles, us and Reading would both have beaten them by about 20 years and I reckon we'd now be about League 1... but probably at Court Place Farm (which is I think the first place Maxwell tried to get a ground anyway) but without the most glorious years in our history.
 
Jonny G said:
The first of the Phoenix clubs wouldn't have been AFC Wombles, us and Reading would both have beaten them by about 20 years and I reckon we'd now be about League 1... but probably at Court Place Farm (which is I think the first place Maxwell tried to get a ground anyway) but without the most glorious years in our history.
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The logic behind this is that we'd have been about 3 years behind Oxford City's actual timeline of being kicked out of WHG and folding... so we'd have probably started lower non-league, possibly sharing WHG, or Witney, Thame, Bicester at first and would likely have been given something by OCC around late 80s / early 90s (I believe City got CPF in '93)
 
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