Championship Tonight's Championship Games - 4th March

[Northstandboy]

 

[werthersoriginal]

There is no difference, no matter how you try to justify it.

Not really sure what you're trying to say. Clearly there's a difference between paying £15 million for a striker in Div 3 and having owners that subsidise us enough to compete in the championship while still struggling to field a fit striker. If we were to live totally within our means we'd probably be League two - which I wouldn't particularly mind, it's still competitive football.

 

[Village-Yellow]

Not really sure what you're trying to say. Clearly there's a difference between paying £15 million for a striker in Div 3 and having owners that subsidise us enough to compete in the championship while still struggling to field a fit striker. If we were to live totally within our means we'd probably be League two - which I wouldn't particularly mind, it's still competitive football.

This ...

Do you think more of the same will be enough, once we have survived this season?

And do you think a 16,000 seater stadium at a cost of £180 million (that will need to be funded somehow, if you don't want it subsidised by the owners) will be enough to allow us to buy £15 million strikers in the future? I don't.

There will come a point where we will need to spend big on the pitch and way beyond our means just to justify the stadium and our aim to become a consistent top 30 club.

That basically means that we are/will become much closer aligned to the clubs you are currently criticising. Who knows, maybe we will get some weird TV deal with Indonesia, linked to the story of our owners investing in a club in the University City of Oxford. Will you no longer support OUFC at that point?

If the owners want to get us to where they want us to be, I don't see the stadium as being just the answer.

 

[holdsteady]

Not really sure what you're trying to say. Clearly there's a difference between paying £15 million for a striker in Div 3 and having owners that subsidise us enough to compete in the championship while still struggling to field a fit striker. If we were to live totally within our means we'd probably be League two - which I wouldn't particularly mind, it's still competitive football.

If everyone had to live within there means we wouldn't be league 2, we would be league 1 but I do get your point, its very hard to get above the fourth division without investment for most clubs in this country.