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Post by Hoochy on Nov 11, 2023 20:20:42 GMT
Not reach-around Nes you dirty bastard.
It's easy to suggest that Rupp doesn't give a fuck about us but 2 events suggest otherwise. He did listen to the saviours of our club, Dewhirst et al on their mercy mission to Germany and got rid of Edin. You could say that was to save his pocket. Secondly though, he didn't sell to the fly by night WAGMI lot when they came calling. Were they offering him cash or NFTs? Either way, he wouldn't sell to them which suggests he had some level of moral compass. Could he be persuaded to give Sparks some support by bringing in someone to run the football side of things? Leave Sparks to the commercial side which he seems well suited to and pretty good at.
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Post by Lethal Jizzle on Nov 11, 2023 20:28:39 GMT
Not reach-around Nes you dirty bastard. It's easy to suggest that Rupp doesn't give a fuck about us but 2 events suggest otherwise. He did listen to the saviours of our club, Dewhirst et al on their mercy mission to Germany and got rid of Edin. You could say that was to save his pocket. Secondly though, he didn't sell to the fly by night WAGMI lot when they came calling. Were they offering him cash or NFTs? Either way, he wouldn't sell to them which suggests he had some level of moral compass. Could he be persuaded to give Sparks some support by bringing in someone to run the football side of things? Leave Sparks to the commercial side which he seems well suited to and pretty good at. Nah fuck both of them with nailed baseball bat the pair of cunts
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Post by Lofty on Nov 11, 2023 20:30:37 GMT
Sparks' ego wouldn't allow him to accept help or move aside.
Sparks needs to be binned off completely.
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Post by fish on Nov 11, 2023 20:54:22 GMT
Not reach-around Nes you dirty bastard. It's easy to suggest that Rupp doesn't give a fuck about us but 2 events suggest otherwise. He did listen to the saviours of our club, Dewhirst et al on their mercy mission to Germany and got rid of Edin. You could say that was to save his pocket. Secondly though, he didn't sell to the fly by night WAGMI lot when they came calling. Were they offering him cash or NFTs? Either way, he wouldn't sell to them which suggests he had some level of moral compass. Could he be persuaded to give Sparks some support by bringing in someone to run the football side of things? Leave Sparks to the commercial side which he seems well suited to and pretty good at. I keep hearing Sparks is good at the commercial side but shouldn't that praise be going to the commercial director David Longo? I'm not sure he's good at any aspect of being a CEO
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Post by Lofty on Nov 16, 2023 17:47:32 GMT
New manager can't even reach out to him m8's.
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Post by Neshead on Nov 16, 2023 17:54:39 GMT
New manager can't even reach out to him m8's. Rupp is Keyser Soze
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Post by Hobhead on Nov 16, 2023 18:05:26 GMT
Why, without knowing the terms of the offer, does everyone seem to automatically assume that Rupp didn’t sell to WAGMI because he cares how we fare after he’s sold us? It’s naive in the extreme when the more obvious answer is that they wouldn’t meet his unrealistic valuation.
As for Dewhirst, it’s easy to forget that at the time Rahic was running us right into bankruptcy. While the mission to Germany might have opened Rupp’s eyes to the scale of Rahic’s incompetence he again more likely moved to protect his investment and only by extension the club.
He doesn’t care. He wants his money back and he’ll go.
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Post by Van Ginger on Nov 18, 2023 7:42:32 GMT
In this week's DMac listen to me podcast, he's called on Rupp to come on and talk to him. He told his sidekick to send the message out through Ryan. Also, both clearly have close links with SparkS, and seemed under the impression that Rupp is in almost daily contact. Can't imagine why or what they are saying, especially if the new manager hasn't even spoken to him yet..
On a similar note, and relevant, I accidentally pressed a button in the car and played the first ever episode of Hard Truth, back from covid times, he said he was going to interview owners, players, CEOs, managers.. Not sure Steve Evans and Ryan Sparks achieve that objective
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Post by tetchyarse on Nov 18, 2023 9:54:58 GMT
MacAnthony made his money selling timeshares in Spain. He’s even more of a bullshit artist than SparksY.
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Post by Van Ginger on Nov 18, 2023 13:41:48 GMT
He isn't as good as he thinks he is but he's far better than Rupp & Sparks. At least he made some good money too. I'd swap him and whoever he brings along for those 2 any day
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Post by Dick on Nov 19, 2023 11:11:48 GMT
I'm seeing calls for tennis balls, staying away and such - honestly, I don't think any of it would make any difference.
Rupp has no awareness of what happens and Sparks filters the information to Rupp like Rahic did. As long as the money's good Rupp is happy. Ryan isn't going to tell him a game was held up while they cleared the tennis balls off the pitch.
Rupp has no other interest or presence in the UK as far as I'm aware. It's not like we can protest or raise awareness at one of his businesses to make him take notice. The isolation between us and him, because of geography, his actual interest the infromatipm is being fed is so vast.
One thing that might work would be to really increase the public negativity against his ownership and the last 7 years of so of on / off field activity - and by that I mean fairly prominent media interest, not just on podcasts or YouTube channels. It needs to find its way back to Germany so would need to be picked up and circulated by outlets over.
Something we've noticed is despite the very few interactions from him, he does sometimes react to when he's taking a direct hit, whether personally or professionally.
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Post by stevayb on Nov 19, 2023 11:16:57 GMT
If anyone knows German they could send a few tips to bild or some of their other media, they pride themselves on the German way of running things so they'd lap it up if they got a whiff of one of their own shitting the bed
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Post by leaguetwomainstay on Nov 19, 2023 11:18:01 GMT
People staying away including not renewing season tickets, buying shirts etc will have the most impact because they rely on the fans to fund the club.
If season tickets sales halve, then sponsors won't be as keen to get involved because there are less eyes on their branding.
The problem is people arecshit scared of losing their precious seats. I've news for you, if we go down, your seats gone.
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Post by Dick on Nov 20, 2023 10:26:28 GMT
Regarding any type of protests, there are some who are saying to leave it for now as it's no help to GA while he tries to pick the side up after these 2 poor defeats.
That's the only fingernail some are hanging on with.
If the league situation doesn't improve and we have another awful transfer window in 6 weeks with more Taylors, Guthries and jigsaw pieces coming in, that will be the limit for many.
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Post by bantam147 on Nov 20, 2023 10:30:00 GMT
Regarding any type of protests, there are some who are saying to leave it for now as it's no help to GA while he tries to pick the side up after these 2 poor defeats. That's the only fingernail some are hanging on with. If the league situation doesn't improve and we have another awful transfer window in 6 weeks with more Taylors, Guthries and jigsaw pieces coming in, that will be the limit for many. I'm not sure. There are some who are completely blind to where the root of our issues are.
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Post by stevayb on Nov 20, 2023 10:59:41 GMT
Regarding any type of protests, there are some who are saying to leave it for now as it's no help to GA while he tries to pick the side up after these 2 poor defeats. That's the only fingernail some are hanging on with. If the league situation doesn't improve and we have another awful transfer window in 6 weeks with more Taylors, Guthries and jigsaw pieces coming in, that will be the limit for many. I'm not sure. There are some who are completely blind to where the root of our issues are. More than a few saying rupp shouldn't be the target of the protests, as if the fat cunt hasn't dragged us to the brink of non league
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Post by Dick on Nov 20, 2023 11:25:43 GMT
Regarding any type of protests, there are some who are saying to leave it for now as it's no help to GA while he tries to pick the side up after these 2 poor defeats. That's the only fingernail some are hanging on with. If the league situation doesn't improve and we have another awful transfer window in 6 weeks with more Taylors, Guthries and jigsaw pieces coming in, that will be the limit for many. I'm not sure. There are some who are completely blind to where the root of our issues are. They'll always be some, but going by the various online channels and in the flesh at matches themselves the venom is growing. If MH and results / perfeormances under him contined was here the atmosphere would be absolutely toxic. GA has reset it a little bit but has a monumental task in cutting the playing squad and trying to being in new ones to work with hos approach. If the January window is shite people will call it out. More and more fans are having less patience for shite signings and they are writing then off before the kick a ball, as there's been so many awful ones. People are seeing past blaming the players as a short term excuse and looking at the longer term major decisions which are consistently thr wrong ones.
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Post by Lethal Jizzle on Nov 20, 2023 13:06:37 GMT
I don't know about tennis balls but if Alexander plays Taylor again I'll be throwing a bowling ball at him
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Post by Pyongyang Bantam on Nov 20, 2023 13:45:04 GMT
Regarding any type of protests, there are some who are saying to leave it for now as it's no help to GA while he tries to pick the side up after these 2 poor defeats. That's the only fingernail some are hanging on with. If the league situation doesn't improve and we have another awful transfer window in 6 weeks with more Taylors, Guthries and jigsaw pieces coming in, that will be the limit for many. I'm not sure. There are some who are completely blind to where the root of our issues are. I get the feeling the more the fans turn, the more the club hangers on dig their heels in. It could get ugly.
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Post by Dick on Nov 20, 2023 14:04:48 GMT
You can tell people are desperate why you talk about replacing Sparks, and they say 'who would you replace him with then'?
What kind of answer do these trogs expect, who's going to be aware of CEO level individual looking for new opportunities?
It's like saying you want to fire someone in the shop and someone says 'wHo wOuLd yOu rEpLaCe hIM wItH tHeN?'
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