Perhaps you could give him some journalistic tips?
Please provide an example.
He has made a few good points, not everything you read on here is how all fans think. It is a small percentage of the people who were at the crewe game.
I think he is deluded tony. Can you ask him his percentage of blame he attributes to sisu for moving to Northampton??
Sorry but he's a rubbish journalist the so called interview with Joy proved that !!!!
I suppose the thousands that agree with him are the ones that turned up outside the CCC offices for the demonstration he arranged.
Also my heart goes out to anybody who manages to read the whole of his crying bleeding heart the worlds against me statement !!!
I gave up before getting to the end. I'll find out later if its his suicide note !!!
Perhaps they are based on a slightly different viewpoint. I dare say Led might have "heard a few snippets" which may have altered his viewpoints however unlike us who discuss rumour as A journo Led can't.A sad and piss poor defence of his conclusions on the events that have transpired
If you can't read it why bother to comment.SO what are the next 60 odd lines if not a comment
Les Reids crying statement just smacks of jealousy !!!!!
Is it any wonder that Les Reid works for the two bit CT and David Conn works for the Guardian ?
Les Reids crying statement just smacks of jealousy !!!!!
Is it any wonder that Les Reid works for the two bit CT and David Conn works for the Guardian ?
Les has been one of the few people to put into question all sides of this mess, including the fans. Yet because he hasn't focused all of his efforts towards SISU, and those in charge of our football club, he is considered on here to be in the wrong. It's noticeable that few people have mention where and why les is "wrong", and instead only given their opinion towards it.
Balance is not about agreeing only with fans who are vocal with their anger towards SISU, but to question everyone involved whether they like it or not.
NOPM to the Coventry Telegraph until facts are reported, not opinions!
NOPM to the Coventry Telegraph until facts are reported, not opinions!
NOPM to the Coventry Telegraph until facts are reported, not opinions!
Although I hate our situation all these NOPM campaigns are saving me stacks of money. Can we get a few more going?
It's the 'bigger picture' that's not being addressed. I'm not saying the CT aren't reporting each issue as they see it, and again I'm sure there is blame and stupidity on all sides. But how many column inches were wasted on the rent issue? Fair rents. Comparative rents. League One average rents. Now we know it's nothing to do with rents. Or revenues. It's freehold.
It's the bigger picture and the indeterminate decline that's not being addressed in Mr Reid's series of 'exclusives'
and Sisu would not have been here.
Try telling that to the previous regime - that is exactly why we are where we are -- no club could survive with the punitive arrangement that this club had. People may bleat and whine about due dillegence, selling revenue streams but ultimately the club is where it is because of the arrangement. If we were in Swansea, Nottingham, Ipswich, Doncaster, Hull or anywhere else you care to look this would NOT have happened and Sisu would not have been here.
What he has failed to do it to comprehend the horrendous slide in every aspect of our club since SISU's arrival; and at the same time fail it get answers to very basic questions. For example:
Why the insistence on freehold; when a long lease with low rents and access to football related; or SISU-inspired revenues should suffice?
What is the status with the new stadium? The paper trail of failed promises is easy to pick up on. If such uncertainty still abounds; why leave the Ricoh? For this season at least?!?
What's the plan to adhere now to FFP rules moving forward, irrespective of location, given the gross over estimation of Sixfields attendances?
When the above start to get addressed by Mr Reid, and the 'I've got 20 years experience' nonsense finishes; along with the pantomimesque and childish retweeting from his sycophants, I'll respect more his view. Until then, and with big issues still on the table seemingly unanswered, I don't think he has scrutinised all parties with equal endeavour
We can't keep on harking back to the previous regime though, can we? Besides, sustainability isn't the long term objective here is it? Otherwise we wouldn't be playing to a Montego full of men 40 miles away, would we?
Don't preach sustainability to me, when were currently less sustainable than we were under the rental agreement you're oh-so-quick to flap about
We can't keep on harking back to the previous regime though, can we? Besides, sustainability isn't the long term objective here is it? Otherwise we wouldn't be playing to a Montego full of men 40 miles away, would we?
Don't preach sustainability to me, when were currently less sustainable than we were under the rental agreement you're oh-so-quick to flap about
There's a very decent argument to be made that their current strategy is an attempt to force sustainability on the club.
It's not the only argument out there, but it *does* tally in common sense terms.
Sustainability could indeed be the very reason we are playing 35 miles away, to stay where and how we were was not sustainable, the club should be dead.
Try telling that to the previous regime - that is exactly why we are where we are -- no club could survive with the punitive arrangement that this club had. People may bleat and whine about due dillegence, selling revenue streams but ultimately the club is where it is because of the arrangement. If we were in Swansea, Nottingham, Ipswich, Doncaster, Hull or anywhere else you care to look this would NOT have happened and Sisu would not have been here.
You're talking about what he has failed to do, not what he has written. What has he written that has been inaccurate? Has anyone dared to sue Les Reid for printing inaccuracies?
Many of those questions have already been answered by Tim Fisher at the SCG. If you don't like the answers, bring it up with Tim.
There's a very decent argument to be made that their current strategy is an attempt to force sustainability on the club.
It's not the only argument out there, but it *does* tally in common sense terms.
Sustainability could indeed be the very reason we are playing 35 miles away, to stay where and how we were was not sustainable, the club should be dead.
staying where we were was slightly unsustainable, mostly because of wages though, moving to northampton though is very significantly less sustainable and building a new stadium even less sustainable, so while we might have been uncomfortable sitting so close to the fire, we've now doused ourselves in petrol and jumped in.
SISU didn't make the club sustainable in their first years though, did they; or did I dream about a £60m debt, of which 'obscene' rentals would be less than 10%?
Why wouldn't he? I thought we wanted answers. Or do we just want truth from one side?
Les Reid actually talks some sense and is trying to stay impartial. Unfortunately being impartial gets you labelled as pro SISU on here. It's the stupidity of the fans only willing to listen to one side that annoys me, there is more than one player in this situation and none of them come out of this with any credit.
There's a very decent argument to be made that their current strategy is an attempt to force sustainability on the club.
It's not the only argument out there, but it *does* tally in common sense terms.
Sustainability could indeed be the very reason we are playing 35 miles away, to stay where and how we were was not sustainable, the club should be dead.
There is an ever decreasing minority on here (and GMK) who think that it's an untouchable position to blame both sides, as if this is the pinnacle of reason. Whereas in fact, it just shows an inability to make up your mind or make judgements based on the facts available.
He reports and comments on skirmishes, not the ambition of either side in the war. As I stated above, what he writes may be quite true; but it's a report on the skirmishes metaphor. What he needs to grasp is the bigger picture of the war, report and comment on that and earn the 'hard hitting journalist' hat he likes to wear. He's simply not doing that.
And with the greatest of respect, Fisher talking to a few folk in a social club isn't the same as his objectives being scrutinised by a decent investigative journalist. Even Grendel's realised that Fisher can walk through these fan-interactions with his eyes closed. He almost appears to enjoy the theatre of baiting the serfs. But when the Guardian try and report the facts as they see then; well, what happens?
Nope, staying where we were was horrendously unsustainable, always has been.
Building a new stadium would be sustainable... if done for the right reasons, and in the right place.
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