voxish wrote:
Russybcool wrote:
voxish wrote:
suffolkmadness wrote:
Brentford are about to be bought in next few days. Attractive investment as current investors have played it well to get to where they are. We need to find a way to successfully complete that initial phase.
If that's our aim then we'd need to make ourselves sellable which means looking forwards not back. Not sure that being hated for no good reason is very attractive to potential investors.
I though this the other day. Not just about who does or doesn't buy us, but the players as well. Do they really buy into what us fans and to a lesser extent the club are selling. We are a franchise. One of the most hated clubs in English football, face it we are. Now whilst that doesn't bother us, does it bother the players? I can't imagine they are sold a dream when they are training on a school field and look at how much the club has fallen. They must all have opinions. They may get a lot of stick from their friends for being players of us and maybe they just see us as a stepping stone to bigger things. There must be a reason why we were destroyed by Crawley. I am hoping our biggest signing this summer is a sports psychologist as we desperately need one as there is something not right with their mindset when it comes to the crunch and really it is like fuck it they don't care (not my view, but do they really when they are shipping 5 goals against a team who finished 8 points less than us). I don't believe it is down to ability and tactics (though that is a factor). I have just been scratching my head as to how we were so abused in two games and why we continue to fail in the play offs with obviously different squads.
But hated for mostly made up stuff, for an outragous FA decision not of our making and we were never asked.
also added onto the fact that it’s normally just the people who live in the online bubble who hate us, i live in aylesbury and i don’t know a single person who actually truly hates us, all the old blokes at work who lived well before wimbledon FC was moved always tell me “i actually like you guys and wish you’d do well”, my dad who used to go to wycombe games as a teen when they played leatherhead every other week now prefers us over wycombe. it’s just the cretins who spend every waking minute thinking about how they can use our name to get clicks and likes on twitter/X that make up the loud minority of hating us.
Also proves it when nearly every manager in their interviews before they play us rave about how much of a fantastic club we are, and that most players nowadays aren’t even old enough to remember the move, so i don’t really think that players are put off signing with us by the stigma around the club whatsoever