Scally "I want to bring premier league football to Kent"

Here we go again - just a rehash of the same old incessant bullshit. The day we make the Premier League mankind will have conquered the universe. Does he really think that after 23 years of this drivel anyone is going to believe that we have or ever will find suitable investors? It really is starting to wear a bit thin now. It will simply never happen.
 
The notion, as put by PS is wholly credible. If he were all doom and gloom about the future of the Gills he`d be getting moaned at for being negative and non-progressive. Of course, manifesting the notion is a huge challenge but I`d rather share PS`s positive outlook than accept we are going nowehere but due south.
 
LancsGordoRoad said:
The notion, as put by PS is wholly credible. If he were all doom and gloom about the future of the Gills he`d be getting moaned at for being negative and non-progressive. Of course, manifesting the notion is a huge challenge but I`d rather share PS`s positive outlook than accept we are going nowehere but due south.
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While i agree to a extent, in what way of him keep repeating the same statement each year going to appeal to the fans. I have lost count the amount of times he has mentioned getting Investment for the team and has failed to do so every time. Im not saying go out there and go for the first one that he interviews for it. It is remotely clear that this team is not going to go higher without investment.
 
Clearly, Scally has to be positive; you wouldn't want it any other way but it has to be realistic. We had our chance to go on to greater thnings when we got into the Championship, or whatever it was then, but we got rid of our best players; signed journeymen and appointed Hess as manager.

While I'm looking to us turning over Accrington tomorrow rather than a disjointed defeat, I'm not sure that this squad is the one to secure promotion out of L1. That said, with no debt and owning the stadium [sic], there should be money for significant signings.
 
Gills88 said:
While i agree to a extent, in what way of him keep repeating the same statement each year going to appeal to the fans. I have lost count the amount of times he has mentioned getting Investment for the team and has failed to do so every time. Im not saying go out there and go for the first one that he interviews for it. It is remotely clear that this team is not going to go higher without investment.
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It’s that time of the year where the season’s fast approaching and Scally’s saying we’re ambitious. Of course many of us find it the same unactioned waffle, but is less damaging than ‘the wage bill is one of the lowest in the league and we’ll be lucky to be in League 1 in a few years’.
 
Trev_GFC said:
It’s that time of the year where the season’s fast approaching and Scally’s saying we’re ambitious. Of course many of us find it the same unactioned waffle, but is less damaging than ‘the wage bill is one of the lowest in the league and we’ll be lucky to be in League 1 in a few years’.
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Maybe season ticket sales are slower than anticipated and some positive words will offload a few more.
 
im sure in that interview he says hes been looking for investment for past 2 years........didn't he go to Dubai for that reason? So surely its been more than 2 years.... ?
 
Trev_GFC said:
This is a yearly thing, I’m sure that’s the case every year.
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That's fine but talk about getting to the Championship. That is now a massively bigger step than it was twenty years ago .Investment to get us more competitive in our own league has to be possible .Investment in a promotion winning side that's a tall order but possible. Any higher for more than a brief visit is a dream at present. The only way it could happen is with the kids already at the club .Both in terms of the young pros and those still in the youth child ranks .If they could kick on together. For that the whole club needs to except it is a long struggling road .That involves better coaching at all ages .That costs .We have laid a foundation perhaps .
 
chris who said:
That's fine but talk about getting to the Championship. That is now a massively bigger step than it was twenty years ago .Investment to get us more competitive in our own league has to be possible .Investment in a promotion winning side that's a tall order but possible. Any higher for more than a brief visit is a dream at present. The only way it could happen is with the kids already at the club .Both in terms of the young pros and those still in the youth child ranks .If they could kick on together. For that the whole club needs to except it is a long struggling road .That involves better coaching at all ages .That costs .We have laid a foundation perhaps .
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It's not impossible for a club of our size to get into the championship these days, as Burton and Rotherham have recently proven.
What is impossible though, is to stay there and flourish.

The situation is that if you produce a group of really good youngsters, they will be quickly snapped up by bigger clubs.
For nearly every professional footballer, it's all about the money.
Would Tomas Holy stay as number one at Gills on his current salary or be fourth choice at a big Premier club on 10K a week?
I spoke to Jason Brown many times, and he was only a bit regretful after he'd finished playing. While he was being paid, he was fine with it.
 
shotshy said:
It's not impossible for a club of our size to get into the championship these days, as Burton and Rotherham have recently proven.
What is impossible though, is to stay there and flourish.

The situation is that if you produce a group of really good youngsters, they will be quickly snapped up by bigger clubs.
For nearly every professional footballer, it's all about the money.
Would Tomas Holy stay as number one at Gills on his current salary or be fourth choice at a big Premier club on 10K a week?
I spoke to Jason Brown many times, and he was only a bit regretful after he'd finished playing. While he was being paid, he was fine with it.
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As I said it would cost big time. Better coaching of youth plus longer contracts for those who show promise.
 
Any club can get into the Prem if you throw enough money at the playing budget. Better coaching will be a given.
 
With a serious injection of cash, it`s not impossible for GFC to get into the Premiership. Despite its illustrious history, now long past, small town clubs like Burnley have managed to get into, and stay in, the Premiership. Burnley was one win away from the Conference back in the late 1980`s. It`s a small town with a (current) population not much higher than Sittingbourne`s !
 
The Chairman (bless his cotton socks) wants Premiership Football. I will be happy to stay in division 1. Perhaps i now lack ambition !
 
Same old words with no substance behind them. He's been looking for serious investment for years and years and somehow its never really materialized. Maybe the club is not attractive or maybe Scallys terms are not attractive you can all have your own opinion.

Bottom line is if that was his objectives for the company then he hasn't succeeded. Thing is no one holds him to account, none of the other directors do and as he is the major share holder (by far) he can in effect do what he likes and decide whether he's a success or not.

I don't blame him saying that stuff at the start of season to try and shift a few more seats. Problem is that its no different to me saying "my ambition is the same as it was in 1995 and that's to bed a super model". That isn't happening either.

Maybe he'll update us via twitter on the results of his US investment talks.
 
The two main reasons why we could not possibly do a Brighton or a Burnley are patently obvious.

Firstly, when we reached the championship before, we rarely sold out home games even with a capacity of only around 11,000. Our average gates were always in the bottom three of the division so inevitably we eventually fell in to that bottom three and were relegated.

Secondly, Scally is clearly a control freak or a terrible delegator. No investor of any substance is going to put money in such a clear loss making enterprise as a League One Football Club and then just be a silent partner with no control in the direction of the club. The Brighton guy who has put all the money in is also their majority shareholder and calls the shots.
 
GillsBluenose said:
The two main reasons why we could not possibly do a Brighton or a Burnley are patently obvious.

Firstly, when we reached the championship before, we rarely sold out home games even with a capacity of only around 11,000. Our average gates were always in the bottom three of the division so inevitably we eventually fell in to that bottom three and were relegated.

Secondly, Scally is clearly a control freak or a terrible delegator. No investor of any substance is going to put money in such a clear loss making enterprise as a League One Football Club and then just be a silent partner with no control in the direction of the club. The Brighton guy who has put all the money in is also their majority shareholder and calls the shots.
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First point: Bournemouth or Swansea then. Wolfsburg.

Second point: guesswork. Have there been no investors as, you’re implying, Scally’s demanding chairman/CEO role? Or simply because they look at the finances and see a club with a tiny turnover like us, and possible large debt/poor credit rating? We don’t know.

I’m not here to say investment other than perhaps more minority directors will ever happen. Personally I also would give up going if, in the unlikely case, someone comes in and ploughs Bournemouth-style millions. I just disagree with people who say it will never happen. Technically it can. Forest Green Rovers or Salford City could get into the Premier League.
 
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