A rather strange post from you. We all know the answer but surely it is best to avoid avoidable costs if we can.
I was speaking to a Swindon fan today and she apologised for all the flares. Apparently they are a regular occurrence with their fans and the Club have been fined because of them. She said the Chairman who has put a lot of money into the club was getting fed up losing money that way.
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I personally think flairs add to the atmosphere of the game if ever you watch the bundesliga or saw West Ham at Eintract Frankfurt Thursday night youâll get what I mean.
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You can laugh at me all day long but you are missing the humour and fellowship many of us get from going to a game. To me it is more than the 95 minutes we see most weeks.
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Canât see why it is âstrangeâ. The chairman made a thing of associating the mistakes of the fans with the playing budget. Iâd love to know the quantum involved. He chooses to equate the actions with the playing budget because he feels that is an emotional juxtaposition.
Yet when the board make a mistake you will never hear such a link. When we sacked Matt Taylor, we didnât say that we had agreed a compensation package at a considerable detriment to the playing budget. And when McDonald followed him a week later we didnât say âand there goes more of the playing budgetâ. When we appointed consultants to work out a decent match experience because our board couldnât work one out, we didnât say that hiring them came from the playing budget.
It isnât an accident that when fans are being told off the unit of currency is the playing budget and yet when the board make mistakes, the cost of those mistakes is never equated with the playing budget.
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Add actually spending money on Rodney, too.
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Wonder if Pomlett will dedicate 4 minutes of his next Pomcast slating Swindon fans?
Surely their pitch invasion has absolutely decimated our playing budget!!! 
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Jamie Fullerton Matt Taylor Brian Dutton all must have been compensated has that not affected the budget more than a few fans running on the pitch?
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Absolutely. That falls on Pomlett though and we all know he wonât take responsibility for anything.
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Not a chance!
The mask has slipped for me.
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Not as bad as playing âBringing On Back The Good Timesâ at full time. Takes the piss 
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Great post, canât wait to read the reply and counter argument.
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So are you saying we should have kept those âfailuresâ? Because in football most coaches / managers fail at some point and have to be paid off. Those sort of costs are unavoidable in this business.
As for his comments on the police costs I think you a making a mountain out of a molehill. He was simply pointing out that actions have consequences. Grown men should not be on the pitch . I can excuse youngsters getting excited (although rare at Walsall) but for adults to behave in that way is not to me acceptable.
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This isnât what he is saying!
The impact of having to pay off so many staff members impacts on the playing budget far more than a few fans encroaching when we score.
Whoooooooooooooosh.
Weâve had a lot of those failures in the short-term, root cause of those are Pomlett & Co piss poor decision making. Would suggest that has cost us a lot more cash in the short term than a few âfansâ.
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Iâm not saying that and I think you know it. 
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Human beings make mistakes. All of us. If those mistakes talk to a morality like the tweet then contextualise it that way. And I agree with him entirely on the tweet by the way and I hope the author is banned for a very long time. If those mistakes have a business impact and are couched in that way then measure all the communities of Walsall FC equally. A vague, unquantified poke isnât worth the airtime on the video unless the objective was to have a vague, unquantified poke.
Anyway - thatâs probably my mountain finished. Have a good âun. 
Why not, itâs what we do. Mole, Gamble, Whalley, GilmanâŚ
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Biggest failure to date Is pomlett. And his board.
Of. Bonserets
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New season walkout musicâŚ
My team is always playinâ
And I should not be sayinâ
That we donât get no lovinâ
And thatâs no lie
We spent some time in League One
And even some above that
Now weâre about to kiss League Two good-bye
Donât blame it on the sunshine
Donât blame it on the moonlight
Donât blame it on the good times
Blame it on the Boner
That nasty Bonser bugs me
But Walsall it has drugged me
Sausage rolls are burning on the stove
So now the seasonâs ended
And fans are all offended
So much for giving it a good go
We just canât, we just canât, we just canât help ourselvesâŚ
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Itâs positive to get a Chairman that communicates with the fans. No doubt about that. Not many others do.
But the reality is you need to do it professionally and openly or donât do it at all imo.
What we have ended up with is communication that tells part of a story and that part of the story is doctored so much that it upsets the very fans that it was meant to inform.
Why doesnât he just stick with talking to us front faced with a suitable modern backdrop and with some slicker production values?
Being asked irrelevant questions by our amateur analog media bloke who fails on every post match video is not the answer.
He should also get a couple of people he trusts (not Mole or Gamble or Wallet) to listen and edit and mentor the sort of questions that need an answer. Most of the reality questions have been covered on this thread already but not mentioning the cost/upset of changes like DOF and the overall strategy effect is just daft and makes us think the Board do not accept responsibility for anything.
And lastly while all of us think the arrival of MF is the best thing that has happened in a decade, why portray a feeling he is frightened of what happens next? He should be portraying MF as someone the Board will back with all the Budget possible to give him the best chance of success.
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