RP London

1895 still happening?? does Derek know?

swings and roundabouts really as i'll be more likely to go as its easier for me and take a few people with me as its much closer and my son and his mates (who's dad would be one who would come with me) have just passed their driving tests so its pay back time and they can pick up a few drunken fools!

On the announcement of the season tickets it's towards the end where it is looking for grounds not just the OLP

Yep as Tommy has posted. The Transport ground is a dump of a place at the moment so its perfect. On the corner with some major roads running by. Problem is there is heavy traffic due to a retail park they didnt plan properly for being just down the road. None of it is insurmountable but think the planning is very painful.. signs have come down on it now though which does make me wonder whether they have binned it off which would be a real shame and would leave a dump of a place still there.

planning at sheffield council i think is the issue, residents not keen and issues with the transport infrastructure.

Theyre trying to at the moment but the planning is really difficult for them

not massivly keen on the home kit, not enough gold and not sure I like the white bits at the top, away kit is quite nice though.

Not a massive fan of the shirt to be honest (not sure on the detail and not enough gold for me) quite like the away one though, but the deal for the season ticket is very good. The move to Dronfield is interesting, been a while since I went to sheffield FC so not sure how big the pitch is but think its better than the OLP for sure. Also does it signify that Meadowhead may actually get off the ground and its the first move across the city to then be permenant?

pending approval would be/should be a signed contract but no money has yet changed hands simply becuase if it does you then have to liquidate the company which would be time consuming and cost.. whereas if the company is a "shell" then you just shut it if they dont get the final approval from the RFL to be the ones to take over. I would suggest this is the normal way of doing things, proof of funds is agreements for loans, mortgage agreements etc all tied up by a contract but no actual money moving until all is signed and sealed.

yes i get that but its the unite behind one identity but the identity/crest keeps changing... also there are shots with the old branding in it too but hey ho.

I enjoyed the bit where it said "families united behind one crest"... which one the one you've just launched, the one before that or the one before that? I get the sentiment but sometimes things like that just bug me.

Not necessarily... Can go through recruiters and you'd never really know.

It looks that way but perhaps it isn't but the process just takes longer and is done more quietly... Recruitment processes can take months and then there are notice periods at the end of it, none of which tends to be done in the public eye as that would cause controversy for people apply who are already in a job and don't want boses to know etc .. so perhaps that is all happening and it's not actually how it looks. I might be wrong though.

Oh I totally get that and the easy wins of getting information to people like your kids should be key. The one thing they have to look at, as any business does, is with limited resources (not just money) what do you prioritise? I can live with them sacrificing the beginning of this season to make sure they get the right people and the right strategy to start moving this forward during the season with the year after being a bigger plan... It's got to have a long term strategy at which point you can sacrifice some of the short term stuff. If they spent all their time on the shorter term stuff then they could end up missing a chance further down the line because of the resources being concentrated elsewhere.. they're building, sometimes that will take longer than people would like.

This is the thing, I think we can all agree, and most of us have said it on here at the time, that the old iterations did things badly. A lot of us were saying the same thing as Gutter at the time in fact. Going over the past though is pointless, yes they have to learn from it but going over and over and over it is just dull, tedious and boring, not to mention pointless . Add to that it's being said as though he's the only one who has thought about it even though most is us were saying the same/similar at the time. He doesn't like the branding, fine, but as with raking over the past, he's said it, we heard, some agree, some don't, let's move on. There are some good things going on, it's a long term build with the youth which is great and something loads of us have been saying for 20 years (I've banged on about it as much as anyone) and from what it sounds like the strides there are really good. Yes they much get bums on seats but as anyone who has lived in London knows that isn't easy. It's also not easy to do that outside of football when there isn't anything to entice people down to to "try it". They are starting again from scratch again. It'll be hard but let's give them time to get the right back office teams in place before we decry the work that being done by what will definitely be not enough people with probably not a good enough skill set for the type of things we want them to do. Gutter has agreed in the past we should give them time but continually comes back not giving them time... It's dull and pointless. But must float his boat, weirdly.