friendlygas wrote:Im not sure they will walk this league.Their problem I think will be that they wilkl upset the team spirit by bringing in so many players.Remember that obviously the players they had did very well last season but how many of those players will actually get the chance to show what they can do in a higher standard? Very few I would think.
unlikely in my opinion. when you get an insight into the mentality of the manager and his sh*thouse assistant, you'll see its been instilled in the players and the fans. they've created this whole "everybody hates us", "everyone is jealous" mentality, which everyone at the club has signed up to. as BoomBoom said, the more they p*ss people off, the more they seem to thrive in it. and they use it to their advantage to maintain togetherness. if any of the players don't like, they'll soon be on their way, i'm sure. it's not as if anyone doesn't know what they're like.
Fans of lower league teams like to think we have escaped some of the less attractive elements at the top level. Gamesmanship, diving, buying success, aggressive managers trying to influence the ref etc. Crawely Town do all this and more and it's ugly.
I'm not saying all teams in and around league 2 are saints, far from it, but Crawley are a joke. Too all other league 2 fans, get ready for a very sour match at your place.
I thought there was a wage cap coming in this season preventing clubs from spending above their budgets. Surely Crawley will be in breach of this with some of their signings.
yellowmonkey wrote:I thought there was a wage cap coming in this season preventing clubs from spending above their budgets. Surely Crawley will be in breach of this with some of their signings.
The wage cap is a percentage of turnover and there are ways of artificially enhancing your turnover to get around it.
For instance Peterborough's owner sponsored there shirts for the sum of £3,000,000 (as a comparison, Sparkworld pay about £30,000 to sponsor our shirts!) so it appeared as turnover rather than a "gift" from a wealthy benefactor.
yellowmonkey wrote:I thought there was a wage cap coming in this season preventing clubs from spending above their budgets. Surely Crawley will be in breach of this with some of their signings.
I think there may be a few brown envelopes involved, the same as last season
didn't like their attitude at all when they came to Plainmoor, wasn't very impressive at all, if they had won fair and square I would have probably been happy for them, but they weren't!
