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Post by thebestpanthers on Apr 6, 2016 11:21:47 GMT
Tbh I would rather he spent the money on a sports car than on our rivals. Tbh I'd rather he burnt the money. As long as he spends all the panthers money on panther I will be happy. Of course he spent panthers money on breahead. Please post the link to companies house where I can see what profit he made on panthers, I would love to see it. Also see if you can find where the money from a sold out playoff weekend goes. Good luck.. Thought the Play-Offs were run and organised by the league, so any monies would go to them, and IIAC this is spread between all the clubs in the EIHL - wish some would be spent on training the refs - you may want to check if NB has shares in NIC just for the conspiracy theory that is, of course - If NB walked away from Panthers, how would people feel if Scott Neil took over? - He may own the Panthers & Clan but did anyone see him hogging the limelight on Sunday, or even after the CC win - He is a businessman, he is in it to make a profit, he also attends games occasionally (would people prefer it if all he did was take the money and was never seen??)- If it was your money would you be happy if people kept telling you how to spend it - and before people say it is not his money it is ours because we buy the tickets, then compare that to anything else you buy, you get the goods, they get the money, to do what they want with it - I think it is going to be a long time to September, can you hibernate in the Summer?
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Post by texpef on Apr 6, 2016 11:56:48 GMT
YEs he is a businessman but this isn't like selling you bacon, a chair or even double glazing, where you hand over the money and get bacon, a chair or double glazing.. you get a ticket nothing more. Now if you knew that ticket guaranteed you a win or an exciting time then great but what if the game id boring or your team get thrashed, have you had value for your money? Did you get what you thought you were buying and importantly IF more of the cash that was parted was invested in the on ice product would your value for money increase?
Personally IF I felt that a sufficient investment in the team was made I would accept a loss or maybe a "boring" game but honestly this season at the start I thought we had invested in the team until we were told we were going imports down, then to add insult to that injury when the usual injury crisis did hit especially to key players imho we did not react quickly enough to bring in replacements (or not bring in replacements at all) and this more than anything (CN messing with lines etc) lead to not winning a second league title in out time at the NIC. So again IMHO I don't feel that VFM was had and if it had been say double glazing where an half assed job was done and perhaps some glass needed replacing which never was you as a customer would be entitled to complain and this is what I feel has happened at panthers. I think people are getting carried away with the euphoria that is winning a couple of cups but that took a handful of games with a relatively fit squad hardly VFM over a whole season...
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Post by The Flying Shirt on Apr 6, 2016 12:39:37 GMT
Panthers, Clan, London, not really the issue so much as multi club ownership full stop. There really isn't an option if the league is to survive but as in other sports it isn't a healthy situation.
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Post by pingchowchi on Apr 6, 2016 15:09:16 GMT
It's his money he can spend it how he likes, I personally would rather him spend it on something hockey related than a new shiny Italian car. Im sorry I don't agree with this at all... But he can spend the profit on anything he likes, I can't moan at my local butchers for spending his profit on what he likes, even if some of the profit was from money that I spent in the shop. Now I *suspect* that the budget for the Panthers would be the same, regardless of if he is spending money on the Clan or not. I certainly do not feel that the budget has gone down since the Clan has was formed. He certainly has never been a free spending sort of owner. I suspect that other people think that he would have put whatever money he has put into the Clan into the Panthers instead, but given his track record from before the Clan was formed, I think that is wishful thinking.
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Post by iginla on Apr 6, 2016 16:03:42 GMT
What i find very odd,is that the purse strings at Panthers seem to be held tighter than a ducks backside,yet dangle a six game CHL jaunt into Europe in front of Mr Black and all of a sudden he's happy to spend £200k plus (their figures) on the cost of entering and taking part in a competition we have absolutely no hope whatsoever of winning.
Imagine spending that £200k on better quality players in addition to our normal squads wages.....if we did the league would be over before the end of January !
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Post by fishman on Apr 6, 2016 16:42:12 GMT
I'm curious to see what we think the turnover for the Panthers is, please send your answers on a postcard, no, no just post the number 000's
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Post by thebestpanthers on Apr 6, 2016 18:05:35 GMT
If I were the owner then I would give the Coach/ GM an amount of money at the start of the season, with the instruction to provide a profitable team, that can entertain the fans and compete for the trophies and improve attendances. It would be up to them then to use the money wisely, they would also be made aware that there would be no additional investment available. what do people want, an owner who buys the titles by paying money he cannot afford, poaching players from other teams, and going bust every few seasons. Hopefully we do not have any teams like that in the league.
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Post by iginla on Apr 6, 2016 19:27:17 GMT
I'm curious to see what we think the turnover for the Panthers is, please send your answers on a postcard, no, no just post the number 000's Somewhere the top side of £2million plus very easily. Costs in the low £1million plus.
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Post by iginla on Apr 6, 2016 19:28:53 GMT
If I were the owner then I would give the Coach/ GM an amount of money at the start of the season, with the instruction to provide a profitable team, that can entertain the fans and compete for the trophies and improve attendances. It would be up to them then to use the money wisely, they would also be made aware that there would be no additional investment available. what do people want, an owner who buys the titles by paying money he cannot afford, poaching players from other teams, and going bust every few seasons. Hopefully we do not have any teams like that in the league. Don't worry.....I think the Steelers learnt their lesson the hard way ! Lol
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