Deja vu all over again.

[mooonlightgraham]

Back in '95 Scally rode in on his used copy machine and saved the Gills from disappearing into the depths of the lower divisions. THANK YOU ,THANK YOU MR. SCALLY.  Fast forward to '22 and here comes the Galinson's, driving there red Corvette ,and again  the mighty Gills  are saved from disappearing down the plug hole. Clueless about running a football club they are forced to keep Scally the guy who conned them into buying the Gills,telling them that the Big Blue Machine is ready to become another WREXHAM, they will see themselves all over every TV station in the world,they will become famous.  Unfortunately  no one told them that Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney,spent over TEN MILLION POUNDS on getting Wrexham promoted to the First Division.

[Greyfox]

Not sure where you got your information. Far from £10,000,000, I understand from various reports, they haven’t put in 1 penny of their own money.

Purely down to their names to create the finances needed to take the club forward. Good luck to them.

But as a Gills fan, I couldn’t care a less about Wrexham.

Far from clueless, The Galinsons are trying to create the finances in a similar fashion by plugging into the thousands of businesses in the area.
Creating substantial finance through the suburb facilities at the club. Since Covid, where the facilities were closed down, the club is making great strides to make the most of them.

[hessisgod]

Scally has been given the heave ho as well

[medwaystandgill]

Aug 2, 2024 19:32:19 GMT 1 Greyfox said:

Not sure where you got your information. Far from £10,000,000, I understand from various reports, they haven’t put in 1 penny of their own money.

Purely down to their names to create the finances needed to take the club forward. Good luck to them.

But as a Gills fan, I couldn’t care a less about Wrexham.

Far from clueless, The Galinsons are trying to create the finances in a similar fashion by plugging into the thousands of businesses in the area.
Creating substantial finance through the suburb facilities at the club. Since Covid, where the facilities were closed down, the club is making great strides to make the most of them.

Correct I believe that Reynolds and his mate are probably making money from the club rather than putting in. They own the production rights for the tv series about the club that they then sell to Disney. Regardless of his acting talents Reynolds is a very shrewd businessman and likely to be the richest actor in Hollywood. Wrexham helps his profile(cue the celeb visits like Hugh Jackman) and his profile definitely helps Wrexham.
As for the Galinsons I'm pretty happy that we have owners that give two hoots about the club, the staff and supporters. Knowing a couple of members of the office staff they have nothing but praise for Brad and Shannon as very down to earth people who care.
As for the previous owner, he has been absent behind the scenes for a number of months. It is very much the Galinson's club now and for that I'm glad.

[donut]

I would be happy if when I go into the Medway Stand this coming season, I wont see Scallys face above me.

[mooonlightgraham]

They put 2.5 million up to buy Wrexham FC and Who cares if they have bought other peoples money into the team, half the teams in the Premier Division have numerous "donate-rs". If they were smart enough to bring other "famous peoples"money into the club to get it out of the BS division we are in then good luck to them. I hear that actress Eva Longoria ,Justin Verlander (Baseball pitcher), Model Kate Upton, NFL player Odel Beckham and soccer player Mesut Ozil, have all bought in to Wrexham .  Now Reynolds and McElhenney have bought shares in one of the top teams in Mexico ,Necaxa FC.

[Greyfox]

Not 10m then. Make your mind up. You say who cares, obviously you do.

You seem obsessed with Wrexham. I for one couldn’t care a less.

[summerwell]

There is a broader issue though about how much of what we still call English/British football is now nothing of the sort.

Non-Brits dominate the Premier league, in terms of ownership, management and playing strength. You can find comfort in the amount of money this brings but I would ask the question about who benefits long term when there is now virtually no longevity in any aspect of the EPL and when the top teams openly flout the financial rules.

The future seems to me to be the wholesale selling off of anything remotely profitable, while the national side will become less and less significant and the grass roots game becomes marginalised. Football grew and flourished as a sport of its local communities. Now it is the plaything of oil billionaires , movie stars and the mega rich. I no longer watch any Prem football- who cares if the International Mercenaries XI beats the Global Allstars - next season they will all have changed sides anyway.

[mooonlightgraham]

I wrote that they paid around two and a half million to buy the club, I have no idea what they have invested since they have owned it.      Did anyone ask you to care about Wrexham, I bet your a bundle of fun to go out drinking with ,what do you talk about ,OH I know YOU. I would have thought that Wrexham would have been the model Gillingham FC would want to copy ,but I what do I know ?
Summerwell the only way to control Premiership football is to have a salary cap,until you get that the rich get richer and the poor get relegated.

[Greyfox]

For the sake of debate.

I said, good luck to them. Wrexham have, as you say, been a success story.

However you intimated that the Galinsons haven’t got a clue, I beg to differ, they are trying to pick the club up from a very low ebb by the scuff of the neck and drag it forward. The difference in Gillingham is palpable and there is lots of good will towards them.

The difference between Gillingham and Wrexham is, that when the team started winning the support quickly expanded and now will only keep getting bigger. This fuels momentum and the finances for the club.

Gillingham however, still can’t manage enough support to need a new stand at the Gillingham end, which stands empty for most games. Even in the Championship support was disappointing at times.

Bournemouth and Brentford have been successful in recent years with support and facilities similar to the Gills, so hopefully we can copy their model.

[donut]

Aug 6, 2024 21:46:07 GMT 1 mooonlightgraham said:

I wrote that they paid around two and a half million to buy the club, I have no idea what they have invested since they have owned it.      Did anyone ask you to care about Wrexham, I bet your a bundle of fun to go out drinking with ,what do you talk about ,OH I know YOU. I would have thought that Wrexham would have been the model Gillingham FC would want to copy ,but I what do I know ?
Summerwell the only way to control Premiership football is to have a salary cap,until you get that the rich get richer and the poor get relegated.

Moonlight, I've heard that salary cap arguement time and time again, mainly from Capitalists like Scally and many others. Let me say, I like the idea of a salary cap but why are you picking on footballers? It's a stale and tired arguement which will never happen while we live in a world like we do. This is market driven and footballers have a very short working life. Am i defending it? Of course not but let's have some consistency and not so much of the hypocrisy. It's the way it is, I dont like it, but it's the way it's become and if we want to change it it means root and branch society which greed wont allow to happen. Why pick alone on Messi and the likes, they are selling their wares and mugs will pay to see it, just like everything else.

[lenny38]

Shouldn’t the subject title be Deja Vu? You don’t need the all over again.