terry shipman

[slyfox]

i see he has piece in the mercury,saying how disliked he was and how fans were disgruntled about the lack of funds for players.

i must admit i never had much time for the bloke,and even demonstrated a few times(pleat era) to see him go.

in truth though he has a point, the gates in the 80's were awful,and a real lack of investers that most people put down to football hooligan element.

 

[footyguts]

he lined hes pockets like everyone else done since.why i dont give em my cash anymore.still peed off we built a new stand at filbo when we could have moved stadium up nr the motorway.

 

[Matt_B]

he lined hes pockets like everyone else done since.why i dont give em my cash anymore.still peed off we built a new stand at filbo when we could have moved stadium up nr the motorway.

would certainly have made it easy for people in the city wouldn't it.

 

[Macky]

he lined hes pockets like everyone else done since.why i dont give em my cash anymore.still peed off we built a new stand at filbo when we could have moved stadium up nr the motorway.

You're 'peed off' because we upgraded part of our old stadium 15 or more years ago????
WTF are you on about?

 

[Matt_B]

You're 'peed off' because we upgraded part of our old stadium 15 or more years ago????
WTF are you on about?

He starts his statement explaining that he doesn't give the club any of his money anymore, and seems proud of it. why any of the rest of his post suprised either of us is beyond me.

 

[Redditch Fox]

he lined hes pockets like everyone else done since.

I doubt that very much indeed.

The people who have mainly made money out of LCFC are players and their agents.

The Shipmans (Terry & his father Len before him) were not that popular but they did an honest job trying to keep the club reasonably successful whilst operating within its means. Those were different times but in many ways I think they were better times.

 

[Macky]

The Shipmans (Terry & his father Len before him) were not that popular but they did an honest job trying to keep the club reasonably successful whilst operating within its means.

That can't be right Redditch, I heard a bloke in the pub slagging him off once and if bloke in the pub says it, then that's good enough for me.

 

[Redditch Fox]

That can't be right Redditch, I heard a bloke in the pub slagging him off once and if bloke in the pub says it, then that's good enough for me.

I heard that bloke too - but he admitted later that night that he had got him mixed up with some northern medical bloke.

 

[Steven]

You're 'peed off' because we upgraded part of our old stadium 15 or more years ago????
WTF are you on about?

I think because not long after it was built we started the whole Walkers move. We could have bypassed building the new stand and built a whole new stadium instead. :icon_wink

 

[Redditch Fox]

I think because not long after it was built we started the whole Walkers move. We could have bypassed building the new stand and built a whole new stadium instead. :icon_wink

I've not checked out the timing.....but are you sure that the Carling Stand was built in the Shipman era?

 

[slyfox]

I've not checked out the timing.....but are you sure that the Carling Stand was built in the Shipman era?

correct me if i am wrong but i am pretty sure shipman resigned when pleaty went.

the carling stand went up in the early 90's when little was in charge, i sat in there for the first game which was notts county i think,who a certain mark draper was playing for at the time.

was martin george chairman?

 

[footyguts]

was all the same board,blah blah.he retired (shipman)fan pressure still the same stuff.
you had to be there i guess.

 

[Blue Maniac]

was all the same board,blah blah.he retired (shipman)fan pressure still the same stuff.
you had to be there i guess.

Where, Nottingham?

 

[Motown Fox]

Heres a picture of it just after it was built just before they finished it off I think it was 1992/93 or 1993/4

 

[footyguts]

should be blue mongy.
anyway for the person who posted i am proud of not giving the club any money,i'm not proud i have 2 kids and better stuff to spend my money on.
i pick and choose my games when i want to go like you lot do(mainly)

 

[Blue Maniac]

should be blue mongy.
anyway for the person who posted i am proud of not giving the club any money,i'm not proud i have 2 kids and better stuff to spend my money on.
i pick and choose my games when i want to go like you lot do(mainly)

:icon_eek:

 

[footyguts]

was a nice stand,just made us look a joke.for those who went and sat opposite the east stand would know
then knock it down a few years later very clever

 

[Blue Maniac]

was a nice stand,just made us look a joke.for those who went and sat opposite the east stand would know
then knock it down a few years later very clever

In fairness, the stadium as a whole made us look very lower-division. But yeah, binning off the whole ground less than a decade after such a drastic upgrade was a bit odd. Done is done though, we gotta live with it...

 

[footyguts]

not trying to make enemys its my point and i was a die hard blah blah.
for me i feel the club took the piss out of me for how things were done in them days.
true i like to see them do well but its different this day and age.

 

[Jeff]

In fairness, the stadium as a whole made us look very lower-division. But yeah, binning off the whole ground less than a decade after such a drastic upgrade was a bit odd. Done is done though, we gotta live with it...

I don't think anyone would have predicted the way crowds increased in the late nineties, after Euro 96.
in 1990-91 Leicester's average attendance was 11,500, the following few seasons when we were doing well it was 15,000.
People would have said it was a waste of money if the club had decided to build a 32,000 capacity stadium at that time.