Does radio Sheffield ask the hard questions?

On football heaven yesterday they said that football club owners need to face journalists more often (in response to the BBC not being invited to an interview with a local CEO recently). A fan texted in today saying that radio Sheffield don't ask the hard questions anyway because they're scared of not being invited for another interview if they did which they responded to by saying that they DO ask hard hitting questions and anyone saying they don't obviously doesn't listen to radio Sheffield.

What do you think? Do they ask the hard questions or do they give owners (and managers) an easy ride?

My opinion is that they really don't ask hard questions at all and give owners a really easy ride. Our CEO walked out the door with no notice period and immediately joined a rival club. radio Sheffield still haven't asked how that was allowed to happen.
I get the feeling that they simply don't know what questions fans want the answers to, especially from the club's outside of Sheffield. Either that or they just don't really care and it's more important for them to be able to say they've had an interview with Paul Conway (and all the others) than it is for it to be a worthwhile interview. They touch ever so gently on topics but I've never heard them push for a better answer. If they ask about the ownership of oakwell they accept any answer no matter how vague. Asked about the Belgian lads and just accepted 'they aren't fit' without pushing or questioning.

 

Very few journalists/interviewers ask hard questions and when they do, the pathetic non-answers they receive don't get scrutinized anyway.

 

Well, you just did, love. Hardly on my daily list of problems. I’m off to tidy up & burn a couple of road kills, before the maggots set in..

 

I agree and I completely understand why because if the interviewee doesn't like the interview you won't get them again. I just think they are a bit wrong in claiming they always ask hard questions when they don't seem to (imo)

 

They ask all the tough questions.

You must be disappointed to have lost that, Markus?

I suppose getting deducted six points for financial doping is just one of those understandable things which happens in professional football, right, Dejphon?

Spending £120million on Championship/League One-level dross is all someone else's fault, eh, Chris?

As others have said, they are terrified of losing access to the clubs, and so they give the easiest of easy rides.

 

Your cookings not that bad is it?

 

Can I turn your question around slightly.

Why do fans believe they are due answers to all of their questions, after all, they are not part of the management team and they do not need all that information in order to do their jobs. Rather the fans want answers so they can query whether the management took the right decision. They want that information so they can second guess whether they are doing a good job. They want that information so that they can question the competence of the decision-maker, and they will do all of that in spite of the fact that they are not competent through lack of experience to take the decision themselves. Personally, my first assumption is always that the decision-maker knows what he is doing, and my starting point is always to try to understand what motivated the decision, whilst always assuming that the decision was the one that any competent individual, faced with those circumstances, would have taken. I try to explain, rather than question.

 

I always get impression the questions are agreed in advance with the CEO type interviews.

 

Basically as it was put by radio Sheffield yesterday, the owners, regardless of how much money they have put in to a club, are merely custodians of the club and are there to act in the interests of supporters.

I'd also say that just because someone is richer than me I don't automatically assume they are superior or more competent and that's the case just because someone has got a job. There are people I know who are far better than me at my job and I know plenty who are better than my superiors at work too.

 

Andy Giddings is very good with the interviews, IMO.

 

And do you believe that?

 

Yes. A football club is a sporting club which belongs to the supporters of that club. Any owner who believes that isn't the case and that it's their toy to do with as they please should be nowhere near a football club. That's not aimed at our owners by the way, the first person I thought of was chansiri

 

Can do a barbecue, if you like? Spikes, fur & feathers come for nowt..

 

The Football club is owned by a limited company. The Owners paid £10m to buy that company. The owners have a record of successfully running football clubs in other countries. They are very good at it. It you ask 80% of supporters what the owners should do, they would immediately say that the owners should invest more money into the club in order to buy better players. That strategy has been tried, and the downside of that strategy is that the club goes bust. Which group would you say are most qualified to run the club, and keep it safe for the next generation. The one that would try to spend their way to success, or the one that manages within a budget, and tries to break even. Why should the one that is trying to manage the business sustainably want to put that at risk by passing non-essential information to the unqualified?

 

You are talking specifically about our club, I'm talking in general

 

How does our club differ from the rest?

 

I once had an unenviable task. Rooting through applications for a Junior conservator post at V&A.?
If I wasn’t sold in the first 30 words, it went in the bin..

 

This isn't the first time you have said this and I think you are very wide of the mark to be honest and don't give fans enough credit.

Most fans in my opinion want to see us play by the rules and unless you can show me otherwise I can't recall anyone on here stating we should be spending millions more on playing staff. One or two at the most but not 80%. There has been more call to redevelop the ground, not invest in players.

 

When the club is not winning games, the solution according to the majority of the fan base is either change the Coach, recruit better players or both. Very rarely do you read the phrase, let's be patient and give them a chance.

 

Maybe so in some cases but that isn't how you've worded it initially. Different scenario.