The Board Of Directors - Time To Go????

Be careful what you wish for..

 

We’ve gone down in league positions every season. There’s been no progress and the way their form is, we won’t be in top six next season. A massive revamp is needed.

 

I’m not for one minute denying that they are nice people. I’ve been to the fans forum and spoke to one or two of them. They are “nice” like you say.

I’ve no doubt they do want the best for the club otherwise why would they be here.

It helps if you’re “nice” but the main thing you have to be before anything else is good at your job. The main thing for me is getting the clubs business model right. How long till it is????

 

Yep... And we don't have the talent coming through to bridge the funding gap.. and we have massive numbers of staff those of who are under contract and won't be going anywhere.
So Houston we have a problem.. The only short term solution is cutbacks where you can or owners put more money in.. and after the dogs abuse they are getting id be very surprised if that was the root we went down this summer

 

That’s how we’ve ended up in this mess. Loads of cheap buys, many in the same position and all pretty much hopeless. The scattergun approach to recruitment is killing us.

 

What’s the current wage bill mate ?

 

But how can you revamp when the players you would want to get rid of won't go because this will probably be as high a level as most of them get..
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I meant off field. We have no choice but to rebuild this summer with three ‘key players’ definitely leaving plus McAtee will be off to Sheff U or Sunderland.

 

Wasn't this a team within a couple of games of being on 2nd place at one point, under what a sizeable minority thought was a poor manager? Now presumably some of the same people think the team is also **** and we are going to be crap next year so we need to sack the board, go back to letting successive managers sign their own players, and rebuild the squad. Most clubs these days don't run this way and for good reason.

The majority of signings over the last 5 years or more have been good to excellent. A few recently certainly haven't had an immediate impact and views are they aren't up to much period. Personally I don't think it's reason to sack the board or anyone else. There's nothing to say we won't find a couple more good players to plug any gaps and be better off next year. YMMV.

 

I agree but that cost money we don't have.. now if the club was United a both broad players and fan base and just failed to get up through the play offs then maybe.. but it's all a bit of a car crash at the minute..
All I see is a summer if cutbacks and belt tightening.. Whoever the new coach is he will have to work with what we already have.. and couple of free transfers and loans
Not going to be a big queue

 

Last year’s wage bill was £9.3m down from £13m the previous year. By comparison our play off final opponents, Wednesday had a total wage bill of £15.8m

 

Cheers do you know what league one average is ? Presuming around 6

 

Is it fuuck.

 

Looking in it does seem in a bad way the club. From the owners down to the players who come across as they don't care.

 

If I ran my business like these people I would be bankrupt in 6 months

 

I can agree with a deal of what’s been posted, but addressing the original post whether it’s time for the board to go, I’m not sure.
If they were to go, and why on earth would they, there won’t be a queue down Grove Street of replacements. Firstly the current board will be reluctant to write off their investment. Secondly there aren’t that many fairy Godmother/fathers willing to take on a third tier football club. Just over 10 years ago (when we were in the championship) the club was considering bids from five consortia. Non were either serious (financially viable) or satisfied due diligence scrutiny. If you look across all the clubs even down to the sixth and seventh tiers there are many clubs in a far worse situation than us. There’s no guarantee that a new board would satisfy the aspirations of the supporters.

 

I absolutely understand the points you make. But it does strike me that there is a big difference between putting money in, and how that money is then used. I have been concerned for some time that the main objective of those in charge is player trading, and that this has led to what is effectively, a ‘casino’ approach to recruitment. Witness the number of players, signed last summer, out on loan or, in one case, not even able to make the under 21 squad. It is difficult to imagine such a profligate approach during the club’s existence prior to the current regime. This leads me to question their motives in a way I would never have done with, for example, John Dennis. People tell me that the days of local businessmen, genuine supporters of the club, having any involvement have gone. If so, then perhaps that’s also one of the reasons why many of we supporters feel a similar detachment.

 

Genuine question @Archerfield - does the £5m figure assume the wage bill is the same as last year? I'd guess that Andersen, Collins, Kitching, Norwood, Thomas etc leaving would mean that even allowing for the incomings, we took a chunk of that?

 

Exactly what I have been saying and very well put. You missed out the first expulsion from the FA Cup in our history.

 

Presuming that Kane, Cole, Styles and Williams go, that would leave us with just Benson that was signed in the championship era on presumably better contracts, so things must be improving slowly.