New blog post: Patrick Cryne EXCLUSIVE Q&A

Brilliant Andy, very well done !!!!!

 

I think you underestimate yourself - you ARE that clever.

I'm not saying that it's not genuine, just that it reads like it's not genuine. Very entertaining, but suspect.

I love the fact that the multi-millionaire owner of our football club is approachable and is not afraid to tell it like it is to an ordinary fan, and therefore to ALL of us. But at the same time I'm slightly disturbed by it.

You'll be telling us next that he dons a replica shirt and sits in the Ponty End most home games, and that he's the one with that annoying air horn

 

That is a very good interview hidden beneath some very quirky questions. It takes a very interesting mind, and I guess, a lot of time, to dream up that sort of interview question. So much more interesting that the norm. You should be in the media.

 

Top work Whitey. I thought questions 14 and 25 were absolute belters!

 

Absolutely brilliant that pal. It was making me laugh cos I could almost hear you asking them questions, :-D

 

Fantastic interview, great questions and terrific answers. On a serious note I hope Patrick is having second thoughts about pulling out of the club. I honestly don't believe we could be in better hands. I'd also like to think that James will eventually come round to the idea of succeeding his dad.

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Modest fcuker !

I have to say that most of the stuff that you do is streets ahead of some of the so called journalists/ interviewers that get paid for writing bland tripe.

One question is could you write in the same manner for matters relating to other clubs that don't mean as much to you ?

 

I can see why he never gave you a job!!

 

No what he means Dave is he can only write like that when he's wasted :-D

 

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Great piece, Patrick is so funny it reads like a spoof

 

great reading that , thanks to whitey and pc

 

Really enjoyed that. He sounds like a great guy.

 

It's Wednesday, I'm off work and being the manic person that I am, I'm either up or down. There's no inbetween. And my idea to create another goals video that I was really excited about doing, I've decided that's a **** idea and can't be arsed. There's the bin that needs emptying, so I do that. I lift a few weights (no, seriously, I'm like Geoff Capes now). I take the dog for a long walk in the countryside. When I get home I've the nagging urge to create something. But I still don't want to do a video. I stumble across some software that if successful, should allow me to rip content from any website. Turns out it's successful. The possibilities are endless. But who, in football would I dedicate hours to creating a huge video of their entire career to date? Using footage I've not been able to use before. Yep. And he dunt laik for BFC anymore. So that's a personal mission that's going to take a few months, an engagement present for him, a CD of his career to date. Because I'm tight. But no, he buzzes off **** like that. But what about now? I want to create/produce something now.

Because there's now a mountain of footage I can use for videos, I start thinking about a season review. But there's the playoffs to come. I'll do that after the playoffs. That can wait. I've just done Hammill and Winnall videos. I'm struggling for ideas. I've retired the podcast because it bored me eventually. Everything usually does, until I stop doing it for a while. Ahhh, the blog. I've not done a blog for a bit. Because it bores me. **** sake. I started to type away anyway. A review of the season. Some crazy statistics I found. Facts about Walsall. I was yawning as I was doing it. I hit delete.

I glance at facebook. Mr Cryne's online. He suggested we do a Q&A one day, or even a podcast together. It's knocking on for 10pm now though. The missus has been out for the night with friends but it's a bit late to do a podcast. But I know Patrick is a bit of a night owl. I decide to ask him if he's up for that Q&A. He replies instantly. He's well up for it. I tell him I'll email him loads of questions, he asks for 'bizarre, interesting' ones. That's bob on. I'm your man for bizarre. Interesting? Maybe. We chat for a bit about the playoffs, about other stuff and I wish him a good night as I prepare to send him some questions for the Q&A.

I open Hotmail. I put 30 questions together in about 30 minutes. I go to bed. It's about midnight. The missus not far behind me. I then spend the next day out and about (yesterday) helping an elderly neighbour with her garden, I take my dog for another long walk in the sunshine, I be Geoff Capes, get a bath, make tea, chill with the missus, and then I collect Patrick's answers and stick em onto the blog, with a short ramble of my own beforehand. Bit of a connection issue with the wifi delays things by a couple of hours, but by 10pm it's uploaded, and by 11pm I'm in bed.


Not very rock n roll. Just simple, honest stuff. I think that's why Mr Cryne converses with me, allows me to do these thing with him. I've no agenda. What he typed himself is word for word what I put on the blog. I don't judge it, nor comment on it. I just share it, as he agreed I could do. So that others can read what he said. To give those who don't see his facebook statuses, a flavour of what it's like. To portray him as the bloke he is, or at least, the bloke I converse with, the bloke I've met. He's funny, articulate, tells a great tale. He is happy to mock himself, to parody himself. He can also be quite stubborn and difficult to reason with on certain topics. I also believe he focuses on one negative voice far too much, rather than the majority of positive voices. But then, I can be like that. For example, I've not replied to every lovely post in this thread. I'd like to, but it'd look weird and so I've clicked like/thanks instead. But if one poster (there's a couple of candidates, I'm surprised they've resisted) decided to post "complete ******** that, why is he talking to you?" or something along those lines, me being me, I'd probably be straight on it. I say probably because I've made a right go of not giving fcukwits what they want anymore, which is my attention and reaction. So I don't blame PC. Criticism is harder to take than praise is to receive. Obviously.

He reads the BBS. He'll see the many lovely words. That's my agenda, if indeed I need one.

Am I up his arse? No. I just act accordingly. You're nice/good to me, I'll reciprocate. And I would wager that of the many folk who bother him on facebook, I'm probably the one who has argued with him the most, or 'called him out' so to speak. Only fools rush in and all that. I think he admires that about me. Honesty, innit?








I do though have a ten inch ****. (he hates vulgar BBS posts).

 

That's the sort of random quote that makes some on here think I'm this big egotistical basterd.

I do agree though, Dave. I am streets ahead. Motorways ahead.


As for your question, no, I couldn't write in the same manner. I can only be arsed to write about BFC, or players I like. I could knock up a massive post about what it was like growing up watching Gazza for example. I've thought of doing that before, may still do it one day. Or Brendan O'Connell, my first reds hero. Football stuff that means something to me.

But it's not that I can't write a 500 word piece on why Watford have sacked their manager today, I just can't be arsed. I have to get a rush out of stuff I create/produce.

As wnak as it is, my job, I do get that rush at times. Usually, at 2pm when I clock out.

I'm here all week.

 

why? Why settle for something less than what you could do in life. We are only here once for a very short time mate so make it crack. Follow thi dreams and go out and get what you want from life.

 

I'm immortal, I dunno about thee.

I watched Highlander last night.

 

Ok, I'm convinced

Still seems an odd way to behave for a man in his position but what the hell. Better to be approachable than to be so aloof that he keeps his distance from everyone below board level. I suppose it's that kind of club nowadays and all the better for it.

Thinking back to my early days at Oakwell it's hard to imagine Joe Richards doing the same. I may be wrong but there was something distant about the Chairman in those days. Mind you, with gates of 2,000 and less far too often he could have greeted every supporter personally every home game without taking up too much of his time. I doubt he would have wanted to though.

Anyway, well done on this. Puts my "Twenty Questions to David Currie" in the shade. I did that when I was editor of the Reds Review for about a year or so, right at the end of the 1980s, producing a monthly magazine for the London Branch when I was a southerner myself. The answers were a bit on the bland side, much like the questions I suppose.

 

Very good read Whitey, spit mi coffee out at the Young Nudger answer. As for his disappointment about James not joining the board, as a father I can understand that and as a fan I agree with him, I for one would love for him to join the board and eventually take over and I bet a fair few other fans would as well. James is obviously an intelligent young man with an analytical brain and coupled with the fact that he is a passionate fan I feel he would make a perfect addition to the board, I cannot see the problems some fans have with him. Unfortunately, we have a few loud mouthed moronic idiots that feel it's ok to invade some ones privacy on public transport and give them drunken abuse about an uninformed rumour on tw4tter. I for one hope when he is a little older he will change his mind.