I was celebrating like anyone when Clem won the court case.
Me too.
A ramble pointless incoming....
But I though it was me, myself and I (well him, himself and he..) . It didn't take long for someone to give the nod that this may not be the case. The warning was trying to appoint Austin as vice-chair. But it looked good football wise, Angus was CEO and there was nothing to really see as worrying early on.
Like so many, I donated my ST refund. And I do think it was the correct call at the time.
But boy did I start to feel devalued pretty quickly. The 1 adult and 2 u18 season ticket was scrapped straight away meaning the cost to sit in the same seats went UP. Or didn't. My eldest son worked most Saturdays so I simply dropped his ticket that he had since about 5 years old and bought ad-hoc.
Then came the Man City debacle over pricing. Rip as much money as you can out the hand that feeds you. I paid, of course I did. But it left a bad taste. Thankfully City don't have a rubbish team for the cups.
Then came failure in promotion. OK, it happens. But afterwards the squad was cheapened up with most experience shipped out - Duke was right. Very reminiscent of Power/Williams TBH but of lesser quality. It took weeks to appoint someone we already employed and preseason was a joke. WTF happened. Did we lose financial backing from someone?
Then the "accidental director" stuff started. Hart, Kiely, etc. Not exactly something you do by accident. This was the beginning of the end of trust in Clem really. Sharegate was just the final straw in the sham new era of transparency. A straw that will at least cost us cash.
Now we have Clem and the Axis crew in, an impedant Trust, no cash, several possibilities of further FA/EFL charges a CEO who doesn't understand football or how to speak in public, and Clem overseeing the January transfers.
Brilliant.
In the interest of a bit of ballance it looks like we have paid off inherited debt to external parties (some like HMRC that could shut us down), the ground deal has been done and although we can see direction of travel the team isn't in a disastrous league position.
