Basically speaking believe nothing of what you hear and maybe 50% of what you think you see?
Personally I cannot imagine much coming out with this external audit. Surely it depends on what the club give them verses what they want you to see after they’ve been given the report back?
Seriously I doubt they’re going to submit to public scrutiny anything that makes them look incompetent, delinquent, shambolic or anything else you could insert that’s derogatory but truthful. I’m also scratching my head as to why the clubs accountants couldn’t help them do this. They do have accountants don’t they?
That is the point - there is nobody left. nobody of consequence, in terms of actual experience, knowledge and gravitas that is.
Take Watts - I am not knocking the man, I don't know him personally. Nothing about his record suggests he'd be a CCO of a League One football club (which should be our aspiration, at a minimum). A few years doing sponsorship and running events for small clubs and still boasting about the fact he is an MC. The sort of chap you'd have reporting into a CCO maybe, but not a CCO.
Take Hall - I give him less benefit of the doubt because his interviews have been horrific, and if you take a CEO position, expect some expectations. His experience is basically being a yes man to Clem in a business that failed, and another one that failed, with a background that most decent sized construction firms would look at any maybe give him a Managers gig, not running the fucking company. I'm not being funny, I'd wager I'm better qualified for a CEO role. On top of that, it's a CEO in an industry he had zero experience in.
Take Russell - the most experienced of anyone in role as it happens. You'd probably let him run an Academy, he seems to know the game and kids. Again, though, a Director of Football Operations, overseeing recruitment at all levels?
From the outside, I don't see any evidence of any competence - we simply look poorly run, even to those not looking for fault, surely? What we do get is a complete spaghetti at the wall approach to running a football club. In the world of football you can get lucky - we seem to rely on that, like the crop of youths. None of that is well planned - it's not built to be sustainable. We haven't invested in the infrastructure, the support operations or the staff required to maintain that
The Chris Moyles thing looks to me like a James Watts brainstorming session - guys, we need an idea, anyone got one? It's not part of a great Commercial Plan, it's scattergun.
The Stadium proposals - oh, yeah, there are none, still. Not even a hint at some grand plan - by now you'd expect some blue sky ideas to be out there, with silly artists impressions, that gradually get refined into something more affordable and realistic. We don't even have that - possibly because the company that was going to lead on that is crumbling around it's owner, our owner. We are basically the scenes in Inception where their dreams begin to disintegrate.
