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Saw this on the 'mos' site and thought you might be interested, have a look at the second part too.....

i knew they would keep paying King. they did that last time! how crap? i hate our board!  :evil:

What else could they do?  Shouldn't have committed themselves though admittedly...

Sounds like total bollocks to me.

The main thing that is wrong with the club is  that it is an us and them attitude like a pupil and teacher. The board wont let the fans get involved and tell us what is really going on. If the fans felt needed and we were shown respect by the board and actually fed information of what is going on behind the scenes so that fans felt that they were respected by the club then maybe we would respect the board and that would get the club sorted out a bit. We all know the phrase united we stand, individually we fall well that applies here.

On the same point we all know that the club is in financial turmoil but they wont tell us by how much and what is going on.

When we all thought that Cureton and Thorpe were good we all said that we would never get them because of their wages but they are here but the funding has come from where?

All I say to the board is tell us what is going on because the way it seems is that they are doing nothing and I don't believe that they are doing nothing, they must be doing something.

agreed Nils. its true. they must be doing something. indeed the stadium project looks as if it is progressing behind the scenes quite nicely.

Should have just sent the wanker packing tbh.

it was pretty obvious that king would be on "gardening leave", seeing as 1) he wouldn't resign and 2) we simply dont have the lump sum to pay him off.

You have to pay up the manager's contract.....obviously we can't do it in  a lump sum, so it has to be done in installments....the likes of BWB and myself, did point out that all sacking King would do would be to get a promotion for 1 of our 3 insiders.

 I'm still surprised that it wasn't Reeeeeves though, because with him not likely to play again, but having to be paid as a player, his wage will be greater than Iffy's and similarly he'll have to be paid up if they want rid.

I think Reeves will still get the job eventually

i think Reeves may be a bit gutted not to get the job and end up 'concidering his options'.

Of course he may have been consulted or offered it without our knowledge..

And then he threaten us with legal action again.  Come on let's be sensible.  A settlement needed to be reached and this is it, if true.

I think Reeeeeeves would have got the job if it wasnt for his broken leg.

Agreed, bad timing all round for Reevesy, if iffy gets it full time will he bring his own men in or use Woan and reeves?  Be gutted for reevesy if that happened and he got demoted.

How comes all these other managers dont take their clubs that they've just been sacked from to court then?, lets be sensible the bloke was a cunt.

Pretty much any manager who hasn't been paid any compensation would take the club to court but most clubs do pay compensation.

Exactly, most clubs agree a compensation package with the manager after agreeing to cut ties.  One manager I can't remember who had to wait for his settlement to be agreed with his old club before he could take his new job, because it'd affect his deal.  Can't quite remember who though, Peter Reid maybe??

Come on mate, that's harsh.  He was a bloke trying to do a job, who for whatever reason wasn't up to it.  

He, under the terms of his contract given to him by STFC, was entitled to receive compensation when told he was no longer required.  We can't afford to give him that in a lump sum, so 'gardening leave' is the option that best suits STFC and Andy King.  He'd be quite entitled to take the club to court if he wasn't satisfied with the offer, but he hasn't.  

He's gone now (sort of) and we should all forget about him.

Say what you want about him but he's not a cunt, it's not really fair to call him that.

I agree, we need to get this into perspective, he's entitled to that money as that's the terms of his contract.  

I actually wish Kingy well, yeah he never got us motoring but I wouldn't go as far as calling him a cunt.

If this is true and King is to continue on the STFC payroll until the end of the season, then surely he will not be in a position to manage another club should the opportunity arise until next season?

Yep, much like we couldn't get Harford in until his situation with Forrest was resolved.  Basically it's the life of riley for King for a few months.

Maybe Mr King will do a McMahon and get a cushy little number on Sky for a while.

Doubt it highly, wouldn't be able to sit through a whole half-time without a cigar!

I do wish him well, he has never doen anything wrong other than be nto good enough at the job for the liking of many. That is not a fault in somebody, and it happens all the time in any profession.

I said the exact same about King on the way to Doncaster, so I didnt hear it here first, however mine was pure guess work.

King will stay on the pay role.

Course if he really backed himself as a manger he'd go for a quick serverence pay out and find work.

But I seriously doubt he'll ever be the top man at a club ever again.