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Christ on a bike, looks like we're actually trying to become a proper outfit with these two joining. Is Brevett a clue as to who the investor might be, do you think?

????  i dont understand

mike stowell as gk coach
rufus brevett (ex scummer) as sporting director

today is a mad day

Rufus Brevett - 'sporting director'?!
Mike Stowell - full time goalie coach - a good decision IMHO.

EDIT: Damn you Copper!!!!

Lets hope the investemnt goes though then. given that we make losses of circa £750k with a minimal backroom staff and squad, fuck knows what it would be like with the kind of squad and backroom set up we seem to be assembling.

On the positive side, as long as the club can afford it, this type of development is top notch - the defence and centre midfield is looking strong and well covered, and we look to be getting a proper coaching set up.  A couple of wingers and strikers of a similar standard to our current signings and we will be CHAMPIONS!! . FACT.

I love pre season optimism.

Brevett? wtf is that one all about.

Good shout


Sporting director eh ooh thats posh

they are using all the trees in the rainforest today by the looks of it, all these bloody contracts!! since when has blair sturrock been a new arrival? thats what it says on the OS

 :soapy tit wank:

I think brevett is a clue to the new investor...

we are going to be taken over by the lilt man  8)

not kassam?? ex scummer and all that  :shock:

do tell i hate all this cryptic stuff

 :shock:

Stowell is an excellent 'signing' imo.

As Kassam sold the scum in March '06 and Brevett didn't sign until September, I'd put a guess in at us being pretty safe on that front.

Ok Mr know it all.....

This one has come out of the blue aint it!!!

So it must be somone that Rufus Brevett has close connections with ...

club wise it leaves QPR and West Ham really (can't seem Al Fayed giving up Fulham really).  But I can't see a foreign link and the people running those two clubs when he was with them should be steered carefully past swindon on the M4 on towards Bristol.

Wonder how happy Sturrock will be at having a Sporting Director dumped on him?

what is the role of a sporting director?

Didn't you know anything about this then Fatters?  You must whip your sauces into shape if they are going to let you down like this!! :oops:  :oops:

In your basic laymans terms right, a sporting director, directs sport.
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Which I guess makes sense if the new investor is foriegn.

Does this mean we are branching out and taking on an Athletics Club as well?  maybe a Darts team or we've taken over management for Stephen Lee's snooker career?

Isn't a sporting director just a posher name for director of football??

I thought that, whether or not Sturrock would be happy. But I don;t see Brevett's arrival as any threat to his own position. He has no managerial experience and if bringing brevett in is part of the package that means sturrock has money to spend. Today's signings smack of big money though - this investment is going to be interesting.

WTF is this all about.  And can someone, in very basic terms, explain the whole "this is a clue of who the new owner will be" as it means nothing to me.

My sauces are on holiday! :wink:

He must know them quite well, and perhaps part of the consortium. Did McManaman do it recently?

I still think that the ex chairman of southampton has something to do with it perhaps?

Janaage - Rufus Brevett has been installed as sporting dirtector at the County Ground., On the official site it says he'll be the link between the management team and the new consortium - leading me to believe that he must know the consoritum guys pretty well to be their spokesperson with sturrock and co. Nothing groundbreaking, just putting two and two together.

more to the point, why does a division 3 football team need a sporting director/director of football/useless idiot?

the only club i can think of in england with a director of football is chelsea.

Oh right, I thought someone was implying

Rufu Brevett Sporting Director obviously equals Mr XXXXX as the new investor, not just a general, Rufus must know the new guy.

fair enough.

Fair enough fella, even Starnes had to take a holiday!!  Ah ha, is that your sauce? :roll:

Seems fair enough, somebody to oversee what is happening and to give an answer to when the question is asked.  Somebody needs to dig around now in his background and see who he is closely associated, although with that hair cut who will own up?? :wink:

Reading have Nicky Hammond, and Spurs have Damian Camolli as Sporting Director

good shout. still, why the fuck do we need one?!

I reckon Sturrock is being a fat lazy fuck and has employed Brevett as a PA type role saving himself going to the board.  :mrgreen:

Rufus Brevett. Ace  8)

Anyone put a cheque in the post for that cva thingy yet?

Rovers have Lennie Lawrence.

Rest assured Sturrock is not employing this guy, end of!  He has been brought in by the new investor(s) to oversee their end of things!!  If this new investment fails to materialise things will change again rapidly.

Aren't sporting directors usually pretty experienced usually more so than the actual manager. Seems bizarre that someone as experienced as Sturrock will have a rookie who is new to the managerial game put in.

Quite, though to be fair I don't know Brevetts background and qualifications.

If the arrangement work then good luck to all concerned.

I think hes a good addition personally.  When qualified he will add to the coaching ranks and also, being an experienced defender, he can only be a good influence/older head to help the defenders we already have.  Especially as now we have so many of them.

On a side note, why is this in the player section?  :mrgreen:

 :mrgreen:

Don't you start!  I have nowt to do with this thread  :D

new investor is definetely milan mandaric then.

but more importantly can brevett do a job upfront?

sounds like a glorified chief scout to me.

Pah it's got to be Kia Joorabchian.

Rufus is a dogs name.........

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Are you still here?

Is it cos he's black?

so all black people are dogs now? fucking hell....your all just a bunch of rasists on here.

piss off polska!

proves my point,

fucking gypo

stowell gone already