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Hi,

Kidderminster Harriers fan here and I am hearing a lot of rumours about this guy taking over our club. Obviously he has been heavily involved with you until last month. Is he a good guy? or just another ass trying to make a fast buck?

We have just sacked one of the best non league managers and replaced with a nobody Andy Thorn. If my sources are correct he was interviewed for the swindon job some time ago too?

Thanks in advance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CevxZvSJLk8

Bought us for a nicker and now apparently has £400K of the value ready to be sold. Not bad for 6 months work.....

Good luck !!!

has he helped Swindon as a club?

UMM, He came in when nobody else would, then found someone with some money , who may or may not help moving forwards. That someone ( Lee Power ) has subsequently kicked him and his mates out. I suppose you could say if he hadn't jumped in when he did we would have gone into Administration which would have been a disaster. Saying all that I think his intentions were honourable. He was just way out of his comfort zone / depth.......... Ask him yourself on Twitter. He loves a good TWEET.................

Interesting chap. Seemed to have his heart in the right place but he wasn't exactly rich nor did he come over particularly professional. Keen on Twitter (@jedmccoy) and fairly illiterate.

Not the saviour but definitely not the worst owner floating round the football leagues, that's for sure.

Bit of a cock but pretty harmless and pretty sure he means well.

well hopefully he accepts my twitter request

Interesting that he's made his Twitter private. He seemed borderline obsessed with it all.

Sorry bout that. Just noticed he has gone all twitter shy ( Only accepting confirmed requests to look at his tweets ). He used to be quite prolific. In fact it was the only form of communication he seemed to be capable of ...............

He's been wittering on about keeping Nile and giving him a hug etc this evening.

keeping nile? whats that mean

Fair assessment in this thread so far. My personal opinion is he was a bullshitter, good at telling people what they want to hear.

But I am not convinced that he intended to bullshit in a milliscious way, it more came across as a mix of trying to avoid panic and (over) self promotion. He came in after we'd been on a hell of a (expensive) ride under Di Canio, so whatever he did that didn't live up to that era was always going to be under fan scrutiny.  So you an sort of understand it.

My biggest criticism is he didn't really communicate properly. Lots of "roooooar" (see Twitter), but not much substance. Asking too much, maybe, or maybe he was making up the business plan as he went along. Who knows.

Was his ownership good, bad or indifferent. Well I'm glad somebody stepped in to prevent administration that's for sure. Ask me again in a year or two when I work out whether we have been blessed or cursed with Power in charge!

Nile Ranger, Up in court in ten days for rape. Good player but from the George Best school of training ....

He never really did anything wrong, but came across as a bit of a wide boy with no money who liked being centre of attention.  Communication skills weren't the best and information seemed to be spouted to fans in local pubs or on social media rather than using the more conventional routes.  Imo, this made him look a bit unprofessional as a League 1 Football Club Chairman.  This divided the fanbase slightly, some saw no issue, others thought he made the club look silly.

Difficult to know what would have happened if he hadn't taken us over, but he seems to have done reasonably well out of it.

He's a tool. Possibly a harmless tool, but a tool nonetheless.

http://thewashbag.com/2013/12/05/whats-the-story-mourning-mccrory/
http://thewashbag.com/2013/12/02/mccrory-vs-power-bout-of-the-boardroom-for-swindon-takeover/
http://thewashbag.com/2013/02/22/takeover-goodbye-fitton-co-hello-mccrory-co/

That should cover a lot of it for you


p.s. he has a baffling fan club on Twitter, never figured that one out

Ranger. The guys been a hopeless case, not turning up for training. Looks like we are trying to terminate his contract. I think it was Jed that took the chance, and apparently is keen to keep him.

I  unfollowed him on Twitter after he knackering my timeline by  retweeting every tweet of support people gave him after he was ousted by Power :)

Oh yeah, if he does take you over, and you get a pre-season against Banbury away, check their pitch for hammers !

What, I know they shipped 5 at Notts Forest and 6 at Man City tonight.  Didn't realise they were going to bury the squad under the Banbury Pitch. Is DiCanio in charge.........

:) PDC has connections near Italy. Tonight they sleep with the fishes Banbury.

Nah, it was the "he's a tool" that reminded me of the hammer being found mid match.

@JedMcCoy: Nile should stay best number 9 in the division just needs a kick and a cuddle 😁gotta stick with him he will come good .. IMO ...

I'll kick the good for nothing raping good for nothing twat. Anyone got a scooby where he is ?????

His mum can give him a cuddle when he's had his kicking !!!!

seems a bit sus a self confessed luton fan buying a rival

He had a sniff around Cheltenham once as well !!!

http://www.gloucestershireecho.co.uk/Cheltenham-Town-turned-Jed-McCrory-takeover-bid/story-18125137-detail/story.html

Do you have any assets?  Who owns Aggborough? 

To be fair to him and his mates, Jed probably earned a nice bit of dough for a £1 investment and one of his mates got a club to show the world that (not too surprisingly) a loyalty scheme works quite well in an industry beset by excessive loyalty!  Sort of using the clubs as a Trojan horse.  There are example of that not going so well - Port Vale which was probably too soon to be trying the artificial pitch gig in this country, although it is now proving popular in Rugby.  He didn't really strike me as someone likely to get involved due to property development and did seem to enjoy the prospect of running a football club.  In short, not the worst owner to have had, but left a lot of head scratching at times.

Have a word with yourself. Even Jed wouldn't have come up with that.

A chancer without a pot to piss in (relatively speaking) or any experience of running a pro football club but sought to compensate for that by having a reasonable line of geezer patter and appeals to "passion" which went down well with some of our fans on twitter. He and we probably got lucky when he brought in Power* esp when you look at one of his earlier attempts at finding an investment partner, the shady boiler room scam artist who arrived and left under slightly underexplained circumstances.

Harmless? Hmm. He's not harmful in the sense of being malicious, but he's a little bit wooaahhh, a little bit weeeaahhh and there's a lot of damage can be done by well-meaning chancers who are out of their depth.

* at least so far

Think hes a bullshitter myself, Herthab will know what im on about

Great with the fans, and seems to make things happen, maybe not your archetypical chairman/owner, but we've had far worse for sure.

Tans is spot on, don't believe a word he says, wears his heart on his sleeve but best suited to footy in the very much lower leagues, Banbury being as high as he should be allowed to go.  He lied to me, I was one of those prepared to give him a chance but he blew it all in a radio interview - again just telling the fans what they wanted to hear.

Haven't got a problem with the bloke, he did the best he could and that's all you can ask for.

@JedMcCoy: Nile should stay best number 9 in the division just needs a kick and a cuddle 😁gotta stick with him he will come good .. IMO ...

Don't disagree with this either. If the Manager has had enough then so be it.

What sums Jed up for me was this. On his first home game in charge he tweeted a picture of his motor parked in the County Ground carpark. It was a Bentley with his personal number plate on.

Only problem was, the Bentley had been hired and he's transferred the numberplate from his own, less impressive car.

That was Jed all over, flashy statement, bit of playing to the gallery but ultimately no substance to back it up.

He's not malicious but any fan who doesn't take everything at face value and reads between the line  will be left baffled a lot of the time

Got to say that he worked hard when with the club...he saw an opportunity here(like countless others..Brady,Hunt etc)...nothing wrong with that and have to say that he did his best in difficult situations.
My only problem is that he is a business man and his pretence at supporting the town used to knark me.
No doubt we will see him soon supporting another club...but as i say we have had a lot worse here raking in the dosh without no effort going in....he did work hard on behalf of the club in my opinion.

Diamandis worked hard too .... and Bob Holt was full of chat.

Difference is that Jed has left the club...taking no money with him and not expecting any and the club is in a much better position than when he arrived...so you cannot compare him in any instance to those two in my view

Absolutely right lee (although not sure about the "not expecting any" bit, that's yet to be seen), but the point is that just because someone works hard and has a nice line in chat (and that's extremely debatable) doesn't mean they're any good. As I said above, I suspect that both we and he dodged a bullet when Power came in and took over, even if Jed doesn't see it that way. Although whether we've dodged one bullet just to step into the path of a howitzer is also yet to be seen. If I was a Kiddy fan, I'd be extremely alarmed to see a Jed emboldened but not enriched by his time here eyeing my club up.

A vain bullshitter lacking in gravitas or substance, even for a Conference club with some ambition.

May be effective as a board member able to make interesting business suggestions and energise local enthusiasm and sponsorship and could probably do a "Chairman's" job at Conference North or South levels.

May rip you off to subsidise his modestly flash lifestyle but is no shark imo.  Above all, enjoy trying to guess what is TRUE and what isn't

Got to cut through all the waffle, and see what's left, which to be honest is not a lot. But without meeting the bloke, it seemed like his heart was in the right place, but as other have said, he is not your typical chairman ilk, more like a lad down the pub. Weather you want that in a chairman is another matter.

He's totally profesional and without him this club would be dead he is a throughly nice chap who always speaks the truth and is happy to communicate with fans wherever he may meet them, he was always happy to use social media to connect with fans and he would never dream of having a fallling out with the local media and playing them of against each other.

He even took the club without doing any due dilligence that shows what a great bloke he is.

If he leases bentley's in the club's name then this would only be for the good of the club and the local community as he is putting money into local company's from the club.

If he is interested in your club then you should embrace him and welcome his bag men that he will bring along with promises of investment I'm sure they will be good for your club as they would be associated with Jed.

He will probably do a good job as chairman manager as well.

Yeah, if you were trying to be funny it didn't really come across right.

He hasn't got/didn't have much money which is why the general consensus is one not too great.

If he'd have had money and been prepared to invest it in STFC then most of us wouldn't have given a shit about his laddish behaviour/use of social media etc etc.

Absolute bellend and a proven liar.

I could never get over his total lack of professionalism. i.e Twitter, trying to be everyones mate, #rooooaarr, etc

See that is the thing...i never once said he was good for the club,just that he worked hard and compared to others who have come and gone not such a bad egg in comparison.
As for the twitter argument he took a lot of flak on there,some real nasty stuff at times so being matey on there as well has to be seen both ways.

Sure, my comment was aimed at the overall topic of the thread i.e. a Kiddy fan asking if he'd be good for them.

I think that's a good summary. Also expect everything to be under a Non Disclosure Agreement.

Damn !

I didn't mind Jed. He tried his best for the club, but was clearly out of his depth here.

He let himself down with his twitter comments, as a club shouldn't communicate its updates via that channel.

I met him and his lady friend in the local pub and had a good chat with him. He seemed pretty open and answered the questions I asked.

Virtually ALL league one clubs use twitter to communicate updates and many many things, both important and trivial.
The difference is its the clubs official accounts not the chairmans.
Towns official account is dead compared to the vast majority of other clubs in this division.
Not that any of that excuses Jeds use of the medium.

FWIW, I think the twitter thing is a side issue. Yes it was unprofessional and made him, and so by extension the club, look a bit of a nob. But that was the least of my concerns tbh - the "being a patently out of his depth bullshitter who damn near handed the club over to a boiler room scam artist if they hadn't fallen out" aspect was of slightly more concern IMO.

This

Although not official we do have Sam on twitter, who posts far more info than most clubs external channels.

Agree with this Sutton, Sam provides Town fans with excellent updates via Twitter in my opinion. It does sound like Lee Power appreciates this and does give Sam updates for the fans which I personally appreciate.

Although the child in me did enjoy Jed's cryptic clues for signings. Reis and peas was it?

Ironically, he hasn't posted today. Some news coming worth waiting for? Or overslept after a night on the shant?

Neither. Been told not to expect anything out of the club today

any chance that Ranger may be staying and even included tomorrow

I would say that horse has long bolted.

You never know...

 :bye: Jed!