Rumour is

[Fred Elliot]

As good a football manager as he undoubtably is,

Just do that then please

[flammableBen]

You nailed any of those eastern european waitress's  yet ?

nope. and I think there's only one from eastern europe (well Czech Rep. anyway.) The rest hailing from either Brazil or Spain. I loose track a bit.

[yeo]

I woke up with 5 bottles of  wine in the fridge :x

Damn that credit card

I think its mine.............

[flammableBen]

I woke up with 5 bottles of  wine in the fridge :x

Damn that credit card

I think its mine.............

I wish I'd had the foresight to buy some wine before I went to work. I quite fancy a bottle or red right now. Oh well. I'll have to do with a glass of white which is left in the fridge. Good god times are hard.

[Fred Elliot]

I woke up with 5 bottles of  wine in the fridge :x

Damn that credit card

I think its mine.............

If that's the normal Sunday routine then definitely count me in !

 

[Fred Elliot]

Ben...........you are a star !

[glos_robin]

If sturrock joins the board he can leave. I'm not convinced by him as our manager yet as he blames everything except himself and by going on the board it would just show he has no respect for the fans

[millom red]

Maybe they are just going to give him a token title such as Director of Football. Just a hunch..........unless he is planning on paying the 100k cva out of his own pocket and has been duped by the sn1 share fairy into beleiving that all will be well in the end with the current shite board.

~shudders~

[Batch]

Point is he should get on with his job and leave the politics to others.

Problem is he seems to have made his mind up that the best way to do his job is to maintain the current board. Presumably he believes their "vision" they must have sold him to come here in the first place. He hasn't got the history of over 5 years of crap from these jokers to assist with his thinking.

The net result, IMHO, will be to split the fan base even further. Nice one Luggy.

I've said it once and I've said it again. Managers come and go. Good ones get poached by big clubs. Bad ones get sacked. The clubs long term future is far more important than any manager or any short term success, though some don't want to see past that (understandable, in a way).

Without the right foundations this club will always be limited to what it can achieve.  This board are not capable of producing those foundations without a massive slice of good fortune. The consortium can with far, far less risk.

[deltaincline]

Point is he should get on with his job and leave the politics to others.

Problem is he seems to have made his mind up that the best way to do his job is to maintain the current board. Presumably he believes their "vision" they must have sold him to come here in the first place. He hasn't got the history of over 5 years of crap from these jokers to assist with his thinking.

The net result, IMHO, will be to split the fan base even further. Nice one Luggy.

I've said it once and I've said it again. Managers come and go. Good ones get poached by big clubs. Bad ones get sacked. The clubs long term future is far more important than any manager or any short term success, though some don't want to see past that (understandable, in a way).

Without the right foundations this club will always be limited to what it can achieve.  This board are not capable of producing those foundations without a massive slice of good fortune. The consortium can with far, far less risk.

I think you've said it all really Batch. I can add nothing to that brilliant statement other than to again implore luggy not to split the fans and run the risk of attracting negativity towards himself. He don't need that. Nor do we, or the players. If he is stupid or gullible enough to do it, then so be it. Don't anyone say he wasn't fucking warned.

[Iffy's Onion Bhaji]

i wont be happy if Sturrock becomes a board member. will that not distract him trying to get results on the pitch for us? its a fucking stupid idea from our board and i can't see why the hell they would do it? maybe just to piss us off again! i wish they would sell up and fuck off now!  :evil:

[pauld]

Been a fair bit of talk on here about a split in the fanbase - to be fair, I don't think there is in any serious way as both anecdotal evidence and the massive majority behind the consortium in the Adver poll show. There certainly is a tactic to try and split the fanbase but it just hasn't worked - if anything it's shored up support for the consortium.

If Luggy does allow himself to be duped into acting as the board's shield, I don't see that working either - most fans are smart enough to work out what's going on and to differentiate between a manager who's largely well-liked and respected and a discredited board who (to say the least) aren't. It would be an interesting sign of desperation though.

[deltaincline]

I'm trying to imagine what it will be like watching or listening to luggy trying to lecture fans on behalf of the board. He has loads of credibility with the fans at the moment, no doubt about that. If he openly sides with the board though he can pick any county ground window he likes to watch his credibility fly away.

The board are desperate to cling on to power. Maybe they've offered Luggy an inducement that's too good for him to refuse?

Luggy; Don't let yourself be manipulated into joining a battle that the board wont win.

[Reg Smeeton]

Fellas....(no birds seem to post on these matters)....this is a rumour posted by Bart.

   The only credence I would give it,  comes from something Sturrock said in one of his interviews about previous jobs etc.....essentially he stated that the only way that he could see himself getting a top flight job, would be building up a club and taking it through himself.

   Bizarre as it seems it is just about conceivable, that the Board may be prepared to effectively hand over the reins to PS, as a last way of saying   :fu: to the fans.

  I'll reserve judgement on a response though until it becomes a fact.

[RobertT]

would he vote to sack himself in the future if everything went tits up?

Not exactly sure how you could have a fully fledged Director as your Manager.

Maybe he's going to be the clubs sponsor next season?

To be fair though, I still seperate the Board largely from the issue, which is ownership and control - Wills and Diamandis.  You could get rid of the Board and we'd still have the same problem, you could get a new owner and remove Diamandis' influence and find the Board members that remain can actually do a half decent job.

So, they could stick my Mum on the Board but it wouldn't stop the need to buy the club in my eyes.