Jim Little Interview Summary For Those Who Cant get it

[Arriba]

i'm convinced sturrock wont want interference with team affairs from anybody.
why the hell do we need brevett and whatever the other blokes name is?
too many cooks and all that....

[broomfield]

Having met Jim Little on a couple of occasion now and listened to him and his/there plans for the future, both on and off the pitch i say give him a chance!!

He's a business man for christ sake!! It is just possible that he knows what he is doing!! I realise that this isn't the kind of business man that we as STFC supporters are use to, but hey he may, just may get it right.

OK he's a yank and comes out with some Americanism at times i.e 'trade window'. It isn't life threatening!

If the 'team' that he has around him 'off pitch' can successfully get STFC into the Championship or better and keep us there, then good luck to him.

NO football Director/ Chairman anywhere, ever lets the ,cat out of the bag, about future developments without being accused of gross stupidity. Look at the way everyone has jumped on Bob Holt when he has done it. (although he has deserved it).

As Jim Little said, he doesn't want to let on which sites they are looking at re new stadium  due to the possibility that it will inflate the price. That makes absolute sense!

He and his team have backed Luggy with player purchases and i can't believe that the way that things are going re JV is a total surprise to Luggy. It may take some getting use to, but it is the way it has worked very successfully in Europe for a number of years.

At least JL he is talking to people, it may be in measured, controlled announcements built around press interviews with the BBC. But hey, at least he is doing it!

If it all goes tits up by the end of season, then lets all jump on his case and rightly so. But as a number of people on this and other sites have stated, they will regard mid table obscurity as success this yr.

[Lumps]

This my take on the new stadium thing, which kind of puts a different spin on it.

A few weeks ago when Little met with the Trust he basically said a new stadium wasn't important and that they'd just tart the CG up a bit. This was before the takeover was complete.

Now that all the I's have been dotted and T's crossed, Little's changed his tune and says they've been in talks with the council etc. over possible sites. He actually said to the Sky Sports interviewer (or was it the BBC) that there were things he couldn't say before but could now, then launched into his spiel about the new stadium.

Now to my analytical mind, this suggests Little didn't want the previous incumbents to know about his new stadium idea before the deal was done. Possibly to not inflate the price of the club? Possibly because he knows what a greasy character Diamandis is.

Seems to me like Little has got a lot of sense and wits about him. Yeah, ok he'll more than likely make some money out of this new stadium but as long as we keep performing on the pitch I don't really care.

I don't think it was even that complicated. I think the new fellahs might just have a vague grasp of PR. In other words if you've just taken over a football club and you're from a property development background, you spend the first few interviews talking about what's really important to your customers, what's served up on the pitch.

If he'd even mentioned potential stadium development in that first statement people on here would have jumped all over it with the "see they're not interested in the club it's all about making money from property" bollocks. (Whilst ignoring the fact that if someone wanted to make cash out of property by buying a football club they might be better off buying one that actually fucking owns some).

Ok there are pluses and minuses to having a board that know when to say what the fans want to hear, but at least its better than the frankly embarrassing half arsed amateurism of the last lot.

[RobertT]

In reply to Lumps about the new stadium.  I think people are assuming greenfield because he mentioned starting work (physical work on the development not just the plans) within 6 months.  I can't see any site currently cleared in time for that to happen inside the town.

That's not to say people have anything against a greenfield site.  I don't, provided it's done properly and in consultation etc.  Just that it's peoples hunch.

[Fred Elliot]

That's not to say people have anything against a greenfield site.

The greater spotted crestfallen natterjack toads might though

 

[herthab]

That's not to say people have anything against a greenfield site.

The greater spotted crestfallen natterjack toads might though

 

Can't they just  SHOOT THE FUCKERS!!!?

[Lumps]

Worcester.

There's nothing in my post that suggests that people shouldn't have questions or reservations, or that they shouldn't post them on here. In fact I made it pretty clear that I wasn't exactly delighted at who came first in the race to own our club. But that isn't what this thread comprises of is it.

Look at these posts:

"This is all getting worse and worse the more I hear about it, to be honest. I've had a really bad feeling from the outset and it's just getting worse."

It's not exactly a question is it, or a doubt is it. It's just "woe is me, everything is shit, a new stadium and the debts wiped out, what a disaster"

As for

"Don't worry, we'll soon have one of those carbon copy soulless bowl's of a stadium."

Well some people are never fucking happy!

And Rob: "It does all seem a bit similar to Hearts to me."

In what fucking way mate?

Up there a Billionaire with a huge ego buy's up a club with the express intention of getting to play Champ Man for real and rides roughshod over the coaching staff to get his own way, eventually sacking them all and bringing in some foreign yes men who'll let him make the transfers and  pick the team.

How is that in any way analogous with what's going on at Town, where there's no high profile individual and the investment is clearly about making money for faceless investors. No one is going to be allowed to piss about with the club like it's their personal toy because that would threaten its potential for success.

Oh and as for this bit of knee jerk bollocks:

"What's that Argentian chap who had a stint up the A420 doing?

Oh fuck. The Brevett connection. There's our next manager then. Great "

Do you want to explain what connection Rufus might have with a bloke who walked out on the Pox two seasons before he went there himself?

This fucking knee jerk everytime someone mentions a coach/ player / ice cream salesman who might have once been to Oxford is getting really fucking annoying. What the hell do you think Brevett would have to gain by bringing people in from Oxford? He was there for a season, he doesn't owe anyone there shit. If he brought in the fitness coach for any reason it was because he thought he was good at the bloody job. Now get over it!

As I've said elsewhere, even if it did happen, Diaz has a better coaching CV than ANYONE who has ever been involved with this club. Why would you just dismiss that as a bad thing unless you knew nothing about the bloke and you were just spitting the dummy at any mention of Oxford or Brevett.

To conclude with one final quote:

"I'll jump up and down after seeing their actions rather than reading their words"

is exactly what I'd like people to do. Unfortunately jumping up and down without much justification seems to be exactly what a few of you are doing

[Fred Elliot]

They are a protected species Hertha

Muslim Extremists carrying 4 tonnes of fertiliser in a backpack are not

subtle difference

 

[Colin Todd]

They are a protected species Hertha

Muslim Extremists carrying 4 tonnes of fertiliser in a backpack are not

subtle difference

 

Thats one hell of a backpack

[RobertT]

Hearts comment was related to the selection policy that was described by Jim Little - i.e that the Manager doesn't have carte blanche to do what he wants and live and die by those decisions.

Overall I've made it very clear I have absolutely no idea whether it's good or bad at the moment.  Some stuff sounds good, other bits I'm cautious about (some things offer two contradictory perceptions which confuses it even more).

The fact that we've so far not had any comprehensive strategy outlined and confirmed is what keeps me dazed and confused.  It may be simply the process of leaking out tit bits to get the deal done and then back tracking etc, but you just can't tell.

So far nothing seems to be known with any degree of certainty.

I still can't put my finger on any specific feeling about the takeover at all.

[newmarket red]

- Sturrock will deal with Brevett and Veiga, Footballing starts and ends with Veiga not Sturrock.

- Sturrock, Little and Veiga all have their own ideas which team to field to win games.

- Teams will be chosen by the three people involved and not necessarily Sturrock. (Didnt say exactly but words to that extent)

The rest of it sounds great, but the above points are rather worrying..

Sorry but if  i was sturrock i would be gone after reading that :evil:
As for trying to get promoted this season to the championship who believes our squad is good enough to get promoted now as it stands i don't, i still think were missing some players even though players were brought before the transfer deadline closed we struggled to make an impact against yeovil who were  an average team in this league so are we to expect some bigger signings or am i just reading into it to much in to it.

[Dirk Diggler]

Excellent post Lumps. My thoughts exactly!

[jayohaitchenn]

- Sturrock will deal with Brevett and Veiga, Footballing starts and ends with Veiga not Sturrock.

- Sturrock, Little and Veiga all have their own ideas which team to field to win games.

- Teams will be chosen by the three people involved and not necessarily Sturrock. (Didnt say exactly but words to that extent)

The rest of it sounds great, but the above points are rather worrying..

Sorry but if  i was sturrock i would be gone after reading that :evil:
As for trying to get promoted this season to the championship who believes our squad is good enough to get promoted now as it stands i don't, i still think were missing some players even though players were brought before the transfer deadline closed we struggled to make an impact against yeovil who were  an average team in this league so are we to expect some bigger signings or am i just reading into it to much in to it.

Paying attention last year were you? Yeovil finished 5th and narrowly missed out on promotion in the play-off final.

[Colin Todd]

They did sell their 2 best players in the summer though

[red macca]

i'm convinced sturrock wont want interference with team affairs from anybody.
why the hell do we need brevett and whatever the other blokes name is?too many cooks and all that....

Well brevett i agree with but veiga is the main man with the cash