New beginnings - 25% Truth, 80% Bollocks

[magicroundaboutred]

1.9 million playing budget, where is the other 6.3 million going. Plus no rent.

[Audrey]

Ah, the age old lament of football fans.

‘Where’s the money gone?’

[TheDukeOfBanbury]

Missed that start.

The bloke is CEO in name only, he aint got a clue... someone else must be calling the shots day-to-day?

Standing.

[Audrey]

Good old Last Man

[TheDukeOfBanbury]

The club do seem to have the reverse Midas touch. The only hope is that the present shambles is a prelude to a club sale.

The soon as these Chancers fuck off the better.
Slowly getting found out.

[Nomoreheroes]

Anthony Hall sounds as if he needs a bit of media training. He was very defensive and not particularly warm. He didn't really give anything away, but at the same time, he didn't sound as if he had the 'gravitas' or 'charm' of a CEO. He sounded like a former electrician who has been involved in project management, which is what he is.

[Dr Pierre Chang]

A comical watch. An out of his depth CEO - but with the lack of investment across all areas of the club, I’m not sure why I expected anything else..

[Audrey]

The soon as these Chancers fuck off the better.
Slowly getting found out.

Would Standing be a genuine possibility of a new owner? If yes, is he just another in the long line of chancers?

[UTR]

Just caught up on this. You can see how any competent agents would sus the club out as a shambles at the moment and advise their players elsewhere

[UTR]

The other thing that got me, they’re mentioning Clem coming over just before Christmas to then sit down and talk with Flynn and Russell about what they need and how we do it. Are we really leaving those conversations until days before the window opens? Should we not have been having January window recruitment conversations and had a plan in place for a decent amount of time now like well structured clubs?

Instead it sounds like we’re going to sleep walk our way through that window.

Don’t get me started on the season ticket comments.

[tans]

As far as i am aware we still have a first team recruitment manager in Les Caffrey.

Why Morfuni is taking the lead on it is beyond me

[Batch]

Club status confirmed : Clusterfuck

[Batch]

I think he's focussing on people who aren't meant to be using yoot tickets rather than the amount of yoot tickets. How many people that is and how much it'll cost to police vs the benefit is going to be interesting

They won't police it. They'll use it as an excuse to scrap u21 tickets and whatever else is being abused.

They have already eliminated or squeezed family tickets massively compared to the power regime.

If we are losing 1.2m a year then yeah, where the fuck is the money going? Power didn't loose that much

[RobertT]

Yeah, you fucking freeloading Season Ticket holders, you're holding us back!  I mean, aside from not asking for refunds for the season you didn't get to see any games, apart from that, you are Leaches!

I got about 25 mins in before stopping - he's just a dick.  If he has any input into the day to day running of the business we are truly fucked.

They've gone after trying to place blame on concession tickets before.  I imagine the "free" tickets he is talking about are the ones they give to schools.  Fucking sponging school kids.

What is Gerald Ratner up to these days, he'd do a better job than this chap.

I liked the Carlisle accounts question, obviously, but his answer gives us everything - he basically knows jack shit, less than your average fan on the street can muster with a few minutes and google at their hands.  I'd love to get sight of the detailed accounts - 8m+ in expenditure would be an amazing achievement, beyond anything we have ever spent as a club in a season.  The biscuits in the boardroom must be gold coated because there is fuck all evidence anywhere else of that kind of spend.  And don't forget that is just the trading costs, it doesn't include anything spent on capital investments (which I presume are actually zero anyway), which wouldn't hit the P&L.

God help us all.

[RobertT]

I mean, seriously, I am free come January and I am not being at all egotistical in stating publicly that I reckon I could do a better job.  I can certainly provide a level of detail on an 8m Opex budget far in advance of what he seems able to achieve rather than just throwing out some Ledger names and trying to say it's all very complicated.  It's a fucking small business!  I'll even do it for less than I was earning.