Grendel
Well-Known Member
As a manager he was clearly a huge figure and as an innovator. As a Chairman he failed.
Not a fan?
All I can think of seeing that is premiership football and big name players. I'm feeling all nostalgic.i wish he would make a comeback.
All I can think of seeing that is premiership football and big name players. I'm feeling all nostalgic.i wish he would make a comeback.
Fletcher's "Operation Premiership" anyone?
Yep, big name players we couldn't afford. How come we went from a team in the black with it's own stadium to a team who ended up being tenants to the local council? It's all very sad.
When we were relegated we could have wound up all the debts and started again as others did. Mcginnity refused and asset stripped and sacked managers for fun. Richardson I'm sure would have just wound us up and maybe that was a factor in his demise - who knows.
Had we gone into administration then, too, we'd have had an option to buy back Highfield Road, and ownership of a site for a new stadium going with us... so far more appealing than the internal administration McGinnity and Robinson put us through!
100% correct. Mgginnity wrecked the club. I firmly believe richardsons main focus would have been a swift return and would have used every trick in the book. He certainly wouldn't have worried about creditors - the boardroom creditors dictated policy after his departure and that created the mess we are now in.
In truth because parachute payments were small and the price for not returning in 2 years would always have been huge debts and struggle. All teams who didn't get back then ended up getting relegated further down.
When we were relegated we could have wound up all the debts and started again as others did. Mcginnity refused and asset stripped and sacked managers for fun. Richardson I'm sure would have just wound us up and maybe that was a factor in his demise - who knows.
and the last 6 years have been a testimony to focussed leadership, with blue sky thinking? :thinking about:
Without mcginnity and his hapless cohorts the last 6 years would not have happened.
and the last 6 years have been a testimony to focussed leadership, with blue sky thinking? :thinking about:
Really hating kidneysdoesn't mean I long for sheep's brains.
Does the defamation sensor need a new battery? careful with the wording fellas!
In the end you judge a business over a term on its own merits, in effect against its own business plan.
The last 40 years has been business failure after failure. We should have realistically been a yo-yo Championship/Premiership team with a manageable debt, that would have required very good stewardship, given the difficulties of the football business- instead we got Richardson who heaped up enormous debts and got us relegated anyway.
That led us to Sisu, and 6 years of unprecedented failure, bitterness and disharmony- rock bottom, possibly leading to ground zero.
until the relegation season from championship, I didn't pay much attention to the board room. but my general opinion is the boardroom of CCFC have always been money grabbing, self promoting c***s who get big salaries and pay offs who's only interest is their own pocket, not making a club/business a success. similar to Bankers in many ways.
Were the board paid under McGinnity/Robinson/Richardson? Richardson certainly was but were any of the others?
Were the board paid under McGinnity/Robinson/Richardson? Richardson certainly was but were any of the others?
Do payments include loans and terms of payback?
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