RevidgeBlue

Hope you are right. Great work so far, keep it up! I think we're seeing now aren't we that the owners don't like hitting the headlines for the wrong reasons. They seem to be more worried about that than losing millions upon millions annually.

I don't know. Nothing would change if Waggott was still here, he would attempt to continue to downsize the Club, therefore to that extent any change is prima facie positive.

If nothing else, is it not good that he hasn't been allowed to shamelessly fleece the Club one final time?

Do you think Suhail is under any serious pressure with his Lords and Masters or is his position secure?

That has to be the worst suggestion I've ever seen.

All these worries about who will replace him are a bit like when Mowbray was replaced as manager. "Who on earth could we ever get who'll be better than him?" Errr.....the next one in and oh! - the one after him as well. We've got rid of an absolute scourge upon the Club. That at least should be celebrated. Let's pass comment on his replacement when we know who it is.

All that has happened under Waggott and would no doubt have continued under him though. I'd rather hope someone came in who wanted to try and grow the Club as opposed to shrink it and reduce it in size.

As soon as he ever opened his mouth I just assumed he was lying and that the opposite was true.

But what did Waggott do that long term pushed the Club in the right direction? ** Anything? We got lucky to an extent with Adam Wharton which kept the lights on for a bit but even he was sold at the wrong point for a pitiful fee. ** I'm guessing some people will say appoint two excellent Head Coaches in JDT and Eustace but as he then alienated them to the point where they both walked out, I'm not sure how valid that point is.

The saving on his annual salary would fund the women's team for a season or indeed several seasons wouldn't it? Tough choice.

Devil's advocate mode: Even if that DID happen, how could it be any worse than Waggott?

Waggott's list of "achievements": Introduced the "match day tax" Affordable seating scrapped for the majority of his tenure. Tried to charge people for using Blues on matchday. Not sure if that was shelved? Increased season ticket prices during the pandemic by up to 25% for a season where no-one could attend reducing the ST base at that point to 2.5k. Unsuccessfully trying to flog off part of Brockhall no doubt costing the Club a load of money in the process. Two high profile January transfer deadline day collapses on his watch. In the most recent January window spent £20 k p.w. on a guy who hadn't kicked a ball for 10 months and who unsurprisingly barely kicked a ball for us. Two successive head coaches alienated to the extent where they walked out. The recent despicable decision regarding the women's team. I'm sure there's more.

Well I'm hearing Waggott's gone - no doubt much to Mashed's chagrin. If true, an extremely happy day for the Club. Absolute piece of Scum trying to flog off part of Brockhall. One victory at a time. If he hadn't set ST prices so high, I might have considered reinstating my ST for next season.

What an abysmal game the Europa League final was, 90 mins of play acting, feigning serious injury, and trying to get opponents in trouble on both sides. Pleased the Red Scum lost though. Hopefully it magnifies any financial issues they may or may not have. How did Bruno Fernandes get away with remonstrating with the referee like he did after one of his team mates was booked? Ludicrous.

Come on, he's trying to get restrictions lifted altogether - he's hardly likely to argue in Court they aren't really a problem! In reality there ISNT any real impediment to funding as it stands now - they merely have to cover monies sent with other funds which would merely affect their liquidity at the Bank a bit - but only if they're down to their last £20m or so. My guessing is they still won't send any funds even if any and all restrictions are lifted.

£449 for a ST in the BBE in phase 2. Absolute insanity. Why are they trying to empty the ground?

You would! It was the players who cost us a chance of the play offs by sulking for six and a half games after Eustace left so I'm not sure why people are queuing up to lavish praise upon them. I think den is the only one who has it right with his appraisal, at the end of the day it was another wasted season in what has become a race against time given the problems presented by the ownership and management.

He's failed in his task for this season but we're likely stuck with him for the forseeable so no alternative but to get behind him unless or until he proves otherwise next season. Personally think he'll be fairly bomb proof if he keeps us bobbing along just above the safety line whilst introducing a few Academy players along the way. Probably not what the majority of us want to see as fans but I suspect that's as good as it will get under this ownership from now on. One thing's for certain though, if he's genuinely expecting substantial support in the summer to remould the squad in his own style, he's likely to end up as disapppinted as the last 2 Head Coaches.

That's probably an extremely low bar.

Are you saying you WOULD renew Heges or you think that's just what they'll do? He has to be top of the pile of crap imo.

Of course you weren't. Why be so keen to point out that he didn't put his entire fortune in, or wasnt knighted then? It's one thing being the Board's comedy contrarian at every opportunity which is often good value but that was just incredibly poor form.

What incentive is there for anyone half decent to stay? They can stay at a Club with no aspirations of promotion on (relatively) rubbish money or..... And that's assuming the Club havent already been taking steps to flog them off to keep the lights on in the first place.

Im fairly sure "Good old Uncle Tone" went well beyond that and gave him another deal of some sort. Maybe someone will be able to confirm.

So in your desperation to be contrary, you're now belittling Jack Walker's contribution. That's extremely poor from yourself. I dont think it's in any real dispute that his overall input was in the order of £120 - £130m. Whether or not it was his entire fortune, that was a hell of a lot of money 30 -35 years ago. Then on top of that there were the funds grudgingly put in after his death by the family who had no real interest in football.

That sums it up perfectly. You have to look at the season in context. OF COURSE we'd have taken seventh before a ball was kicked etc etc but given the fact we unexpectedly occupied the play off positions for most of the season and viewed from where we were with twelve games to go, seventh is another dismal failure. Added to that the Coach who was mainly responsible for getting us into a decent position left in February for a team in the relegation zone and the Club subsequently bizarrely admitted that the play offs were never our priority. Therefore impossible to view the season in any sort of positive light imo, indeed it's probably going to be the forerunner of something far worse.