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Post by Big Jock on May 6, 2021 19:21:20 GMT
CEO, what does that really mean, ta me it means yous got a high powered job calling shots that nobody really knows about and accountable for f**k all. I cannae see for th sh1t load o money they earn what difference they make.
so if yer reading Martin - what is it yous actually do/bring ta th party other than look like a Kenny Rogers with glasses on a jolly.
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Post by 1986gashead on May 6, 2021 19:37:08 GMT
Hope we come back in for Hylton this summer, exactly the sort of striker we’ll need IMO. If we didn’t get relegated I think we’d have been a front runner, but surely he’ll be in league one next season
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2021 19:43:00 GMT
Ok just seen this so with yes or no replies, is this interview worth watching?
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2021 19:43:22 GMT
The amount we paid won’t have had any play in Stockleys decision. He’ll have still got his full Preston wage throughout the loan, looks like Risdale did Bowyer a favour If Preston were £1000’s per week better off by letting Stockley come to us surely that would have been Risdales preferred choice. If Stockley says he wants to go to Charlton (even if they are paying less) Preston would have had little option - they could have said Rovers or nothing but if Stockley then digs his heels in and stays, tying up budget and hindering Prestons own recruitment plans. The fact that bowyer and risdale have a decent history will have helped. The board can’t have done anymore in this situation for me. We also don’t know what the numbers were on the table, we could be talking as little as a grand a week or as much as 3...
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Post by Hugo the Elder on May 6, 2021 20:27:50 GMT
So a CEO thinks the squad is wrong at the start of the season, basically admitting that the first window was a failure and then does f**k all about it in the next window.
What a useless pair of twats we have running our club and its recruitment.
Barton was right, it was negligent and Starnes as good as admits it!
Jesus wept.
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2021 20:37:11 GMT
What a Bug**rs Muddle. Bristol Rovers going from housing the whole Academy at the Quarters to go to we haven't got enough room and will be housing the 1st Reserves and U18's only.(Had to correct himself). Brentford thread was correct, Tier 4 Academy status here we come leading to No status I guess. That is fine if we can actually get Transfer windows right!!!!
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Post by Big Jock on May 6, 2021 20:45:41 GMT
So a CEO thinks the squad is wrong at the start of the season, basically admitting that the first window was a failure and then does f**k all about it in the next window. What a useless pair of twats we have running our club and its recruitment. Barton was right, it was negligent and Starnes as good as admits it! Jesus wept. Sometimes th truth jes has ta be said pal. Thank you.
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Post by aghast on May 6, 2021 21:33:38 GMT
Ok just seen this so with yes or no replies, is this interview worth watching? Yes and no.
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Post by gasheadbatesy on May 6, 2021 21:39:15 GMT
Everybody look at me. F##k off ceo with no risk. I was concerned about our fire power to pal, sadly you said F##k all. Hind sights a wonderful thing, now let’s hear from Tommy and the pair of you can go enjoy your local football clubs.
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Post by socrates on May 6, 2021 22:57:45 GMT
Yes. He said we need to review it and then that the manager should choose the players but then that they always have. Work that one out. To me, thats covering for fellow board member Widdrington and hanging BG out to dry basically. Either way at least manager gets more say next time even if it is Barton. I hope his recruitment is better than he has demonstrated his leadership skills to be. It did feel like he was trying to pass the buck onto Garner and away from Widdrington, especially with his comments that it was Garner who thought we had enough goals in the squad. Sounds to me like Widdrington will stay on as head of recruitment and as a board member, but the director of football role will be abolished. And also Widdrington said himself after one of the games he was in charge of that there was enough goals in the squad. They’re both to be blame equally probably.
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Post by banjogas on May 7, 2021 5:35:36 GMT
Nice and easy scripted interview for the club channels, instead of bottling going on Twentyman.
Starnes towing the party line and blaming referees, it’s no wonder referees are against us when the manager and ceo constantly blame them in public.
Im sure the club lost the Upson appeal? Therefore not always right Martin.
Doesn’t appear to be any accountability from the top, 1 striker identified in January…. What a farce! It’s time Starnes and Widdrington packed their bags.
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Post by tecallaghan on May 7, 2021 7:37:23 GMT
If one thing epitomizes this season, it is accountability. Or, rather, the lack thereof. When the CEO can't even keep the story straight, you know the path is going to be a dangerous one to follow down.
Just once I'd like one of these people to just say (and mean it) "I f**ked it. Sorry everyone. Thought it was the right call, but I was wrong". Just own up to your mistakes. But that's fantasy talk in the world of business, I guess.
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Post by Wembley_Gas on May 7, 2021 8:03:30 GMT
CEO, what does that really mean, ta me it means yous got a high powered job calling shots that nobody really knows about and accountable for f**k all. I cannae see for th sh1t load o money they earn what difference they make. so if yer reading Martin - what is it yous actually do/bring ta th party other than look like a Kenny Rogers with glasses on a jolly. CEO = Chief Excuses Officer
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Post by rememberhalifax on May 7, 2021 8:04:29 GMT
i think he is saying what the fans have been saying all season and is trying to say' we agree with you all' but the difference is he and his colleagues were/ are in a position to do something about it, they tried but for whatever reason they were unable to get any deals over the line, apart from making the managerial changes which were unsuccessful. Based on football reasons no one can blame Stockley or the Luton lad for making the decisions they did ,in fact in Stockley's case it is to his credit that he chose 'football' over chasing the money. The one negative from the interview is the ref to referees, come on Mr CEO, that really is clutching at straws.
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Post by Jomo on May 7, 2021 8:22:58 GMT
Nice and easy scripted interview for the club channels, instead of bottling going on Twentyman. Starnes towing the party line and blaming referees, it’s no wonder referees are against us when the manager and ceo constantly blame them in public. Im sure the club lost the Upson appeal? Therefore not always right Martin. Doesn’t appear to be any accountability from the top, 1 striker identified in January…. What a farce! It’s time Starnes and Widdrington packed their bags. Was nice for him to come out and speak to the fans, but I have to agree it seemed very scripted. No difficult questions, all very straightforward, and yet he still managed to make himself and the club look stupid. I suppose the reason for that is that the decision making at the club at board level over the last 18 months has been little short of a disaster of incoherence and incompetence.
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Post by darkbluegas on May 7, 2021 8:44:02 GMT
Congratulations to anyone who made it all the way through to the end of that. While his career as a football club CEO maybe drawing to a close I’m sure there’s a bright future ahead as a sales rep for Dignitas
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Post by Gas Go Marching In on May 7, 2021 9:11:15 GMT
Thought it was quite interesting that Twentyman said on having a gas that rovers had put on their website "CEO speaks to the media" but rubbished this saying that they wouldn't speak to the media and it was done through Rovers own channels basically. Makes me lose some trust to be honest. Are we getting told just the bits they want us to hear making sure they can save the face of people currently at the club? I don't feel comfortable with it, I also feel there is more to some of Starnes's comments.
The club will come out with anything right now though to make sure they get customers through the door for next season. Need to sell some of those season tickets.
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Post by horfield on May 7, 2021 9:49:30 GMT
You got the feeling that Starnes had passed the Colonel's root and branch investigation and had been reprieved and has kept his job. That's why he looks so smug and of course squeaky clean and relegation no fault of his in the interview. Still only 4 weeks now to Barton's trial, the next instalment of this shambles.
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Post by dragonfly on May 7, 2021 9:52:03 GMT
If Starnes was concerned about our lack of Strikers and physical attributes of the squad at the start of the season he should have acted on it at the time. Tales of woe long after the event is unacceptable. He has failed and should resign. A slippery slope if a CEO starts over ruling managers and recruitment staff by choosing and signing players ? It sounds like there were concerns of the squad being lightweight and short of goals but the man entrusted with the managers job thought otherwise. Having appointed a manager they had to trust him and back him. If we were slightly underweight regarding goal scorers, I would agree, however, we were seriously short of the mark and Starnes should have intervened because just look at the outcome.
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2021 9:59:33 GMT
Right well after having watched that and read the responses on here I’m going to go against the grain somewhat....
Personally I didn’t think the interview was that bad and I actually think in the main his been pretty transparent and told the truth. The responses on here though I think are a little unfair and driven/influenced by the fact we’ve had a poor season.
Before the season started most of us we’re pretty happy with the recruitment and direction the club we’re taking but we all felt in the main that we were short of an experienced goal scorer. It seems to me he felt the same but as he said, ultimately the playing squad is down to the manager and BG had recruited a squad to play the kind of football you typically see in the Prem - lots of short sideways possession based passing probing for a breakthrough at which point you then break at speed and it’s very pass and move type football. BG didn’t feel we needed to panic to get another one in as in Hanlan and Ayunga in particular we had unproven (but strong potential) players that fitted that mould. We lost Ayunga early post summer window so we were then short and we then also list Daly.... BG felt his coaching would give us the improvement in the CFs - it didn’t work out although at the start of the season Hanlan was playing well...
Roll on January and PT was here and as was reported and said by many, PT put all his eggs in the Stockley basket. It failed but not due to the board or club - purely down to the player. We tried for others but they didn’t come off (Gnaduillet, Hylton etc) and Starnes is right - PT was after a certain type of striker and there weren’t many of those types available in Jan.
Now we can all say Starnes should have put his foot down and not allowed certain things to happen but if he’d done that at the time he would have been undermining the manager in place who, and based upon everything I’ve seen read and heard have no reason to not believe, is given full remit on playing squad. There would have been uproar - non football man picking team instead of manager etc , how far does it go?
We are all smarting about how this season has gone, but take a step back and look at it through uninfluenced biased eyes. There are many factors as to why we’ve been relegated including poor refereeing decisions, bad luck, players not living up to their potential/expectations etc.
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