Where is the owner?

Having been at the Fans’ Forum organised by the Supporters Club I was pleasantly reassured by what was said and, more importantly perhaps, by how it was said.

Abdullatif AlSaeed came across well as a businessman and deferred to Matt Taylor, George Friend and Antony Evans on football matters. He noticeably did not defer to Tom Gorringe on business matters but did put him on the spot re historic decisions. He had obviously made plans and is trying to stick to them.

It’s not his or Matt Taylor’s fault that so many players’ contracts expire this summer requiring a reset.

It’s not insignificant imo that George Friend was appointed before and present at the forum. He and Chris Spendlove will be doing scouting for recruitment. Matt Taylor will have input I imagine but it won’t all be on MT’s shoulders.

Like others I am now very watered off at our recent performances but it has to be said we have created chances and been thwarted by ‘worldy’ saves and bad luck as well as our own crap play.


The overreaction from certain fans waters me off more though. Time for support now more than ever.

Whilst I’m moaning - please can people make more of an effort to spell names correctly? I’m severely dyslexic and struggled to learn to read and write, let alone spell - my wife taught me the alphabet on honeymoon! My own name is rarely spelt correctly by newcomers so perhaps I’m oversensitive? Maybe a spellchecker could be applied to this forum for the player’s names and a few others?
Dan Hargraves - not Hargreaves.
Luke McCormick - not McCormack as the plonker on Radio Bristol says.
Antony Evans - not Anthony
James Connolly - not Connelly or others
Sam Finley - not Finlay or others
The list goes on but those are the ones I recall today.
It doesn’t take long to check (or put a ? in if not sure). It’s common decency to get somebody’s name right. UTG!

Thanks for clearing that up. In my head I've only ever been able to read your name as John My Jet Ski.

Defence NOT Defense.Centre NOT Center.Morecambe NOT Morecombe.We ain't Yanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So after his wonderful speech a couple of months ago where is the owner to reassure fans as to what is happening with the football club? Where does he think we are in relation to his target of Championship in three years? All he has shown IMO is a total lack of knowledge of the game of football . The gaps on the terracing are the visible evidence on what has been and is a total disaster.
Is there a team in this division or in fact the entire football league who we could beat or at least score against at the present time? I honestly cannot see any evidence that we will pick up another point this season.
The season began with optimism- like or dislike Joey Barton there was a feeling around the fans that this would be our season- a club that was going somewhere. A £1m offer for JCH and that transfer deadline for me was the beginning of the end- a cock up of mighty proportions that began the slippery slope that these owners have brought to my club. We never really heard what JB thought of that decision but looking back I see it as the beginning of the end for JB. To me it was the move that would change the narrow defeats to narrow victories- a player who didnt need others to create goals for him. It was an almost unheard of move for our club-paying out a new transfer record on a player who was the best in the division at what he did-score goals and leading the frontline. Instead we lost one striker and got nobody. We made ourselves a laughing stock and I think at that stage it was the start of players starting to doubt what they had signed into. The decline in AC scoring was partly down to him but more to all our hopes of winning matches being on his shoulders and I feel he had made his mind up then that he would be on his way. JCH would have taken that pressure and relished it instead of totally wasting a season of his career.
Peterborough yet again taught us a lesson in how to run a successful football club- by replacing their star striker with two new players on the assumption he would go and then stand by that decision. We on the otherhand ended up with nothing. There is little doubt in my mind that JB was angered by that farce but probably if he had said anything he would have been sacked then instead of further down the road.
The sacking of JB could have been handled so much better if the owners had somebody in mind for the job- we will never know how much Wael had in this decision- but i feel very little. It was the new owner flexing his muscle but also showing that he had very little knowledge of running a football club. It took him months before his speech and now the repeated silence has seen us on a downward slope that has just kept getting worse.
Does the owner even know that the standard of football being produced is dreadful to the eye? A good business man is not necessarily the right option to run a football club. Even a very rich owner is only as good as the amount of money he is prepared to put in to the football club. How much is he putting into the club and how much is being taken oucan't make accusations because we don't really know . We dont know how much is loans and how much money out of the owners pocket.
We have to believe what the owners tell us and that is very little and not very often.
We look like a ship that is out of control because the only evidence we as football fans have is what we see on the pitch and that at present is a decline of epic proportion.
The new stand is the only visible evidence of anything the owners have put in and the numbers in that stand has gone down with the football produced.
Now is the time for the leader to come out and lead before he has no one left to lead.


 

and it's SHERBET not SHERBERT !!!  (not that this often comes up on a football forum, sadly)

Defence NOT Defense.Centre NOT Center.Morecambe NOT Morecombe.We ain't Yanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!