Shambolic Ownership

I never ever said it was all rosy. You've picked up what the AF say about me and use it as fact. I was critical of the whole Al'Qadi regime when it first rode into town. A split board room, family and directors pulling the club in different directions that resulted in DC being promised one thing by one person and not getting being told by another. Not building the UWE stadium was the single most gigantic mistake they made.

Wael to his credit, once he assume full control appeared to be trying to steer things in the direction of original intended travel, and did so for a while, capitalising debt along the way. However it was largely too late now to do anything meaningful on the stadium front, he tried to put a stadium deal together and he made some poor decisions in who he appointed as manager, execs of the club, and never structured a good footballing department.

Wael is though, a very well connected football person and believe it or not people seek advice from when it comes to their own careers in football.

So overall whilst we had an owner who made some mistakes, and made questionable decisions on some fronts, which no doubt added to the losses on the balance sheet, I think none were made out of any malice with the intentions always to be honourable.

And let's not forget, there were some when he first took over who didn't like him simply because he no longer engaged with them in the way they had been used to, eg, whispering tales from a leaky SC and PC.

The AS are now the majority shareholders, as such they are responsible for the day to day running and are the ones responsible for structuring and running the FC.

The father seems to let the son have full control. The son appears to be woefully out of his depth with zero clue on how to operate any business let alone a big one like BRFC.

There are now 6 people on the board of directors, 2 of them we haven't been introduced to and have no idea about. Who are they? What are their skill sets? Are they part of the structure going forward and if so, what are their roles? Do they need help and experience? What about Tom G? What's he doing now? Where does he fit in to everything?

The football department.

Who is in charge of recruitment, scouting, player negotiations, and overall operations? Are we going to build that network and if so when are we starting because that should already be in progress.

We had a semblance of all of the above under Wael which went out of the bath with Barton. Quite right too. But that happened in October and it's now the end of Jan.

On top of that some people aren't being paid, or having to take benefits from the club in exchange for invoice values that they probably wouldn't otherwise have taken just as a means of settling up.

As I said before. If Abdul is the man to run the show, he needs a damn good wake up call and learn to be a proper businessman quick smart because currently he's making a proper cats arse of everything and is so clearly out of his depth.

People saying are a we a little less shmabolic now... The club having some player on the book is probably the absolute minimum I would expect following any football club.

The areas that need improving are obvious and hopefully the club are actually doing something about it all. Really is time the club stepped up it's game.

i think that we need to recognise that some of the best and most effective leaders start off by getting things wrong and acting inappropriatly. What matters is the long term plans for the club and the abiility to deliver a future that is safe and gives the fans/ owners what they want. It is true that we seem to have experienced some short term operational issues but that is not a problem as long as lessons are learned and egos put to the side. Learning from past mistakes is perhaps the most important steo on the road to success.

Read a great article on the Venkys when they took over at the other Rovers where they didn’t have a clue and it caused mayhem. They are still there now but it took them nearly 10years to get to grips with running a football club. Originally they were doing everything getting their mates involved, now they have proper football in place. These new boys could learn a thing or two from the Venkys, let’s hope it doesn’t take 10 years because at this rate we won’t have that long. Appreciate, also, that the Venkys are absolutely minted and to all intents a purposes we know absolutely nothing about the Al Saeeds at present

Great points by both. Still think if Wael had the available funds at his disposal he would definitely have made good.

Do you sense that relationship is good enough where by a return could be feasible?

I like Matt Taylor so I'm not angling or hoping. Just hypothetically- do you think DC would be interested. Proper loved that bloke.

Weird how a few days ago we couldn’t drop Cox and didn’t have a pot to water in and now we’ve dropped Cox and spent 300K+?

Wael spent (wasted?) around £30m how much did he need at his disposal?

As far as DC didn't he also tell you Finley was past it?

He said that Finley is someone you'd have in your squad but wont get you promoted out of this division as first choice pick.