Al Saeeds OUT and The Stadium (Or Lack Of One) Thread

The missing context is that any fans who may have asked a question or two of Hussain would still be in the bar. That walk through the Thatchers must've been at least 30 mins before kick off.

I think this bloke strives on us not doing well on the pitch, you can’t offer advice to a manager who is winning games.

Tom Brady docu on Amazon is fascinating, Wagner says he never tells the manager what to do or who to pick. Brady is more there for motivation and an icon the players can look at at say, well fair play he’s won a lot.

You then get Abdul overweight and his obese cousin/room mate on top bunk next to him, and they and the manager think, WTF are you guys 😂

Barton never lied, Taylor said difficult place to work, DC said no one would be picking his team, if none of it was ever the case, he’d have said that was all made up, Abdul never did this.

Expectant for the cheque to be used now, the old loan signing from Barnsley wasn’t this.

If someone is lying about you and your character you defend yourself, even if its from someone like JB.  Look how Vine went after him.  I understand not getting into a back and forth on social media, but if any of what was being said by JB was a lie and there was no truth to the rumours that were coming from other clubs and agents then a simple statement would have been sufficient or even a radio interview.

However there has been nothing but heads buried in the sand and absolute radio silence since the Gascast interview where he tried to gaslight us all and the propaganda videos from Hussain.  Not even an in person apology from the chairman for the failure of last season as well as the useless son not even bothering turning up to see his handy work get us relegated.  They even sent Amelia into the hospitality areas to try and apolgise. Utterly shameful, weak and clueless leadership.

I have never seen such crass arrogance and ignorance towards us as fans as we have seen from them in the past 24 months. 

The Bigger Picture

When you look at the game, there’s a reason some managers can get away with being outspoken. Take Steve Evans or Rafa Benitez for example – they’re serial winners at their respective levels. They can back up their opinions with promotions, trophies and a proven record.

But then you’ve got the other end of the spectrum: inexperienced, overweight Championship managers glued to a computer screen, telling professional sportsmen how to pick a team and how to play. I find that offensive, a real issue, and frankly, embarrassing.

It’s the same as if I walked into my gym, carrying 18 stone at 5ft 10 with a gut hanging over, and tried to tell fit people how they should train and do cardio. You’d laugh me out the door.

That’s the point I’m making. I’m not being personal – I’m talking about credibility. If you want to command respect in football (or anywhere), you either need the results to back you up, or you need to live the standards you’re preaching.

Hope this clears it up

As for the “Barton-esque / woke” line that’s been thrown about…

Let’s be real. We’ve got an overweight, non-football educated bloke telling two previous managers how to run a professional football team. And let’s not forget – he helped appoint a Spanish children’s coach to take charge of the side, one he could no doubt bully around. That’s the reality of it.

My point about his weight, and his mate (Financial Director) stripping the club of proper employment resources, I’ll stand by. Why? Because while they’re sat there playing power games, it’s the Volunteer Army out in the July heat, assembling pub benches in a car park, just to give the club some life. That’s embarrassing. That’s the truth of where we’re at.

I’m not dressing it up to be nice, I’m just spelling it out: credibility matters, and right now, there isn’t much of it at the top

The Reality Check

At the end of the day, we’re just a small £10 million turnover business. That’s nothing in football terms and business, you will find a local plumbing business with 8 staff doing millions in turnover. We host 23 big events a year and already have a Director of Football in place to handle the sporting side.

My motto at work is simple: don’t ask others to do what you wouldn’t do yourself. Where you can help, you step in. That’s called leading by example, and it sets a culture.

Now look at our so-called “executives”:
• Executive Vice-President Abdullatif AlSaeed
• Director Khaled Alkandari
• Director Abdulaziz Alroomi

What are they doing while the Volunteer Army is out there in July heat, sweating buckets building benches and moving blue bins? Ordering Uber Eats and Dunkin’ Donuts in the office.

That’s the picture: lazy, overweight, privileged boys sitting in air-con while volunteers graft to keep the club moving. It sums up everything that’s wrong with the leadership right now.

What a great description of a football club's forum

Chapeau

Stop Living in the Past

Why dwell on what’s already gone? Focus on the present – because right now we’re on an express train to non-league, playing in an aging stadium, and losing millions.

I don’t care about the past. It’s like being stuck in an unhappy relationship today and saying, “Well, my last three partners were terrible too.” That doesn’t mean you should just put up with the current one!

It’s the present that matters, we have to start facing it, we are in a proper mess.