Dear Mr Donald

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safcmackem said:
He’s a chancer he took a gamble that we would go up at the first time of asking and could make a quick profit but that didn’t happen so he now doesn’t have the money needed to get us promoted
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Is the correct answer. Couldn't afford Oxford United but has the funds for Sunderland, aye ok.
 


killerfish said:
Tin hat on. Is SD with his limited resources as much of a victim of the total calamity of mismanagement of this club over the last decade as you and me, the dedicated fans, rather than being part of the disaster. Discuss.
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He shouldn’t have taken over then, if he didn’t have the money. If he has limited resources, why did he spunk 95% of it on Will Grigg? He’s a shambles - a joke. I’m glad he doesn’t attend matches anymore.
 
killerfish said:
Tin hat on. Is SD with his limited resources as much of a victim of the total calamity of mismanagement of this club over the last decade as you and me, the dedicated fans, rather than being part of the disaster. Discuss.
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How much did Barnsley, Charlton and Luton spend last season getting promoted?

You don’t need infinite resources to get out of this league. You do need people running the club who know what they’re doing and who didn’t get the job just because you know them.
 
killerfish said:
Spot on and in someway reflects my view... he was over ambitious for the resources he had. Not flush by club owner standards - maybe naive? His intentions were good... but he got involved over his head. Not sure he deserves the level of vitriol he’s getting when he is only part of the major car crash which started well down the road.
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His intentions were to make some money whilst playing football director with his mates. Nothing terrible about that.

However, his short-sighted strategy and intentions have ruined a massive chance for the club and left us in dire straights.
 
samaistonsrightfoot said:
OK so imo:

He misled everyone as to how he bought the club
He misled everyone as to how much he paid for the club.
He had to come out at the start of last season (after an article in the paper) and admit he was looking for a loan, despite telling us all we had the the championship envious of our budget.
He tried to hide he took 10 million from the club until it was reported by the Daily Mail. After it was highlighted by the DM he focused more on denying the amount he paid (I think the DM said 40 and he was furious they hadn't said 38 even though he had paid about 6) in an attempt to do the very attention from the cash that had been taken out of the club.
He misled everyone over whether this 10 million would be paid back or not with him saying it would, and Methven saying it wouldn't.
He's spent his whole time here taking about openness despite providing all this misleading information.
Delayed accounts filing date so everyone will need to wait longer to see what our finances are actually like because nobody has any idea bar boasts about 'best finances in the football league' despite not being able to afford to fix a lift.
When he was questioned on twitter about this missing 10 million he went on a 'twitter break'.
He's not attending RAWA meetings, as hasn't done since the initial one.
He's sacked the scouting department and hasn't employed replacements.
He's hired people who failed numerous times at a conference side having failed there himself. Something he apologised for in his leaving statement there.
Handled the Maja situation appallingly.
Totally f***ing up the Grigg transfer after making numerous derisory offers then waiting till after he sold Maja, and had no other fit striker in the squad, to be held to ransom.
Paid off Cattermole despite claiming for a year he doesn't need to offload high earners.
Put the whole summer on hold until takeover talks with Campbell broke down having paraded him about Wembley.
Sacked a manager, not because of his poor record or because the fans wanted him out, but because another takeover had failed and had been reported 40 minutes prior, and he wanted to deflect attention away. He woudn't even wait to announce it as had been agreed with Ross to allow him time to tell his family first.
Totally bailed when things went wrong and people started to question his intentions due to many of the issues above, citing 'fan abuse' as another way to deflect.
Appointed a new manager based on (in Charlie's words) references and 'because he kept Colchester in the championship' despite never managing Colchester in the championship, but more likely to down to wages.
Took a loan out with close brothers in SAFC name when that 10 could have been paid back instead?
Has had 10 million paid into Maddrox (not safc) from an American consortium but is refusing to give any information on it. Methven has stated it is private between FPP and Maddrox and fans will never know about it.
Touted out youth players to get compo packages.
Recruitment has totally failed and he thinks the people running it are doing an incredible job.

Off the top of my head.

I mean he couldn't even be honest about the colour of the shorts last season. Even the club shop staff were saying they weren't allowed to say because either could be worn, despite wearing black every home game but selling red ones with the home mini kits.
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Deserves a thread of its own, I'm unsure what they've actually got right. We're now a league one team with league one players, a manager that no one wanted and the parachute payments have ended.
 
TDalt said:
He shouldn’t have taken over then, if he didn’t have the money. If he has limited resources, why did he spunk 95% of it on Will Grigg? He’s a shambles - a joke. I’m glad he doesn’t attend matches anymore.
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When you look at the plight we’re in now, it’s absolutely laughable of him to expect us to believe he had £50m in the bank to show the EFL
 
killerfish said:
Tin hat on. Is SD with his limited resources as much of a victim of the total calamity of mismanagement of this club over the last decade as you and me, the dedicated fans, rather than being part of the disaster. Discuss.
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You don't buy a racecar if you can't afford to fuel it
 
partridge amongst the pig said:
It's a myth that you have to spend money to get out of this league though. It's fine doing it on the cheap... Plenty other clubs have done it and are continuing to do it.

The issue is the people he's entrusted to do the recruitment. They've been woefully inadequate and we now have a mediocre team that will struggle to go up this season. We had the perfect chance to reset and move forward in a really creative way. But we just look like we're in the process of f***ing it all up again.


I think the thing that is starting to anger most people is all of the fawning shit he came out with about how he couldn't turn down an opportunity to get involved with such a big football club etc etc etc.

People actually bought into this at first and, now that it appears to be nothing but empty rhetoric to get us onside, they are starting to get pissed off.
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Partly agree about not having to spend money and totally agree about the recruitment. A small outlay would be the difference between getting a wanted player and an unwanted player or a wanted loanee though. Clubs want certain players for a reason and clubs release players for good reason. McLsughlin, De Bock- good heavens.
We even payed a fortune for Grigg - totally out of his depth a division above - and out of form and not playing matches. Why not pay money for players in form / on the up. Actual investments. A long term committed owner would invest knowing the player would get results at this level make the step up and make the club a profit later.
 
TDalt said:
He shouldn’t have taken over then, if he didn’t have the money. If he has limited resources, why did he spunk 95% of it on Will Grigg? He’s a shambles - a joke. I’m glad he doesn’t attend matches anymore.
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Because he didn't expect to still be here. The plan was to watch us walk the league and then flog us on for a tidy profit. On paper it was a good idea but with us nothing ever goes to plan
 
Yuri said:
Absolute coward, got this club on its knees and he runs away
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I would bet we will hardly ever see him again now. Wonder what the yanks are thinking. Probably this is all confirming their reported views on Donald and Meth man. Useless pair of tossers.
 
the sleeping giant said:
A heartfelt post. I might not agree with everything said but I respect the time and thought that has gone into it from a genuine and passionate fan.

Some of the responses though.... wanksplat.
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I agree. We’re all concerned lads fans on here.

We use this forum as a way of venting/getting our message across.
 
I'm as pissed off as anybody but the reality is we can't do anything til Parkinson has had a transfer dabble. We can't change the ownership, they have done a lot of the hard work behind the scenes on costs but so far not on the playing side. Fine margins remember and they wouldn't even have been fine had Maja stayed. This could get nasty and actually drag us further down but it won t change the ownership. (see them up the road)
 
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