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Grumpy Old Man said:
If CM has any role, including bog cleaner, he won't get one. He'll be hounded from day one.
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Aye its a worry that,hope we are both wrong.Its essential this takeover works ,so hope being rich and privileged doesn't go against him.Reading the last few pages on here theres more chips than crozier fishy
 
Rober33 said:
In my experience, this says more about the workplace than the employees
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How so?
magic snood said:
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Nixon seeming to infer it's still at a due diligence stage? Would suggest it's a way off being sorted if true. Doesn't tie in with those saying it's all signed and agreed.
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If it's "final checks" then it sounds like it's passed the due diligence stage
 
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Scootsie said:
The sooner the better. We need Parkinson gone ASAP if we want to go up this season, imo.
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Well if that's right then the lack of urgency from the buyers side seems a bit troubling, especially as the next few games will be massive for our chances this season.

Nixon first mentioned this back in the summer - how can it take this long to do any due diligence? Also wouldn't Sartori as a board member be privy to it all anyway so you'd think that would speed it up.
 
djilobodjiitist said:
Methven is a dangerous animal as he sees himself as the ultimate intelligent being. He has basically no self doubt... this is his inheritance.

Combined with his privilege and sense of entitlement, he is the worst possible fit for our club and this area.

The bloke looks down on us - he sees us as a bunch of thick northern twats.

Ironically his stereotyping of us in his numerous statements simply proves the point that education, inheritance and background does not equal intelligence and common sense, but his blinkered view of existence simply doesn't allow him to see it.

If he wasn't such a ballsack I would feel sorry for him.

Just another Etonian sociopath.
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TopCat said:
Depends on the situation. Depends on the people. A good man manager can read the situation and get the best out of people. That said, if there was (and is) a lazy attitude to marketing/retail etc (as was suggested in STID) then it absolutely needs someone to put a rocket up their arses.

It all depends on the type of people you are dealing with. Years ago, my MD was an absolute cunt - used to bollock me (and others) for no obvious reason and have no consistency of approach. My response was "I'll f***ing show you" and it got the best out of me. It goes to show, that this approach can work if you use it on the right people
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Your implying he had comittment that the existing staff didnt....but months later he spits his dummy, runs for the hills and calls everyone nasty names.

zero commitment or backbone the kernt. All slaver.
 
TopCat said:
How so?

If it's "final checks" then it sounds like it's passed the due diligence stage
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'has to do his financial checks' could even suggest that it hasn't even been started yet though. Am I right in thinking that due diligence comes before it's passed to the EFL as well, that took about a month for Donald and co on it's own didn't it?
 
TopCat said:
Depends on the situation. Depends on the people. A good man manager can read the situation and get the best out of people. That said, if there was (and is) a lazy attitude to marketing/retail etc (as was suggested in STID) then it absolutely needs someone to put a rocket up their arses.

It all depends on the type of people you are dealing with. Years ago, my MD was an absolute cunt - used to bollock me (and others) for no obvious reason and have no consistency of approach. My response was "I'll f***ing show you" and it got the best out of me. It goes to show, that this approach can work if you use it on the right people
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That approach has worked on me, at other times I've just sacked them off. It's an option in the management tool kit that should be used fleetingly, for a tiny percentage of employees and certainly not in public, by way of grandstanding to others. Methven got everyone of those caveats wrong - and no surprise, he hasn't a f***ing clue how to run a big company, that approach is more much viable in the smaller firms he's used to being involved in.
 
Rober33 said:
In my experience, this says more about the workplace than the employees and it's a poor way of assessing someone's performance or attitude towards their work.

On an individual level, there can be good reasons people need to leave and arrive at certain times and it often doesn't reflect their commitment to the company one way or the other.
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The likes of Charlie m have never had to really graft at a low paid job. He's had a silver spoon inserted where the sun doesn't shine since day one.
When the going got tough for Charlie, he got the hell out of here. No doubt the ticket office staff having left at 4:55, returned to work the following day.
 
I keep this private at the time because I wasn't sure where it would go, but I am pretty certain I'll have nothing to do with them so...



A few weeks ago I was introduced to a schoolfriend of Charlie's completely by chance (we were introduced by email by a TV producer in America). He is starting a business in the US, in my sector, and was referred to me as someone who had done so. Interestingly, as soon as he found out I was a SAFC fan he mentioned Charlie and said he didn't know whether that would count in his favour or not.

In that meeting he:
  1. Was baffled by someone from the North East being involved in the sector I am, with the success we have had. This is despite him quite literally trying to do the same from London (it's not a surprise when people like him do it, it is a surprise when people like me do it).

  2. In one of the most arrogant and misjudged things I've ever heard, tried to get me to merge my company into his to help his first investment round, despite us being hundreds of thousands of x bigger than his.

  3. Told me Charlie was a hacking bastard at football :D

I just thought it was breathtaking the way he spoke about American people as almost sub-human and how his company with foundations of sand was just absolutely going to destroy every established company over there, simply because he believes it.

These comapanies are clearly dominant and have raised tens of millions already, have established userbases etc, and his plan is literally to just not do anything different :D . It was a fascinating insight into how these people are convinced that they can't fail and how the old-boys network had helped him do things that many of us would have loved to have had 'starting out' with a plan that has zero edge.

He'd raised £2m in a week by virtue of meeting someone in his communal apartment garden during lockdown who ran a family office.

I guess what we have to remember is that these people, no matter how bad they are at this, no matter how little knowledge or talent they have, they always fall upwards as long as they can keep the Public Schoolboy aura of knowing what they're doing around themselves. Just like Charlie, if at first it sounds like he's confident (as it did here), people turn a blind eye to the huge red flags that suggest that he is actually not that great at what he does.

He'd also used some creative numbers to get that investment too, because those little white lies/exaggerations don't matter to these people as long as they can get some cash in and hopefully paper over the cracks later. Again, think about how CM tried to use creative phrasing during that first year to justify what they were doing on the basis that if they could get promoted, hopefully nobody would ask questions about the debt Madrox owed us.

Just thought that story might interest a few of you.
 
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Methven apologist out in force I see.

Throwing accusations about of inverted snobbery completely miss the point. Where somebody went to school or their background in general is irrelevant. One question, are they alright or not, that is it.
He isn’t alright.
 
Comeback_Kenwyne said:
That approach has worked on me, at other times I've just sacked them off. It's an option in the management tool kit that should be used fleetingly, for a tiny percentage of employees and certainly not in public, by way of grandstanding to others. Methven got everyone of those caveats wrong - and no surprise, he hasn't a f***ing clue how to run a big company, that approach is more much viable in the smaller firms he's used to being involved in.
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Witness the Glassdoor reviews of his PR firm and you can see that his approach was a toxic hindrance there as well. He's not good at what he does by any measure. His only 'talent' is the people he knows.
 
SPUFF said:
Your implying he had comittment that the existing staff didnt....but months later he spits his dummy, runs for the hills and calls everyone nasty names.

zero commitment or backbone the kernt. All slaver.
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I didn't say he was perfect, nor does having commitment for 12 months then leaving imply you weren't committed.
magic snood said:
'has to do his financial checks' could even suggest that it hasn't even been started yet though. Am I right in thinking that due diligence comes before it's passed to the EFL as well, that took about a month for Donald and co on it's own didn't it?
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Final checks or financial checks?
 
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