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19/11/16 - 5pm - Protest at the Murray Gates

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John J Rambo said:
Actually I'll have a go
- ridiculous to blame him for the actions of another person on that.
- 10th highest net spenders, tells me that shouldn't happen.
- from Ferdinand to Fletcher and lens, backing managers with decent money, certainly enough for us to be competitive, to turn see those players leave for next to nowt, no wonder the debt has racked up, all the while, still making 30m available in the summer
- 9 managers? must have missed that
- millions wasted, so he tried something that has worked at other clubs. Yes it failed, so he'll be to blame there, but he had to try something and people he employed were highly rated elsewhere.

Obviously and mistakes have been made, doesn't take a genius to see that. But still believe he has the best interests of the club at heart and gets unfair criticism.


There ya gan. Typed while you were waiting.
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He was chairman at the time Byrne fcked up. She took a dive to take the heat out the situation. How much he knew - well publicly she says he didnt know a thing.

10th highest net spenders but an abysmal transfer policy. Spends late in windows and spreads the investment across a string of squad players.
Net result - tonnes of shite with a large turnover and a team still clinging onto some of the Bruce signings to stay afloat.

9 managers - Keane, Sbragia, Bruce, O'Neil, Di Canio, Poyet, Advocaat, Allardyce, Moyes.

His DoF appointments were hilarious.

He barely gets any criticism, because he removes himself from every situation and shifted the blame onto his managers as a result. He's been nowhere to be seen this season.

Maximus said:
I wasn't and loads I know weren't. I actually thought it was possible Arsenal might give us a beating. I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest Liverpool might possibly do the same. It happens. Back-to-back wins occasionally happen and even Pickford clean sheets can be added.

We are not clear of trouble and it might get a lot worse. We are not relegated either.

I'm going to enjoy the rest of the weekend, enjoy match of the day and wish @Mrjardine and family all the best with the new arrival.
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Arsenal didn't just give us a beating. They humiliated us. And the players (not all) looked like they couldn't care less at being humiliated.
 
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8 JLB said:
He was chairman at the time Byrne fcked up. She took a dive to take the heat out the situation. How much he knew - well publicly she says he didnt know a thing.

10th highest net spenders but an abysmal transfer policy. Spends late in windows and spreads the investment across a string of squad players.
Net result - tonnes of shite with a large turnover and a team still clinging onto some of the Bruce signings to stay afloat.

9 managers - Keane, Sbragia, Bruce, O'Neil, Di Canio, Poyet, Advocaat, Allardyce, Moyes.

His DoF appointments were hilarious.

He barely gets any criticism, because he removes himself from every situation and shifted the blame onto his managers as a result. He's been nowhere to be seen this season.


Arsenal didn't just give us a beating. They humiliated us. And the players (not all) looked like they couldn't care less at being humiliated.
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Guess work there and assumptions. No one can argue our transfer policy isn't abysmal, but without knowing the ins and outs of transfer dealings, more guess work and assumptions. He doesn't tell managers to spend 6m on mcnair and love, 8m on a defender who has played 1minute for Chelsea or break our transfer record, yes that reads right, on an unknown midfielder from France. I haven't read 9 managers "slating" the way the clubs ran. De fanti was an odd appointment, but congerton was highly rated. Either way, it didn't work and neither of them are here. He scrapped it for allardyce, who like almost all managers, the majority were very happy with shorts choice. Not a single fan can say he is blameless, the league our struggles and financial situation tells its own story, bit to just say it's all his fault is very unfair and blinkered imo. Like I say, I firmly believe he's tried to make us better and ways had the best interests of the club at heart. For that, this protest stuff and other criticism, I just don't agree with and have said that from the off.
 
John J Rambo said:
Catch 22 with that. He's consistently backed managers to watch it spunked away and no return from it. In the meantime, he's still had to back managers to at least try to make us competitive. He gets grief for not spending as it is, unfairly, but he can't just say there's no money we're in debt, so what can he do? Ideally we should he buying the likes of Kone and developing more pickfords and selling them on for big money, then replace, build and move on and repeat. Imagine the uproar when we sell Pickford, even if it's for 20m+? That's how we should be ran, on and off the field. Buy right and a good youth set up, then sell for big and move on. Southampton have done this brilliantly and should be an example to all clubs like us.
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Pretty much. The bloke can't win. Thought experiment: Imagine having twenty million quid and entrusting someone with it to buy two players to take your team to the next level, and with it they buy one player who atleast on paper has a good pedigree but turns out to be say, Jack Rodwell and another with an equally good pedigree who turns out to be a f***ing idiot and through no fault of your own ends up getting himself jailed as a sex offender. You've effectively lost twenty million quid and aren't any further forward, while you've done everything you reasonably could. People don't appreciate what now effectively amounts to futile philanthropy and think you should fuck off. How do you feel?
 
redgauntlet said:
I don't believe for one moment that he sees SAFC as anything else but an investment. A lot more money would have gone in otherwise and relegation troubles would have been history.
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Canny investment - pour in a quarter of a billion to end up with a club worth nothing.
 
haway said:
Time to tell Short that he needs to go. I think all of us are sad that it has come to this but it's becoming increasingly clear that he's mismanaged the club to the point where relegation isn't our biggest worry - financial solvency is.

We've been through it all before but he's repeatedly left managers feeling their hands are tied and has made awful decisions that leave us in a perilous position.

Protesting may not help - but it's about time he hears the frustration of the support. It could well result in him acting - he wants rid of the club and is holding out for a higher price. Action might result in him dropping that price enough to get the sale through so we can rebuild for next year.

Let's keep it outside the stadium - the last things the players need is a hostile atmosphere when they're presumably low on confidence as it is, but I for one do not want to sit on my hands until the end of the season, knowing all that we do now about the mismanagement of the club, having done nothing.

The fans are the one real thing that matter to me about this club, and I'm sick of us being misled and manipulated by an owner who clearly has no interest anymore in our success.
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Get a life, some of us have better things to do
 
John J Rambo said:
Guess work there and assumptions. No one can argue our transfer policy isn't abysmal, but without knowing the ins and outs of transfer dealings, more guess work and assumptions. He doesn't tell managers to spend 6m on mcnair and love, 8m on a defender who has played 1minute for Chelsea or break our transfer record, yes that reads right, on an unknown midfielder from France. I haven't read 9 managers "slating" the way the clubs ran. De fanti was an odd appointment, but congerton was highly rated. Either way, it didn't work and neither of them are here. He scrapped it for allardyce, who like almost all managers, the majority were very happy with shorts choice. Not a single fan can say he is blameless, the league our struggles and financial situation tells its own story, bit to just say it's all his fault is very unfair and blinkered imo. Like I say, I firmly believe he's tried to make us better and ways had the best interests of the club at heart. For that, this protest stuff and other criticism, I just don't agree with and have said that from the off.
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Congerton was a fraud. He wasnt even successful at Hamburg. The Frank Arneson project he was part of there achieved nothing. The owners got sick and kicked them all out.

Who else do you blame? There's reasons for everything yes but one common denominator.

Then ask why SAFC is his only business that runs at a loss. Purposefully so? Possibly.
Then ask why he has the entire club hamstrung under his total financial control plus no one else will buy us due to the debt.

Also listen to what people have said about the nature of our player purchases. They're all done on tick. A lot of deals are. But ours are on long long payback periods.

We've only paid £1m for Papy up front. Thats why we bought him.
The Ndong deal suited because its likely on a long installment. We're still paying for Borini. I don't think that deal is finished paying for until next summer.
 
8 JLB said:
Congerton was a fraud. He wasnt even successful at Hamburg. The Frank Arneson project he was part of there achieved nothing. The owners got sick and kicked them all out.

Who else do you blame? There's reasons for everything yes but one common denominator.

Then ask why SAFC is his only business that runs at a loss. Purposefully so? Possibly.
Then ask why he has the entire club hamstrung under his total financial control plus no one else will buy us due to the debt.

Also listen to what people have said about the nature of our player purchases. They're all done on tick. A lot of deals are. But ours are on long long payback periods.

We've only paid £1m for Papy up front. Thats why we bought him.
The Ndong deal suited because its likely on a long installment. We're still paying for Borini. I don't think that deal is finished paying for until next summer.
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Are you Margaret Byne or another previous member of the board room? You seem to know a lot about the dealings of the board, what goes on behind closed doors and has an axe to grind against Short.
 
8 JLB said:
Congerton was a fraud. He wasnt even successful at Hamburg. The Frank Arneson project he was part of there achieved nothing. The owners got sick and kicked them all out.

Who else do you blame? There's reasons for everything yes but one common denominator.

Then ask why SAFC is his only business that runs at a loss. Purposefully so? Possibly.
Then ask why he has the entire club hamstrung under his total financial control plus no one else will buy us due to the debt.

Also listen to what people have said about the nature of our player purchases. They're all done on tick. A lot of deals are. But ours are on long long payback periods.

We've only paid £1m for Papy up front. Thats why we bought him.
The Ndong deal suited because its likely on a long installment. We're still paying for Borini. I don't think that deal is finished paying for until next summer.
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The blame is a clusterfuck of numerous people, that has gradually got worse and left us where we are. Our problems all come down to one thing for me and that's spending big on players and no return from them. That's not shorts fault. Anyway mate, its obvious we won't agree on this, so I'll just carry on with my few drinks and enjoy back to back wins.
 
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Are you Margaret Byne or another previous member of the board room? You seem to know a lot about the dealings of the board, what goes on behind closed doors and has an axe to grind against Short.
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I know some stuff. But only what is publicly available.

I haven't an axe to grind. But the body of evidence is damning. In my view.

Just my opinion. I do rant on a bit like. Dunno if you'd noticed.

John J Rambo said:
The blame is a clusterfuck of numerous people, that has gradually got worse and left us where we are. Our problems all come down to one thing for me and that's spending big on players and no return from them. That's not shorts fault. Anyway mate, its obvious we won't agree on this, so I'll just carry on with my few drinks and enjoy back to back wins.
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Aye. Sorry mate. See above. Didn't mean to rant on after a huge win.
 
janey said:
Must admit, I'm nothing if not honest, after Arsenal I did say I couldn't see where the next point was coming from. Not like me but it was looking bleak.
I have never even contemplated protesting though
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Would never knock you or your support Janey. I was just pointing out how quickly things can change.

It was aimed at the ones who slag tthe club off at every opportunity. You're certainly not one of them
 
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haway said:
Time to tell Short that he needs to go. I think all of us are sad that it has come to this but it's becoming increasingly clear that he's mismanaged the club to the point where relegation isn't our biggest worry - financial solvency is.

We've been through it all before but he's repeatedly left managers feeling their hands are tied and has made awful decisions that leave us in a perilous position.

Protesting may not help - but it's about time he hears the frustration of the support. It could well result in him acting - he wants rid of the club and is holding out for a higher price. Action might result in him dropping that price enough to get the sale through so we can rebuild for next year.

Let's keep it outside the stadium - the last things the players need is a hostile atmosphere when they're presumably low on confidence as it is, but I for one do not want to sit on my hands until the end of the season, knowing all that we do now about the mismanagement of the club, having done nothing.

The fans are the one real thing that matter to me about this club, and I'm sick of us being misled and manipulated by an owner who clearly has no interest anymore in our success.
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How many were at the protest marra?
 
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