Angela Lowes gone


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The logical way is to accept that, outside the top six, relegation is an occupational hazard, and put structures in place to survive it if and when it happens. Funnily enough, Mike Ashley is very good at this.

Oh aye, fantastic at it isn't he... just like the season they went down and, uniquely for any club other than Spurs iirc, his squad had no automatic wage-drop clauses.

The point here is more than when you do drop, you can't just pull the plug which is what happened to us. I don't really know why this is relevant to the FD though. Do I think Sunderland was a poorly-run club financially? I'm genuinely not sure, couldn't tell you, you may have a more educated view. But the football business, which is the core product, was run appallingly and when your core product is shite, whatever business it is, it doesn't matter how good you're FD or financial team are - you're fucked.
 
10k on plant pots etc
Now that should have been brought to the attention of the members of the Board.
I’d put Byrne in your ‘hit list’ without a doubt and she was the subject of regular deserved criticism on here by most (including me). There are actions undertaken by most of your list that are public knowledge and ended badly. I’m not aware of any taken by Lowes but if you would like to throw a few examples of how she has specifically contributed to our miserable footballing existence in recent years I’d be happy to join in with the criticism.
There are stories out there about Magggs but cant be repeated.
Time for a new chapter anyway. Whether it was overdue remains to be seen. I wish her good luck in any future endeavours.
Yer spot on, no point dwelling over Angela's ashes :)
 
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You’ve no idea if she sat idly by (and nor have I). I’ve no idea what she did and what remit/influence she was given. It’s easy to see Byrne’s failings for example but criticising someone for not resigning because your principals would lead you to do so in those circumstances seems unfair to me.
I know she was on the board, and had the fiduciary duties of a director. She therefore must have some responsibility for where we are, as the board make the decisions that drive the business.

I don't think anyone is criticising her for not resigning. They are criticising her for being the director of a company that was self-evidently badly run for a decade. Resigning from in protest at how the club was run would have been a way to avoid this criticism.
 
I know she was on the board, and had the fiduciary duties of a director. She therefore must have some responsibility for where we are, as the board make the decisions that drive the business.

I don't think anyone is criticising her for not resigning. They are criticising her for being the director of a company that was self-evidently badly run for a decade. Resigning from in protest at how the club was run would have been a way to avoid this criticism.
We had a board of directors with zero interest in the game of football. It was a source of income to them and nothing more. Zero interest or understanding of the world they were in.

Imagine being any one of the number of managers we had working under that.
 
It's a balancing act. It's difficult to balance. If you get a couple of players now n that what are worth something to the bigger boys it helps. Look at Leicester - Mahrez, Kante, Drinkwater. Leicester however have the muscle in reserve as well.

Nobody wants the indignity of being a selling club, but being a selling club can keep clubs alive.

I often wonder about the loan system. What if it didn't exist. What if these young players who need to go out and develop did so under contract at lower level clubs. What if the big clubs then actually had to pay these lower level clubs for said talent?

Instead you have small time clubs with scarce a tuppence ha'penny to their name, paying loan fees to big clubs, paying the player's wages, and the frig all in return when that player heads back to his parent club and a Premier League career. Parent club still doesn't want them? Flogs 'em at twice/thrice/four times the value of what they were before the loan. It's a joke.

Aye, I've long thought that the loan system needs an overhaul. I don't mind big clubs having kids coming through. I don't mind them sending some on loan to gain experience. What I do mind is when these clubs actually have hundreds of kids there, when they're loaning 40 odd players out every season. That's not a youth system, it's farming. Hoovering up all the talent, happy that 95% will become nowt, because they know they'll massively cash in on the 5% that make it. Kids are going to sign for Chelsea or man united if they're in for them, but I can't help but think in many cases it mustn't help their development, and certainly doesn't help the football pyramid
 
We had a board of directors with zero interest in the game of football. It was a source of income to them and nothing more. Zero interest or understanding of the world they were in.

Imagine being any one of the number of managers we had working under that.
She along with Maggie Byrne and Gary Hutchinson took full advantage of their positions within the club and should have gone long before they did.
 
Amazes me how people on this thread have claimed so much about her and her job role, despite her name (most likely) never appearing on this board before. I couldn't tell you who she is, what she did, or how successful she's been before today.
 
But she'd never been an FD. Her appointment notice at CH described her as a "financial accountant". Without going into too much jargon, that, for me, is a red flag. FA's are technicians who put accounts together. It's possibly the least important part of an FD's skillset. Most have a background in financial control and treasury.
She got the FD job after Steve Walton left iirc
 
A new ownership. The new owners are not fools. They are deeply familiar with the Financial world, and football within it.. They will want their man for professional behaviour and not like the behaviour of their predecessors.

Bring it on.
 
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