OOOSH YEAH
Striker
Never heard of her.
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Not a takeover though![]()
Angela Lowes leaves SAFC
Sunderland AFC today announced that long-serving Finance Director Angela Lowes is to step down from her role with immediate effect.safc.com
@Grumpy Old Man
Are they not?
Not a takeover though
Are you calling me repetitive ?I think you’ve made that point before
Are you calling me repetitive ?I think you’ve made that point before
Are you calling me repetitive ?I think you’ve made that point before
Club is getting flushed out top to bottom. I like it.
High Paid Woman - bad, done a shit job, pleased she’s gone
Low Paid Bloke - hard done too, ridiculous decision, should be ashamed they let him go
Playing devil's advocate, using the same reasoning with getting rid of John Cooke probably wouldn't have been too popular on here.
I agree with your general point though. Some times I don't really care if there's 80% bad and 20% good, just replace the entire thing and start afresh even if there were bits that don't necessarily need to be removed.
If you're talking about Cooke then the suggestion was that he was in fact - very well paid for the job he did, which was part of the reason they let him go. People are also going to be more critical of someone who was on the bloody board of directors for 10 years and than someone who's job was sorting the kit.
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.
You raise a valid point that she was not actually FD at Dewhirst. But she wasn't hired directly from Dewhirst to FD at Sunderland - she was appointed to the boards of the various SAFC companies between 2010 - 2016. So I would imagine she went from financial accountant to financial controller to FD, which is not an unusual route. Certainly a more reasonable elevation over ten years than going from criminal lawyer to company secretary to CEO inside of three years...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.
It's a weird one. I'm fairly sure that a lot of opinions on Ms Lowes over the years started from a position of misogyny. It was the same with Byrne on here tbh. All that being said, it turned out that Byrne was terrible at her job. So, right answer - wrong reasons can't be ruled out.High Paid Woman - bad, done a shit job, pleased she’s gone
Low Paid Bloke - hard done too, ridiculous decision, should be ashamed they let him go
Unsurprised. Treuer, as a proper CFO, will have seen through her in minutes. I'm sure she's a competent technician, but that's not the primary role of an FD. An FD has to be able to tell general management when their proposals won't work; the main reason accountants are unpopular is our tendency to raise inconvenient truths. All I'll say is that the transfer policies from Keane onwards should have been closely questioned over how the costs were ever supposed to be recovered. As far as I can see, managers were simply given carte blanche to overpay for players with no resale value instead.
Like I posted, people are glad that those with decision making responsibility are going, given how shit our decision making has been over the last, well, decade at least. Her being a woman is nowt to do with it, it's just that she's been ever present, as a financial director, through a period where we nearly went into administration. People were equally pleased when Richard Hill buggered off, and Bain, and Paul Reid.High Paid Woman - bad, done a shit job, pleased she’s gone
Low Paid Bloke - hard done too, ridiculous decision, should be ashamed they let him go
but I keep hearing that a full scale clear out is what’s needed