Donald’s biggest mistakes


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Selling Maja
Hiring Coton
Hiring & sticking with Parkinson (also giving him a 2-1/2 year deal & allowing him to bring his own team)
 
Attempting to manipulate the fanbase through social media and the fanzines, which has bitten him on the arse now.

In the same vein, leaking info to the fanzines which later turned out to be untrue.

Failure to get messaging between himself and Charlie consistent. Just makes both of them look dishonest.

Bringing in a PR guy as an Executive Director who caused a string of PR disasters.

Appointing an inept recruitment team.

Appointing Phil Parkinson.
 
Unless he was injured? - as happened at Bordeaux. Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
Hindsight is always 20:20, that is why we are all experts on social media, after the event of course.

My belief is Donald wanted to make a quick buck, ( nothing wrong with that as he is a businessman with no connection to us) and in order to do that he needed get us promoted and therefore needed to keep him best players even if that meant they went for free in the summer.

I think he got swept up with the momentum we were building and thought he could make even more money in the long run without having the resources to get us there and hasn’t made a decent decision since.
 
Hiring all his old pals who where not satisfactory to do their jobs.

Ran down the academy to the bare bones. Surely we should have enough talent to make a impact in league one.

No plans for recruitment, poor judgement in players.
Not telling the truth at the beginning ..He could have said i have managred to organise a deal to take the club off ellis amd that involves me paying a 5million deposit and using the club revenue to pay off the rest......its going to be a struggle and im going to have to cut costs to the bone but we are aklli in it together and i need your support as we try to create a team for promotion............all we got was ive got enough money to fund promotion and we have the buggest budget in the league and the corker we have enough money to keep the high earners!
 
Here is my top 10 poor decisions, there are more........

1. Selling Maja too early (cost us promotion)
2. Releasing other players and not replacing with better (Honeyman, James, Catermole, Matthews)
3. Untruths about his investment capability and outside financial backing (Satori et al.)
4. Taking his eye off the ball trying to sell the club since before the playoffs
5. Not signing an in form striker
6. Sacking Jack Ross (had no chance given all of the above)
7. Replacing with Parkinson
8. Underestimating how hard it would be to attract better players (see item 2)
9. Not sacking Parkinson a month ago
10. Signing Grant Leadbitter when we didn’t need him (great attitude but legs gone)
 
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All of the criticisms in this thread are valid, which is a long list of mistakes.

I think the biggest one was Maja, because if Maja stayed for the second half of last season (whether because of offering him a new contract earlier, doing a sell and loan back deal, or just an agreement that he would see out his contract), we would have gone up last season. So strategically that was his biggest balls up for me.
 
Being the only millionaire in the country to answer Charlie Methven's phone calls

"This time next year we'll be millionaires!"
 
Focused too heavily on trying to balance the books and manipulating the media profile of the club, meanwhile completely failing to develop the football side.

Relegation to league one should've been a golden opportunity to develop young players and create a brand new ethos that we can all get behind. Instead we got Will f***ing Grigg.

He's set us back years.
 
He got very lucky with Maja and our very good start to last season.

His biggest mistake was not employing competent recruitment staff to ensure we had the two or three players in January that would have got us automatic promotion
 
Focused too heavily on trying to balance the books and manipulating the media profile of the club, meanwhile completely failing to develop the football side.

Relegation to league one should've been a golden opportunity to develop young players and create a brand new ethos that we can all get behind. Instead we got Will f***ing Grigg.


He's set us back years.
Absolutely this. When I heard he'd spent millions on a Championship reserve I knew he wasn't in it for the long term or a responsible custodian of the club.
 
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