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We all hate him


Its boring as fuck , i listen to any football podcast going but turned that shite one off. They are pompous know it all arseholes who manage to turn the greatest sport into a tedious lecture
 
Baz said:
Have to agree with this like. Without him and Donald there would be no KLD, no Prem and no Europe.
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Im not sure how much credit can take for what those after them did.

Any suggestion that they did an ok job is incredible to my mind. They slashed the costs but that would have happened regardless of who bought it.

They have to be judged by how they did it, which was really poor and void of any bright plan and what was worse they actively dismantled our best opportunity to move forward under them.

Thats before you talk about the constant lies and shenanigans. Stewart Donald even more than Charlie played at being football club owner, the fact he was able to do it at a club the size of ours is unbelievable.
 
contrarian said:
To be fair Short had put in an enormous amount of money into the club
We were 8th biggest net spend during his tenure and were never out of bottom six other than the ‘halcyon days ‘ of bruce
Such a pity he was so poorly advised
In relative terms he has spent far more than KLD but the latter knows the sport and has good underlings
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Bang on.
 
Some of the posts are hilarious. Yes, he and his mate may have sold to KLD, but that was never the plan. The plan was get promoted on the first go and flip it. It didn’t work and we then saw what happened and the cost cutting that happened and probably needed to. Young players sold left right and centre and yes, none of them have gone on to win major honours but at the level we were at, they could have done a job for us.
He was rude, obnoxious and treated us fans worse than any owner I can recall and doubt it will be beat.

And the idea, they should have any sort of praise for selling to KLD and what has happened over the last 5 years is, hilarious, delusional and frankly bizarre.
Vore said:
Bellend that he is...
  1. he took us away from a Yank that would have seen us drop to Div 4 without intervention
  2. got people keen again (I struggled to get tickets for the Boxing Day Bradford game)
  3. handed us off to our saviour.
No hate left in me for Mr Salmon.

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Good grief.
zebediah said:
1. Made up "fact"
2. Contesting at the top of any league gets fans back, we were always going to do that in L1.
3. He would have handed us to Satan if he made money from it, pure luck it was KLD.

:lol: He's a grade A tw*t.
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Or worse, that energy drinks fella
 
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Mallard said:
The plan was get promoted on the first go and flip it. It didn’t work and we then saw what happened and the cost cutting that happened and probably needed to. Young players sold left right and centre and yes, none of them have gone on to win major honours but at the level we were at, they could have done a job for us.
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Maja being the prime example. I may be wrong here, but he had bagged 15 goals when he went in the January window. An astute businessman would have kept him, however, even a half decent business man would have loaned him back for the rest of the season. I honestly think we would have went up with him up front. We played 10 draws between him leaving and the end of the season, If he'd turned 4 of those into wins we would have gone up
 
Sam Handwich said:
Maja being the prime example. I may be wrong here, but he had bagged 15 goals when he went in the January window. An astute businessman would have kept him, however, even a half decent business man would have loaned him back for the rest of the season. I honestly think we would have went up with him up front. We played 10 draws between him leaving and the end of the season, If he'd turned 4 of those into wins we would have gone up
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We sold maja for 2.5m and bought grigg for 4m
Astute businessman???
😄😄😄😄😄
The loss of Maja meant we only had 1 decent forward, Macgeady
Appalling business
Not to mention the 10m payday loan they took with Dell
Absolute pair of whoppers
 
Sam Handwich said:
Maja being the prime example. I may be wrong here, but he had bagged 15 goals when he went in the January window. An astute businessman would have kept him, however, even a half decent business man would have loaned him back for the rest of the season. I honestly think we would have went up with him up front. We played 10 draws between him leaving and the end of the season, If he'd turned 4 of those into wins we would have gone up
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Exactly, or just not sell him take the risk to get promoted. The only “praise” you could give him and his mate is running the club into the ground made us a bargain. Now, that is a good thing as we have seen, but if the energy drinks fella had the money he would sold us for 1 penny more to him. Remember the Dell family? What a waste of everyone’s time that was.
But the idea, they drove the club into the ground to make us more appealing to a young billionaire looking for a play thing is, I mean, I don’t know what it is or to make of that line of thought.
contrarian said:
We sold maja for 2.5m and bought grigg for 4m
Astute businessman???
😄😄😄😄😄
The loss of Maja meant we only had 1 decent forward, Macgeady
Appalling business
Not to mention the 10m payday loan they took with Dell
Absolute pair of whoppers
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The point the post is making, is an astute businessman would have kept maja, in the knowledge that financially it would have been a poorer deal for the club but ultimately would have got us promoted. Look, I enjoyed that first year in league one but after that, I was questioning my sanity travelling up from London to watch crap football in a stadium that felt like a wake rather than a football match and then going to away games, but it was all worth it in the end. But none of it was planned
 
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Mallard said:
Exactly, or just not sell him take the risk to get promoted. The only “praise” you could give him and his mate is running the club into the ground made us a bargain. Now, that is a good thing as we have seen, but if the energy drinks fella had the money he would sold us for 1 penny more to him. Remember the Dell family? What a waste of everyone’s time that was.
But the idea, they drove the club into the ground to make us more appealing to a young billionaire looking for a play thing is, I mean, I don’t know what it is or to make of that line of thought.


The point the post is making, is an astute businessman would have kept maja, in the knowledge that financially it would have been a poorer deal for the club but ultimately would have got us promoted. Look, I enjoyed that first year in league one but after that, I was questioning my sanity travelling up from London to watch crap football in a stadium that felt like a wake rather than a football match and then going to away games, but it was all worth it in the end. But none of it was planned
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I know what the point was !
They weren’t astute.
 
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Vore said:
Bellend that he is...
  1. he took us away from a Yank that would have seen us drop to Div 4 without intervention
  2. got people keen again (I struggled to get tickets for the Boxing Day Bradford game)
  3. handed us off to our saviour.
No hate left in me for Mr Salmon.

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He might have claimed credit for the Bradford attendance but the 'Gift of Football' idea actually came from a poster on here then went viral on Twitter. It wasn't that Methven got people interested, people actually bought extra tickets and donated them to the less fortunate for Christmas - many of which actually ended up on Facebook because the club dished them out to schools rather than to people who genuinely couldn't afford it as intended.

Donald and Methven tried to sell the club to Mark Campbell in 2019 and told Jack Ross to speak to him about summer transfers, the deal only fell through when it reached the 'proof of funds' stage because Campbell, being a skint chancer, wasn't able to provide proof. Donald then threatened to give the club to Campbell in 2020 out of spite for the criticism he was getting. "Handed us off to our saviour" but clung on for years and inserted himself into club dealings despite officially resigning as director in 2019 and selling his shares.
 
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