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The fans forum might be an interesting one regarding Unsworth. Wonder if he'll show up or will he send Francis Jeffers out to do it? 

For those of you who think Unsworth can't be sacked because of his contract. You might want to listen to the podcast link below. Roughly 20-25 minutes in.

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy50cmFuc2lzdG9yLmZtL3ByaWNlLW9mLWZvb3RiYWxs/episode/NjhhYTQxMDYtODE0NC0xMWVkLTljOTYtYmIxZTY3M2M1ZmRj?ep=14

Regarding new ownership, anybody but Barry Owen and those associated with the current regime. We need a fresh start and clean sweep. 

1 hour ago, Dave_Og said:

Arrogant, tone deaf, wilfully ignorant.

Sounds like Barry Owen wrote that statement. Because you just summed him up with your comments. Steve Brown is another one who shouldn't be anywhere near the club. Brags about working for the Oystens at Blackpool as a badge of honour, considering one of the Oystens is a convicted rapist.

 

Why should they? 10 clubs in League 2 had a higher average attendance than us.[/quote Because the current status quo is not succeeding for them.

Because the current status quo is not succeeding for them.

He wanted away since walking off the pitch after the Coventry game.

Maybe Sheriden got wind of next seasons lack of plan at this point.

The situation at this club you could quite easily compare it to Randy Learner at Aston Villa, but on a smaller scale. These guys came in with good intentions of promotion put some money in to begin with, then realized there was a lot more to it than first thought and have since tried to keep there investment to a minimum while slowly replacing promotion ambition with just enough to keep us a float of relegation. But in Villas case there luck ran out and it will with latics if the board keep following this path.

We don't have anything to make us remotely attractive to buyers.

 

:censored: location, poor fanbase, worthless playing squad, no youth system to speak of.

Then they need to make the necessary investments or changes to make us attractive if they want to sell the club.

The board have got look at this situation in 3 ways.

1) Go for experienced manager, if they don't give him money for players, at least give him money for coaching to get the best out of the current players.

2) Go for the inexperienced cheap manager option, but give him money to buy good players to compensate for his inexperience.

3) Seriously step up the advertising for investment or buyer for the club, saying it on the radio and a poxy youtube video, won't cut it. Advertise in the broad sheets and business papers. Go to business conventions.

They will go for the cheap inexperienced option and give him nothing to support him. The board has this constant knack of screwing things up from a good/positive position.

I think the bigger concern to fans on both the pro and anti Corney argument, is that Sheriden left to go to a club in a lower division under a transfer embargo. What does that say about the financial state and the ambition/direction of the club?That to me is where the fans need answers for.

Dont see that. Just see people who are saying what we know. Rather than talking :censored:e based on hatred and a complete lack of any knowledge to the background of the last few weeks. Sheridan loves the club, loves the fans? Then open your mouth and tell us why you left...

Because the budget for players was a lot smaller than he first thought or told by the board back in January. It is no coincidence they had a meeting last Monday regarding next seasons budget and he is gone by Friday.

In regards to championship clubs with low attendances not doing well. Look at Rotheram. Also our fanbase would increase the more successful we are. The board and owner have not grasp the concept of, if you build it they will come.

He didn't say that at all he said we would struggle to compete at the level above just look at the clubs in that league they all average over 10000 this season.

 

I'm not an apologist for Barry his handling of certain situations in the past has been poor but he was badly misquoted on that particular comment.

After the achievements of Walsall, burton and ultimately Leicester I no longer buy into the boards bull:censored: that we can't achieve. It's more of they don't want to or can't be bothered to achieve.

I'm sure I'm in a minority, but I'm sick of us congratulating other clubs for going up...

Agreed! It just rams home how incompetent and unambitious the board along with the owners are.

As four teams below us won I think you will find we are 21st.

We are now in the bottom four.

They either sack Dunn, bring a more experienced manager to steady the ship or they sack Holden and bring in an experienced No2 to help Dunn. Too much inexperience in the set up.

Michel Vonk

Wondered how long that one would take...

That was my main concern about this management appointment. The fact that the novice manager would be tapping into the experience of his assistant manager. Who's only tactic is one up front. I was not a fan of the Darren Kelly appointment, but I was more concerned with Dean Holden, being his number 2.

I think that is Dean Holden's influence and that's what concerns me, having him as Assistant Manager. He played one up front a lot when he was temp manager.

 

No.

 

Those last 30 minutes were miles better than the first hour.

 

Some amazing revelations.

Does anybody remember what was said in the last half an hour that made it better than the first hour?

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A bit of long drive for me from Nova Scotia! Still mad at the club/board over the saga they put the fans through this week.

Having just read and seen the interview with Barry Owen on the BBC website. Then watched the interview with the commercial director of ZEN office.

ZEN office supplies did something which the latics current board didn't do this week and have not done for a long time. Listened to the majority of the fans!

The one main thing I got out of this mess over the last week with this current board, is how much they disregard what's left of there fanbase! The only time they engage the fans is to rant about attendances. The only time they listen to the fans is when there finances are threatened, through poor season ticket sales and the threat of sponsorship loss! It does not need to be like this!

They have got to realize that the mess this has caused for club and fans. Before any reconciliation can be done.

I don't like myself for saying this. But if this was the trade off for having the 3 Amigos saving the club. Maybe we could have gone down the Wimbledon route all those years ago. But one thing that needs to happen is Barry has to be removed as fans rep on the board.