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Lags

Interested to know your view on your thread  ?

For me, having read all the messages,  it seems to me that as BO has been involved as a Director of the club throughout the majority of the 'Corney years' and now the period under AL, that he is seen to most supporters as being part of the decline of our Club    

Lags

I dont know the man and have never met him so I cannot comment on him other than have an opinion of someone in his professional position 

A Director(s) of a football club should raise concerns of any financial irregularities/malpractice to the owner of the club. The owner might well of sacked them but they would have done what the position as a Director requires.  If after raising their concerns to the owner, no immediate changes were made, they should have resigned as a Director.

Further to the point you made regarding his (BO) decision to stay on the inside of the club to explore what was really going on, its disappointing that given his previous employment in the Police that, to the best of my knowledge, no irregularities/ malpractice has ever been exposed and pursued through the legal system.

Simply put, if a Director does not take any action to change the failing regime of an organisation, they become themselves, an integral part of the problem.

Sadly there's a lot of members on here that are almost hoping that our new manager fails so they can give it he big "I told you so"

My personal preference would be to have all the playing staff and management team to have been born in the North West of England, the English equivalent of

Athletic Bilbao, who have an unwritten rule to only recruit staff from the Basque Region of Spain  

Not having saved enough money up yet to buy the Club, I'm going to have to hope someone else can at the very least get us back to being half decent both on and off the pitch

Good luck to Mr Laurent Banide and Mr Bouziane Benarabi

Hopefully you can build a strong team ethic we can be proud of, play attractive attacking football and our fans will come back in numbers

Dave_Og,  GlossopLatic,  Singe

Am sure we all have our own thoughts on how to best progress our Club

We all want our new coach Laurent Banide to be successful and bring back attractive attacking football back to Boundary Park, hopefully building our attendances

Financially, our results for season 17/18 are due on the 27th June and 'PriceofFootball'@KieranMaguire will be all over them for us.

We'll find out how much we were £losing a week and should get a handle on how much AL is having to tip in

9 minutes ago, Dave_Og said:

 

In what way is that a plan?

Dave, am pretty sure there isnt a gant chart to track progress against deadlines but for the first time, albeit due to fans increasing frustrations, AL actually declared in writing his ‘vision/intentions’

Acorns n Oak Trees hopefully

Glossop Latic

Appreciate the update and just a quick scan suggests it has merit

Stand out points for me are attracting young local / northern players to develop and sell on (like George) and compliment the playing staff with a few experienced players.  Taking advantage of bigger local club talent makes sense in the short to midterm while we develop our own academy. 

However its unrealistic to expect the owner not to bring in any foreign players as he has already stated his intention to do so. 

Accrington Stanley seem to be a well run club, Rochdale have similar financial issues as we do but have had the benefit of both a decent FA Cup run and a couple of decent player sales. I am not familiar with Newport County finances but note they do seem to gave a good team ethic 

48 minutes ago, singe said:

How can he develop Youths when

a) he only has a year contract 

b) most of the Youths have been released. 

It's as far away from strategic as you can get. 

 

Come on Singe youre better than that

It was only a few weeks ago that AL stated his vision (see attached) 

28 minutes ago, GlossopLatic said:

 

Oh this old chestnut again.

 

Their are about 50 other plans that could be used which will be more effective than the one currently being implemented by The Lemsagams.

Financially viable and realistic ?

Post just one

15 minutes ago, singe said:

For a Youth manager, yes. It's the 15 years since that are far more relevant.

ALs strategy I would suggest means we need a coach to develop young players  and foreign, players. 

I have not seen posted on here or any other media a better idea to help stabilise and build our Club

Laurent Banide with his extensive service with Monaco looks a positive first step to me  

10 minutes ago, singe said:

Given he has never lasted more than a year anywhere, I'd be a amazed he has any sort of plan. or chance to implement one.

Having worked for over 15 years with Monaco Youth not good enough for us then  

Glass half full view:

Laurent Banide is a perfect fit for ALs strategic plan announced only a few weeks ago

Rather than try another first timer, inexperienced coach or an experienced run of the mill lower league usual suspect, AL has secured the services of a vastly experienced coach

We simply cannot survive by continuing to operate in the traditional lower league format

The foundation of ALs strategy is primarily based around building a recognised conveyor belt to develop and sell on young and foreign players.

He worked for over 15 years for AS Monaco Youth, widely accepted as one of the top European Clubs for bringing through young players whilst playing attractive attacking football

 I would think he speaks a number of languages, which is critical particularly for developing foreign players and lets be frank, communicating with AL

Fingers crossed for some attractive attacking football and the development of an improving financial footing for our Club

2 hours ago, kowenicki said:

 

So the trust should only represent and listen to fans who agree with every step they take and word they speak.  Questions aren’t allowed?  Constructive criticism isn’t allowed?  Are we in China?

 

I doubt the Trust want to follow that path actually and your post just comes over a bit virtuous. They will be interested in the views of all fans. 

 

It might not be fair always, but if you put yourself up for a position like this then you have to accept opinions on actions. 

 

 

 

You make me giggle sometimes kowenicki when posters don't absolutely agree with your opinion, which of course you're entitled to do

For me, the Trust are rightly trying to improve communications with Mr Lemsagam and hopefully they can build a relationship that will benefit him and our Club

Personally I was not in favour of the Trust letter asking the 10-12 specific questions in the public domain and would very much prefer a Trust representative to ask those questions 'face to face' and report back to the fans accordingly.

The Trust simply cannot keep asking the Owner every single question posed by every single supporter, that would be like an online interrogation

He owns the Club, loses £thousands on a weekly basis and I would suggest needs help. If he can open up a little is another matter

He has at least responded which is a start

I am sure he is losing £thousands every week as do most owners of EFL Clubs and with only 2 Home games left, thankfully we have the Sky TV money coming in to help see us through the close season. 

He will have invested lots of money in buying and running the Club and wont simply walk away because the fans are turning against him

The Trust now need to try and build a relationship with him before the start of next season 

2 hours ago, deyres42 said:

Reckon we'll hear something before Monday to counter any potential protest.

He has already gone some way to counter any potential protest by introducing the 'Wildy's at the Wheel' price concession (Adults £5 / Kids £1)

The Sky TV money will likely double an average home gate £revenue so I'm pretty sure a few protests won't affect him

Yesterdays announcement about Main Stand Season Ticket Holders having to relocate due to Sky having to build their camera gantry, gives a massive insight in to how badly the Club is organised, as we have known for weeks about the game being screened yet give fans less than a week to relocate 

I didn't expect him to reply comprehensively to the Trust letter but did expect him to at least say something

Blunder after Blunder  . . . . . . . . . . . . .

This fella just doesnt get any better with time does he ! 

Couldnt run a corner shop

If Crawley was Pete's last game in charge, how brilliant would it be if hundreds of us turned up for his first Saturday game back in charge for the Academy team

Great way for us to say thanks for looking after the team and thanks for our FA Cup Away Day at Fulham

4 hours ago, adamoafc said:

Sam got a very good job with Betfair as the PR man. Career progression so can’t complain if they go on to bigger things.

 

Good Luck Sam. 

From lower league football to Betfair

Can't anybody simply leave to progress their careers without it being seen as a slight on the Club  

2 hours ago, Monty Burns said:

Quite simply John Sheridan, Tommy Wright, Auntie G and Mike Jones all chipped in their knowledge and they did a number on us. Not sure why we were all so surprised about it.

absolutely this,  complimented by Frankie trying too hard to outwit Sheridan by playing 3-5-2  

10 minutes ago, disjointed said:

After reading the reports on here from Saturdays game, it would appear that we had a competent goalkeeper, he just couldn't get a game. 

 

 

 

For me, Zeus was okay to be fair and being only 23, I would suggest could be coached into a competent Keeper 

Daniel Iversen our clear No1 though

1 minute ago, deyres42 said:

A competent goalkeeper would have done the trick.

Cant argue with that

Added to the issues we had last season for sure

11 minutes ago, deyres42 said:

Perhaps he should have acknowledged the real reason for the departure rather than hiding behind hazy 'disciplinary issues' - let us not forget that Fane was removed from the squad at the backend of last season and yet is still with us.

If Jack was half as good a player as some fans portray him as, we would have stayed up and not found ourselves in a League below Accrington Stanley

That's the reality  

26 minutes ago, Dave_Og said:

Well a few questions. 

Would he have thrown a strop? 

Would he have damaged team spirit? 

Would his head have stayed on? 

Would he have tried to do it all? 

Would he have broken another team mate's LG? 

Would he have fallen out with management? 

 

But apart from those, hardly any questions. 

Teams win trophies / success not individuals

If Jack was half as troublesome as has been suggested, Frankie Bunn would have been a fool to keep him

Lack of a strong team spirit got us relegated last season

15 hours ago, Kusunga_Is_God said:

Gardner having a go at the fans when celebrating his goal. ‘Stop fucking booing’

Dan Gardner has played two 'Captain Games' and been our best player by some way.

Absolutely nothing wrong with him running towards the fans (I was there) and shouting at them to stop booing, whilst celebrating his second goal in two games

Its called 'character' and to be honest we need a few more players showing some of it on the pitch !! 

9 hours ago, dec666 said:

 

The man who gave us a 1 win in 9, Dave Penney, George Green and Courtney Duffus. I'm sure there's more.

Conveniently forgetting, Joe managed us to the 2nd Division Championship, a League Cup Final and 2 FA Cup Semi-Finals

All whilst playing the most exciting football in the Clubs history

dec666 you're an absolute Doughnut !!