Blake Out

wallmth said:
Can you not see how precarious our financial position is right now . Ok we’re not going bust next week but things could go South very very quickly .
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I have absolutely no idea of our current financial position and nor do you. However, despite player sales, we still have significant assets and I would imagine that we are far more investable today than we ever have been in our history. Although I’m acutely aware of the past, I don’t share ‘the end of the world is nigh’ melodrama.
 
I actually have a feeling that by losing yesterday Woodgate got the job. Why? Because had we won we had a much better chance of still going for automatic especially as Brentford had lost 3 in a row and Swansea lost, we would have been in a much better position. Now I think with the play-offs receding especially if the next 2 games go badly they decided to go with what they’ve got and not spend loads of money on a named manager who would probably want his own back room team. I also think we were playing reasonably well until Mepham decided to give another gift of a goal away.
 
what I don't get is and a few people have mentioned this, max is obviously good with business and bournemouth are a massive e financial business for him, if Blake is so incompetent why would he let him run things? he must be doing something right, maybe Blake is working within max set budget and new potential managers didn't agree with it like keeping staff etc so in that case Woodgate who would work in those terms (because he was already part of backroom staff) probably was the best candidate,
Blake main job this season I would suspect was to cut out going costs and claw back millions owed to max, football is almost a secondary point to that because if he fails in the first point we might not be arguing over who is the manager but maybe we would be here sharing memories about when we were a football club, In this climate if max pulls out then it will be curtains
hopefully at end of season the budget can be addressed again and we then can move forward with even less of our "PL league quility" players and become a team again instead of a squad whoever is in charge of us
 
afcb_rednblack said:
I have absolutely no idea of our current financial position and nor do you. However, despite player sales, we still have significant assets and I would imagine that we are far more investable today than we ever have been in our history. Although I’m acutely aware of the past, I don’t share ‘the end of the world is nigh’ melodrama.
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Sorry you can’t come with the good old “winter garden “ cliché and accuse others of melodramatics .
If you can’t see that these are perilous times for the club there is nothing I can do to help with that , but here’s a few examples . Massive wage bill , no PL legacy , still not owning the ground ,”temporary” parachute pavements and COVID ,ie no income .
 
Blake is a joke.
this is a pathetic decision and looks like our board believe we are a L1 side and all this hope of a premier league return is nonsense.
Woodgate is a tinpot appointment.
The board are a bunch of clowns.
The plummet to our historical level starts here.
 
Waz afcb said:
At least Henry would have shown a bit of vision, and an important change in direction. The board said throughout that it would be an external candidate, Woodgate had not even been interviewed as of Friday (Kris Temple’s words not mine) and now he has the job! I just do not understand how anyone can try and put a positive spin on this situation, it is clearly very bleak.
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He has a contract until the end of the season . No matter who we bring in now ( as the board have mucked around for weeks ) games are running out . The most we are likely to achieve this season is play offs with woodgate or a new manager .

We back the guy and hope the players now know the position put a shift in for him .
 
wallmth said:
Sorry you can’t come with the good old “winter garden “ cliché and accuse others of melodramatics .
If you can’t see that these are perilous times for the club there is nothing I can do to help with that , but here’s a few examples . Massive wage bill , no PL legacy , still not owning the ground ,”temporary” parachute pavements and COVID ,ie no income .
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Sorry, you’ve lost me. I don’t understand how the Winter Gardens is a cliche/melodramatic, it is a fact that, at that time, we were on the verge of extinction.

No, I don’t see that these are perilous times. They are uncertain times and that’s entirely different. As I said before, none of us know the true financial situation. We have others on the board who may represent some form of financial support, and there is nothing that currently indicates that Max wants out. If the latter were to happen I maintain that we are certainly investable particularly because we have already demonstrated our potential.
 
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afcb_rednblack said:
Sorry, you’ve lost me. I don’t understand how the Winter Gardens is a cliche/melodramatic, it is a fact that, at that time, we were on the verge of extinction.

No, I don’t see that these are perilous times. They are uncertain times and that’s entirely different. As I said before, none of us know the true financial situation. We have others on the board who may represent some form of financial support, and there is nothing that currently indicates that Max wants out. If the latter were to happen I maintain that we are certainly investable particularly because we have already demonstrated our potential.
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We didn’t demonstrate anything other than having a brilliant manager . Are we “investable “ explain how we’re investable right now ? What would be the appeal of investing in a small club with a massive wage Bill a tinpot ground and couldn’t even manage to find a decent manager interested in taking on the job .
You can call it uncertain if you like but don’t call others melodramatic for seeing what’s as clear as the nose on our face .
 
wimborne cherries said:
“Blake: Woodgate was 'best candidate' after 'extensive search' for new boss”
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Board Minutes 4th Feb 2021.
Attendees: Neil Blake (NB), Richard Hughes (RH),
Absent: Max Demin

NB: We got a real pasting from the fans for not conducting a proper manager search in the summer, let’s not make that mistake again.
RH: But we are still going to employ Woodgate right, he’s cheap, desperate to get in managers role again and already here so we won’t need to significantly improve his contract.
NB: Of course, we just need to make it sound like we have done it properly - who do you have in your iPhone contacts? I’ll take care of the media side.
RH: John Terry, Thierry Henry, Frank Lampard but he already whatsapped me saying don’t even bother asking.
NB: Perfect, I will drip feed the names over the next couple of weeks, we just need another name that wasn’t playing around the same time as you so that it sounds a bit more credible, who got Hartlepool to the premier league that year?
RH: Huddersfield you mean. Wagner, he might actually be interested in the role you know.
NB: We can’t take the risk of employing someone who has had previous success as they will have their own ideas and can’t be controlled. I will mention the name to the press but for gods sake don’t actually get anyone to contact him.
RH: Got it, so we will offer to Woodgate by the end of the week?
NB: Don’t be so naive Hughesy! Let’s drag it out for 3 weeks minimum, the fans will see through it if we immediately appoint him. And make sure he knows to only use the term “interim manager” in all interviews, that will keep everyone off the scent.
RH: Got it, shall I inform Max?
NB: No he’s delegated all decisions to me, he trusts me to do the right thing - now let’s get this done.
 
I get the anger towards blake, and seems odd with so many options we can't find anyone with more experience than JW, but...
I don't get the continual digs at his Russian GF, and cars he's bought, why does anyone care, its a free country he can do what he likes, or that's not allowed anymore? He does a job gets paid, he spends his money where he wants, like us all.
Secondly is anyone naive enough to not think the final decision is down to max no one else I'm afraid.
 
wallmth said:
We didn’t demonstrate anything other than having a brilliant manager . Are we “investable “ explain how we’re investable right now ? What would be the appeal of investing in a small club with a massive wage Bill a tinpot ground and couldn’t even manage to find a decent manager interested in taking on the job .
You can call it uncertain if you like but don’t call others melodramatic for seeing what’s as clear as the nose on our face .
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:rolleyes: it is melodramatic since it’s based on pure emotion and speculation when in reality none of us have any knowledge or real information whatsoever of the position the club is in.

Investors invest because they believe in the individual/team charged with the responsibility of achieving success and that, also, they believe in the potential that exists to achieve that success...just as Max did. It is entirely possible that another investor/investors could do the same but with their own people both on and off the pitch.

We are eminently investable and those aspects you perceive as challenges to investment are from your perspective, understandably, rather than from the perspective of a person/people who have the means and capability to realise the potential.
 
CherryBare said:
I get the anger towards blake, and seems odd with so many options we can't find anyone with more experience than JW, but...
I don't get the continual digs at his Russian GF, and cars he's bought, why does anyone care, its a free country he can do what he likes, or that's not allowed anymore? He does a job gets paid, he spends his money where he wants, like us all.
Secondly is anyone naive enough to not think the final decision is down to max no one else I'm afraid.
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And your extremely naive to think that a petro millionaire ,billionaire whatever he is is on speed dial to take care of all AFCB business it’s called delegation . It’s very unlikely Denim makes the calls at the club .. but keep deflecting from the incompetence at the club .
 
wallmth said:
And your extremely naive to think that a petro millionaire ,billionaire whatever he is is on speed dial to take care of all AFCB business it’s called delegation . It’s very unlikely Denim makes the calls at the club .. but keep deflecting from the incompetence at the club .
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Yeah right denim doesn't have the final decision, haha you seriously believe that?
And FYI he's not a billionaire, multi millionaire, maths I guess isn't your strong point either
 
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