What’s going on in the boardroom?

bigfatolly said:
Silly analogy really,yes Eddie took us to another level,a lot of cubs have a defining manager,Busby at United,Shankly at Liverpool etc,does that make Ferguson and Paisley's achievements any less valid?

Football goes in cycles and as said above,history will show Scott took this tiny club to the Premier League,what goes before isn't really relevant in my eyes.
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Parker hasn’t achieved what Eddie has yet and if he survives 5 PL years he will have done brilliantly. He wouldn’t have been able to do what Eddie did in my opinion, taking a team from conference trap door to 9th in the PL playing champagne football.
 
LewSwimmin said:
We have a ready made team that only needs a few additions, whereas Forest have to try and make one out of all the disparate and expensive bits they have just put together, and having to do so in a league full of teams already better and more integrated than they are.
It seems to me that Cooper has a much harder task on his hands than Scotty on the playing side, whilst also having to keep happy a board that will expect a return on their massive investment.
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Well said! After being promoted half of Forest's team went back to their clubs as they were loanees. Quite a few of the players that had got them up disappeared. We are not in that position. Cooper doesn't really know what he's got now until a few weeks into the season. Obviously, some incomings would be helpful, but I'd rather be us than Forest. I am starting to wonder, though, if Eddie was a better draw than Scott. We didn't seem to have these recruitment woes when EH was here.
 
Neil Dawson said:
It’s not. As Fritter said. No Eddie, no Premier League. Everyone else’s contribution is directly linked to this through either a contribution because of it or rode the coat tails of it.
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It's a long stretch from Eddie being a one-man premier league delivery system to saying no Eddie no premier league.

Eddie was the most important factor I agree but saying that he single handedly was responsible devalues everyone else's contribution.
 
Notmarcjackson said:
It's a long stretch from Eddie being a one-man premier league delivery system to saying no Eddie no premier league.

Eddie was the most important factor I agree but saying that he single handedly was responsible devalues everyone else's contribution.
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I agree, to a point. But this isn’t “the chicken and the egg” debate here.

Sure Eddie needed Max to achieve his potential, but take Eddie away and the same success at the speed it happened would never have happened.

This club was built on his shoulders, there wasn’t a team in the entire football league pyramid that was so dependent on one man.

He had support along the way sure, Demin’s money enabled us to keep the squad together. A squad, in the main, built on waifs and strays of lower league journeymen which Howe moulded in to Premier League players on the cusp of international recognition at times.

The club off the field couldn’t keep up with the success on it and still can’t. Despite having 7 years to catch up.

That all said, I’m not going to belittle Scott Parker’s achievements to big up Howe. Parker’s promotion came under different circumstances, under different conditions but that doesn’t make it any less of an achievement in your first season through the door.
 
Notmarcjackson said:
It's a long stretch from Eddie being a one-man premier league delivery system to saying no Eddie no premier league.

Eddie was the most important factor I agree but saying that he single handedly was responsible devalues everyone else's contribution.
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Howe was instrumental, if not pivotal in our rise.

He was also as culpable for our demise.

He stretched the finances to breaking limit, when he said he would never allow players at AFCB to be earning more than 30K a week.

Eddie was a prophet, but he wasn't God.
 
Panic about being short of CB's or any other position is feeding the selling club into raising the fee they demand for a player in whom we show interest. I hope the board is not going to overpay for average talent.
 
dragonm8 said:
Howe was instrumental, if not pivotal in our rise.

He was also as culpable for our demise.

He stretched the finances to breaking limit, when he said he would never allow players at AFCB to be earning more than 30K a week.

Eddie was a prophet, but he wasn't God.
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Surely it was the responsibility of Blake and the board of directors to ensure that the business was run in a financially responsible manner ?
 
Sorry Roger said:
Eddie Howe was necessary but not sufficient. Without Demin’s money, Eddie couldn’t have taken us to the Premier League.
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Agreed. But it didn't have to be Max. Someone else's money would have done it. Eddie was unique. One of the first things he did was bring Supa back. That was instrumental in our survival. No one else would or could have done that.
 
fritter said:
Agreed. But it didn't have to be Max. Someone else's money would have done it. Eddie was unique. One of the first things he did was bring Supa back. That was instrumental in our survival. No one else would or could have done that.
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Sorry. I got Fletch back to give the club a lift. Not many were up for it at the time but as time passes everyone takes the credit
 
davidwhitehead said:
Surely it was the responsibility of Blake and the board of directors to ensure that the business was run in a financially responsible manner ?
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Of course.

But Eddie would have known the limitations.

He had a good enough squad to keep us up, but for one reason or another ran out of steam.

He was given what he wanted within reason, and ultimately it wasn't enough.

I'd suggest that's probably why we aren't splashing much cash about, second time around, because we are still dealing with the hangover.
 
Old Cherry said:
You're the one that said that there is plenty of talent in Scotland!! Why not let our scouts know their names?
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How am I supposed to know any f√cking names.. I'm not up there....I just know that Scots are naturally good footballers !
All the best teams a had a Scot or two in the side..when the game was sane !
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Scotland at youth level pretty much the same as the senior team. Not pulling up any trees.
Obviously we should be scouting minor leagues like Scotland, but I don't think it's the answer to our current recruitment issues.
 
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