Parker Pen

Google reckons 60 to 70% of family businesses that are passed from parents to children fail and do not last a generation. It cites Lack of preparedness, Family dynamics, Poor succession planning and a resistance to change! Sound Familiar? I hope Top listens and acts, whether it is to restructure and implement what the likes of Enzo were suggesting by adding an experienced Sporting Director or walk away and sell. Good luck to all those planning on attending the Protest on Saturday but I am away on holiday so can’t make it but my son will be there!

When we won the league! Unfortunately we had no plan after winning it and invested in the wrong players and wrong type of players and started inflating contracts coupled with not having a plan for bring youth players through to the first team and still don’t! We have wasted most of the player sales on sustaining bang average players inflated contracts. A good example could have been the progression of Calvin Bassey who is doing well at Fulham. Loaning Ben Nelson this season instead of playing him after he did well when called upon last year in the Championship another example of not using what we have!

A good way of highlighting the issue through the media is the co-ordinated tennis ball protest! Where disgruntled fans have all thrown tennis balls onto the pitch at the same time. Recent cases at Blackburn, and Reading where owners have lost touch with fans and Dortmund and Ligue 1 where they weee protesting against private investment in football ball clubs and. In France TV companies and the League prioritising Tv deals over kick off times! Just imagine if it did happen and Arteta was asked about it? He would claim to not have seen anything!

I reckon we will dig in and nick a point! I do wonder whether RVN should have stuck with Stolarcyk in goal especially after his display at Spurs.

Don’t forget he played at the Emirates earlier in the season and wasn’t terrible. I like his defend first mentality and the fact he has more pace that the other options.

I think like in any business you need a reset. Being owned by KP means that we are financially stable. I’m currently in Thailand and now there is no pandemic their business wealth is only going to grow. So our back stop is sound! What we need is a skilled visionary to work at Chief Executive level and appoint the right people with footballing knowledge who can navigate their way through the current PSR rules given the tools that we have, for example promote the youth talent to first team, develop them and sell them at a profit whilst building a hungry squad of players.

The current offside rules are incapable of being handled by incompetent/amateur officials who are up against Grade A professional cheats who are pushing the boundaries of what is active and inactive in terms of offside! I much preferred the back line being able to push up and catch everyone offside, even the half asleep winger! if he doesn’t flag that last night then he needs sacking from officiating again until they attend a refresher course! Of course INEOS, Brailsford and Ratcliffe aren’t know for cheating or pulling a fast one with the public are they?

Even more so now that.Sky are so invested in the so called big 6

Football needs to go back to the old offside rule, then there would be none of this is he active or not nonsense. Anyone to the left of that black line is offside end of!

Reminds me of the ‘Managers Son’ who would always get picked in your kids team. Skippy, lovely lad, trains hard and doesn’t swear!

Therin lies the problem, as a Football fan we have all been forced into attending matches at ridiculous kick off times as every club is beholden to the Sky money and advertising that comes with it!

Play him whilst we are in still in the Prem and if you use Nwaneri as an example he then becomes a £30 million saleable asset. Isn’t that the business model that the club should be striving for with the investment at Seagrave?

I would say keep but the problem is deep rooted with Glover, Rudkin, Whelan and Top. He gets no public or vocal support and has been fitted into our shambles of a set up. Any decision making appears to be like steering the Queen Mary through the Channel. With maybe the worst communication with the fans that I have seen. Although look at Kompany, won the Championship at a canter, got relegated sticking to his footballing philosophy and blagged a top job. So he will be ok if he gets the sack! I do fear for us this time for an immediate bounce back as we will do well to stumble on another Enzo and could end up with Brussel or Dyche.

Season Ticket holder and Travel up from Leighton Buzzard with my son and sometimes pick my Father in Law up en route from Rushden or my other son in Market Harborough when he can’t make it. Been going since the late 70’s.

I think a vast majority want him to succeed, but Where is his support. The silence is deafening. I know of no other club to operate in such a fashion! How many more managers get thrown under the bus. Communication is everything in all organisations otherwise people will just make stuff up or snippets from people glued together become reliable sources for News articles for the likes of Jon Percy.

I’m glad Ruud is calling the players out! Maybe Okoli should change his boots, Ruud probably saw that he was wearing two left ones. He probably doesn’t like a back chat and feels that the younger players need to earn his respect and learn some manners. And after watching the Coulibaly10 minute video of him arriving at Seagrave you can see why as bang average players are being treated like Kings! He must have seen a similar carry on at Carrington. I hope he survives and puts Ange to the sword on Sunday, galvanises the squad and keeps us up, maybe then he will be in a better position.

No Wilf, No Win!

This is a massive problem for us without a doubt, both him and Congerton definitely don’t cut the mustard. Sunderland, Southampton and Everton all reeling from some hefty signing fees and contracts from players that haven’t performed to the expected levels.

That half arsed jog alongside Sarr ffs! What’s happened to a solid slide tackle, surely he can read the danger as El Khannouss is struggling. I can’t believe that either of them didn’t commit a foul or attempt one when he starts driving towards our box and Vestergaard has to do better with a straight ball to Mateta.

I agree , in most recent times and having to listen to Neville saying I can see that he was trying to take his foot away! But for me it was Speedie at Wembley in 93!

It’s 100% crooked! Like the timing of all the PSR points deduction press stories aimed at us to lose even more focus and help knock those final nails in our relegation coffin.

Terrible business by us. Well and truly mugged off again! It’s the same people time and again that sign off on these failures. Musa, Ward, Bennett, Ghezzal, Slimani, the Silva debacle. I’m sure someone could add up or has added up in the past the failed business in terms of fees paid and salaries torched. It’s gross incompetence of the highest order and not carrying out any due diligence is embarrassing. Someone only needed to read his Wikipedia page to see that Toulouse terminated his loan early in 2017 for shooting a passer by with an air pistol when driving about in his mates car for alarm bells to ring! He looks complely disinterested at best!

It’s a poor pass from Justin for their second but Ayew has to do better as well!

This has all the hallmarks of the 2003/4 season after bouncing back at the first attempt. We weren’t good enough then or now. If he’s not sacked by the end of February I reckon Ruud walks!

17th. Forest stayed up with 32 points last season and 38 the season we went down one place above Everton on 36. It’s the hope that kills you!