King Power

[Sly]

4 minutes ago, Chocolate Teapot said:

Makes sure criticism / noise doesn't reach him.

I can tell you’re still not over him having a pop at the fans, or as he’d prefer to address us “his customers”. 

[Lesta Legend]

5 minutes ago, Chocolate Teapot said:

Makes sure criticism / noise doesn't reach him.

Positive feedback loop. Exactly how we’ve become complacent. Upper management don’t have their finger on the pulse and think everything on the ground is fine. Without change how is anything of this going to be better in the future. 

[CloudFox]

15 hours ago, Bourbon Fox said:

They're dream owners - writing off debt, investing in the ground and revenue-driving developments, investing in the training ground, investing in the community, building ties and embracing the city.

 

They are failing in one respect - in employing the best football brains in the business to handle the specialist gaps in their knowledge.

 

People who have the nous to steer an ambitious club past the pitfalls and through the dangers, who know the system inside out and are agile enough to stay at the top of the game.

 

Ideally they'd be vocal and persistent in campaigning for a fairer opportunity for clubs in the 5th-9th of the PL bracket as well.

 

Rudkin simply isn't qualified to be a DoF.

It needs fixing yesterday, if not sooner.

This is exactly how I feel about it, well put!

 

I don't think King Power are the problem. Top needs to be accountable, yes, but I don't believe for a minute that he's lost interest in a project he worked on with his late father, and where Vichai actually died. Top will forever be tied to us, and us to him.

 

However, he's not holding people below him—whom he has trusted to look after the club—to account. Rudkin, Whelan, our financial department, the Academy (oh wait that's Rudkin again)...the lot. We need changes in the boardroom, or at least fresh blood, with real experience of success in the football industry.

 

We have been talked a lot as a "model" club in the recent past, and that Brighton are now that "model" club, but it's not comparable. Brighton have a model, and the right staff in place to run the club well. We do not appear to have one, if not both of those things.

[CosbehFox]

Remember when Top nearly cried because someone criticised his mate? 
 

Can tell he was brought up in a society without or near zero free speech

 

Edited 25 March by CosbehFox

[Foxin_Mad]

There are very few well run football clubs in the country. 

[AjcW]

25 minutes ago, Foxin_Mad said:

There are very few well run football clubs in the country. 

What does well run mean though and what does it lead to overall?

 

Arguably Middlesborough are the best run football club in the country, in terms of picking good coaches and giving them the longest possible chance to implement their ideas (they have deviated at times....). They've also got one of the longest standing owners and a steady stream of funds to spend. They've not had any financial difficulty and haven't dropped below the top two tiers in a long long time.

 

But on the flipside they've done absolutely nothing of note for a decade or so. They're literally stuck in the Championship and spending a considerable amount of money every season to stay there.

 

Without some of our 'mismanagement' we wouldn't have been able to experience some of the unbelievable highs we've had. Or in the same sense, the lows that bring us all together.

 

I've been obsessed with this club since 1998, and the ups and downs during that time have been part of that obsession. Isn't that why we all love this sport, it's addictive, toxic for us at times, we rely on it etc etc.

 

Don't think i'd feel the same at 'well run' Middlesborough during that time. 

 

If we're approaching the end of KP, then so be it, they've made plenty of mistakes but my god they've made some incredible calls and brought this club on exponentially. 

Be an absolute piece of piss for whoever buys it off them as long as they employ the right people... we've got everything any investor could ask for. 

[lcfc278]

2 hours ago, Chocolate Teapot said:

Makes sure criticism / noise doesn't reach him.

Wow. Surely not a good way to run any business is it?