Mace out

[Ric Flair]

This sums leicester fans up. you don't know a good thing when it hits you in the face. Mace was a brilliant CEO, he is corporately brilliant and has come up with some fantastic initiatives for the club. It was a great appointment by Jon Holmes to have him at the club. He was always very pleasant if you ever spoke to him and has done a really good job. He handled the La Manga situation fantastically well and we will do well to get anyone who is nearly as good. You all think that Tim Davies is good and you are completely wrong, he is good financially but when it comes to football he has no clue. I really think that the most part on here are bone heads.      I really feel that when the next CEO comes along you won't have a clue. Good luck Mr Mace thank you for doing a brilliant job at this football club.

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You have to be taking the piss. You are aren't you?

He was utter mince at his job that is why his departure has been greeted with joy across all LCFC messageboards. He showed nothing but utter contempt for the fans and he refused to back down when the weight of public opinion was against him.

Please give us a list of his fantastic initiatives. Meanwhile here is a list of his 'success' in recent times:

1 - Pepsi Max Tourney - at leat a 150 grand loss and the most obscure non entity teams you could think of.

2 - Foxes Festival - Status Quo and Darius???? what the **** was that all about no wonder it was cancelled and it will have cost the club money.

3 - 120 annivesary - brilliant lets celebrate what exactly? All that tatty merchandise that never sold, great who is paying for that?

4 - Fosse Gold - the only reason it 'is the most popular away kit of all time' was because of the FA Cup run and them getting knocked out for less than we bought them in for. Probably a break even exercise at best.

5 - Matchday Experience - he hired the catering company who cocked it up on the opening day and then tried to humiliate them on the OS. He should have proided the figures of what was required. Henry, the PA guy, Birch need I go on. The happy clappy music it's football not America.

6 - JJB link up - Great stuff a well known brand to chavs and neds all over the land. We even get AVS with the kit on a ONE YEAR CYCLE and the spin that accompanied it. 'We get it over the summer so it lasts longer'....... '40% of Clubs operate on a 1 year cycle'.

7 - East Bengal FC - what is this all about, what benefits have the Club had there except the bills for his and their airfares to and from India? Great link up how many players has that provided for the Club? How many of our games are on Indian TV?

He was a fraud and has been found out and asked politely to leave the Club. Best news since CL drop kicked Bassett out the door.

I hope this weasel never darkens our door again.

111795[/snapback]

Almost poetic, brilliant!!!

[supedaj]

hier hier - i second that!

[BartonFox]

Utter tosh. Utter, utter tosh.

Pierpoint and Mace were and still are regarded as the most astute commercial operators in football. Wanna know how Kenyon and co developed the MUFC brand? Do you know which clubs commercial operation influenced them more than any other?

There's a trade magazine that goes out to the great and the good of virtually all FA affilliated clubs. I helped set it up in the early 90's.

Now guess which club's marketing operation was endlessly dissected in its pages month after month after month after....

111967[/snapback]

There is no denying Pierpoints commercial influence when he was here at the Club, it was just a shame that he and MON couldn't marry the 2 sides of the 'business ( <_< ) together.

Mace has always been a weasel, flip flopping between sides of the fence depending on who patted him on the back the most. His involvemnt like that of Bassett after administration has proved to be very prohibitive in us moving on.

I am still waiting to here the positive things he achieved at the Club since his return, and fire fighting after La Manga won't wash.

[Chandler]

Looks like the bugle has sounded the retreat. Time for the rout to begin. Where shall I start? I'll have a swig of Pepsi Max while I think about it...

Now, why did last years mini-tournament go down like a lead balloon I wonder? Was it REALLY the perfidious Paul Mace or was it something to do with a northern bullying, over exposed outfit with a fan base in Penzance?

You don't think the sudden withdrawal of our headline act (the best footballing side in the world bar none) because of 'undue pressure' from our scummy friends in the north who had their own curtain raiser and didn't want to be upstaged by ours had anything to do with it do you?

Once again folks you've been let down by your poor memories in your rush to find a scapegoat. But if you really want to have a go at our Paul I will give you a reason you could not possibly have come up with yourselves...

I note with interest a friendly fixture that has been arranged against a side now managed by a tempremental, former manager of LCFC. Now I seem to recall we were let down gently when the star attraction failed to appear last July with a statement that ran something like this: 'Er, don't worry, Boca have promised they will be at the Walkers at the same time next year.'

Celtic, not exactly a like-for-like replacement eh?

[Guest]

Looks like the bugle has sounded the retreat. Time for the rout to begin. Where shall I start? I'll have a swig of Pepsi Max while I think about it...

Now, why did last years mini-tournament go down like a lead balloon I wonder? Was it REALLY the perfidious Paul Mace or was it something to do with a northern bullying, over exposed outfit with a fan base in Penzance?

You don't think the sudden withdrawal of our headline act (the best footballing side in the world bar none) because of 'undue pressure' from our scummy friends in the north who had their own curtain raiser and didn't want to be upstaged by ours had anything to do with it do you?

Once again folks you've been let down by your poor memories in your rush to find a scapegoat. But if you really want to have a go at our Paul I will give you a reason you could not possibly have come up with yourselves...

I note with interest a friendly fixture that has been arranged against a side now managed by a tempremental, former manager of LCFC. Now I seem to recall we were let down gently when the star attraction failed to appear last July with a statement that ran something like this: 'Er, don't worry, Boca have promised they will be at the Walkers at the same time next year.'

Celtic, not exactly a like-for-like replacement eh?

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I do remember that Boca are supposed to be playing us this this pre-season. I also think that the way the tournament was marketed was wrong, and I still would be surprised to see anywhere near a full-house on any let alone both days. But there's no point in arguing with you, so I won't bother.

[Louise]

I heard (from Birch on Century, so take this with a large pinch of salt), that he's still going to be brought in on a consultancy basis. So really, I would say that we'll get to keep some of the marketing disasters and he might lead press conferences but he won't be helping run the club from day-to-day as before or be on phone ins or at the fans forum.