Yep on the Bpool board they are fuming at the £11m salary paid to a director Strange how so many of our fans like to believe the worst about our own club and the best about others?
Ridiculous that they were so concerned with saving money on players yet they are willing to spunk that kind of money on a director. Especially as the chairman was quoted saying PL players are all about money, yet he goes and pays himself £11m. Also I seem to remember there was a farcical situation last summer when they agreed to sign some lad from an Irish team but the guy had to cancel the move because the wage Blackpool were offering him was literally not enough for him to come here and live on. Loads of people from the Irish club were in the media having a paddy about the derisory offer.
As someone who openly admits to wanting our team to lose every week under Pearson I don't think you have any room to criticise do you?
Yes, I criticised Pearson because he was doing a bad job here and didn't want to be here anyway. Getting rid of him would have been in the best interests of the club. Some people have decided to make people who brought the club the most success it's ever had hate figures, just because somebody else told them to, and I find that sad.
So TWF why is Duffen not at fault for nearly taking our club bust? I can see why you constantly defend Brown as he got us there, and kept us there for a short period. However no-one can explain with any sense why the man in full control of the club was indeed not at fault for them nearly not going bust.
Do either of these men look like Paul Duffen to you? please log in to view this image You'll have to ask Bartlett why he brought the muppet on the left in, and the muppet on the left why he brought the muppet on the right in.
Nice attempt at a side-step, but the point is you're labelling people 'sad' for criticising those who almost crippled the club, when you have admitted you actually spent more than a season hoping we would lose every game. I know which I think is more sad but I'm sure you have some convoluted way of convincing yourself otherwise. As regards Duffen and Bartlett, their main task as owners was to keep the club solvent and if possible make a profit. The figures prove they failed so dismally at this basic task that we were lucky to avoid Administration and probably a second relegation. So yes they are justifiably 'hate figures.'
When I said 'sad' I meant it as in 'disappointing'. When I wanted the club to lose it was for the greater good of losing a manager who didn't want to be here and couldn't take us up anyway. Second relegation? We wouldn't have had a first if it wasn't for AP.
I know you're not stupid, so I can't understand why you keep peddling this ****. Brownie was sacked because the club thought he was on the take, it wasn't AP's decision. You can blame him for appointing Dowie, but not for sacking Brownie. As for Pearson, he'll get Leicester to the Premier League next season, unfortunately.
Blackpool and £11m salary: Even though the salary cost the club NICs, the club saved tax on the salary. The money went to the owner who was free to lend it back to the club. It's no different to the Allams in how they are financing the club they own. When Rooney gets paid that money is lost to the club and football. Hull City: I don't think spending money to stay in the Premier League should be frowned on. They made plenty of bad decisions but I would have preferred them to try to stay in the league rather than "take the money and get relegated". A "few" better decisions and we could have got "established" in the Premier League - as far as that's possible given there's 6/7 clubs fighting for the top 4 and there's 13/14 fighting for the next 10/11 places. The wrong decisions were made by Bartlett, Duffen and Brown.
This idea that we'd have stayed up with Brown is as blind as Barmby's continued faith with a misfiring front line. How anyone can think that a team who has won only 5 games in 30 and with no away wins can suddenly turn their form round and survive is deluded. You can look to the Arsenal game as a slice hope, but then that itself was preceded by thumpings against Everton and West Ham and a defeat to Blackburn and a draw at home to Wolves. Keeping Brown or sacking him would have made no difference to that season's outcome.
