Really!!?? Took over a club facing the knackers yard. Backed Bruce to get us promoted? Backing Bruce to keep us up? Backing himself into a corner currently undoing all the good work he has done. I think of all the crooks and ne'er do wells we've had in charge over the years and he is rapidly overtaking all of them, if not streaking ahead. He should be held in the highest esteem by anyone connected to the club. But **** me, what a mess he's created. What a ****ing sad mess. Palace on saturday, you know what for the first time in years I really couldn't give a **** this weekend.
In business terms, how much money has he made from or for the football club? How much debt is the business in? How much profit will it make this season and next? Where are the long term roots that will establish future profitability? If he went to a bank and said he wanted to borrow money and his big business plan was to change the business name, he'd be chucked out. It's obvious there has been success on the football field so far, but so there was in 2008. How can a name change make so much money for his business that it will fund future growth for years to come? If he had done all the relevant market research then come out with facts and figures, the kind of thing that businesses usually do, there would be no arguements.
Muff, you know what? I couldn't really give a ****. Sick and ****ing fed up with all the bollocks that has been going on for weeks, when really we should be eagerly anticipating every game. It's completely overshadowed this season for me. I tried Ferriby one week, and it wasn't me. Not my club. Not part of my life for decades. Not travelling to mid week games at Swansea, Plymouth etc etc. Not getting pissing wet through at the Old Manor Ground when Dimbleby came over to the fans to explain Oxford wouldn't let us go in a covered end. Not standing in snow at Crewe. Not breaking down on the A66 going to Carlisle leaving my car, hitching there and then having to get back. Not carrying a coffin way back when. Not going to Gibraltar when we were ****. So just my opinion that Allam has been a major success in the football club. But equally my opinion that he has completely screwed it up. And for that reason I'm out.
Steve Jobs is the more interesting example of a bully who follows his instincts. He publically dismissed the idea of Apple making the ipad mini. Soon as he was gone the board reversed his decision. (Given the patent cases going on it's ironic that it was one of their researchers experiences using a Samsung one that prompted them to promote the idea to the new CEO)
You could include hundreds of other failed business men in the arrogant bully category, been an arrogant bully doesn't make them successful, their other skills did. For instance someone who took over my Dad's company when he retired is what i would call an 'arrogant bully' he is shocking at his job and the business is now suffering because of that. Of course the skills associated with been an arrogant bully will help, but it doesn't make them successful on there own, please look at the bigger picture. If you are just WUM'ing i apologize for actually thinking of something intellectual.
I don't troll. I also hate the WUM tag. Sensible debate is always welcomed. The point is, other people are calling Dr Allam an arrogant bully and I was making the point that he's also good at what he does, thankfully too, else he wouldn't have been in a position to keep the club going, then have aspirations of taking us even further forward.
In terms of City that's a myth. Until recently, whenever anything good has happened people put it down to Allam and whenever anything bad happened it was someone else's fault. Usually whoever Allam blamed.
Some good posts there Arnold and I'm sad to read a fellow fan has reached breaking point and has been driven out. Even sadder, there's some on this forum who'll gloat.
