"why do you think there's been no talk or sign of an appeal from him?" Er, cos it's in the hands of AP's lawyers?
Opine as much as you want, I know the reasons he went. And we were better this season under Nigel. Gospel.
I remember towards the end of the season the players were tweeting about the long coach journeys, sitting in motorway jams etc and I did wonder at the time why they didn't fly down as I think this is the way most teams travel to the furthest away games, it did seem quite strange. If we are a club known for petty penny pinching then we are not going to attract many players if the other teams are not penny pinching too. Remember someone else (possibly OLM) mentioned charging scouts to come into the ground as well when they were always allowed in free. Things like this get the club talked about and not in a good way.
We're talking players and as far as I know none have told them to do one, but they might do in time and it's definitely not going to help with recruitment.
I genuinely believe that we need owners like the Allams in football; it's not a charity and there are far too many vfootballers and managers (and their staff) who take the piss and bleed clubs dry. But I totally accept what OLM says here. These actions are petty and naive, they smack of a dad using his so-called authority to peg his bairn back; the only trouble is, it will not endure. I read lots about Nick Barmby being allowed the chance to become a manager and I agreed with that; unfortunately, wrong words, wrong time, wrong bosses. The Allam duo have to reappraise their actions, their intent and, last but not least, their paying public; I believe there has been too much silliness from two parties inexperienced in what they are involved in - the one who could and should have made a difference - Adam Pearson - had his own agenda. Either way, we have lost this battle, but the war for fame and fortune continues. Onwards we go, UTT. Time for another dram; huurummphh!!
Spot on. People have very short memories about NP - his post match interviews were shocking and at best very rude to the extent that the likes of David Burns was unable to do his job properly and ask what the supporters wanted to hear. Surprisingly Nick followed a similar path.
This is where the Allam oxymoron lies. Can someone explain how on the one hand there is making players have cheaper operations, travelling to games in cheaper modes of transport, sacking backroom and support staff, cancelling mobile fone accounts and company cars etc etc etc and on the other hand sack a manager because he refused to sign a Premiership striker on loan for £30-£40k or sign a Championship striker for a fee of £3m and a salary structure breaking £20k a week, makes any sense whatsoever? It just doesn't fit together. ps. good thread this, nobody's abused anybody yet, which in itself is astonishing!
Flying to the South Coast for matches? What a waste of money. It's not penny pinching but common sense. I have considered flying to matches and it just does not work. A coach doing the trip in 5 hours is possibly quicker than flying. A charter flight from Southampton St Marys to the KC in a twin prop will have a total journey time of 3hrs 20mins. I know because it was a trip that I planned to do, last season. I can drive up in 3hrs 35mins.
You having a giraffe? You could fly from Humberside to Paris, have lunch on the Champs-Ãlysées and still get to Southampton in less time than that. I've flown from Humberside to Southampton, it took less than an hour.
To be fair madhog it is.possible that there is pre-litigation correspondence passing between Adam's lawyers and the clubs lawyers. We wouldn't be.likely to be.told about that. Nobody on here knows the terms of his contract or.whether terminating it how they did could be considered a breach of the agreement
What about a senior player asking the club for a couple of signed balls and a shirt for a very worthwhile charity and being told to buy them himself? He did and he wasn't overly impressed. That kind of thing really gets on peoples( players) tits. As for Nigel seeing the writing on the wall? Of course he did, things weren't right at the very start of the season. A fact I shared with a well known poster at the Ferriby preseason game if memory serves me well. Walshy was far from happy and if he wasn't I'm fairly sure Nigel wouldn't have been.
