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Originally Posted by sameoldstory
Yawn! All this negativity towards the way the club is being run is getting a little tedious to be honest....too many people are quick to blame David and Rob for the way things are being run, yet I don't see anyone looking at the way Eric Whalley ran the club...remember him? - the man who jumped ship and left us to it as soon as the tax problem reared it's ugly head leaving other people to clear up a mess that HE created!!
Yes David and Rob are in charge of the day to day running of the club, but it's hard to do that when the ball is constantly being moved from under your feet, for example the LEGi money. When it became clear that the money would not be recieved as expected then lots of juggling around will have taken place and sacrifices will have been made in order for other pressing things to be paid for - the pitch and improvement work to the ground being top of the list. And it was Ilyas (and not certain others) who told the council that the funding was no longer needed, but to the best of my knowledge has hasn't come forward with any replacement funds. Perhaps he can clairfy things? He's been a bit quiet on here lately......
My point is that everyone is in the same boat. We aren't the only football club that are having a rough time of things recently. I just appeal for a bit of calm and stop playing the blame game as it isn't getting anyone anywhere. The season will be starting in six weeks time and the FA will start paying out parachute payments again, and we will have money coming in. It's hard to keep paying out all the time when you haven't got anything coming in.
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Without Ilyas there would have been no club and therefore no employment for the current regime, I take it that you have forgot about that? Not forgetting as well that the fans did their bit as well to keep the club going, therefore I would say that they have every right to be angry about the mismanagement that has happened consistently. Ilyas has put far more of his own money into the club than anybody else so why should he be held accountable for any of the current saga, he has paid for the improvements to the pitch and done all of this for nothing in return.
Your obviously oblivious to the reality that encapsulates the way the club has been run. The ownership issue has been meant to have been resolved many times, DON keeps say it is a matter of weeks for it to be sorted and a year down the line it is still not sorted. On the commercial side has any ground sponsor been sorted yet, 18 months since Fraser Eagle went bust and still nothing has happened. You have given us one example of external factors that moves the ball from under your feet, I fail to see how this leads to a complete lack of decent management.
The club was left debt-free after Ilyas reign so I would suggest that is a decent way to leave the club in. Finally, what about JC's contract I read on the 16th April that the contract was being typed up ready for signature, three months later it still not resolved. If you can't understand the fans frustration about the above issues then you are deluded, people dont moan for the sake of it they moan because they dont like what is happening to the club. We are forever fed soundbites about what is going to happen but when is any of it actually going to be done? I would love DON to sort all the problems out that way then the fans can look forward to seeing JC do his magic on the field without having to worry about off the field problems.