MD on five min FF this avo

He always speaks well, he always comes across as a nice chap, which I have no doubt that he is. However I'm still waiting for evidence that he has the ability to run a football club and make things happen. That's not necessarily his fault, but he has no experience in this job and I do wonder how much authority he has to make the big decisions, or whether he has to wait for Tiger... The jury is still out for me. I agree with ZeroTH, I'm waiting to judge on things they've accomplished, rather than pie in the sky hopes for the future.
 
Training centre, they have the pick of 5 prime sites to choose from, the youth setup, they finally managed to stop the ultra littering the ground with silly signs and are stamping out singing, there is genuine Thai beer available somewhere and the home shirt is nice.

IS THAT NOT ENOUGH? You lot are not true supporters if you want the sun the moon and stars. Get behind the management, believe, etc.
 
At least he clarified, that despite the claim the previous week from his paymaster, he has little football experience in running a football club. Certainly less than the 20 years of football experience (which Niall kindly explained had been as a scout and probably running a school football team). For the record, I am sure he is a thoroughly nice guy and applaud his clarification on the question raised to him about his experiences in football.

He has also finally spoken about the 'Five Stadium Options of which the Kassam Stadium was Number 6' - we now know it to be three options, one of which includes remaining at the Kassam and it's that I'll add something.

OxVox, albeit under a previous committee/officers, have been banging on about the great location the Kassam finds itself in for a significant period of time. It is about to have a huge regeneration of housing built on the other side of Grenoble Road, a Train Station hub coming into the Science Park and providing a central point to an area of Oxford that needs all the help it can get. So a little surprised to see after all the research, we still no little about the 'Planners' that were appointed to help and assist, that the Kassam has popped back into the Top 3.

And sad it took a year and a complete U-turn for the middle/senior management of the football club to decide working with Firoz Kassam and honor the agreements in place, was actually the right thing to do.

It's been a shambolic 12 months.

All my energy now is supporting the players who wear our yellow shirts with pride and manage to stay up and I'm going to try and post infrequently from now on :)
 
Having listened i feel NMcW came across well. He was straightforward and committed. Most do not know him but feel able to criticise, maybe because of his ( highly successful) teaching background. I happen to know him and have in the past worked with him when i was at OU and he took trainees and young pros for further ed at Cherwell over 15 years ago. He is an honourable, driven man and straight talking man and he is a genuine Oxford fan, and maybe many fans will begin to see this. Many MD’s have limited direct pro football backgrounds but have great business acumen.
 
He is an honourable, driven man and straight talking man and he is a genuine Oxford fan, and maybe many fans will begin to see this.
I don't think many doubt all of that. What people doubt is whether he has the right experience for this particular job and whether he is being given enough responsibility to be able to make decisions without them being gone through by the owner with a fine-tooth financial comb first. He has also been less than diligent in getting back to those who have contacted him, some of what he has said has simply been incorrect (the price to play at Grenoble Road for example) and he himself admitted that the club (i,e. Tiger, him and Robinson) had made many mistakes over the course of the last few months. So while he may be all that you say, he has had a pretty shaky start so far - you can't blame people for not being gushingly enthusiastic about the man.
 
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