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Best move on rather than dragging him up all the time then hadn’t we
Best move on rather than dragging him up all the time then hadn’t we
Everyone moving forward together as long as they're anti DE?
Behind the team. Chairman come and go, fans are the constant.
Just gets a bit boring, when people miss out on buying the club but u never seem to hear the f*****g end of it. Didn’t happen, best move on don’t u think.
By all means thank DE for this investment since his arrival which swiftly lead to promotion and Wembley finals. However, that investment included the hiring of Mark Ashton, who practically ran the show in bringing in Appleton, installing the transfer model, scouting team and targeting the correct players. Him, along with many other brilliant staff we had during our promotion season have almost all but left or been shafted by DE.
DE is now running things his way, it appears many people are starting to tell the difference. His investment has been welcomed and we should all be thankful, his decision to implement such a fantastic staff setup beneath him shortly after his arrival, too. However, maybe it's time to ask where they've all gone, what direction are heading in now? Why have our club staff numbers completely dwindled? Why is the club lacking in so many vital areas?
We received some decent money in transfer fees and raised the ticket prices to establish a "top 6 budget". That evidently isn't true, I see this income as covering losses or perhaps helping him keep the club running. That wouldn't be an issue as such if he was open and honest about it, and thus the takeover talks would be understandable, but he's been silent for a long period now and fans just want answers. Hopefully the fans forum may bring some...
When Kassam said he would take us on a journey you were expecting a journey to the conference were you? Kassam took us from the championship to the trap door out of the football league while raping us of every asset we had. Eales has taken us from the trap door out of the football league to league 1 and wembley twice whilst investing in a scouting network and players that have given the club some worthwhile assets again.
As for the opening post Charlie has said it all before many times, the smell of bitterness is choking me. I think any genuine fan of sane mind should have a little think about where we might be if IL had sold to Charlies gang. Think about some of the s**t that flies in Eales direction and pause for minute to think how mr rhino skin would deal with it. Things are not as good as they should be at present but they are better than local derbies with Oxford City.
For me Eales biggest contribution to OUFC was buying the club off IL, his second biggest contribution was not selling to Sartori. Both decisions kept Charlie and his side kicks to s**t stirring on here and other social media.
Sad to say, but this club is in a right old state and that state has been looming over the horizon for a while. To re-cap, as things stand, and in no particular order:
1. A new manager is going to arrive not in November/ December, as best practice indicates, but at the end of January
2. The club was ejected from the two serious Cup competitions at the earliest stage by teams at the bottom of League 2
3. After a protracted period with no day-to-day leadership, the club has just appointed a part-time MD with no prior experience of football club management (no fault of his, by the way, as running schools is a more admirable occupation)
4. There has been no commercial or marketing leadership for over a year, and therefore no commercial and marketing initiatives of any kind.
5. The club has allegedly been in and out of takeover discussions for almost a year, and has not denied as much
6. In that time, and not surprisingly, the manager and his entire playing leadership team has left, of their own accord, followed by the chief scout
7. The club is in litigation with its landlord, who has baldly stated that he is going to make life as difficult as possible
8. After two massive price hikes, home crowds are down by over 15%
9. On the pitch, the team has suffered its worst ever result, a 0-7 home defeat to a side in our own league, something even he Kemp side didn't manage
The positive is that we are mid-table in League 1, still have some good players and staff, and if swift, decisive, strategically sensible action is taken at all levels then the tanker can gradually be turned around. But equally, we are a couple more bad decisions and a bit of bad luck away from disaster. Here's hoping that those good decisions start to be made. Whatever all our differences of opinion in the past, I think that we can all agree that the club is entering a pretty important period in its history.
Who or how has he shafted staff membersBy all means thank DE for this investment since his arrival which swiftly lead to promotion and Wembley finals. However, that investment included the hiring of Mark Ashton, who practically ran the show in bringing in Appleton, installing the transfer model, scouting team and targeting the correct players. Him, along with many other brilliant staff we had during our promotion season have almost all but left or been shafted by DE.
DE is now running things his way, it appears many people are starting to tell the difference. His investment has been welcomed and we should all be thankful, his decision to implement such a fantastic staff setup beneath him shortly after his arrival, too. However, maybe it's time to ask where they've all gone, what direction are heading in now? Why have our club staff numbers completely dwindled? Why is the club lacking in so many vital areas?
We received some decent money in transfer fees and raised the ticket prices to establish a "top 6 budget". That evidently isn't true, I see this income as covering losses or perhaps helping him keep the club running. That wouldn't be an issue as such if he was open and honest about it, and thus the takeover talks would be understandable, but he's been silent for a long period now and fans just want answers. Hopefully the fans forum may bring some...
maybe spending all that cash on a winter break in sunnier climes? perhaps?Where is the Captain of the ship when it’s sinking? Is he rowing away in the lifeboat with all the dosh?
The point being made was that anyone can say anything but results speak for themselves. Satori promised the world, but so did Kassam. Whereas DE has improved our league position for each of the completed seasons with us (including promotion) and taken us to Wembley twice. He has funded a playing squad that has seen several million pound plus sales, something we have not seen in a generation. This season has been poor, but another mid table finish will still be pretty good for the 4 years DE has been incharge.
Satori could have turned us into Blackburn, or he could have turned us into Bury. No one knows. But we can judge DE or the last 4 years and he has done far more good than bad in that time.
Which of the above numbered points are inaccurate?
If you could go through them one by one I’d be interested to read your rationale
That’s a genuine request by the way
I don’t think the Ashton model also took into account players not renewing contracts and having to be let go under their value. Which also results in the turn over being 2/3 going per season rather than the one the model is based on
I don’t think the Ashton model also took into account players not renewing contracts and having to be let go under their value. Which also results in the turn over being 2/3 going per season rather than the one the model is based on
That is fair. But one reason players do not renew their contracts is because they don't see an ambitious future at OUFC. If the model is to sign ambitious players and management, then the moment they smell that you are no longer ambitious they are going to want away and feel they have been brought in on a false premise.
Of course, there is always the blow-out offer, and the consideration of age and stage (Marvin being older, this could have been his last chance of a big pay day), but generally players like playing, like being promoted and like winning medals.
In any case, losing 2 players a summer isn't such a huge deal in turnover terms. It's the ability to use that money to bring in the 4 or 5 players who actually improve you that determines whether the model is what Ashton wanted, or Barry Fry and Peterborough. As customers, we were sold the former, and then received the latter. As players, they were sold the former and then found themselves in the midst of the latter. I personally don't think that we signed players under the promise that we would sell them the next year. I'm sure that we signed them to become part of a project.