General The Board & Senior Management

Anyway I`m sure the senior folk have already got their new man lined up and they`ll start soon so they get settled in before the transfer window.................... :rolleyes:

Anyone seen Sir Les` helicopter?
 
This might be stretching it but might there be some clause in Rowett’s contract regarding pay offs for being sacked within a year etc. He was appointed on 21st - Saturday was 20th, Sunday 21st. I’d have thought the obvious time to pull the trigger was Saturday evening or Sunday morning. Maybe we were waiting for the calendar year to elapse ?
 
Yellowoptimist said:
Rowett made the decision he wanted out some weeks ago. That has been very evident. He wasn’t happy with what whatever support he was getting and all his communications have been working toward an end game.
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I understand that and that's why I still can't understand when fans are still saying we shouldn't have sacked him.
 
Yellowoptimist said:
Rowett made the decision he wanted out some weeks ago. That has been very evident. He wasn’t happy with what whatever support he was getting and all his communications have been working toward an end game.
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You’re just guessing, I know there are some real ITKs but I dont think any poster on here is that close with our fairly private Derbyshire based ex manager.
 
werthersoriginal said:
You’re just guessing, I know there are some real ITKs but I dont think any poster on here is that close with our fairly private Derbyshire based ex manager.
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Doesn't mean they don't know people (coaches etc) who knows and speak to Rowett though. It's one of those things that'll never be confirmed of course but I believe he's wanted out for some time. The part about being unhappy with the support he got is hardly a stretch either considering he's been telling us all season.

He'll still be getting paid, is out of a job he clearly didn't like and has Christmas off. He won't have lost a second of sleep over this.
 
Colin B said:
I think it's very interesting that Erick is happy to be photographed with Wrexham CEO Mike Williamson, and vice versa, and hope it's relevant. Erick employed him at DC United.

My conspiracy theory mind is working overtime, and I hope Williamson is the new COO that the club have appointed (who is currently employed elsewhere, as per the club statement) and once he's in Tim Williams is next out of the door, with Williamson replacing him as CEO. Maybe TW has seen the writing on the wall, hence his self promotion podcast with Keiron Maguire?

I haven't yet heard the podcast, and am waiting for my neighbours to go out, as I know I'm going to be loudly shouting out expletives while listening.
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Interesting to see Jonathan Clark’s replacement being a COO role after he left “little old oxford” to be the COO of Southampton. Wonder if they offered him the role?

The new COO needs to be a statement hire given the mess and importance of the new stadium. From another club? I can’t see ETs friend Michael leaving his CEO role at Wrexham for some little yellow shirts. Surely Tim doesn’t start taking part in podcasts if the writing is on the wall.
 
I thought Tim Williams’ latest interview on the price of football was very good. He came across as a realist who actually understands the financial position the club is in.

We’re clearly hamstrung by FFP, and the reality is there’s a trade-off: the only way we can realistically spend more is by increasing revenue, whether that’s through ticket prices, merchandise, or matchday income. There isn’t a magic pot of money.

Also, going on a podcast with global reach does far more for the club than doing the same interview on Radio Oxford. That kind of exposure matters.

I get the sense that some people just don’t like him, so whatever he does is going to get criticised regardless - but on this occasion I think he spoke a lot of sense.
 
Yemi-God said:
I thought Tim Williams’ latest interview on the price of football was very good. He came across as a realist who actually understands the financial position the club is in.

We’re clearly hamstrung by FFP, and the reality is there’s a trade-off: the only way we can realistically spend more is by increasing revenue, whether that’s through ticket prices, merchandise, or matchday income. There isn’t a magic pot of money.

Also, going on a podcast with global reach does far more for the club than doing the same interview on Radio Oxford. That kind of exposure matters.

I get the sense that some people just don’t like him, so whatever he does is going to get criticised regardless - but on this occasion I think he spoke a lot of sense.
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It was meek and defeatist. Punching above overweight is what we do, always have done. I knew we were going to have to prove a few people wrong again but I didn't think one would be a board member.
 
Yemi-God said:
I thought Tim Williams’ latest interview on the price of football was very good. He came across as a realist who actually understands the financial position the club is in.

We’re clearly hamstrung by FFP, and the reality is there’s a trade-off: the only way we can realistically spend more is by increasing revenue, whether that’s through ticket prices, merchandise, or matchday income. There isn’t a magic pot of money.

Also, going on a podcast with global reach does far more for the club than doing the same interview on Radio Oxford. That kind of exposure matters.

I get the sense that some people just don’t like him, so whatever he does is going to get criticised regardless - but on this occasion I think he spoke a lot of sense.
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‘Hamstrung by FPP…’

Yes because his football ops team has managed to lumber us with approx 10 players who shouldn’t be on our books. It’s their combined wages that is one of the biggest problems..
 
Upthecowboys said:
‘Hamstrung by FPP…’

Yes because his football ops team has managed to lumber us with approx 10 players who shouldn’t be on our books. It’s their combined wages that is one of the biggest problems..
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I'm no fan of Tim's but 'his football ops team'? He won't have any real say in who should be recruited and on what terms and nor should he given he has no real knowledge of what is needed on the playing side.
 
This isn't really a board and senior management thing - but it does say it all about the level of professionalism at the club and seems typical of a club 'led' by Tim Williams. Programme for the game tonight - Monday 30 December - includes managers notes of Gary Rowett, sacked by the club 6 1/2 days ago. FFS - amateur hour.
Actually, I assume that programme comes under commercial, so is an Adam Benson production...... FFS.
 
Jonny G said:
This isn't really a board and senior management thing - but it does say it all about the level of professionalism at the club and seems typical of a club 'led' by Tim Williams. Programme for the game tonight - Monday 30 December - includes managers notes of Gary Rowett, sacked by the club 6 1/2 days ago. FFS - amateur hour.
Actually, I assume that programme comes under commercial, so is an Adam Benson production...... FFS.
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The club addressed this with a statement following the sacking and the rationale for not reprinting two sets of programmes. Seemed reasonable enough.
 
MJB said:
The club addressed this with a statement following the sacking and the rationale for not reprinting two sets of programmes. Seemed reasonable enough.
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If they're printing the programmes that early then probably best for them not to do one (or me to buy one) any longer. Either do it properly or don't do it at all.
 
Jonny G said:
If they're printing the programmes that early then probably best for them not to do one (or me to buy one) any longer. Either do it properly or don't do it at all.
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I expect that the printing company has been closed seeing as its been Christmas and all!
 
Jonny G said:
This isn't really a board and senior management thing - but it does say it all about the level of professionalism at the club and seems typical of a club 'led' by Tim Williams. Programme for the game tonight - Monday 30 December - includes managers notes of Gary Rowett, sacked by the club 6 1/2 days ago. FFS - amateur hour.
Actually, I assume that programme comes under commercial, so is an Adam Benson production...... FFS.
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Christmas print deadlines are always really early. I remember Chris Williams and Martin Brodetsky talking numerous times when they did video previews about working on all the festive programmes at the same time to ensure they were with the printers for their deadlines.
 
Of all the things to complain about, the programme is the least important. It is unwelcome, for sure but, logistically, it would have nigh on impossible to scrap an entire print run and replace, not one but two programmes in the time available.
 
Parking the logistical issue of the printers shutting down over the festive period, I’m fairly sure that when Martin was still editor it was mentioned the programme barely broke even. £600 profit for the year is a figure I seem to have lodged in my head.

On that basis, expecting a full reprint for late changes, or even for a match being postponed by a few days, simply doesn’t stack up. Push this too far and the club will quickly conclude that printed programmes are better consigned to history.

And let’s be honest, does anyone truly believe the manager’s notes, at any club, are actually written by the manager?
 
Jonny G said:
If they're printing the programmes that early then probably best for them not to do one (or me to buy one) any longer. Either do it properly or don't do it at all.
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The programme is a waste of money anyway.

It’s full of sound bites and is basically written by the the Chris Williams replacement, oh and every other page is an advert.

I gave up buying a programme many moons ago, instead I use that money to buy 50:50 tickets from Sue in the quadrangle.
 
Fair points back and I guess I was aware of this already, but I'm so, so pissed off with the leadership team of our club that I was just using this as another stick to beat them with. I should be in a better mood this morning, but someone mentioned Boris and Chris Williams so it's actually only added to my anger and frustration thinking of decent, experienced, professional people (and also 'one of us') who've left the club recently. Cheers for pointing out me being an mardy, unreasonable numpty guys... and I mean that as a dig at myself, not you lot! ;)
 
I'm not a programme collector, but know that in the ancient past when a match gets called off and the programme shredded, they can become pretty rare and valuable.

Here it's not that the game was called off, just that a page or two of ghost-written manager notes had the "wrong" manager.

I can't think of recent examples, but I think for rearranged fixtures I've been to, the club (home or away) has just reused the original programme, maybe with an updated squad list as an insert.
 
oxfordkits said:
And let’s be honest, does anyone truly believe the manager’s notes, at any club, are actually written by the manager?
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I occasionally used to watch Exeter City back in the 80s and I remember their manager, Colin Appleton, used to write his own notes. They were basically a complete mish-mash of unintelligible nonsense, full of spelling and grammatical errors, and basically him spreading self-propaganda. From memory, I don't think they even referenced the game they were supposed to be about. Let the press office take care of that sort of thing - they're only there for the people that can't be arsed listening to post-match interviews anyway
 
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