Good post on pinkun

Yellowhammer wrote:

The NCFC board has had plenty of time to get it right, but they have made huge mistakes ever since they first arrived:

1. Sacked our most successful manager ever (Mike Walker) after two consecutive 5-0 home wins.

2. Failed to match the ambition of Bruch Rioch by selling Craig Bellamy

3. Appointed the awful Bryan Hamilton

4. Led the legal fiasco against the TV companies for Champoinship viewing rights, case thrown out by the Judge after five minutes

5. Failed to allocate funds to sign Dean Ashton at the beginning of our promotion season

6. After one season in the Premiership massively increased our level of debt

7. Embarrasinng the club with that famous incoherent 'Let's be 'aving you' outbusrt

8. Supported Nigel Worthington long after his sell-by-date and only released him after fan pressure

9. Failed to replace NW with a proven, experienced manager

10. Allowed two new members onto the board for the price of the interest on two million pounds while other clubs were attracting investors with millions guaranteed. Posters on here were talking about rumoured secret funds available for transfers; but in reality the money put up probably covered NCFC running costs during the close season

11. Dismissed the possibility of foreign investment without first consulting the fans.

12. Paid out the highest amount to agents and hangers-on in the Championship in the first season after relegation - proving what a soft touch the board is.

13 Allowed get-out clauses in players' contracts at too low levels.

14. Failed to allocate funds for a central defender this season

There have been some positives:

1. Signing Huckerby. Actually paid for by the fans in a special share issue

2. Acheiving promotion. For which we salute them

3. Saving us from bankruptcy. As poster have previously pointed out, Geoff Watling had a major part in this. However, praise where it is due DS & MWJ stepped up to the plate when neccessary.

So I make that 14 negatives against 3 positives. The root problem of this club is that the board are just amateurs in a professional game. They just don't have the neccessary skills to run the club.

They have rightly earned a lot of goodwill from the fans from what they have done in the past; but football moves on and NCFC has to move with it. The board are making far too many mistakes, and it is time for them to move on, too

Posted By: phrankin, Sep 3, 12:15:56