RevidgeBlue

I beg to disagree. I find it extremely odd how you are up in arms about the owners not selling BBD in the summer prior to his final season during which he contributed 14 goals and we missed out on the play offs on goal difference, yet conversely see no issue on not cashing in on Gallagher with a few months left to go on his contract after which he contributed I think the grand total of 2 League goals and we only avoided relegation on the final day.

After an absolutely atrocious season last time out, our talisman likely to depart, seemingly no money to spend and all vestiges of ambition being erased - what do people think is reasonable purely in terms of price for next year's tickets? In a hypothetical world where the main aim was to get customers through the door I'd say prices should be slashed by 50%, although that won't happen obviously. 2nd question is - what do we ACTUALLY think will happen? I'm guessing the usual price freeze for "early birds" with a price increase thereafter dressed up as some sort of .massive bargain.

Not really, it's more the fact he's one of the worst strikers ever to pull on the blue and white halves. The decision to turn down £2m from Ipswich for him and now trigger his contract extension must rank amongst the very worst decisions Venkys have made. Unless of course we've only done the latter to claw some money back on him. I doubt we'll be so lucky though. You can't succeed carrying passengers like Gallagher. If that's not obvious to the powers that be by now it never will be. It's as if they do these things to deliberately spite us.

Completely agree Parson. In fact "not very good at his job" I think is doing him somewhat of a favour. World class bullshitter, but an absolute disaster in the job, 3 strikers signed without a single goal between them, Wahlstedt, the two unprecedented transfer window cock ups, failing to tie Phillips down to a worthwhile contract, and a fairly derisory sum realised for the brilliant Adam Wharton. Says it all when he's crowing about a "record sale" on a player he inherited. Good riddance to bad rubbish. Let him go and chat **** and sell everything that moves somewhere else.

I let my season ticket lapse last season after fifty odd years of more or less continuous attendance. Broughton leaving (if indeed he has left) is a start - despite everything I would probably renew if the undertaker Waggott were to be ousted as well. Not that I expect anyone in authority at the Club to give a flying one. Just saying.

Theoretically, Broughton was in charge of footballing operations as DOF and Waggott was or is primarily in charge of the Commercial side of the operation. They've both stunk the place out.

Whenever that long awaited day finally arrives, it really can't come soon enough.

A lot of people have openly admitted they would like to see the Club relegated or in administration if it meant the end of the owners. Eustace is perceived in certain quarters as Waggott's choice and "a yes man" so I think Tyrone original comment was quite fair.

I'm not suggesting for one minute that Venky's deserve credit for employing Waggott and well you know it. As usual you're reading what I write and posting the opposite inference from the obvious one. Waggott's a blight on the Club and the fact that he's still here is on their heads. Nevertheless Waggott will presumably be working to a budget agreed before the start of every season. It will only be items over and above that budget he'll need consent for and he will have a degree of autonomy within the agreed budget. We'd do better with a decent CEO than with Waggott irrespective of budget. And yes once again the owners need to go for the benefit of Upside Down who seems to be having difficulty reading.

Yep Cheston and Waggott sat before a gullible Fans Forum and talked about raising the funding for a brand new state of the art trading complex. Don't suppose we'll ever know for certain why that scheme was shelved ( I've heard the intervention of a certain ex player was pivotal) but thank Christ it was.

Broughton's only plan seemed to be selling anyone who turned out to be decent or was potentially decent for a shit price.

See the guy who yet again doesn't read what I post properly as it doesn't suit his agenda.

Unless Broughton advised them to take £18m and they went along with it.

Never ceases to amaze me how you always stand up for Waggott. For all their faults, (and for the avoidance of doubt they need to go) the owners pay Waggott a fortune to run the Club so they don't have to micromanage every decision themselves from India. No matter what the prevailing conditions or finance or lack thereof are, we'd do better with a decent CEO in situ than Waggott.

Do we even need a DOF? Surely everyone in the game (apart from Waggott and Mowbray) know that you don't let your key assets walk away on a free. Once you've got that out of the way, If you have a good manager with an eye for a player, why do you need a DOF? Mark Hughes did all right without one.

So on what basis referring to the above would you have give given GB the job? Cutting through all the corporate bullspeak the only things I'd be interested in in a DOF is that he recruited well and put into place some things that helped the team succeed. The finer points of contractual negotiations could surely be left to the Club Secretary/CEO. If we had decent ones.

That is still a ludicrously low fee!!! We don't know for certain how desperate the owners were to sell to keep the lights on. If there was no pressure in that respect then we got absolutely shafted on the price.

In the unlikely event Waggott was shifted and someone decent half decent was brought in it would be far from immaterial. In fact I'd say it's reached the stage where it's imperative.

Couldn't agree more but that doesn't mean Broughton wasn't a disaster as well. One down - Waggott (and the owners to go) Shame JDT didn't have more competent people to support him.

I disagree. Broughton obviously couldn't spot a decent player if he tripped over one. Gestede as a former player might have a good eye for one. No guarantees of course, every appointment is a risk.

He might have a very good knowledge of the game built up through his playing career. Might not work out but Broughton had zero experience as a DOF.

Except here. Same was said about Mowbray. "But who could we possibly replace him with?"

Yeah, former footballers never succeed in management circles, good job Kenny Dalglish never gave it a go. Why the **** is anyone defending Broughton? He's brought in 3 strikers who haven't even registered a goal for the Club and Wahlstedt who looks like he won a competition out of the crowd to play a few games. Add in two unprecedented transfer window cock ups which never happened before he arrived and you have to say it's an extremely positive step he has gone.

"Footballer" makes him far more qualified than the Egg though? Irrespective of what exams the latter may have passed?

Depends if he turns out to be any good at the job. Let's face it he couldn't do any worse than the Egg. (Has he been sacked btw? I've not been on the board for a week)