This is great stuff
Really like the thread at the moment over on News from Stuart regarding the board - very structured arguments, and not a slagging off anywhere. I was going to join in with this, but somehow my system kept me from doing it, so I'll have to raise my points here instead.
Basically, in my opinion, Ellis IS the major cause of the troubles at the moment. OK, he might have had these long term plans for us, but they do not seem to be acheivable. He's always wanted us to be one of the best in Europe, but if we can't even get into the competitions the proper way, instead of the Intertwobob Cup, then how can we? The reason we can't is because the investment, drive and enthusiasm of the board is just not forthcoming.
A case in point today concerns Glasgow Rangers. A huge team in Scotland, would probably run in the top 3 quite easily down here, but have never succeeded in Europe. The result of this is that chairman David Murray, after heavily investing in the club from his own money and from other investors, has decided, after 14 years, that a change in management direction is in order to enable the club to make the next step upwards.
This, I feel, is the right way to go. We are forever hearing that managers have been sacked because they have "Taken the club as far as they can", but you never ever have a chairman sacked, resigned, or whatever for the same reasons.
It is time for him to move on. The trouble is, who becomes the next one. Will they improve the club? Hopefully. Will they see it is a passion, or a commodity, as ENIC seem to have done with Spurs? Perhaps.
It's a worrying time, and has been for a long while now, where we've almost been there, only to be thwarted for some reason. It;s time to move on, and let someone else have a chance at running a club that will be, if we're not careful, back to the doldrums of the lower divisions.
And that frightens me more than signing John Hartson. (Still no news now, and it's been a week since I heard. Fingers crossed!)
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