Parsons OUT

[SaintsLoyal]

No CEO should survive after the worst season in the clubs history !

Hes simply not up to the job of being CEO of  PL side and we will need that even in the Championship.

 

 

 

[miserableoldgit]

I really don't think that Parsons is the main problem......

[Toussaint]

13 minutes ago, SaintsLoyal said:

No CEO should survive after the worst season in the clubs history !

Hes simply not up to the job of being CEO of  PL side and we will need that even in the Championship.

 

 

 

Saintsloyal out, embittered hate filled little hobgoblin. 

[Dark Munster]

3 hours ago, miserableoldgit said:

I really don't think that Parsons is the main problem......

True.

Ankersen out!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mboto Gorge]

Yet another laughably woeful appointment by Sport Republic, I mean who’d have thought appointing a CEO with zero football background may well prove to be a disaster. This clown should go back to focussing on manufacturing and selling hoovers, he’s sure hoovered up any last hope this clubs had whilst these idiots hold the keys to the fort.

[ApprenticeBillionaire]

What you say on here doesn't matter.

Actual match goers are giving the club a fucking standing ovation.

Imo, it's not just him. 

I want the entire rabble of SportsRepublic gone.

Just fucking sell us.

They are shambolic. Ownership cannot get any worse. 

The only worse scenario would be a Ken Anderson at Bolton type.

 

[Patches O Houlihan]

8 minutes ago, ApprenticeBillionaire said:

Ownership cannot get any worse. 

They have made some spectacular screw ups. 
 

BUT - Saints finances are in pretty good shape, they haven’t racked up a load of debt, and they have spent plenty on players (just the wrong ones at the wrong time)

You don’t have to have a long memory, or have paid much attention to other English clubs to know that it could be a lot worse.

Edited 17 hours ago by Patches O Houlihan
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[ApprenticeBillionaire]

2 minutes ago, Patches O Houlihan said:

They have made some spectacular screw ups. 
 

BUT - Saints finances are in pretty good shape, they haven’t racked up a load of debt, and they have spent plenty on players (just the wrong ones at the wrong time)

You don’t have to have a long memory, or have paid much attention to other English clubs to know that it could be a lot worse.

That's why I mentioned "Ken Anderson".

Helps to read the whole post.

[Patches O Houlihan]

Our stadium doesn’t have a stupid sponsors name.

Our kits are still broadly speaking the right colour

The owner is not involved in embarrassing business pursuits or practices 

[ApprenticeBillionaire]

9 minutes ago, Patches O Houlihan said:

Our stadium doesn’t have a stupid sponsors name.

Our kits are still broadly speaking the right colour

The owner is not involved in embarrassing business pursuits or practices 

That's my fucking point.

How are you not getting that?

I literally SAID the only worse scenario would be that situation.

Hence "Ken Anderson".

Edited 17 hours ago by ApprenticeBillionaire

[Fitzhugh Fella]

Having met the man and heard some of his/the club's plans I still have confidence the club are in the right hands. Yes huge mistakes have been made, they know that and there is a determination to get things right in the future. Parsons may not have "a football background" (although I believe he was on Woking's books when Cockerill was their manager), but he's commercially savvy, very hands on and committed to the cause.

[Patches O Houlihan]

2 hours ago, ApprenticeBillionaire said:

That's my fucking point.

How are you not getting that?

I literally SAID the only worse scenario would be that situation.

Hence "Ken Anderson".

So apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health ... what have the Romans ever done for us?

[BarberSaint]

2 hours ago, Patches O Houlihan said:

They have made some spectacular screw ups. 
 

BUT - Saints finances are in pretty good shape, they haven’t racked up a load of debt, and they have spent plenty on players (just the wrong ones at the wrong time)

You don’t have to have a long memory, or have paid much attention to other English clubs to know that it could be a lot worse.

 

 

Mmmm. That's illogical. Once upon a time there was a horse. My father is a unicorn so fairies exist is your answer.

 

If we talk about e.g. Bolton, they ended up losing money because of poor decisions. Some of that was undoubtedly due to poor recruitment which is a large cost and which ultimately leads to costs becoming difficult/impossible to manage. That we have avoided doing so thus far is in part because the way football is managed now is different, in part because we did manage to 'make' money by selling some players and are likely to do so again and because we have richer (possibly, no-one knows and/or knows where the money - most of it being 'paper money', anyway - comes from), because there are lots of fun 'accounting practices' on the go and rules that aren't fit for purpose, partly because we're only three years into SR's tenure and we did start off 'stable' (but skint) and so on. In other industries, had we bought a few million Sinclair C5s at £100,000 each and been convinced we could get a 250% mark-up on them we would have gone bust. Is Edozie good enough to be a C5? Onuachu? Archer? I suspect accounting practices will reduce any 'losses'. 

The thing you get from reading this forum is that proper research and applied knowledge on thought is severely lacking in places, at times. Not necessarily with the poster, per se, but you do see posts from people who have no knowledge, yet opine from a degree of certainty of them being so knowledgeable. Some don't. Dare I say, MLG does at least attempt to look for information and then use it.

As for Parsons, he's a businessman with a business background. In today's world that probably means he knows fuck all and has a load of soundbites to sell to the unknowing while Martin peddles his snake-oil round the corner.  So in some respects, notwithstanding FF's views above and as an historian he does pay heed to facts but I get the impression might be susceptible to a sound-bite despite his avowed cynicism, he probably has nothing to add that any other mid-level business person would i.e. he effectively follows a script and is stupid, because most business people actually are - what they do to succeed is be committed and spot opportunities (assuming they're entrepreneurial) so nothing to add at all but that's not a problem per se; he doesn't have to be a 'football person' and 'football' is now nothing but business. So you could argue that he's actually a good appointment. As for him eating humble pie after relegation (after promotion after relegation) well....

The actual point of this, rather than just unpicking others' posts, is to state that 'Yes', the ownership i.e. SR are useless and we should be rid of them.  As football is a product and becoming very Americanised, however, we are going nowhere as is the industry, as is the sport. I'd suggest that if you like football try non-league/lower leagues or accept your place in the established order and go along and clap, regardless. And be grateful for survival. 

When I put it that way, Martin Semmens appears a visionary.

[ChristopheVAFC]

Phil, I met him last year when I came to see you. A simple and nice guy from my point of view. I know that's not everything, especially in football.

Like our CEO at Valenciennes, Yohan Godin, I think your CEO is doing the best he can, but he also depends on the governance of Sport Republic. It's SR who makes the most important choices, and who also looks after the finances.

I think they're doing a good job in terms of administration and communication, but it's the sporting side of things that's not going well, and we've got the same thing here at Valenciennes.

And when it comes to managing a football club, it's the sporting side that counts the most, because if the sporting side is doing well, the rest is bound to follow suit...

[Matthew Le God]

18 hours ago, SaintsLoyal said:

No CEO should survive after the worst season in the clubs history !

Hes simply not up to the job of being CEO of  PL side and we will need that even in the Championship.

What exactly are you pinning on him that his fault rather than someone else?

[miserableoldgit]

7 hours ago, Patches O Houlihan said:

They have made some spectacular screw ups. 
 

BUT - Saints finances are in pretty good shape, they haven’t racked up a load of debt, and they have spent plenty on players (just the wrong ones at the wrong time)

You don’t have to have a long memory, or have paid much attention to other English clubs to know that it could be a lot worse.

Although he is CEO, I suspect that his decision making on the football side of things is minimal......that will be down to the SR bods. Parsons will be more responsible in making the stadium/club more profitable (Fan zones, pub etc) and dealing with the City council concerning redevelopment of the area around SMS. As has been said before, what should happen is that Parsons reports to Dragan on the financial side, and Spors on the football side. Parsons seems to be doing a decent job on the finacial stuff.

Edited 9 hours ago by miserableoldgit

[Convict Colony]

20 hours ago, SaintsLoyal said:

No CEO should survive after the worst season in the clubs history !

Hes simply not up to the job of being CEO of  PL side and we will need that even in the Championship.

 

 

 

assume he's your boss and want his job ?