Baryy Lloyd Bankrupt

[The Birdman]

Mike Bailey wasn't the worst manager ever either.

Highest position the club ever reached by the seagulls maybe it wasn't pretty football but we needed to survive.i liked Mike Bailey.

 

[ewe2]

Sold Dean Saunders and said Richard Tiltman was better? I rest my case. .

The sale of Saunders was forced upon him.Tiltman was not a sucess,however taken over the Lloyd period IMO there were more pluses than minuses.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Sold Dean Saunders and said Richard Tiltman was better? I rest my case. .

Was forced to sell Saunders as the bank was looking to foreclose of the club's debts. [MENTION=561]Insider[/MENTION] I did an intrerview with him for Scars and Stripes fanzine, and he was a genuinely nice and humble guy. He was royally shafted by the board and circumstances. Whilst he was manager I was too naive to realise that.

 

[TheFatBallBoy]

Perhaps a benefit game at the Amex given what he did for the club over the years is in order.

I'll start the benefit auction £5.50 for tiltman

 

[otk]

'Supposedly' is always a good word for 'I love gossip and haven't really got a clue', dontcha think?

Read it in one of GN's autobiographies as it happens. He might have made it up of course...

 

[TheFatBallBoy]

Was forced to sell Saunders as the bank was looking to foreclose of the club's debts. [MENTION=561]Insider[/MENTION] I did an intrerview with him for Scars and Stripes fanzine, and he was a genuinely nice and humble guy. He was royally shafted by the board and circumstances. Whilst he was manager I was too naive to realise that.

but could only get 60k,oxford expected to pay more and with the left over cash they bought martin foyle

However Foyle missed out on the celebrations, as he was transferred to Oxford United on 26 March 1987 for a fee of £140,000.

BARRY LLOYD total spend was in the region of 800k Could have had 13 Dean Saunders and change left over.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

but could only get 60k,oxford expected to pay more and with the left over cash they bought martin foyle

However Foyle missed out on the celebrations, as he was transferred to Oxford United on 26 March 1987 for a fee of £140,000.

BARRY LLOYD total spend was in the region of 800k Could have had 13 Dean Saunders and change left over.

That is Paul Barber's fault

 

[Peter Grummit]

I was no big fan of Barry Lloyds but in retrospect he did a good job in difficult times with very limited resources. Mike Small was one of the best signings, in value for money terms, we have ever made and Johnny Byrne not far behind. He had no charisma in interviews and that didn't endear him to the faithfull used to Mullers' bullish utterings.

The story about him reimbursing junior players who had monies stolen is to his huge credit. Sounds like he could do with some reciprocation.

PG

 

[rool]

BARRY LLOYD total spend was in the region of 800k Could have had 13 Dean Saunders and change left over.

That's a lot of cock

 

[footychick]

Barry Lloyd was the manager when I regularly went to matches, oh the memories.

 

[Easy 10]

Does anyone else remember that TOE-CURLING interview he gave on Coast to Coast after signing Gotsmanov ?

Interviewer: "Does he speak any english ?"
Baz: "He doesn't speak ANY english !" (manic laughter)..."but then he's russian, so we don't speak to them anyway DO WE !" (continues laughing long and hard, to complete silence on the other side of the microphone).

I died a little bit inside watching that. But looking back, I have a lot of respect for what he achieved at the club, considering the CARNAGE that was going on behind the scenes back then.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Always a lot of revisionist thinking but the size of the gates tell you what the crowds thought of lloyd and his football. Stabbed mullers in the back to get the job in the first place and nobody shed any tears when he was sacked

I once had this conversation with John Vinnicombe ( I used to play cricket with his son and grandson) and John was a firm believer that LLoyd was approached without the knowledge of Mullery and was a stool pidgeon for their attempts to control the business the way they wanted. Certainly events in the future proved that there was a master plan to capitalise on an expensive piece of real estate in a prime position in Hove.

barry once told me the story of Saunders who he was told in no uncertain terms to stop playing as he was approaching a bonus threshold and also they were in negotiation to sell him behind lloyds back and were paranoid he would get injured

I agree with the comment about the football and size of crowds though

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Probably playing a fairy every Xmas in a nativity play in Weymouth or Whitby

It was Whitstable last xmas.

 

[Socialist Sid]

I once had this conversation with John Vinnicombe ( I used to play cricket with his son and grandson) and John was a firm believer that LLoyd was approached without the knowledge of Mullery and was a stool pidgeon for their attempts to control the business the way they wanted. Certainly events in the future proved that there was a master plan to capitalise on an expensive piece of real estate in a prime position in Hove.

barry once told me the story of Saunders who he was told in no uncertain terms to stop playing as he was approaching a bonus threshold and also they were in negotiation to sell him behind lloyds back and were paranoid he would get injured

I agree with the comment about the football and size of crowds though

I was also told that under those circumstances that we did well to get 60k for him because we would have got rid for nothing.

 

[Ernest]

The thing with saunders always puzzled me as we picked him up for nowt as swansea didnt want him so he can't have been on mega wages. Mysterious how this story as evolved over the years.