Dick Knight Interview

[BigGully]

As usual. I agree with very little that you say but that's normal.

The only comment I would make is that I don't see why the board should be embarrassed by what happened with MA. They are not the first board to appoint a manager who hasn't delivered as they expected - it's happened at every club in the land. It will also happen to us again on numerous occasions in the future, regardless of who is the chairman or on the board.

That's football. It's an employment mistake that every employer has made at some time. If every club changed its chairman/board every time they got a managerial appointment wrong, football would run out of people wanting to be board members/shareholders.

Your acceptance on everything that happens, is odd, you offer very little to the debate.

You would of offered the same benign support to Archer and his cronies back in the day.

Of course the Board should feel job badly done, what else can they think, it is right that there is a level of scrutiny by its supporters.

The 'shrug of the shoulder' response whilst costing the club, probably Tony Bloom an inordinate amount of money and causing some risk to our League 1 status and the associated problems that would come with it is really deserves an opinion by you.

There is risk with any appointment, but the sacking of a manager that delivered a 7th finish last year is why many feel that the current board members are more culpable than ever.

 

[Knotty]

You would of offered the same benign support to Archer and his cronies back in the day.

That is an outrageous insult.

And just to be very petty - it is 'have offered' not 'of offered'

There are plenty of times I have disagreed with people on NSC, but have still been able to have an interesting and entertaining debate. With you that is impossible because you rely on groundless suppostion, prejudice, arrogance and cheap shots at those who disagree with you.

You will be pleased to know that I will do you the courtesy of never again replying to any of your posts.

 

[Icy Gull]

I bet Micky Adams doesn't use somebody to continually post on here for him in an attempt to discredit Dick Knight at every opportunity as a previous manager appears to be doing.

Are you suggesting that bhadeb is Wilkins bitch on NSC? or has your comment gone over my head?

 

[drew]

Neither you nor any of us knows exactly what went on and when. Everything we read on NSC chat at the moment is based on supposition, guesswork and biased agendas, one way or the other. And with little or no knowledge of the facts.

DK and the board are entitled to conduct their business as they wish. We have no part in that. We might all have an opinion on how things should be done and some will agree with DK and some won't.

So what? Like it or not, we are simply customers of a business that is entitled to conduct its private, internal affairs how it wishes. It is entitled to tell us about things happening at the club when it wishes, and as much or as little as it wishes.

I am only interested in what happens on the pitch. I don't pay my money to know exactly what happens in board meetings and who says what, and why an announcement is made an when, and why DK says "I", and who is putting most money into the club at the moment, and what Mr Bloom had for breakfast.

Some people need to get a grip on reality. It's a game of football, not World War III.

Good post

Top class posting Knotty. And to those wishing to direct their vitriol at the board generally, I say don't bite the hand that feeds you. We have seen what is essentially an unsustainable business supported by board members and major shareholders. There has been more investment in the team than any other club in League 1 during January. And finally we have a stadium being built in the midst of the most horrendous financial crisis any of us can remember. Given some of the comments posted on this and other related threads, I sometimes wonder why those who invest time and money in the club even bother.

Good post supporting another good post

I bet Micky Adams doesn't use somebody to continually post on here for him in an attempt to discredit Dick Knight at every opportunity as a previous manager appears to be doing.

Why not come out and make the accusation. Name the person you think is the mouthpiece for a previous manager (presumably Wilkins).


With regard to the debate, I didn't hear the interview but thought that DK had said that he did not go to sack MA but that further support would be difficult if we didn't get a result on Saturday. It may well be that Adams felt he couldn't continue. He could have left and claimed constructive dismissal but DK and/or the board agreed a compensation package to call it 'Mutual consent'. However, whatever it was, I won't be losing any sleep over it. As Knotty said, the board can run the business how they like, it's mostly their money, and we are just customers.

 

[Storer68]

Could be that during the meeting they both came to the view that there was no piont flogging a dead horse (ie Adams staying) and it was best to put it out of its misery quickly,

especially if Knight could not bring the support of Tony Bloom and his "investment" to the meeting

 

[pishhead]

Is there any way to listen back to the phone-in or this interview with knight?
Or is that too much to ask from our friends at SCR

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Why would MA have any inclination to have any anti-Knight feelings, anyway ?

He got employed by maybe the only club that thought he was employable, has been given lots of money to spend on his players, had Naylor and DK in his back pocket and failed miserably.

There will be no whispering campaign about him losing the dressing room, Naylor will not trawl up past and current players to try to discredit him, because DK, Naylor, Harty, LB and others that were so keen on MA's appointment, irrespective of logic, have no wish to find them.

No need for a shameful character assasination on MA as was with Wilkins, it would be further proof that they got it all wrong and thats makes them feel a wee bit embarrassed at present.

Since you seem to have given me a walk-on part in this post, can I make it clear (again) that I never claimed that Wilkins had "lost the dressing room".

As far as I can see, MA hadn't lost the dressing room either.

Both managers lost the support of the Board. That's why they went.

 

[Dorset Seagull]

Is there any way to listen back to the phone-in or this interview with knight?
Or is that too much to ask from our friends at SCR

It is on the BBC sport website if you go to the Brighton page

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

It is on the BBC sport website if you go to the Brighton page

Whereabouts? I can't find it

 

[Lord Bracknell]

BBC SPORT | Football | My Club | B | Brighton | Brighton part company with Adams

Whether it's available outside the UK is for Cadiz Seagull to discover.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Since you seem to have given me a walk-on part in this post

Thats right LB , tell him that you're not doing panto again

 

[Brovion]

Why would MA have any inclination to have any anti-Knight feelings, anyway ?

He got employed by maybe the only club that thought he was employable, has been given lots of money to spend on his players, had Naylor and DK in his back pocket and failed miserably.

There will be no whispering campaign about him losing the dressing room, Naylor will not trawl up past and current players to try to discredit him, because DK, Naylor, Harty, LB and others that were so keen on MA's appointment, irrespective of logic, have no wish to find them.

No need for a shameful character assasination on MA as was with Wilkins, it would be further proof that they got it all wrong and thats makes them feel a wee bit embarrassed at present.

Blimey, I agreed with cjd yesterday and today I find myself reading one of your posts and agreeing with every word.

Spot on. Superb analysis.

 

[El Presidente]

Blimey, I agreed with cjd yesterday and today I find myself reading one of your posts and agreeing with every word.

Spot on. Superb analysis.

Can't say I agree. Lord B gave me his assessment of what happened with DW last year, and it was objective and analytical, there was no opinion or enthusiasm in respect of appointing MA.

Some people seem to be huge DW fans, some are big MA fans, I just follow the Albion.

Six promotions (1977, 1979, 1988, 2002, 2003, 2005)
Five relegations (1983, 1987, 1996, 2004, 2007)

I'm sure there will be plenty of both in the future, but I wouldn't trade it for anything.

 

[Easy 10]

We were relegated in 1992 as well.
S'alright though, I try to block these memories out as well.

 

[Brovion]

Can't say I agree. Lord B gave me his assessment of what happened with DW last year, and it was objective and analytical, there was no opinion or enthusiasm in respect of appointing MA.

Some people seem to be huge DW fans, some are big MA fans, I just follow the Albion.

Six promotions (1977, 1979, 1988, 2002, 2003, 2005)
Five relegations (1983, 1987, 1996, 2004, 2007)

I'm sure there will be plenty of both in the future, but I wouldn't trade it for anything.

I just follow the Albion too, and I've been happy to be a humble footsoldier in the battles to get rid of Archer and get Falmer.

However it doesn't alter the fact that the decision to sack Wilkins was disgraceful, cowardly and premature. To then compound it by appointing the Alan Mullery de nos jours beggared belief. Because I WAS by nature loyal towards Knight and the Board I hoped against hope that it would be successful, and like everybody I'm sad that it didn't work out. However I'm also pissed off and angry because the whole thing was oh-so-avoidable. Now I find myself far more in in the cjd/BigGully/bhadeb camp than I have in the past; I think the club is an incompetently-run shambles from top to bottom and it's not just the team management that needs overhauling - the sooner Knight stands down as chairman the better.

Anyway that's me done. I'm not really interested in who said what to who, like you I'm just a fan.

 

[Dorset Seagull]

I heard in the press recently that DW would have gone even if we had been promoted as apparently DK said it was a non footballing issue...of course I stand to be corrected as it is probably only gossip

 

[BigGully]

That is an outrageous insult.

And just to be very petty - it is 'have offered' not 'of offered'

There are plenty of times I have disagreed with people on NSC, but have still been able to have an interesting and entertaining debate. With you that is impossible because you rely on groundless suppostion, prejudice, arrogance and cheap shots at those who disagree with you.

You will be pleased to know that I will do you the courtesy of never again replying to any of your posts.

Dont now be so sanctimonious it is your normal view to offer unstinting support of any actions taken by the Board, just because they can.

Whats so outrageous about allowing the Board at the time doing what they were legally and commercially entitled to do ?

You repeat time and again that we are mere customers and we have no right to know, express a firm view of the actions of those that hold the power and nor should we expect any transparency, its their business isnt it Knotty ?

So please dont now say you are outraged that your benign views are sometimes addressed by me and others.

Yes it was petty, but well .........

 

[Lord Bracknell]

I heard in the press recently that DW would have gone even if we had been promoted as apparently DK said it was a non footballing issue...of course I stand to be corrected as it is probably only gossip

No. It was a statement by DK at the pre-season Fans' Forum.

 

[El Presidente]

We were relegated in 1992 as well.
S'alright though, I try to block these memories out as well.

I forgot, busy getting married that month!

 

[BigGully]

Since you seem to have given me a walk-on part in this post, can I make it clear (again) that I never claimed that Wilkins had "lost the dressing room".

As far as I can see, MA hadn't lost the dressing room either.

Both managers lost the support of the Board. That's why they went.

One lost the support of DK whilst winning, the other lost the support of the Board ( not DK ) whilst failing miserably.

The common denominator who seems to have got it wrong again and again to the detrimant of the club is ........ well its there if you look hard enough, it really is !!

I will not trawl your previous posts, but you have offered not just the January events, but also offered 'other things you heard' that you willingly posted.

You didnt tell us what, but felt on this information that Wilkins probably had to go, funny that.

You and others failed to hear anything from within the club whilst Adams was taking us near to relegation, not because it wasn't there but you were all unwilling to look !!!

It would undermine your views that you have clung on to for so long.

It wasn't reasonable to sack Wilkins after finishing 7th and bring in a minor celebrity to appease the locals.

The dynamics of football just dont work like that, DK, Naylor, Harty and yes you LB have been found out.

Walk on part, never, you might have had a leading part in this shameful character assasination of Wilkins !!