Is it time for Dick Knight to go ?

[Herr Tubthumper]

The Chairman is a member of the Board of Directors. So who would replace him?

This is the choice:-

Ray Bloom, Derek Chapman, Martin Perry, Robert Comer.

Chapman would be a disaster.

 

[Giraffe]

The Chairman is a member of the Board of Directors. So who would replace him?

This is the choice:-

Ray Bloom, Derek Chapman, Martin Perry, Robert Comer.

There is a much longer list of shareholders.

 

[cjd]

The Chairman is a member of the Board of Directors. So who would replace him?

This is the choice:-

Ray Bloom, Derek Chapman, Martin Perry, Robert Comer.

It,s worrying isn't it.....?

Not exactly brimming with money and experience, that board.

 

[The Large One]

There is a much longer list of shareholders.

But none of them are board members.

 

[The Large One]

It,s worrying isn't it.....?

Not exactly brimming with money and experience, that board.

Oh, I don't know. Chapman and Perry have been on the board for eleven years. Bloom has been on the board for about 20? 25? years.

 

[The Large One]

Chapman would be a disaster.

Chapman (a) doesn't want it and (b) hasn't got time for it.

 

[Giraffe]

But none of them are board members.

Thats irrelevant. It's only a bit of paper that needs to be filed to make them so. Often shareholders are directors in all but name only.

 

[cjd]

Oh, I don't know. Chapman and Perry have been on the board for eleven years. Bloom has been on the board for about 20? 25? years.

The number of a board members, who have money AND experience is somewhat lacking on that board.

 

[The Large One]

Thats irrelevant. It's only a bit of paper that needs to be filed to make them so. Often shareholders are directors in all but name only.

Irrelevant? How can you be Chairman of the Board when you're not on the Board?

Who else would you propose? Norman Cook (who doesn't want to be on the board)? Tony Bloom (who isn't allowed on the board)? One of the 1% shareholders?

 

[The Large One]

The number of a board members, who have money AND experience is somewhat lacking on that board.

True - but that's always been the case since 1997 - and long before that.

 

[Finchley Seagull]

Before all the lickers and bobble hats start their whining, 'he saved the club' 'who will take over ?' bollocks, if Dick Tight got hit by a bus tonight someone would have to take over so is it time for Dick Tight to sling his hook ?

That has to be the most ridiculous thing I have heard even from you. Falmer is just about to start and this would be the worst time for Dick Knight to leave. But while we are at it, he did 'save the club' and 'who is going to take over'? You moan about people saying these things but never have an answer to them.

Finally, out of interest, how is the part about getting hit by a bus in anyway relevant?

 

[blue and white army]

As far as I'm concerned he should be immune from criticism he SAVED this club but you just get a load of ignorant plastics calling for his head

 

[BensGrandad]

People are forgetting that there are people associated with the club who have a lot of money and sound business experience that could easily be placed on the board if needed, but I do not believe that now is the time. Let DK have his glory day opening Falmer and then quietly slip into retirement as Life President.

 

[cjd]

True - but that's always been the case since 1997 - and long before that.

I agree........but it would be better for the club, if we had more Directors who had money AND experience on the board.

It would be quite easy, I imagine, with such a "small" number of Directors, to avoid enrolling another Director on the board, who may possibly have very different ideas to the present board , on how to be successful.

 

[Acker79]

I can, however, abbreviate your post into one short requirement:

You are looking for a man who can run a football club that has thousands of fans, about whom not one single rumour will start after he makes a decision that one of said fans disagrees with.

So the nature of your wish list is based on rumour?

No. Ignoring the 'no smoke without fire' cliche...

You asked what I want from a chairman, that is what I want from a chairman. I'm not saying Dick Knight doesn't fulfil some of the criteria.

I'm not, as you so defensively seem to assume, using my list of criteria as a dig at Knight. I haven't said I want him gone, I'm just listing what I want from a chairman.

The only thing on my list that was intended as a dig at anyone was the one about continuing to prove he deserves the props, and that was intended as a dig at the fans whose only argument in support of Dick Knight is "he saved the club, if it weren't for him we wouldn't be here".

You haven't answered why I'm wrong to want those attributes or given examples of how Dick Knight fills them (if you can). Are they not good attributes to want in a chairman? Do you not want a manager who gets the best player even if it means taking a knock to his ego or dealing with agents? Do you not want a chairman that constantly gives us a reason to celebrate him? Do you not want a chairman who keeps successful managers at the club?


If Wilkins' firing is personal and DW doesn't want it known he should come out and explain that (i.e. say something like "Dean wasn't fired for football reasons, he was a very good manager, who was successful, but due to personal reason could not continue at the club")

 

[NMH]

This 'circling of the vultures' recurs with boring regularity and predictability.

And I thought Ernest was getting somewhat interesting and thoughtful lately - now belied by this sort of thread.

If the big picture is crossing anyone's thoughts, then look back and think;
DK took the club away from the filthy thieving bastards, with a mountain to climb, preserving a homeless club keep it on the sporting map and see it through to the vital victorious end.
His work is still under way, still as required and intended, but not yet a job completed. Would he be asked to partially complete the quest - then stop short and walk away when the tunnel widens and the light is bigger than ever at the end?

If anything, the current situation on the pitch underlines the reason why the affairs cannot be any better left with the people he knows and is surrounded by on the board - and no more safe in the hands of any strangers, outsiders.

Yes, the board must stand up and be counted for their seemingly selfish reaction to Dean Wilkins' work managing the first-team players. He didn't get their endorsement when it was needed and requested. Now, the costs could be that much greater for having been shunned last season.

Stay he will, and I would expect him to face the situation now - even at a loss of.... something. It's a test, but no-one said it was going to be easy.

 

[NMH]

I agree........but it would be better for the club, if we had more Directors who had money AND experience on the board.

It would be quite easy, I imagine, with such a "small" number of Directors, to avoid enrolling another Director on the board, who may possibly have very different ideas to the present board , on how to be successful.

No-one needs to join the board based on their bank-account. Money can only spoil things, and often it does. Decisions are tainted by it - and that's not what is required right now; decisions based on who puts what money in.
If anything needs to happen with the boardroom, it ought to be divorced from personals, and with the bearable lightness of being in the best interests of the fans and players, of the fare on that pitch.
What's in the heart of the Albion player, is of more concern imho. How to get any player wearing that shirt fully committed to only one thing - winning - is of the utmost importance.

 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

Anyone who wants Knight out are absolute morons.Nothing else to say.Yes he has made mistakes but doesn't warrant him going.I hope he remains chairman untill his last breath.Unless of course he decides to step aside for a richer man to take control.

Nail on head.

 

[El Presidente]

Anyone who wants Knight out are absolute morons.Nothing else to say.Yes he has made mistakes but doesn't warrant him going.I hope he remains chairman untill his last breath.Unless of course he decides to step aside for a richer man to take control.

Algie in 'come back Bill Archer' plea sensation

 

[NMH]

If Wilkins' firing is personal and DW doesn't want it known he should come out and explain that (i.e. say something like "Dean wasn't fired for football reasons, he was a very good manager, who was successful, but due to personal reason could not continue at the club")

Erm..... with all due respect, how much more revealing would that be?
It says absolutely nothing to me, reveals zero, zilch, great big zip-ola.