Is it time for Dick Knight to go ?

[El Presidente]

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.

1. Why do the directors need to have money?
2. What do you mean by 'experience'? Running a construction company or local firm of butchers is completely different to a football club.
3. Define 'success'. Are you talking on the pitch, or off it? I would imagine that the board would be willing to talk to anyone who is willing to help subsidise the club, given that we lost £55,000 a week last season, and those losses will be greater this year. I can't imagine too many people being stupid enough to want to piss their money away on a white elephant such as the Albion.

 

[Acker79]

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.

All I've heard about the wilkins firing is that it would have happened even if we got promoted. Which suggests clandestine machinations, secret workings of mysterious secretive men running our club. It tells the players it doesn't matter how good they play, they weren't good enough. It tells the next manager their fate is entirely unrelated to how well they do with results, providing no encouragement to turn around bad runs of form.

My version reveals a respect for wilkins' accomplishments, it shows the players that their performances were respected and acknowledged and they should continue with their previous efforts, it shows the next manager that his results are important, and it shows the fans that the board are open to them, and don't want secrets, but that they are respecting DW's privacy.

 

[The Large One]

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?

One of the reasons many of those attributes haven't been answered is because of the loaded - and some of the are loaded - way they were described.

'I want a chairman who...' Fine. Many of those are reasonable attributes, and I don't disagree. They're also not particuarly pertinent in this case.

Sure, he doesn't like dealing with agents - but who does? However, in some cases, he has to, and therefore does deal with them. The club has paid out five figure sums to agents in each of the past few years, mainly because we've had to. We could have paid nothing, but then we'd not have had some of the players we do have.

Sure Dick has an ego - every chairman needs one. But I don't think it's ego that makes him not want to deal with agents. I think it's a business principle. What do agents put into they game in comparison to what they take out? Every club probably feels that way - at least every club in our poisition.

A chairman who keeps succesful managers at the club? I assume you mean Adams, Coppell, Taylor etc. Turn the question round. Why do managers want to leave? Bigger clubs, better opportunities, higher profile, better pay etc.

I also don't think Dick is resting - or has ever rested - on the laurels of being seen to have saved the club in 1997. You're right about other people defending him on that score, and that in itself would not be enough to maintain his place now, but we all know there is far more to the intervening years than that. I rarely hear him talk about Archer, Bellotti etc. He usually talks about the future - Falmer specifically.

 

[dougdeep]

83% say he should stay, Ernest misjudges the mood of the fans again.

 

[The Large One]

All I've heard about the wilkins firing is that it would have happened even if we got promoted. Which suggests clandestine machinations, secret workings of mysterious secretive men running our club. It tells the players it doesn't matter how good they play, they weren't good enough. It tells the next manager their fate is entirely unrelated to how well they do with results, providing no encouragement to turn around bad runs of form.

My version reveals a respect for wilkins' accomplishments, it shows the players that their performances were respected and acknowledged and they should continue with their previous efforts, it shows the next manager that his results are important, and it shows the fans that the board are open to them, and don't want secrets, but that they are respecting DW's privacy.

Knight confirmed that Wilkins would have been fired if we'd got promoted.

So who are these 'secretive, mysterious' men running the club - presumably aside from the directors and shareholders, all of whose names are in the public domain?

 

[Icy Gull]

We owe Knight big time and to expect him to quit before Falmer is delivered is a sign of the times and the impatience of people these days. He's made some right cock ups and faux pas over the last 10 years but the guy is only human and I, for one, do not want to take away the reflected glory he will get from the opening of Falmer. I may feel differently if he was blocking a sugar daddy taking over but as far as I am aware the queue of these waiting to take over hasn't formed yet.

*puts bobble hat, scarf, thermos and rug back, tidily, in bottom drawer until Friday*

 

[glasfryn]

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 ?

emphatic 4/1 think that answers your question

 

[Surf 'n' Turf]

The 11 who voted out, strangly enough are the same people who start stupid Adams Out polls every 5 days.

 

[supaseagull]

yes 12, no 60...Hmm it's a close one

 

[supaseagull]

The 11 who voted out, strangly enough are the same people who start stupid Adams Out polls every 5 days.

and they're all the same person, but with different usernames.

 

[Surf 'n' Turf]

and they're all the same person, but with different usernames.

Probably are.

 

[algie]

The 11 who voted out, strangly enough are the same people who start stupid Adams Out polls every 5 days.

But the current poll 83 votes out 57 votes in

Says it all really.

 

[El Presidente]

But the current poll 83 votes out 57 votes in

Says it all really.

It certainly tells us you can't add up.

 

[algie]

It certainly tells us you can't add up.

Listen curley,people are voting on that poll all the time,so of course those figures will change.Think you need to crack on with some homework.

 

[algie]

It certainly tells us you can't add up.

Just picked up on your error.I wonder if you can spot it mr Intelligent.I'll buy you a beer if you do.

 

[El Presidente]

Listen curley,people are voting on that poll all the time,so of course those figures will change.Think you need to crack on with some homework.

Well spiky, if the votes are still coming in, and CURRENTLY 63 say yes and 12 say no, then that still only adds up to 75, not the 83 that you quote.

*Unless you are in the Back to the Future car of course, and are making your post from half past four this afternoon*

 

[algie]

Spotted your error yet?

 

[El Presidente]

Just picked up on your error.I wonder if you can spot it mr Intelligent.I'll buy you a beer if you do.

Wrong smiley?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Dick Knight has surely earnt the right to lead the club into Falmer.

Beyond that, I'm pretty sure he'll be only too glad to hand over the reins to somebody who can take the club to the next level so he can enjoy the remainder of his well-earned retirement.

Personally I'll always retain total respect for the bloke. He's always got time to talk to the fans on a one-to-one basis, even if he patently has nothing to gain from the conversation, and on such occasions he tends to be OUTRAGEOUSLY indiscreet. He'll happily talk to you for half an hour, in fact he can be a bugger to shake off Got brilliant memories of him jogging along the prom to keep up with the Falmer marches, and commandeering a police car (supposedly to ask the march crowd to dispel) and using it to make yet another pro-Falmer speech. Utterly UTTERLY Top bloke IMHO

 

[algie]

posted by another member

The 11 who voted out, strangly enough are the same people who start stupid Adams Out polls every 5 days.

Read the Adams out bit?

He reckoned the 11 are the ones voting for Adams out or starting stupid polls.
I blew that theory away with those stats on the Adams out poll.
Does this make things clearer for you? Are you capable of marking homework properly? You might have problems understanding some of it

Is that one in the bin for me?