[Albion] New Club Statement on OS

[Acker79]

The club wouldn't have had to release this statement, if the LMA had not released their statement last night. However, the LMA would not have released their statement last night if the club hadn't released such a needlessly antagonistic statement yesterday.

 

[pork pie]

I think it's time we parted company with both Barber and Gus. This whole episode has been handled appallingly.

On what basis do you make such a stupid statement? It looks to be handled very well from what I can see. It will not rumble on for years like Charlton and Curbs.

 

[JCL - the new kid in town]

You are not really a fan of our club, are you? Your position on this is so twisted you can no longer see straight. Remove your head from Gus' backside. There, now you can see much more clearly.

I'm glad you appreciate the art of irony

 

[B.W.]

Members of the LMA, football managers, regularly meet for conferences and dinners and suffice to say this mess will be discussed - with Gus Poyet in attendance - and I suspect practically every other manager serving in this country will be on his side, rather than ours.

Getting on the LMA's bad books will not do the club any favours considering it consists of many of the most important people in English football.

Again, you ASSUME Gus is innocent, that the club are in the wrong, or why would the entire football management community automatically side with him? Step 1 Engage brain. Step 2 Post.

 

[Max Paper]

Might worm the cat

 

[Acker79]

Again, you ASSUME Gus is innocent, that the club are in the wrong, or why would the entire football management community automatically side with him? Step 1 Engage brain. Step 2 Post.

Innocent until proven guilty?

 

[B.W.]

How is being short changed an appropriate analogy ? For the record I'd just ask for the correct change. I wouldn't issue a willy waving press statement.

Limp.

 

[Sloughseagull]

This is now bordering stupidity. Gus Poyet has shown his true colours and the club have done themselves no favours by dragging themselves into a bottomless Pitt with this unbelievable he said she said crap! All we will we be remembered for is this pile of shite that we have managed to drag that good for nothing LMA into. All the hard work of putting the club, the new ground and more importantly the 25k season ticket holders onto the footballing map has, in my opinion, has gone to waste! FFS, sort it out and either sack him or shut up and get the 2013/14 season started!

 

[B.W.]

It's not really advisable to release a statement in response. Any adviser worth their salt would have told them that they don't have to. The objective here is not responding to the LMA, it is in dealing with the situation with regards to Gus.

... which in turn means putting the record straight regarding the LMA's statement.

 

[METALMICKY]

I think this dispute needs to be settled Harry Hill style......FIIIIIIIIGHT!

 

[brakespear]

Jesus H Christ on a bike.

Moronic. Posturing. Arrogant. Threatening. Self-important. Embarrassing.

Utterly, utterly pathetic.

I hate to say it but that's kind if how I feel too

 

[B.W.]

I don't think anyone who's out of work would refuse a job: poor old Steve Gritt was desperate enough to take the Worst Job In Football in order to pay the mortgage and who could blame him for that.

But that's not the point: If a club acquires a reputation for having a litigious, slighly unhinged and prickly David Brent as chief exec, some managers who would be excellent for us on the pitch might steer a bit clear for that reason.

No. This is nonsense. The football world will look at the outcome of the suspension. If Gus is found to be guilty, the club, by extension were correct to suspend, investigate, dismiss, so the club's reputation will not suffer BUT Gus' and the LMA's standing will suffer.

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

This is now bordering stupidity. Gus Poyet has shown his true colours and the club have done themselves no favours by dragging themselves into a bottomless Pitt with this unbelievable he said she said crap! All we will we be remembered for is this pile of shite that we have managed to drag that good for nothing LMA into. All the hard work of putting the club, the new ground and more importantly the 25k season ticket holders onto the footballing map has, in my opinion, has gone to waste! FFS, sort it out and either sack him or shut up and get the 2013/14 season started!

Sorry, but can't agree with that.

Once this is sorted,and it will be, we move on.

The club don't want to waste money on compensation, and would rather spend the money on players, and reducing the debt.

Bloom delivered Falmer, for that he has my complete support.

 

[JCL - the new kid in town]

Innocent until proven guilty?

That doesn't seem to exist here on NSC

 

[Sloughseagull]

Sorry, but can't agree with that.

Once this is sorted,and it will be, we move on.

The club don't want to waste money on compensation, and would rather spend the money on players, and reducing the debt.

Bloom delivered Falmer, for that he has my complete support.

I was blaming the LMA and GP not the Club, it needs to be resolved and GP has no future now, we need to resolve and move on. The LMA are a waste of time and have no respect for the fans and their club. I totally 100% support TB and this club.

 

[B.W.]

You do seem to have a big heart. I'm frustrated more than stressed. I'm mainly frustrated by how many people on here seem to be criticising the club, mostly seemingly because they've decided to dislike Barber, and defend a man who has shown the club we all love such disrespect. I'm not going to make comments on details I don't know, and it is possible Poyet has a decent case to defend, but I fully trust that those running our club are acting in our interests. It's a no-brainer; a lifelong fan who has sunk a personal fortune into providing us with a club, a stadium and an academy we can all be proud of vs an ambitious, egocentric manager who's main interest is himself and his career above all else. Wake up people!

This. With bells on. Well said.

 

[ROSM]

It's put the record straight from the club's perspective. Although many seem to have swallowed the LMA's propaganda hook, line and sinker.

So lets look at the chronology:

Club sources leak last Thursday that a meeting will take place on Friday. Same club sources brief on Friday that meeting not happening as gus hasn't turned up.

Turns put he's on holiday and no meeting was due to take place.

Monday, club issues what can at best be described as an inflamatory statement. Lma so upset by what they see as an inaccurate and unfair statement they respond and selectively address points.

Tuesday, club so upset by lma statement it issues a further statement saying lma statement is unfair and inaccurate and then raise the anti by saying they reserve their right to take action against lma. Note the club (unlike the lma statement) doesn't raise any specifics that are unfair or inaccurate. Was it all of it or part of it? How important was the 'part'?

Am I the only one here who thinks that this isn't fulfilling what a good comms strategy normally sets out to achieve? Assuming we have one here.

 

[Bladders]

The LMA are a union and like most unions will say anything that suits their agenda, they do not really have anything to lose in this if you really think about it.

The club however do and I just find it hard to believe they would go through all this unless they felt it was 100% water tight.

Hope I'm proved right in the end, I really do.

 

[B.W.]

The lawyers' pockets, surely? This is a concern, especially as we were told we are already losing £8m a year. How much will it cost us? Surely the threat by the club to take on the LMA too is very foolish.

Not if the case against the LMA is good.

 

[Rookie]

If they lose it on a point of law it goes to an Employment Appeal Tribunal, then to the Court of Appeal, then to the House of Lords and finally, in 2019, to the European Court. Like I've said before on other threads, employment law is a lawyers playground these days. The moral of this tale? Settle via a Confidentiality Agreement ASAP.

Supreme Court

(Sorry very petty but written it enough today so one more time felt right!)