Scapegoat - just one name please

[Brownstuff]

Who bought them together, and sets the mandate that Paul Barber works to?

Mr Bloom obviously but I like Mr Bloom
Barber didn't have to come here, he wasn't forced to

 

[Hungry Joe]

Mr Bloom obviously but I like Mr Bloom
Barber didn't have to come here, he wasn't forced to

Wtf?

 

[Springal]

Mr Bloom obviously but I like Mr Bloom
Barber didn't have to come here, he wasn't forced to

Clearly a wind up

 

[Geestar]

Jeremy Clarkson

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

How far do you want to go back?

Mike Bamber gave the players long contracts and caved into fan pressure over Mike Bailey. He appointed Jimmy Melia, who got us to Wembley but couldn't keep a good squad from being relegated. If we'd stayed up, then who knows?

Those long contracts meant we struggled to get rid of overpaid players and eventually led to the tax bills that forced us to sell players such as Mark Beeney, and, eventually, The Goldstone.

 

[GT49er]

whoever the buck stops with
and I'm not sure who that is

I'd blame the buck, personally.

 

[Lincoln Imp]

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How far do you want to go back?

Mike Bamber gave the players long contracts and caved into fan pressure over Mike Bailey. He appointed Jimmy Melia, who got us to Wembley but couldn't keep a good squad from being relegated. If we'd stayed up, then who knows?

Those long contracts meant we struggled to get rid of overpaid players and eventually led to the tax bills that forced us to sell players such as Mark Beeney, and, eventually, The Goldstone.

Good post.

...and the sale of The Goldstone meant that the club was homeless and the team was hopeless and the balance sheets stayed red and the heroic and expensive efforts to build a new ground eventually needed an enormously rich and generous man to make come true. And hardly anyone liked to argue with the enormously rich and generous man and mistakes were made and that is why we are where we are.

 

[Worried Man Blues]

That's hind's sight

I'd blame the buck, personally.

 

[Bladders]

Gus Poyet.

Everyone knows its all his fault.

 

[happypig]

Who do I blame ? No-one.
Who is responsible ? Ultimately it has to be Tony Bloom. However, to qualify that, the fact that he's a hugely successful businessman doesn't qualify him to run a football club and his relative inexperience/naivety was shown with the appointment of Hyypia (and also with the appointment of whoever advises him); whether Hughton is a decent replacement is still to be seen, but if he keeps us up then he's achieved half of what he was appointed for.
In TB's defence, though, if I had a couple of hundred million spare then I would sink it into my football club and I would expect to be in charge; I still would't know as much as some on here though.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Apologies then if I came across badly!

You didn't come across badly! I took it as "banter".

 

[goldstone]

Hyppia

 

[Kosmonaut]

It's me, sorry guys.

 

[Yoda]

Burke. Over the course of two summers, was allowed to dismantle our playoff reaching squads whilst we were manager-less, and replaced them with turd.

 

[ThePompousPaladin]

Bloom.

The buck stops with him, but our present situation isn't all bad..

 

[sydney]

The Palace Kitman

yep...or whoever the shitter was...!! could have saved a lot of acrimony and upheaval by publicly stating it was his poo all over the floor...!!

 

[Justice]

The Palace coach driver who shit himself like a big baby and couldn't wipe his own arse.

 

[Megazone]

yep...or whoever the shitter was...!! could have saved a lot of acrimony and upheaval by publicly stating it was his poo all over the floor...!!

Easier said than done.

Hi Mr/Mrs Cleaner, erm I err, well I've, basically, hhmm, just been into erh emm, the toilet and I erh well erm........

 

[Change at Barnham]

Poyet. If he could have controlled his ego and not behaved like a prick we could have all still been friends. Reached a ceiling? He hasn't even got a job now. He's become a footballing equivalent of cricket's Chris Adams.

 

[mistahclarke]

Virgil van Dijk