Should Knight Resign?

[withdeanwombat]

Perhaps that nice Mr Archer could make a return?

 

[webbyson]

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Looks like you are on your own there, Webbyson.

No no no i dont want him out...........far from it, i think he is the ONLY man for the job.........but others on here do so i will leave it up to you to do your research and lets OUT THEM

 

[webbyson]

I can honestly say I don't think I've read more than 3 people on here saying DK should go. Could you tell me where you see others calling for his head?

Who are the Dickout three .......i know one and he is a good mate of mine. I am sure when he reads this he will out himself

 

[Blackadder]

No no no i dont want him out...........far from it, i think he is the ONLY man for the job.........but others on here do so i will leave it up to you to do your research and lets OUT THEM

Fair enough. From your original post starting with "What a load of Crap" I took you as a detractor.

2 want him to go now.!

 

[Silent Bob]

Leave the club completely, probably not. Resign as chairman, maybe. The monumental cock up made in the spring has to call his judgement into question. He may say it was a board decision (even though apparently it's all down to him that we've had Zamora, Knight, Forster and Murray) but as Chairman he has to bear the responsibility, that's sort of the point!

I think the whole idea that this club is a house of cards only held in place by Knight is slightly ridiculous. If he decided he wanted out would the rest of the board just down tools? He's not the biggest financial backer of the club by any means even now.

 

[Horney]

DK should stay - even if he has made one of the biggest blunders in his 11yr stewardship of the club. As stated previously, he deserves to be at the helm when Falmer is ready. The next 12 months are going to be very tricky for him, though...how does he come to terms with the fact that on the field we are sliding downhill fast. That the man he brought in to steer the good ship BHA upwards is achieving just the opposite.
Anticipation is giving way to apathy and disillusionment....a lot of fans will take a lot of persuading that MA is the right man for the job.

 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

Once again there's been more than the usual childish hysteria surrounding both the manager and the Chairman on this board. Let's get one thing straight: If anyone seriously thinks Dick Knight is about to resign, with the building work at Falmer about to start after the longest campaign ever to get a new stadium, they are an idiot. Irrespective of what you think about the sacking of Wilkins and the appointment of Adams, the Chairman has more than earned the right to take his seat at Falmer in charge of the club.

 

[Notters]

NO!

Are there a queue of people lining up to take over from him that I haven't noticed?

 

[cjd]

NO!

Are there a queue of people lining up to take over from him that I haven't noticed?

If there were a queue of people lining up to take over............would that alter the poll results...?

 

[Silent Bob]

I'm sure if Mr. Knight did decide to resign at least one member of the board would be happy to step in as chairman. Hasn't Derek Chapman, for one, said before that he'd like to be chairman one day?

 

[webbyson]

Once again there's been more than the usual childish hysteria surrounding both the manager and the Chairman on this board. Let's get one thing straight: If anyone seriously thinks Dick Knight is about to resign, with the building work at Falmer about to start after the longest campaign ever to get a new stadium, they are an idiot. Irrespective of what you think about the sacking of Wilkins and the appointment of Adams, the Chairman has more than earned the right to take his seat at Falmer in charge of the club.

Very well put Sir...............I wish i had posted that

 

[Knotty]

I'm sure if Mr. Knight did decide to resign at least one member of the board would be happy to step in as chairman. Hasn't Derek Chapman, for one, said before that he'd like to be chairman one day?

So another director would run the club better than DK?

Which of them has a better idea of how to run the footballing side?

 

[Silent Bob]

So another director would run the club better than DK?

Which of them has a better idea of how to run the footballing side?

Obviously they are all very successful businessmen, I'm sure if Dick Knight decided to resign that one of the could step in without the club immediately imploding.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

I'm sure if Mr. Knight did decide to resign at least one member of the board would be happy to step in as chairman. Hasn't Derek Chapman, for one, said before that he'd like to be chairman one day?

He said he wouldn't mind buying the club!

Ask millionaire property developer Derek Chapman which project he’s most proud of and a cheeky smile will cross his face. “Well, the New England site by Brighton station is quite sexy, isn’t it? Lots of concrete. I’m a bit sad, really. I love concrete.” A self-described “concretehugger”, it’s no wonder Derek is so fond of the stuff – he’s made a fortune out of it. Making a success of things seems to be
a bit of a Chapman speciality. Though his education went no further than secondary school, Derek is clearly one step ahead of the game.

He set up construction fi rm Adenstar in 1985, and is now Managing Director of the
company, which he estimates makes £30 million a year. It’s quite hard to walk around Brighton and its surrounds without passing something that Adenstar has
built: Shoreham Power Station, the oncology unit at the Royal Sussex County Hospital and the controversial New England development (the “sexy station
site”) are all Adenstar contracts. The company receives consistent praise, and is often singled out both for its high standard of workmanship and its ability to complete projects within budget and deadline. British Airways and Barratt Homes have both written glowing reports of Adenstar, and the fi rm has received numerous awards, including the unglamorous but worthy 2003 British Parking Awards. The Marina development was
especially fun for Derek. In 2000,
the project won the record for the
biggest continuous concrete pour
in Brighton & Hove. The pour
took from 7.30am to 6pm, needed
111 deliveries and laid 660m3 of
concrete – pretty impressive for a
day’s work.
But asides from concrete, Derek’s
abiding passion is football. And
football, for a loyal Brighton boy,
means only one thing: Brighton &
Hove Albion.
“I love football and I’ve supported
the team since I was a kid. It’s
a tragedy what’s happened to
the team over the years. If I had
had enough money at the time, I
would have bought them. In fact,
I’d buy them now if I could.”
For most people, the idea of
buying their favourite football
team would be pie in the sky, but
for Derek, it’s a reality. He bought
a 13% stake in Brighton & Hove
Albion for £500 000 and is also a
Director of the club.
Derek is fi rmly in favour of a
permanent home for the team in
Falmer. He lives only one mile
away from the proposed site and
does not have much time for its
critics. Immediately after Deputy
Prime Minister John Prescott’s
decision in favour of the Falmer
development, Derek was quoted
in The Guardian unrepentantly
announcing that, “the objectors
can hug trees and wear green
wellies all they want. We’ve won
and they don’t like it.”
But, as any Albion fan will know,
winning hasn’t been quite that
simple. The opponents to the
Falmer site have continued
to fi ght against the stadium
even after Prescott’s decision.
Derek has always been very
personally involved in the battle,
and in 2003 he publicly burnt
his council tax bill as a protest
against what he saw as the
excessive amount of taxpayers’
money that Falmer Parish
Council were spending to fi ght
the development of the stadium.
Derek also got drawn into the
battle that raged after Prescott’s
decision. Days after the Falmer
go-ahead was given on 17
October 2005, the Deputy PM
attended a game at the Withdean
ground against his own home
team of Hull. After the match,
his decision to accept hospitality
from the club’s directors
prompted something of an
outcry. In the midst of all that
it emerged that Prescott had, in
2003 (while planning permission
was still being considered),
opened Adenstar’s new Portslade
offi ces. Norman Baker, the
Liberal Democrat MP for Lewes
and a major opponent of the
Falmer site, seized on this. He
described Prescott’s conduct as
“indefensible” and suggested that
he could no longer be considered
impartial, a claim that Prescott’s
offi ce contested.
Unsurprisingly, Derek is not a big
fan of environmentalists.
“I don’t mind green space,” he
explains. “I quite like seeing
a tree in a concrete tub. But
when I fl y out in my helicopter
and look down at all that green,
I just think, ‘we could build
on that’. That would show the
environmentalists. It’s just
selfi sh, isn’t it, all those people
with houses who don’t want
anymore built. It’s alright for
them. They’ve got somewhere to
live. They just want to keep the
prices high. I haven’t got time for
thinking like that. The football
team is vital for the spirit of this
town. It should be a priority in
people’s minds.”
Apart from the fight to save
the Seagulls, Derek likes
nothing better than a day out
flying his helicopter. “Actually,
the thing I’m proudest of is
learning to fly that helicopter.
For someone who only went to
secondary school, I think that’s
pretty good going. It took me
about a year to learn, and I
think the person who taught
me was more scared than I
was. It takes 45 minutes to get
to France, but the best thing
about it is I can watch the
football!”
Derek was born and bred in
Brighton, and despite years
working overseas in far-fl ung
locations such as Saudi Arabia,
Australia and the West Indies,
would never think of living
anywhere else. “It’s where you
come back to, isn’t it? I think
only failures leave. If you’ve
made a success of things, why
would you want to go?”
Despite his own success, he
has no ambitions for his two
children, Elizabeth and George,
to follow him into the trade. “I
don’t think it’s right, frankly,
for people to get a place in a
company just because they’ve
got the same last name as the
director,” he explains. And as
far as his personal ambitions
go, he confesses that he
wouldn’t mind leaving the
building business altogether
someday.
“It’s football I really love. Buying Brighton & Hove Albion? I wouldn’t mind doing that one day.”
It might be bad news for the environmentalists, but no doubt Brighton & Hove’s football fans would rejoice.


Apologies for the format. It is a cut and paste from adobe and I can't be arsed to sort it out. I don't know whether it adds anything to the debate, I am still working my way through the thread.

http://www.insightcity.co.uk/icn/pdf/icn_13-03-06.pdf

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[SICKASAGULL]

Dick Knight should have stepped down when the board could not afford to buy the striker we required to save us from being relegated from the Championship, at that time we would have been a prime club to be taken over, now it is probably too late.

 

[Knotty]

Dick Knight should have stepped down when the board could not afford to buy the striker we required to save us from being relegated from the Championship, at that time we would have been a prime club to be taken over, now it is probably too late.

If the board could not afford it, why should only DK have stepped down? Why not all of them.

Why were we a prime club to be taken over? Struggling in the Championship and no permission for a new ground. Where was that mythical person who had millions to spend on buying us? And why us and not many other clubs who were (and are) more attractive prospects than us?

So a new striker would have guaranteed survival would he?

I'm sorry but every word of your post is nonsense.

 

[Knotty]

Obviously they are all very successful businessmen, I'm sure if Dick Knight decided to resign that one of the could step in without the club immediately imploding.

I still don't understand. The board has been responsible for running the club, so why do you think that DK should go, but one of the others would be OK?

 

[Barnham Seagull]

No, but take a back seat.

His arrogance has held us back in the last few years.

 

[Knotty]

No, but take a back seat.

His arrogance has held us back in the last few years.

What arrogance? Have you been present at board meetings etc so you have seen evidence of that?

If the arrogance that you obviously know about had not been there, what would have been different?

 

[Barnham Seagull]

His inabillity to conduct contract negotiations, and the sacking of Wilkins.

People close to the club I have met and spoken to speak of his arrogance.