Mr Banana
Tedious chump
If it were me asking the question, I'd bottle it immediately, thank him for everything and pipe down. But hopefully someone sturdier would ask him for assurances that he won't allow another relegation to impend.
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Watching brief can we trust Bloom and the board
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If it were me asking the question, I'd bottle it immediately, thank him for everything and pipe down. But hopefully someone sturdier would ask him for assurances that he won't allow another relegation to impend.
glasfryn
cleaning up cat sick
sorry I got it wrong
will be putting things right soon
they are after all helping keep the club going
Fair enough. Personally I don't think I need an apology from Tony Bloom though. On balance he's done more for the club than I have
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
It was giving BERK too much power that has put us in such a RAPID decline so Bloom can't be TRUSTED till he ADMITS he was wrong and PUBICALLY apologises on the pitch at the AMEX to everyone
RexCathedra
Aurea Mediocritas
So TB announces "I simply will not allow another relegation struggle, not on my watch."
He could say it, and mean it.
He could say it and not mean it.
And the relegation struggle will come, or won't come.
It could come independently of whatever the chairman says, or does.
A lot of football is luck, after all. Smith must score.
So comes another relegation battle, or the actual drop itself. Then what?
At what point do the boycotts start? When do the pitch invasions start?
I'm charitably assuming the anger and disappointment on here is real.
That it's qualitatively different than the usual closed-season grousing.
I certainly got that impression during the late fall and winter when Hyypiä's fate was being weight.
People have to think these things out, through, to the end.
The only reason the club still exists is because people 15 years ago, or more, thought things through.
B.W.
New member
- Jul 5, 2003
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That makes 2 of us! ;-)
B.W.
New member
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Fairy Nuff... but are you questioning Tony's commitment, or his decision making?
glasfryn
cleaning up cat sick
if he is a thinking man which I think he is they are one and the same
I am not having a dig at what he has done for the club which is immense, he has just taken his eye of the ball, I am trying here to be less disrespectful than a lot of others on here, I admire the bloke for what he has done, I would just like him to get back into the game
Megazone
On his last warning
A penny for a poor man is a pound for a rich man.
But saying that, Fatboy slim has given loads to the club. Must be the greatest fan we've ever had?
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neilbard
Hedging up
- Oct 8, 2013
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If only you'd said Crown Ground, Accrington.
The only direction my club is going is backwards, and FAST.
neilbard
Hedging up
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Not sure he's done anymore for the club than you or I have!
Megazone
On his last warning
The richer the more passionate according to El presidente.
Lucky Bloom came from a millionaire background. Fruit machines my arse.
neilbard
Hedging up
- Oct 8, 2013
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Touché Mr Bloom has of course done a lot for the club in the way of finances but without the supporters the club would not exist today!
Megazone
On his last warning
To be fair though. What Dick Knight achieved with the little resources we had, is more incredible and just as much of an achievement.
Shows that money isn't always the answer to a successfully run club. We need some football brains as well as financial thinking. Bloom has been a very good financial backer but when it comes to being this 'super fan', I think some users are getting slightly star struck by him.
neilbard
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So you want Bloom, who clearly isn't up to it in your view, lacking in "football brains" and that £205m he's invested in the club is mere peanuts given he's a rich bloke, to leave the club ? Mostly on the basis, as far as i can tell, that he spent millions signed Chris O Grady and a few others last season and they couldn't find the net for toffee. That stadium, training ground, 5 consecutive seasons in the Championship, 2 play off positions, players being bought for millions, the comfy seats and rather nice pies being simply not good enough and doesn't amount to a "successfully run club" . Probably because we're all a bit bruised that the lot up the way finished 10th in the Prem and its just not fair is it ?.
After all when Dick left we were 16th in League One, had about 50p in the bank, and were asking fans to buy strikers with donations. Obviously the lifelong Albion fans with hundreds of millions knocking about that they want to fritter away on a football club grow on trees.
So then. Bloom leaves. What do you imagine would happen then ?
seagullsovergrimsby
#cpfctinpotclub
Why Wembley?
We'll have to play our home games there whilst The Amex is given a £100M revamp to increase the capacity to 75,000
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
That isn't what Megazone said. Money isn't everything, it's how it's spent.
KZNSeagull
Well-known member
The only real criticism that can be levelled at him, in my view, is that he has made 2 poor appointments - Burke and Hyypia - and perhaps some dithering over getting rid of Hyypia.
He recognises that he does not have a footballing brain himself, so he employed someone to do it for him (Burke). He trusted his judgement but this season he got burnt and Burke got the boot. He took that action that was needed. People can criticise him for that if they like, but all he has really done is backed up his staff's judgement (buying players and paying big wages to players that turned out to be poo). Re the dithering over Sami, I suspect that is another case of backing his staff as far as he could and trusting them to turn it around.
What is clear to me is that TB is someone who wants to trust his staff to run the club for him and he does not want to interfere like some Chairmen around. He will only step in when it is apparent that things have gone/are going tits up. This is what we would want isn't it, considering our past?