Watching brief can we trust Bloom and the board

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

Just watched the second Brighton born centre half get promoted to the prem in the space of 3 weeks.
We're certainly helping others to be "premier league ready."

 

[ofco8]

Well, I hope the board have been watching closely these past few weeks.

Bournemouth with gates of 12k have glided past us to the promised land on a modest budget but well chosen players, including ex Albion..

Norwich have invested wisely and also got there even with a relatively new manager.

We are excited that we are going to make a couple of million by Leicester and Sunderland staying up, yet Palace, who won by a flukey result yesterday, got an extra £4m.prize money for rising just two places in the League.

Proper investment in quality players who attack and score goals on a very regular basis is the only answer as the way out of this League. Simple isn't it?.

 

[Ernest]

Why didn't we go for Alex Neill instead of Mr DULLARD ?

 

[J2 DOG]

Just watched the second Brighton born centre half get promoted to the prem in the space of 3 weeks.
We're certainly helping others to be "premier league ready."

Feeder club for everyone at the moment! Even looking at todays game,Martin,Johnson,Clayton,Grabban, all links with us. It seems we do all the ground work but fail to back it up.! Becoming a bit of a pattern. This happened in the Withdean days, and we blamed it on a lack of resources,there is no worthy excuses now! ****ing joke, sort it out!

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

Feeder club for everyone at the moment! Even looking at todays game,Martin,Johnson,Clayton,Grabban, all links with us. It seems we do all the ground work but fail to back it up.! Becoming a bit of a pattern. This happened in the Withdean days, and we blamed it on a lack of resources,there is no worthy excuses now! ****ing joke, sort it out!

This is going to happen again and again until we get REAL football people involved.

 

[J2 DOG]

Well, I hope the board have been watching closely these past few weeks.

Bournemouth with gates of 12k have glided past us to the promised land on a modest budget but well chosen players, including ex Albion..

Norwich have invested wisely and also got there even with a relatively new manager.

We are excited that we are going to make a couple of million by Leicester and Sunderland staying up, yet Palace, who won by a flukey result yesterday, got an extra £4m.prize money for rising just two places in the League.

Proper investment in quality players who attack and score goals on a very regular basis is the only answer as the way out of this League. Simple isn't it?.

This! Mr Bloom needs to wake up and show some bollox!

 

[Icy Gull]

This is going to happen again and again until we get REAL football people involved.

20,000 plus season ticket holders will be taking the pressure off and comfort the board that they have the fans backing for the way they are going about things

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

20,000 plus season ticket holders will be taking the pressure off and comfort the board that they have the fans backing for the way they are going about things

The true test will be next season when the 1901ers are up for renewal.

 

[chaileyjem]

Proper investment in quality players who attack and score goals on a very regular basis is the only answer as the way out of this League. Simple isn't it?.

So how come all that investment in players by Blackburn (41 goals from their 2 strikers), but not so much spending from Ipswich but goalscoring strikers nonetheless (27 goals from Murphy), and Derby (Martin 18 goals, Bent 10 goals in 15 appearances) or come to that matter Brentford, Boro with their goal scoring records this season didn't make it then ?

Is the "wise" investment by Norwich somehow related to that £19m they received in parachute payments this season.

 

[chaileyjem]

This is going to happen again and again until we get REAL football people involved.

Stephen Fry is on the Norwich board. Is he the REAL football person that would transform our fortunes. ?

 

[glasfryn]

20,000 plus season ticket holders will be taking the pressure off and comfort the board that they have the fans backing for the way they are going about things

not if we have another season like the last
they will have taken the fans for granted just once to often
they need to keep their eye on the ball

 

[Icy Gull]

So how come all that investment in players by Blackburn (41 goals from their 2 strikers), but not so much spending from Ipswich but goalscoring strikers nonetheless (27 goals from Murphy), and Derby (Martin 18 goals, Bent 10 goals in 15 appearances) or come to that matter Brentford, Boro with their goal scoring records this season didn't make it then ?

Is the "wise" investment by Norwich somehow related to that £19m they received in parachute payments this season and the similar amount in 2013/14 ?

I think you'll find Norwich got relegated last season so didn't have any parachute payments last year, they had much more!

Looking at those goal scoring figures of other teams, how the hell did we stay up with our 5 goal strike force?

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

Stephen Fry is on the Norwich board. Is he the REAL football person that would transform our fortunes. ?

No,but neither is the Peter Mandelson character we've got whispering in Blooms ear telling him "don't worry about the team,have a look at these carpet swatches" he's not gonna help either,I just wish he'd **** off out of our club.

 

[glasfryn]

So how come all that investment in players by Blackburn (41 goals from their 2 strikers), but not so much spending from Ipswich but goalscoring strikers nonetheless (27 goals from Murphy), and Derby (Martin 18 goals, Bent 10 goals in 15 appearances) or come to that matter Brentford, Boro with their goal scoring records this season didn't make it then ?

Is the "wise" investment by Norwich somehow related to that £19m they received in parachute payments this season and the similar amount in 2013/14 ?

but they had to get there in the first place to get those parachute payments ..............someone gambled as they did on their present manager

 

[glasfryn]

No,but neither is the Peter Mandelson character we've got whispering in Blooms ear telling him "don't worry about the team,have a look at these carpet swatches" he's not gonna help either,I just wish he'd **** off out of our club.

 

[chaileyjem]

I think you'll find Norwich got relegated last season so didn't have any parachute payments last year, they had much more!

Looking at those goal scoring figures of other teams, how the hell did we stay up with our 5 goal strike force?

Ha. Yes. Norwich not short of a few bob. Correct.

 

[Diego Napier]

Norwich have invested wisely and also got there even with a relatively new manager.

Norwich probably had the best squad in the Championship thanks to the fact that they retained most of their good players when they were relegated. They're returning to the Premier league thanks to, not because of, the new manager. They had a great start to the season but were sliding rapidly down the division until Alex Neil arrived.

The right manager is the more critical part of the equation; Bournemouth achieved promotion with a great manager and a run-of-the-mill squad, Norwich are promoted with a great manager who turned a very good squad around.

 

[chaileyjem]

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but they had to get there in the first place to get those parachute payments ..............someone gambled as they did on their present manager

If gambling by spending heavily to get to the Prem League is the answer then Isn't Bloom's £205m so far and due to increase heavily again next season quite a gamble ? Or does the fact that he gambled by spending heavily on Baldock and Holla and Stockdale last season and it didn't come off not count ?

 

[B.W.]

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 ?

I really like this post CJ. Really makes the key points extremely well.

 

[B.W.]

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?

Well said.