Worst BHAFC managerial decisions ever ?.

[The Peanut Roaster]

Have to call bullshit on that. Sounds like the same crap about being forced to sell the Goldstone.

Any bank would hold of for a few months to get a wedge rather than chump change in a fire sale. The excuse given is even more galling, that the club had lost a couple of directors. ie, the club was in a position to bring in a couple of moneyed people.

Doesn't mean the club would, it just means there are TWO good reasons for the bank to chill.

It wasn't as if Loydd thought he was worth much as he benched him for Tiltman, something Oxford must have clocked so offered peanuts.

After all how where Oxford able to get away with such a derisery offer? did they have the ear of the bank manager?

your continual apologist stance for Loyyd is so full of holes its unreal..

I think this was more to do with his wages than anything else.

Wasn't he on some massive appearance money?

We just couldn't pay it in the end.

 

[Fungus]

That sale was forced by the manager of Barclay's Bank in North Road

What? And the bank manager said "sell him as cheaply as possible"?

 

[murraymints4brighton]

Knight appointing Adams 2nd time round

Following on from that the sacking of Wilkins.

 

[Locky]

What is/are the worst BHAFC managerial dcisions over the decades.

I think you will be hard pressed to beat Slade dumping John Sullivan a very promising up and coming goalie who had shown great promise in his first season playing in the 1st team after nurturing him for 7 years at the club.

Can you beat this ?.

Spooky I was only talking about that yesterday.

 

[Scampi]

Please explain to me how you reduce your exposure by selling assets at 5% of there value?

Because the bank gets full benefit for the asset rather than entering into the risky business of forcing the club into administration.

 

[Gritt23]

Cattilin not signing Ian Wright but signing Steve Penney instead

It was a couple of years before Wright got himself a deal elsewhere, so he probably wasn't going to be nearly good enough when we looked at him. Whereas Penney was sheer class, and went straight into the team.

Surely, not paying Roy Keane his travel to come over for a trial ranks right up there.

 

[Ninja Elephant]

Wayne Henderson.

 

[griff9]

getting robbie savage on loan!

 

[Gwylan]

Bonking Brought Farrington for £ 80k. He also sold Dean Saunders for £ 65k.

Farrington cost £60,000. If he made the requisite number of appearances, the fee would have risen to, I think, £120,000 but he suffered a number of injuries.

My vote for worst decision would be rejecting Roy Keane - that was a shocker. I also think not paying Iwelumo's relocation expenses was pretty poor, that would have cost peanuts.

 

[seagullsoverlincoln]

Mickey Adams/Alan Cork calling Dave Cameron bloody useless, before trying to sell
him,thereby reducing his transfer value-crass lack of professionalism

Sacking Wilkins was also a piss poor decision

 

[Storer68]

What? And the bank manager said "sell him as cheaply as possible"?

No. There was as speculative enquiry from Mark Lawrenson (then manager at Oxford Utd) who was being bankrolled by Robert Maxwell. And let's not forget that during maxwell's reign they went from a two bob Third Division club to the First Division and a Wembley final (ring any bells?)

Anyway, as soom as the man from barclays was told there was an enquiry that woul bring in the cash, he told lloyd to do the deal or else he would close the Goldstone . Which as the club was being financed by a huge second mortgage taken out on the ground, would have been calamatous

 

[Storer68]

It was a couple of years before Wright got himself a deal elsewhere, so he probably wasn't going to be nearly good enough when we looked at him. Whereas Penney was sheer class, and went straight into the team.

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and was playing at the World Cup Finals within two years........

whereas ian Wright was still at Dulwich

 

[Storer68]

What? And the bank manager said "sell him as cheaply as possible"?

No. There was as speculative enquiry from Mark Lawrenson (then manager at Oxford Utd) who was being bankrolled by Robert Maxwell. And let's not forget that during maxwell's reign they went from a two bob Third Division club to the First Division and a Wembley final (ring any bells?)

Anyway, as soom as the man from barclays was told there was an enquiry that woul bring in the cash, he told lloyd to do the deal or else he would close the Goldstone . Which as the club was being financed by a huge second mortgage taken out on the ground, would have been calamatous.

I know because I asked Lloyd why we did itand that is what he told me. And I have no reason to disbeleive him

 

[Barry Izbak]

Blimey this is depressing. There are so many dreadful decisions to choose from.

Buying Mickey Thomas was one of them. What a complete arse that bloke was.
Selling Dean Saunders without a sell on clause. That was the big mistake there.

But the daddy of them all was the decision to let Stanley, Archer and that other **** in the door at the Goldstone.

 

[Storer68]

Giving Steve Foster a TEN YEAR contract, and then selling him to Villla after two and a half is quite shit............................................. providing you weren't Steve foster

 

[El Presidente]

Have to call bullshit on that. Sounds like the same crap about being forced to sell the Goldstone.

Any bank would hold of for a few months to get a wedge rather than chump change in a fire sale. The excuse given is even more galling, that the club had lost a couple of directors. ie, the club was in a position to bring in a couple of moneyed people.

Doesn't mean the club would, it just means there are TWO good reasons for the bank to chill.

It wasn't as if Loydd thought he was worth much as he benched him for Tiltman, something Oxford must have clocked so offered peanuts.

After all how where Oxford able to get away with such a derisery offer? did they have the ear of the bank manager?

your continual apologist stance for Loyyd is so full of holes its unreal..

Remind me oh scoutmaster, why did we sell the Goldstone then?

As for Saunders, I wish he had stayed, thought he was a good player, but his record (21 games in 72 matches) was hardly outstanding. He was out of contract at the end of the 1987 season so likely to go anyway.

 

[El Presidente]

No. There was as speculative enquiry from Mark Lawrenson (then manager at Oxford Utd) who was being bankrolled by Robert Maxwell. And let's not forget that during maxwell's reign they went from a two bob Third Division club to the First Division and a Wembley final (ring any bells?)

Anyway, as soom as the man from barclays was told there was an enquiry that woul bring in the cash, he told lloyd to do the deal or else he would close the Goldstone . Which as the club was being financed by a huge second mortgage taken out on the ground, would have been calamatous.

I know because I asked Lloyd why we did itand that is what he told me. And I have no reason to disbeleive him

That story stacks up with what I have heard from a source at Barclays.

 

[Storer68]

Have to call bullshit on that. Sounds like the same crap about being forced to sell the Goldstone.

Any bank would hold of for a few months to get a wedge rather than chump change in a fire sale. The excuse given is even more galling, that the club had lost a couple of directors. ie, the club was in a position to bring in a couple of moneyed people.

Doesn't mean the club would, it just means there are TWO good reasons for the bank to chill.

It wasn't as if Loydd thought he was worth much as he benched him for Tiltman, something Oxford must have clocked so offered peanuts.

After all how where Oxford able to get away with such a derisery offer? did they have the ear of the bank manager?

your continual apologist stance for Loyyd is so full of holes its unreal..

Facts are unfortunate things but here goes............................

There was as speculative enquiry from Mark Lawrenson (then manager at Oxford Utd) who was being bankrolled by Robert Maxwell. And let's not forget that during maxwell's reign they went from a two bob Third Division club to the First Division and a Wembley final (ring any bells?)

Anyway, as soom as the man from barclays was told there was an enquiry that woul bring in the cash, he told lloyd to do the deal or else he would close the Goldstone . Which as the club was being financed by a huge second mortgage taken out on the ground, would have been calamatous.

I know because I asked Lloyd why we did it and that is what he told me. And I have no reason to disbeleive him

 

[Austrian Gull]

Micky Adams' transfer dealings last summer - a not inconsiderable wedge pissed up against the wall for Livermore, Hawkins, McLeod and Virgo.

 

[FamilyGuy]

Selling Dean Saunders for £50k? Some perspective, please.

What he said!