Bowyer said over and over again that he didn't think there was a CB available who would make us better and that he didn't want an untested loan either. He said he thought Gunter and Pratley were both good there. This was done to death at the time and brought up when people wanted LB out.
There was money available because we've spent it every window.
Sandgaard appoints experienced football man Ged Roddy - people lose their mind about unproven conspiracy theories over his role and blame him for our impending relegation for signing useless players. Except people are now falling over themselves to praise Dobson and Clare - turns out the signings weren't the problem at all. Though now that the players look good I'm sure Roddy will have had nothing to do with signing them on here. There are complaints that Sandgaard needs a stronger link in England considering he spends most of his time abroad.
Sandgaard sends his son over to create a stronger link in England - people complain that we haven't put an experienced football man in that role and, incredibly, compare Sandgaard to Roland. I would wager a lot of these people are the same people who somehow managed to find fault in Sandgaard's Fill The Valley initiative, committing the crime of filling the seats that would otherwise have been empty (the bastard), resulting in the team being roared on to a win over the team top of the league and a million photos and comments online about how great it is to see The Valley full again.
I know that we're all very hyper-aware of things now that we've had so many bad owners in a row, but the negativity that greets every decision made by an owner that actually wants to do right by us is astonishing.
He did not buy the Valley or training ground leaving us at the mercy of the mad Belgian. We did not get a centre back in January and our defence was terrible for months, costing us a playoff place. Our recruitment was way too slow in the Summer. We are lacking a natural goalscorer.
Good intentions are not enough in business
We are in a minority here because we are winning matches. But you are spot on mate.
So you are blaming TS and not the people who’s job it actually was?
Staggering that you are attaching blame to the fact that he was unable to buy the ground and training ground.
Particularly as it had put off previous potential buyers from getting involved. We’re very lucky he bought the club without acquiring it’s only really valuable asset.
Bowyer said over and over again that he didn't think there was a CB available who would make us better and that he didn't want an untested loan either. He said he thought Gunter and Pratley were both good there. This was done to death at the time and brought up when people wanted LB out.
There was money available because we've spent it every window.
To be fair, Bows was absolutely right about Gunter.
Hate to be the fence sitter, but I can see the Brentford/Airman line and I can see the KB little sis line as well.
For me, we’re scarred bunch of fans after Dutchatelet and Southall. We’ve had 2 shitbags as owners and we’re on alert when it comes to all things custodian when it comes to this club. I don’t think this has been helped by the last few months, and to an extent, TS’ mantra/personality.
Perhaps Airman has a closer knowledge of what goes on re: internal structure and quite rightly has his doubts and sees areas where improvement can be made. I would also argue that he had a role in club operations at one point, so knows what it’s like to work in an operational role, will have good insight.
where I do think we need to check ourselves a tad is digging in at every single comment made by TS/action taken. I think there’s been a bit of bad advice somewhere that has lead to where we have found ourselves, but I can’t see the benefit of overanalysing every single TS snippet.
I think he has the best interests of the club at heart, and I think some of the communication he’s got from our fan base in the last few months re: stuff isn’t the most sensible way to go about engaging him.
It’s not ideal he doesn’t own The Valley or Sparrows Lane, but none of us are fronting a loss making entity to the extent he is.
I agree with you cabbles, good points, and I can understand both approaches. I don't think I have a problem with the digging, it's the suspicion and cynicism that comes along with it.
Spot on Cabbles, think any appointment made now that is a close friend or member of family or contract/job (or invoice) will naturally be greeted with sceptism after all that has gone before. The football alone thing alarms me, but I hope it's a bit lost in translation. Maybe he's just around to get things done more quickly with JJ,, accelerate deals during the window be it in or out and manage the wage bill which would make sense. It's just that bit of me that is saying we've been here before and it's not turned out well and I doubt I'm alone.
I'm a massive fan of Sandgaard, but think we're all a bit nervous, cos Saturday was so good and appointing someone other than JJ risks losing it all. Frankly the delay is making people nervous, and after Saturday I'm not sure what's to be gained by it. But let's not pretend that buying the stadium was a simple option, nor that we can directly link late transfers to poor start. In TS we trust, and especially in JJ.
How can a young man who had a trial with QPR and played a bit for Enfield then returned to USA for 14 years be
"a brilliant football player and read the game better than anybody, has an amazing shot and an amazing understanding of modern football"
Sorry Mr S but that is a bit of the rose coloured specs and should not colour your judgement, however what ever experience your son might or might not have I agree that it is a good idea to have his opinion on all things Charlton but please don't exaggerate his footballing ability and knowledge.
How can a young man who had a trial with QPR and played a bit for Enfield then returned to USA for 14 years be
"a brilliant football player and read the game better than anybody, has an amazing shot and an amazing understanding of modern football"
Sorry Mr S but that is a bit of the rose coloured specs and should not colour your judgement, however what ever experience your son might or might not have I agree that it is a good idea to have his opinion on all things Charlton but please don't exaggerate his footballing ability and knowledge.
Matt Southall was from South London don't you know.
Lived there for about five minutes after birth and then moved Oop north. Looked good on his CV to us fans though.
I think it's certainly enough to raise an eyebrow or two. Now we know TS is not a Southall, i.e. just trying to get cash out at every opportunity.
However my growing concern is he's more RD than could be comfortable.
I had trials in my younger years and also turned out for similar level teams to Enfield, doesn't mean I should be anywhere near the footballing side of a Professional team. It's frankly insulting if he has any involvement.
Sometimes when you are this far away, on the other side of the ocean, you feel like no-one ever listens to you and everyone goes about their business – regardless of what I tell them to do
He is entirely focused on the football side of things, not the business side of things
He’s a brilliant football player. He reads the game better than anybody. He has an amazing shot. He didn’t end up playing professional football. He got tired of it and a bit lonely in London, he ended up coming back to the United States.
He’s back now and has an amazing understanding of modern football, maybe more than traditional English football.
There's plenty there that at least gets my alarm bell out of the cupboard if not quite ringing yet.
When you assess managers you have to hold them against what is reasonable. Either in terms of points, or position in the table.
Last season I would say, and I did say often, 77-82 would have been par. Comfortable in the play offs and a bit over might have pinched 2nd. The "best team" wasn't as good as the 18/19 team but the squad was much better.
This season before a ball was kicked I said 20 less conceded, 20 more scored, 20 more points. Maybe 90 was over optimistic but I don't think 85 was.
If you look at Adkins's CV you could argue that most seasons he is +/- 5 to 10 points off par. Even at Sheffield United they had a chance at the play offs with 2 games to go.
We were on course for about 45 points. That's a massive drop. Football hasn't changed that much in the 19 months he was out of it. He isn't some sort of English Karel Fraeye. He wasn't clueless when he walked in the door, was he?
If I was Thomas I would want to seriously know why. Because its his money.
Who out of his senior team knew Adkins was the problem, and why? Who out of his senior team knew that the formation/system was the problem? Who knew that the players we signed couldn't do what ever it was they were asked to do? Did any of them tell Thomas?
If I had invested 2 or 3 million quid on fees and wages I would want a proper investigation as to what went wrong. Because something did.
One of the issues is the relationship between the manager and his assistant. Thomas is convinced that JJ is a good assistant manager and could slot back into that role. That is absolutely bull shit. There is no such thing as a good, or bad, assistant. It's how they complement the manger that counts. Clough was half the manager without Taylor, even Sir Alex wasn't as good without the right number two.
Up until very recently I was convinced that Roddy had sold Thomas a way to build some sort of talent pipeline. I am now thinking that Thomas has asked Roddy to implement it. Because that's what you do in business. No one with any involvement in senior football would think it was a good idea, because there is no president for it.
He is obviously baffled by the turn around in results since Adkins departure. Something must have been very wrong behind the scenes and I doubt he has confidence in the person who recommended Adkins
Adkins was not appointed because he was Roddy's mate. The same isn't true for the goalkeeping coach....
Lots of question that should be asked about Roddy but that isn't one of them.
I did not say that Adkins was Roddys mate in fact I didn't mention Roddy in my post
You said the person that recommended Adkins. It's often said, on here, it was Roddy, it wasnt. Just clearing it up.
so who was it?
Maybe he just applied for the job & was (in TS’s opinion) the best candidate? Strange I know, doesn’t fit any conspiracy theory 🙄🤷♀️
No conspiracy from me, I just assumed from cafc that he knew how the appointment came about as he’s so sure it wasn’t Roddy’s suggestion.
I was actually quite happy when Adkins came in and thought it was a decent appointment, obviously it didn’t work out for several reasons, some down to him and some not, I’d guess.
If that was me and I had bought a football club and they had performed as badly as we did this season under Adkins and I lived 4000 miles away and I felt I hadn’t been really kept accurately updated with what was going on, I would want to appoint someone local who could keep an eye on things. Someone I could trust. And who better than my son who I’ve already worked with in my business, has made a success of it and I trust, and someone who was available and wanted to come here. Nothing sinister in this but just understandable after what has gone on this season.
So, who hadn’t really been reporting accurately? I don’t know but maybe we’ll get more of an idea of that as time goes on. And, maybe we can infer who that is by what we know of the appointees. Now, I’m not saying that part is true but I know I would have done the same thing if I felt I needed someone here who I could trust. And that is what has happened.
I view this as a common sense appointment by our owner to someone he trusts. Let’s face it, this season was a disaster after a very good transfer window (as we are now seeing) and that would have perturbed me enough to want to do something about it so, to the best of my ability, it couldn’t happen again. I view this as a positive appointment in line with everything TS has done at our club since we first heard about him.
Sandgaard will continue to get the benefit of any doubt from me, simply because without him coming in who knows where we'd be. Personally i think we were a shit show and we are lucky he saved us.
Admittedly that doesn't give him a free pass and some of his comments about his son are a bit dubious, but let's just wait and see what happens.
The guy lives in Colorado, 7 hours time difference to London so he can't always be around for meetings etc and clearly something has happened so i don't see an issue with him wanting someone he trusts in place around the club to report back to him.
We could all be worried if he was unveiled as our new striker ! But the bloke is getting a job in a club that hopefully one day he will own why wouldnt he want to learn the trade ?
Do you think TS will be the owner for the next 20+ years?
I never really thought of that. Our previous owners over the last 15 years, usually turn up, see what the fuss is about...then piss off.
We could all be worried if he was unveiled as our new striker ! But the bloke is getting a job in a club that hopefully one day he will own why wouldnt he want to learn the trade ?
Do you think TS will be the owner for the next 20+ years?
I never really thought of that. Our previous owners over the last 15 years, usually turn up, see what the fuss is about...then piss off.
I thought TS would be here roughly 5/6 years max
And miss the opportunity of playing his guitar on the pitch at half time in the champions league semi final against Real Madrid?
We need to remember this isn’t the first time TS has been bullish with his comments and it’s unlikely to be the last. This isn’t his first language so the hyper analysis is likely to throw up the occasional “red flag” but we need to perhaps take some comments with a pinch of salt. there is probably a shed load going on behind the scenes that isn’t for general consumption and TS just wants a trusted source on site so he is comfortable with where he is currently chucking tons of money.
we are cautious because of the succession of charlatans we’ve had in the last few years but I sincerely believe Thomas wants to take us forward and we need to remember he’s wealthier and more successful than any of us on here so he’s no fool. Surely he’s earned/earning the right to make his own decisions about his investment
Thank you Cafc43 I was always of the opinion the one proven skillset GR offered was his ability to focus on the processes of improving young sporting talent in the pursuit of sporting excellence. He got an MBE for it. He built an entire University Program across a number of sports.
It I suggest is fundamental to the football strategy TS wishes to adopt. It is not entirely unprecedented because it will share many of the same disciplines included in the Premier League EPPP designed by one GR with an extension in the sense of delivering a robust link between the Academy and the first team. Will it work? We will find out.
We now have circa 30 young professionals outside the nominated 25 player senior squad.
To those attacking GR for designing the EPPP program do you really think the power base within the PL will have entrusted him with any aspect of the financial deal between PL and EFL clubs? The finances will have been structured and managed at a Board level.
It is a perfectly logical strategy but any club must have the basic strength of infrastructure on which to implement it or at least micro manage the pace of change. We also appear to have added our own black box program. Exactly the same issues & disciplines will need to apply.
The huge issue with implementing change is you have to get people to buy into the change. In the febrile environment of the past decade in SE7 any missed step was always going to have people reaching for their mental and verbal pitchforks.
It doesn’t mean you don’t make the changes but you can’t assume people will just « get it ».
Such an approach is not necessarily among the skillsets of strategist and academics who can get very wrapped up in the beauty of their own theory. I am not sure GR specifically controlled individual recruitment more likely guided the parameters on which it was based.
Initial challenges do not necessarily indicate a flawed process more often indicating errors in the way and the pace it was implemented. A bit like a new software programme if you overload it before it has been fully stress tested it can simply fall over.
At the end of this food chain is an EFL manager trying to make it all work. Ultimately I suggest Mr Adkins despite his expérience simply couldn’t work out how to make it work.
A week before his departure NA advised TS had been very supportive.
NA is a very well qualified football professional with over 30yrs in the professional game. It can be helpful if on occasion you consider what people do not say.
Upon his departure NA will almost certainly have held an exit interview.
There were signs across the close, pre season and early season the respective football executives, despite the quality of CVs in the room, did not appear aligned
Mr Martin Sandgaard arrived at the club at the time of or soon after the senior coaching reins were handed to Jackson and Euell.
Sometimes there is simply the need of another pair of trusted eyes and ears in the room. No more no less. I suggest the reference to his football credentials, such as they are, merely reference his ability to have a grown up conversation.
The rest of the negativity listed here (ground, transfer windows, etc) has been debated and largely discredited countless times before.
However the scrutiny being levied today whilst, with past experiences, very understandable, if maintained, will ultimately prove entirely counterproductive. How many people simply turn away from such continual negative noise and in doing so turn away from the brand altogether.
Just whose interest does that serve?
Part & parcel of the predictive sometimes quite malicious hysteria so emboldened on social media, is this sense of intrusive entitlement. It will skewer the business. No business can continually operate in such an environment.
Nobody can work with somebody always looking over their shoulder evaluating every decision or line of communication. Could you? You spend more time on trying to gauge, manage reaction than actually doing your job.
The business will either cease to function properly under the weight of intrusive unrealistic expectation or become alienated to the point of simply shutting down important lines of interaction with its stakeholders. Neither will be healthy.
Based on the evidence of the pursuit of sporting excellence you have to let people run their business in their way. They will stand or fail by their overall results at which point due scrutiny is valid. They will succeed and they will fail. It is not the fail that matters. It is how you respond to that failure.
This pathetic debate over ego is nonsensical. Egos in professional football? What really? Who would have thought it? A CEO, especially in the USA, without a healthy ego is a contradiction in terms.
The negative approach is such an easy game to play.
In any given season 21 League One clubs will fail - 4 will fail badly - they will be relegated.
Charlton Athletic Football Club has largely failed for nearly 15yrs.
When you assess managers you have to hold them against what is reasonable. Either in terms of points, or position in the table.
Last season I would say, and I did say often, 77-82 would have been par. Comfortable in the play offs and a bit over might have pinched 2nd. The "best team" wasn't as good as the 18/19 team but the squad was much better.
This season before a ball was kicked I said 20 less conceded, 20 more scored, 20 more points. Maybe 90 was over optimistic but I don't think 85 was.
If you look at Adkins's CV you could argue that most seasons he is +/- 5 to 10 points off par. Even at Sheffield United they had a chance at the play offs with 2 games to go.
We were on course for about 45 points. That's a massive drop. Football hasn't changed that much in the 19 months he was out of it. He isn't some sort of English Karel Fraeye. He wasn't clueless when he walked in the door, was he?
If I was Thomas I would want to seriously know why. Because its his money.
Who out of his senior team knew Adkins was the problem, and why? Who out of his senior team knew that the formation/system was the problem? Who knew that the players we signed couldn't do what ever it was they were asked to do? Did any of them tell Thomas?
If I had invested 2 or 3 million quid on fees and wages I would want a proper investigation as to what went wrong. Because something did.
One of the issues is the relationship between the manager and his assistant. Thomas is convinced that JJ is a good assistant manager and could slot back into that role. That is absolutely bull shit. There is no such thing as a good, or bad, assistant. It's how they complement the manger that counts. Clough was half the manager without Taylor, even Sir Alex wasn't as good without the right number two.
Up until very recently I was convinced that Roddy had sold Thomas a way to build some sort of talent pipeline. I am now thinking that Thomas has asked Roddy to implement it. Because that's what you do in business. No one with any involvement in senior football would think it was a good idea, because there is no president for it.
I mean, do people really think Sandgaard has spent and is spending X million's on a football club just for Ged Roddy to play with? The way some people go on about Roddygate it's like Ged's the owner calling all the shots in the background while Sandgaard acts as a CEO putting his face to it and the fans.
Sandgaard has all the best intentions in the world for our club but he’s better off saying less than more . Of course he’d then get complaints of not informing the I need to know the ins and outs of a ducks arse crew but it’s some of the extra waffle that puts the frighteners up . Jacko could lose the next 7 and TS would be best placed with his ongoing potential recruitment of a manager . We don’t need to know there’s punters being interviewed and who they are when Jacko’s at the wheel performing miracles .
The comments regarding Martins football credentials are a little baffling,however,we must remember,TS lives 4000 miles away,runs a very successful business in the USA,has his music hobby,and no doubt a family and social life where he lives.His son coming here will take some of the pressure off of him as obviously he cannot be 100% hands on from the USA.Surely with the mount of money he is investing,he is entitled to have a trusted family member on the shop floor,I know I would.
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There was money available because we've spent it every window.
Perhaps Airman has a closer knowledge of what goes on re: internal structure and quite rightly has his doubts and sees areas where improvement can be made. I would also argue that he had a role in club operations at one point, so knows what it’s like to work in an operational role, will have good insight.
where I do think we need to check ourselves a tad is digging in at every single comment made by TS/action taken. I think there’s been a bit of bad advice somewhere that has lead to where we have found ourselves, but I can’t see the benefit of overanalysing every single TS snippet.
I think he has the best interests of the club at heart, and I think some of the communication he’s got from our fan base in the last few months re: stuff isn’t the most sensible way to go about engaging him.
Unless your names Ged.
But let's not pretend that buying the stadium was a simple option, nor that we can directly link late transfers to poor start. In TS we trust, and especially in JJ.
"a brilliant football player and read the game better than anybody, has an amazing shot and an amazing understanding of modern football"
Sorry Mr S but that is a bit of the rose coloured specs and should not colour your judgement, however what ever experience your son might or might not have I agree that it is a good idea to have his opinion on all things Charlton but please don't exaggerate his footballing ability and knowledge.
Lived there for about five minutes after birth and then moved Oop north.
Looked good on his CV to us fans though.
However my growing concern is he's more RD than could be comfortable.
I had trials in my younger years and also turned out for similar level teams to Enfield, doesn't mean I should be anywhere near the footballing side of a Professional team. It's frankly insulting if he has any involvement.
Sometimes when you are this far away, on the other side of the ocean, you feel like no-one ever listens to you and everyone goes about their business – regardless of what I tell them to do
He is entirely focused on the football side of things, not the business side of things
He’s a brilliant football player. He reads the game better than anybody. He has an amazing shot. He didn’t end up playing professional football. He got tired of it and a bit lonely in London, he ended up coming back to the United States.
He’s back now and has an amazing understanding of modern football, maybe more than traditional English football.
There's plenty there that at least gets my alarm bell out of the cupboard if not quite ringing yet.
Last season I would say, and I did say often, 77-82 would have been par. Comfortable in the play offs and a bit over might have pinched 2nd. The "best team" wasn't as good as the 18/19 team but the squad was much better.
This season before a ball was kicked I said 20 less conceded, 20 more scored, 20 more points. Maybe 90 was over optimistic but I don't think 85 was.
If you look at Adkins's CV you could argue that most seasons he is +/- 5 to 10 points off par. Even at Sheffield United they had a chance at the play offs with 2 games to go.
We were on course for about 45 points. That's a massive drop. Football hasn't changed that much in the 19 months he was out of it. He isn't some sort of English Karel Fraeye. He wasn't clueless when he walked in the door, was he?
If I was Thomas I would want to seriously know why. Because its his money.
Who out of his senior team knew Adkins was the problem, and why? Who out of his senior team knew that the formation/system was the problem? Who knew that the players we signed couldn't do what ever it was they were asked to do? Did any of them tell Thomas?
If I had invested 2 or 3 million quid on fees and wages I would want a proper investigation as to what went wrong. Because something did.
One of the issues is the relationship between the manager and his assistant. Thomas is convinced that JJ is a good assistant manager and could slot back into that role. That is absolutely bull shit. There is no such thing as a good, or bad, assistant. It's how they complement the manger that counts. Clough was half the manager without Taylor, even Sir Alex wasn't as good without the right number two.
Up until very recently I was convinced that Roddy had sold Thomas a way to build some sort of talent pipeline. I am now thinking that Thomas has asked Roddy to implement it. Because that's what you do in business. No one with any involvement in senior football would think it was a good idea, because there is no president for it.
I was actually quite happy when Adkins came in and thought it was a decent appointment, obviously it didn’t work out for several reasons, some down to him and some not, I’d guess.
Let’s face it, this season was a disaster after a very good transfer window (as we are now seeing) and that would have perturbed me enough to want to do something about it so, to the best of my ability, it couldn’t happen again. I view this as a positive appointment in line with everything TS has done at our club since we first heard about him.
Admittedly that doesn't give him a free pass and some of his comments about his son are a bit dubious, but let's just wait and see what happens.
The guy lives in Colorado, 7 hours time difference to London so he can't always be around for meetings etc and clearly something has happened so i don't see an issue with him wanting someone he trusts in place around the club to report back to him.
Do you think TS will be the owner for the next 20+ years?
I never really thought of that. Our previous owners over the last 15 years, usually turn up, see what the fuss is about...then piss off.
I thought TS would be here roughly 5/6 years max
there is probably a shed load going on behind the scenes that isn’t for general consumption and TS just wants a trusted source on site so he is comfortable with where he is currently chucking tons of money.
we are cautious because of the succession of charlatans we’ve had in the last few years but I sincerely believe Thomas wants to take us forward and we need to remember he’s wealthier and more successful than any of us on here so he’s no fool. Surely he’s earned/earning the right to make his own decisions about his investment
It I suggest is fundamental to the football strategy TS wishes to adopt. It is not entirely unprecedented because it will share many of the same disciplines included in the Premier League EPPP designed by one GR with an extension in the sense of delivering a robust link between the Academy and the first team. Will it work? We will find out.
We now have circa 30 young professionals outside the nominated 25 player senior squad.
To those attacking GR for designing the EPPP program do you really think the power base within the PL will have entrusted him with any aspect of the financial deal between PL and EFL clubs? The finances will have been structured and managed at a Board level.
It is a perfectly logical strategy but any club must have the basic strength of infrastructure on which to implement it or at least micro manage the pace of change. We also appear to have added our own black box program. Exactly the same issues & disciplines will need to apply.
The huge issue with implementing change is you have to get people to buy into the change. In the febrile environment of the past decade in SE7 any missed step was always going to have people reaching for their mental and verbal pitchforks.
It doesn’t mean you don’t make the changes but you can’t assume people will just « get it ».
Such an approach is not necessarily among the skillsets of strategist and academics who can get very wrapped up in the beauty of their own theory. I am not sure GR specifically controlled individual recruitment more likely guided the parameters on which it was based.
Initial challenges do not necessarily indicate a flawed process more often indicating errors in the way and the pace it was implemented. A bit like a new software programme if you overload it before it has been fully stress tested it can simply fall over.
At the end of this food chain is an EFL manager trying to make it all work. Ultimately I suggest Mr Adkins despite his expérience simply couldn’t work out how to make it work.
A week before his departure NA advised TS had been very supportive.
NA is a very well qualified football professional with over 30yrs in the professional game. It can be helpful if on occasion you consider what people do not say.
Upon his departure NA will almost certainly have held an exit interview.
There were signs across the close, pre season and early season the respective football executives, despite the quality of CVs in the room, did not appear aligned
Sometimes there is simply the need of another pair of trusted eyes and ears in the room. No more no less. I suggest the reference to his football credentials, such as they are, merely reference his ability to have a grown up conversation.
The rest of the negativity listed here (ground, transfer windows, etc) has been debated and largely discredited countless times before.
Just whose interest does that serve?
Part & parcel of the predictive sometimes quite malicious hysteria so emboldened on social media, is this sense of intrusive entitlement. It will skewer the business. No business can continually operate in such an environment.
Nobody can work with somebody always looking over their shoulder evaluating every decision or line of communication. Could you? You spend more time on trying to gauge, manage reaction than actually doing your job.
The business will either cease to function properly under the weight of intrusive unrealistic expectation or become alienated to the point of simply shutting down important lines of interaction with its stakeholders. Neither will be healthy.
Based on the evidence of the pursuit of sporting excellence you have to let people run their business in their way. They will stand or fail by their overall results at which point due scrutiny is valid. They will succeed and they will fail. It is not the fail that matters. It is how you respond to that failure.
This pathetic debate over ego is nonsensical. Egos in professional football? What really? Who would have thought it? A CEO, especially in the USA, without a healthy ego is a contradiction in terms.
The negative approach is such an easy game to play.
In any given season 21 League One clubs will fail - 4 will fail badly - they will be relegated.
Charlton Athletic Football Club has largely failed for nearly 15yrs.
»May the odds ever be in your favour »
Actually it's much worse than that, and should be seen as a real (unintended) insult and worry to all Charlton fans.
I’m 50/50 with this plan.
I mean, do people really think Sandgaard has spent and is spending X million's on a football club just for Ged Roddy to play with? The way some people go on about Roddygate it's like Ged's the owner calling all the shots in the background while Sandgaard acts as a CEO putting his face to it and the fans.
I expect we are in the minority though.
Of course he’d then get complaints of not informing the I need to know the ins and outs of a ducks arse crew but it’s some of the extra waffle that puts the frighteners up .
Jacko could lose the next 7 and TS would be best placed with his ongoing potential recruitment of a manager .
We don’t need to know there’s punters being interviewed and who they are when Jacko’s at the wheel performing miracles .