| Did anyone realise how bad we were run? 10:18 - Jul 3 with 5223 views | MidlandBlue25 |
We are a world away to what we were under Marcus Evans. But did anyone truly realise how bad we were run at the time? I knew we were poorly run but it's not since the new ownership have come in have I realised the extent.
In what, 14 years at the club we heard Marcus Evans' voice once, and that was a club media interview with planned answers. |  | | |  |
| Did anyone realise how bad we were run? on 12:47 - Jul 3 with 736 views | OldFart71 |
Abraham Lincoln "You can't fool all of the people all of the time" Well Evans did. How many of us after his initial spending fell into the trap of believing that when approaching a new season "Marcus has money available for players" Yes there were times when decent players were brought in, there were times when had players been brought in we may have reached the Premier League. But as we know there were times players were sold and either nobody came in to replace them or lesser quality was bought and players with no real enthusiasm but just to top up their pension fund. But as the Rolling Stones once sang "It's all over now" | | | |
| Did anyone realise how bad we were run? on 12:48 - Jul 3 with 735 views | RegencyBlue |
| Did anyone realise how bad we were run? on 11:45 - Jul 3 by HighgateBlue |
Absolutely.
The previous regime had put us in administration. The Club literally went bust. We had to sell homegrown talent and Club legends at cut price fees just to survive.
Then Evans comes along. Nobody has ever put more of their own money into our club. He could have insisted on much of it back. He did not, and yet he is vilified.
I would add that the consensus amongst fans was positive for each and every manager appointment under Evans (despite the fact that many ended up performing very badly), which is far from the case as a matter of course at most other clubs.
We absolutely weren't run well under Evans, that's clear. And at present, pretty much every element of the club is much much improved, not just on the pitch. But if Keane had turned out to be Kieran McKenna, things would have been very different. The most significant thing ME did wrong was not to have better luck with managers whilst he was still substantially funding the Club. |
I’m not having that!
Sheepshanks made serious errors in running the club, which have impacted on it for years. I’ve been as critical of him as I have of Evans but have never doubted Sheepshanks had the best interests of the club at heart. Evans however is completely different
Evans was a wide boy chancer who thought he saw a way to make a fast buck out of a football club, any football club. His lack of real interest in the club could not have been made clearer than by his appointment of Clegg to run it, a man with no background in football whatsoever but who, through his connections with the British Olympic Committee, would enable Evans to get his hands on London 2012 tickets for his ‘other activities’. Anyone who doesn’t think that was the case, just check how long Clegg lasted after London 2012!
After Evans initial plan failed miserably he didn’t have a clue what to do and was allowing the club to slowly die on on its feet. He created an environment where any manager was ultimately going to fail because the financial support, infrastructure and support staff being provided became wholly inadequate.
He gets a lot of credit for writing off the clubs debt when he sold it but what choice did he have? Nobody was going to buy it saddled with that amount of debt on paper, particularly bearing in mind the amount of investment required on top to put right everything which had been allowed to rot. There literally was no other option for him.
Evans was on the verge of doing irreparable damage to the club. Quite why some people cannot see that I really don’t know. |  | | |
| Did anyone realise how bad we were run? on 12:55 - Jul 3 with 707 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Did anyone realise how bad we were run? on 12:48 - Jul 3 by RegencyBlue |
I’m not having that!
Sheepshanks made serious errors in running the club, which have impacted on it for years. I’ve been as critical of him as I have of Evans but have never doubted Sheepshanks had the best interests of the club at heart. Evans however is completely different
Evans was a wide boy chancer who thought he saw a way to make a fast buck out of a football club, any football club. His lack of real interest in the club could not have been made clearer than by his appointment of Clegg to run it, a man with no background in football whatsoever but who, through his connections with the British Olympic Committee, would enable Evans to get his hands on London 2012 tickets for his ‘other activities’. Anyone who doesn’t think that was the case, just check how long Clegg lasted after London 2012!
After Evans initial plan failed miserably he didn’t have a clue what to do and was allowing the club to slowly die on on its feet. He created an environment where any manager was ultimately going to fail because the financial support, infrastructure and support staff being provided became wholly inadequate.
He gets a lot of credit for writing off the clubs debt when he sold it but what choice did he have? Nobody was going to buy it saddled with that amount of debt on paper, particularly bearing in mind the amount of investment required on top to put right everything which had been allowed to rot. There literally was no other option for him.
Evans was on the verge of doing irreparable damage to the club. Quite why some people cannot see that I really don’t know. |
Also, administration came because of a collapse in tv finances, PLUS there was no such thing as a parachute payment back then. I bet all clubs who have recently come down from the prem, if there were no parachute payments what would happen to their clubs. |  |
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| Did anyone realise how bad we were run? on 13:00 - Jul 3 with 690 views | StirlingArcher |
| Did anyone realise how bad we were run? on 10:23 - Jul 3 by davblue |
It was pretty obvious, I remember saying it before it totally went to the dirt that we were very poorly run and got shut down with he’s keeping the club afloat.
The only place we were heading under Evans was league 2 eventually. He might have saved us but as an owner of the club he was about as bad as you good get without being a crackpot owner. |
you realise the first two aren't mutually exclusive?
you can be poorly run whilst (somehow) being kept afloat |  | | |
| Did anyone realise how bad we were run? on 13:01 - Jul 3 with 689 views | Stewart27 |
| Did anyone realise how bad we were run? on 11:45 - Jul 3 by HighgateBlue |
Absolutely.
The previous regime had put us in administration. The Club literally went bust. We had to sell homegrown talent and Club legends at cut price fees just to survive.
Then Evans comes along. Nobody has ever put more of their own money into our club. He could have insisted on much of it back. He did not, and yet he is vilified.
I would add that the consensus amongst fans was positive for each and every manager appointment under Evans (despite the fact that many ended up performing very badly), which is far from the case as a matter of course at most other clubs.
We absolutely weren't run well under Evans, that's clear. And at present, pretty much every element of the club is much much improved, not just on the pitch. But if Keane had turned out to be Kieran McKenna, things would have been very different. The most significant thing ME did wrong was not to have better luck with managers whilst he was still substantially funding the Club. |
Absolute nonsense.
There may have been bit of positivity with each manager because everybody felt that they couldn’t be any worse than the last. But they were. One after another. There may have also been a bit of positivity because the standards had sunk so low.
It wasn’t down to bad luck on Evans’ behalf. He wouldn’t have anybody with any football knowledge overseeing things. There was no governance in place at all.
I’m not going to thank him for funding the club because his quick fire shot at the premier league went tits up. He made a decision to buy a football club. | | | |
| Did anyone realise how bad we were run? on 13:07 - Jul 3 with 675 views | TractorWood |
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| Did anyone realise how bad we were run? on 13:18 - Jul 3 with 651 views | MidlandBlue25 |
| Did anyone realise how bad we were run? on 13:07 - Jul 3 by TractorWood |
Ian Milne |
Used to see him on the train to most away games. I wonder where he is now | | | |
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| Did anyone realise how bad we were run? on 14:33 - Jul 3 with 590 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
| Did anyone realise how bad we were run? on 10:44 - Jul 3 by textbackup |
Yes… but when being vocal about it the sleepy folk of Suffolk often brushed it off as a laugh.
And praised him for putting a few quid it so we’d just survive.
If he was still here, we’d be a mid table l1 team. |
"If he was still here, we’d be a mid table l1 team."
Ooof, You're giving him a lot of credit there. Mid-Table?
In League One?????? |  |
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| Did anyone realise how bad we were run? on 15:06 - Jul 3 with 559 views | MidlandBlue25 |
| Did anyone realise how bad we were run? on 14:33 - Jul 3 by Cheltenham_Blue |
"If he was still here, we’d be a mid table l1 team."
Ooof, You're giving him a lot of credit there. Mid-Table?
In League One?????? |
I think we'd be in the a similar position to Bradford in League 2 | | | |
| Did anyone realise how bad we were run? on 15:30 - Jul 3 with 540 views | MattinLondon |
| Did anyone realise how bad we were run? on 15:06 - Jul 3 by MidlandBlue25 |
I think we'd be in the a similar position to Bradford in League 2 |
With a pitch predominantly mud and a stadium capacity reduced due to health and safety concerns. |  | | |
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