| It’s the anniversary of one of the greatest days in our history on 19:36 - Dec 5 with 427 views | BlueBadger |
| It’s the anniversary of one of the greatest days in our history on 13:09 - Dec 5 by Mullet |
Whatever happened to that guy? So confident despite being consistently wrong. |
I think he may have downvoted me.... |  |
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| It’s the anniversary of one of the greatest days in our history on 10:28 - Dec 6 with 370 views | FBI |
In the cold light of day, I was wrong...
at 13:54 6 Dec 2021
...about PC.
Keep the faith, I thought. Hang on in there.
But, over the past week, in the light of recent results and performances, I was starting to think the unthinkable and accept that he had to go. Then the board moved and fired him.
He'll go on to do well somewhere, is a decent man and it simply didn't happen for him here: sometimes it doesn't and that's true in all jobs.
So, to all the people I downvoted in the last couple of weeks, muttering about you being bellends, I'm sorry.
Unless you were actually behaving like bellends, of course. |  |
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| It’s the anniversary of one of the greatest days in our history on 11:16 - Dec 6 with 343 views | SuffolkPunchFC |
| It’s the anniversary of one of the greatest days in our history on 18:29 - Dec 5 by Churchman |
It was very odd. Ashton officially started work on June 1st. When he talks about it, he was clearly in contact with Gamechanger and O’Leary long before that so how that fitted with his job at Bristol C god only knows.
The sequence of Cook, takeover, Ashton, mass recruitment, the boot for Cook, recruitment of McKenna seemed odd at the time and still does. Not sure we will ever learn the truth of it. I can’t imagine what Reid was employed for. He seemed to just sit there like an unwanted smelly old uncle at a Christmas dinner.
Re Cook, I suspect you are right in that Ashton was not bothered as PC was toast anyway. |
It was announced in April that MA was stepping down for a new challenge.
From what I understand, Gamechanger and MA had been in discussions for some time to identify a 'struggling' English club to invest in, and take on as a long term project. Others were considered (including Sunderland from what I recall) before ITFC were chosen.
So, nothing really odd in the timing of the transition to MA - in the corporate world CEOs will often be exploring new challenges whilst in their current role. Even though Bristol announced it in April, it may have been agreed months before, but the announcement delayed to minimise disruption. |  | | |
| It’s the anniversary of one of the greatest days in our history on 13:10 - Dec 6 with 305 views | Churchman |
| It’s the anniversary of one of the greatest days in our history on 11:16 - Dec 6 by SuffolkPunchFC |
It was announced in April that MA was stepping down for a new challenge.
From what I understand, Gamechanger and MA had been in discussions for some time to identify a 'struggling' English club to invest in, and take on as a long term project. Others were considered (including Sunderland from what I recall) before ITFC were chosen.
So, nothing really odd in the timing of the transition to MA - in the corporate world CEOs will often be exploring new challenges whilst in their current role. Even though Bristol announced it in April, it may have been agreed months before, but the announcement delayed to minimise disruption. |
Regarding your last paragraph, I get that and it makes perfect sense. However the deal with Evans took something like 18 months if memory serves me right and although they’d met Ashton, was he really involved? At the time it was O’Leary that was given the credit for doing the legwork on the deal.
The NE club they were looking at was Newcastle but they got cold feet over costs involved and that a lot of the upside of buying NUFC had already been realised. Please correct me if I’m wrong!
Who knows and it really doesn’t matter. I’m interested purely from a nosey point of view. |  | | |
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