Deleted
Joined: January 1970
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2016 20:23:48 GMT
A good friend of mine blogged his idea of the highs of the tenure. It was a blank page ☺ I thought that summed it up pretty well i thought it gave him too much credit
|
|
|
Post by o2o2bo2ba on Feb 25, 2016 21:24:48 GMT
The man's a buffoon (NH).
I'm sure he's Gas at heart, well meaning and fair play seems to have negotiated more potential than he can deliver. . .
But... He led us up sh*t creak without a paddle and what's worse claimed our vessel was watertight.
He might know about running construction, but with running a football club I wouldn't trust him to run a bath.
|
|
Bridgeman
Alfie Biggs
Joined: May 2014
Posts: 3,549
|
Post by Bridgeman on Feb 25, 2016 21:30:32 GMT
Many people accused him of driving the club towards bankruptcy with his chasing of the court for, what he believed was a just cause. However, nobody came up with FACTS to support this and for those accusers, how do you know that the selling of the club wasn't already in his back pocket, so he may not have been risking anything at all.....maybe. My final post on this topic & then I consign it to the past a man who closed the official forumdisengaged from fans lied on radio Bristol and on two main thimgs never did the promised and regular Q&A sessions banned fans called forum opinion just internet warriors and would not engage in anyway unable to delegate unaccepting of constructive criticism never able to accept ANY fault and was the leader of the it's someone else's fault ethos 2 relegation took us out of the FL Took debt from 1 million to close to 10. Repeatedly told us that without him there would be no Rovers. Like we really needed to hear that. Pernickety and mule headed man who could not delegate and did not stop digging when the hole he started got bigger. This is is just off the top of my head. as I said. I am dome with this now. I want and need to look forward. Just the facts mam- dragnet A ridiculous, mule headed and vindictive decision, it completely summed up his attitude towards us fans. In case people have forgotten it had a membership of over 10,000 and that despite it already having been previously suspended where everyone had to rejoin again
|
|
|
Post by o2o2bo2ba on Feb 25, 2016 21:32:45 GMT
My final post on this topic & then I consign it to the past a man who closed the official forumdisengaged from fans lied on radio Bristol and on two main thimgs never did the promised and regular Q&A sessions banned fans called forum opinion just internet warriors and would not engage in anyway unable to delegate unaccepting of constructive criticism never able to accept ANY fault and was the leader of the it's someone else's fault ethos 2 relegation took us out of the FL Took debt from 1 million to close to 10. Repeatedly told us that without him there would be no Rovers. Like we really needed to hear that. Pernickety and mule headed man who could not delegate and did not stop digging when the hole he started got bigger. This is is just off the top of my head. as I said. I am dome with this now. I want and need to look forward. Just the facts mam- dragnet A ridiculous, mule headed and vindictive decision, it completely summed up his attitude towards us fans. In case people have forgotten it had a membership of over 10,000 and that despite it already having been previously suspended where everyone had to rejoin again .....not me! I never rejoined. Unacceptable, so I took my business to The Guzzler!
|
|
Deleted
Joined: January 1970
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2016 21:59:30 GMT
Only Chairman to get FULL planning permission for a NEW ground. Only Chairman to bring us D.C Only Chairman to win a judicial review. The second one is John Ward's fault, everything else that year was And the best Nick Higgs could do was say 'he has a contract' while being too preoccupied with the other consequences of failing to keep the club in the league (requirement number 1 and surely not an unreasonable ambition) to give the issue any further thought. DC and his promotion happened despite, not because of Nick Higgs. He meant well, I'm sure. Best I can do.
|
|
Deleted
Joined: January 1970
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2016 22:10:39 GMT
Many people accused him of driving the club towards bankruptcy with his chasing of the court for, what he believed was a just cause. However, nobody came up with FACTS to support this and for those accusers, how do you know that the selling of the club wasn't already in his back pocket, so he may not have been risking anything at all.....maybe.Sorry Luck and Chemistry! Our new President had already looked at clubs in Belgium, then Gillingham. I would put a £5 on it being our new Chairman heard what was going on and that is why they came to have a look. Do you honestly think that this was his plan? it makes no difference now as we have a new owner and I honestly think that the club has finally turned a corner. Timne for us all to get on now and embrace what is going on.
|
|
Deleted
Joined: January 1970
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2016 22:22:31 GMT
Fair enough, but apologists shouldn't take that as an invitation to rewrite history.
|
|
Lazza
Rod Hull
Joined: May 2014
Posts: 264
|
Post by Lazza on Feb 26, 2016 8:42:01 GMT
For me I can sum up Higgs's reign in one word that should forever haunt his time at Rovers -
WATERTIGHT
|
|
eppinggas
Administrator
Ian Alexander
Don't care
Joined: June 2014
Posts: 8,143
|
Post by eppinggas on Feb 26, 2016 9:21:53 GMT
The good person that dwells within me says that by engineering a deal that leaves us in the hands of an owner that is beyond our wildest Irene-based dreams - we are arguably in a better position than when Mr Higgs became Chairman. He is after all a Gashead and I am sure he did his best. The cynic in me thinks that this is probably the first bid that Mr Higgs received that allows him to get all his money back and can waltz off into the sunset with some credibility left in tact. (Plus all of what KP said above). As usual in life, the truth is probably out there in the middle somewhere. Hopefully this is one of the last Mr Higgs related threads. He is the past. Wael Al-Qadi is the future. Yasil Alghaz.
|
|
Igitur
Joined: June 2014
Posts: 2,294
|
Post by Igitur on Feb 26, 2016 9:43:49 GMT
I sometimes wear a tie from a visit to Hong Kong, not to be pompous, but to remind me that there are better places to be and worse places to be, as by accident not far from the glitzy parts I wandered down a street there where people were living in stacked metal cages. It's the same with chairmen, they sit on a spectrum; NH was not the best and he was not the worst. He was a supporter, illustrated how badly some successful business men are running a football club (showing how hard it may be) and was poor at communicating. The thing is he never learned from (or maybe did not acknowledge) his mistakes and became obsessed with one project, the new stadium, at the expense of the team.
I am not sad to see him go, but glad he was no Oyston. With the promotion we got our Rovers back and let's hope with Mr al Qadi we move on, although he is already reining in talk of him being a billionaire and DC has said he is not going for significant loan players (as yet).
|
|
|
Post by gasheadnaboo on Feb 26, 2016 10:57:47 GMT
Pre-Higgs era: turned a profit with club in the 3rd tier, relatively little serviceable debt. No new stadium.
Post-Higgs era: Haemorrhaged millions of pounds year on year with club in 4th tier, high interest short term loan repayment due imminently. No new stadium.
|
|
Deleted
Joined: January 1970
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2016 19:19:30 GMT
Did everything he could to try and create a new ground, hired experienced managers, and took it on the chin when events transpired against the club. IMO a good chairman. Note to self, never sip beer while reading posts on this forum. The worst chairman ever, the highs? Seeing the back of the range rover leave the car park, bye bye cowboy chancer.
|
|
|
Post by o2o2bo2ba on Feb 26, 2016 19:22:47 GMT
Did everything he could to try and create a new ground, hired experienced managers, and took it on the chin when events transpired against the club. IMO a good chairman. OMG..
|
|
Deleted
Joined: January 1970
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2016 22:31:59 GMT
Pre-Higgs era: turned a profit with club in the 3rd tier, relatively little serviceable debt. No new stadium. Post-Higgs era: Haemorrhaged millions of pounds year on year with club in 4th tier, high interest short term loan repayment due imminently. No new stadium. When did we ever turn a profit?
|
|
Deleted
Joined: January 1970
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2016 6:08:09 GMT
Pre-Higgs era: turned a profit with club in the 3rd tier, relatively little serviceable debt. No new stadium. Post-Higgs era: Haemorrhaged millions of pounds year on year with club in 4th tier, high interest short term loan repayment due imminently. No new stadium. When did we ever turn a profit? Was it year end 2007 or 2008?
|
|
|
Post by Henbury Gas on Feb 27, 2016 6:52:49 GMT
You are all misguided souls, Nick Higgs is a legend in this club
|
|
Thatslife
"Decisions are made by those who turn up"
Joined: June 2014
Posts: 669
|
Post by Thatslife on Feb 27, 2016 7:57:57 GMT
Nick made the club attractive enough that he was able to sell it. All the naysayers need to accept that BRFC still exists thanks to Nick's efforts which by itself is enough to define him as good chairman.
|
|
Rex
Predictions League
Joined: June 2014
Posts: 3,287
|
Post by Rex on Feb 27, 2016 8:10:52 GMT
Nick made the club attractive enough that he was able to sell it. All the naysayers need to accept that BRFC still exists thanks to Nick's efforts which by itself is enough to define him as good chairman. I don't doubt that NH gave it his best shot, and that- as a Rovers fan- he absolutely had the club's best interests at heart. Anyone who thinks he was a successful chairman really does need to look at the league tables of recent years, and ask themselves whether someone who preceded over the lowest points in this club's history, can really be deemed as 'a good chairman'.
As for making the club 'attractive' to sell, that really is a bit of a back handed compliment!
|
|
Bridgeman
Alfie Biggs
Joined: May 2014
Posts: 3,549
|
Post by Bridgeman on Feb 27, 2016 8:36:53 GMT
Did everything he could to try and create a new ground, hired experienced managers, and took it on the chin when events transpired against the club. IMO a good chairman. OMG.. You shouldn't be shocked, there are truely many who do actually think that, I travel with some of them in my car on match days or to away games.
|
|
|
Post by o2o2bo2ba on Feb 27, 2016 9:05:47 GMT
You shouldn't be shocked, there are truely many who do actually think that, I travel with some of them in my car on match days or to away games. There's none so blind as those whom wish to not see..
|
|