ashperry83
Rickie Lambert
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Post by ashperry83 on Aug 20, 2014 5:44:25 GMT
Why feel sorry for a bloke who has cocked up at every possible point in his tenure as chairman? I hope it has caused no ill health, but beyond that I'm not gonna feel sorry for the man. He represents MY football club in a shambles of a way.
Talking about three more players and building a squad? Well if the manager you employed hadn't wasted another pre season, perhaps we would have been ready and not needed a rude awaking. After all Higgs, you PROMISED the club would be ready and not under estimate the challenge. Like you also promised a top to bottom review..
No sympathy whatsoever.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2014 6:48:04 GMT
Why feel sorry for a bloke who has cocked up at every possible point in his tenure as chairman? I hope it has caused no ill health, but beyond that I'm not gonna feel sorry for the man. He represents MY football club in a shambles of a way. Talking about three more players and building a squad? Well if the manager you employed hadn't wasted another pre season, perhaps we would have been ready and not needed a rude awaking. After all Higgs, you PROMISED the club would be ready and not under estimate the challenge. Like you also promised a top to bottom review.. No sympathy whatsoever. Nice to see yet another positive post from you "ashperry" - keep up the good work
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Post by Portishead Pirate on Aug 20, 2014 7:03:24 GMT
So do you think we've improved since Higgs took over then boner? No. But this is still an anti board forum. No, it isn't - only my opinion of course.
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ashperry83
Rickie Lambert
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Post by ashperry83 on Aug 20, 2014 7:13:41 GMT
Why feel sorry for a bloke who has cocked up at every possible point in his tenure as chairman? I hope it has caused no ill health, but beyond that I'm not gonna feel sorry for the man. He represents MY football club in a shambles of a way. Talking about three more players and building a squad? Well if the manager you employed hadn't wasted another pre season, perhaps we would have been ready and not needed a rude awaking. After all Higgs, you PROMISED the club would be ready and not under estimate the challenge. Like you also promised a top to bottom review.. No sympathy whatsoever. Nice to see yet another positive post from you "ashperry" - keep up the good work I'm beating a realist. Seriously, please enlighten me on how I can be positive in anyway about Nick Higgs tenure as club chairman? If, the UWE is delivered, then I will give him due credit. But at the moment he has been, and continues to be an absolute liability of a chairman, I don't know what he is like privately, as a person and I am not passing comment on that. But in his role at Rovers, he has talked rubbish, and made some horrendous decisions that he still has failed to put right.
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Post by casey12a on Aug 20, 2014 7:42:06 GMT
I think the "he's a Gashead" argument for Higgs just confuses things. Are people actually happy that anyone can be incompetent at their job at Rovers as long as they are a fan?
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Post by PessimistGas on Aug 20, 2014 10:18:53 GMT
Why feel sorry for a bloke who has cocked up at every possible point in his tenure as chairman? I hope it has caused no ill health, but beyond that I'm not gonna feel sorry for the man. He represents MY football club in a shambles of a way. Talking about three more players and building a squad? Well if the manager you employed hadn't wasted another pre season, perhaps we would have been ready and not needed a rude awaking. After all Higgs, you PROMISED the club would be ready and not under estimate the challenge. Like you also promised a top to bottom review.. No sympathy whatsoever. Nice to see yet another positive post from you "ashperry" - keep up the good work Maybe not positive but accurate. Are you suggesting that he isn't incompetent? What do you suggest, a slap on the back and plaudits all round for a job well done?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2014 10:27:01 GMT
Nice to see yet another positive post from you "ashperry" - keep up the good work I'm beating a realist. Seriously, please enlighten me on how I can be positive in anyway about Nick Higgs tenure as club chairman? If, the UWE is delivered, then I will give him due credit. But at the moment he has been, and continues to be an absolute liability of a chairman, I don't know what he is like privately, as a person and I am not passing comment on that. But in his role at Rovers, he has talked rubbish, and made some horrendous decisions that he still has failed to put right. You could be positive about the Money, time & effort he has put in to the club he loves for a start Yes he has failed at somethings within the club, but what football chairman has a 100% record ?? remember ony 2 or 3 clubs bet promoted every season so by your standards the rest are all failures ??
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Post by widnesgas on Aug 20, 2014 10:31:45 GMT
I'm beating a realist. Seriously, please enlighten me on how I can be positive in anyway about Nick Higgs tenure as club chairman? If, the UWE is delivered, then I will give him due credit. But at the moment he has been, and continues to be an absolute liability of a chairman, I don't know what he is like privately, as a person and I am not passing comment on that. But in his role at Rovers, he has talked rubbish, and made some horrendous decisions that he still has failed to put right. You could be positive about the Money, time & effort he has put in to the club he loves for a start Yes he has failed at somethings within the club, but what football chairman has a 100% record ?? remember ony 2 or 3 clubs bet promoted every season so by your standards the rest are all failures ?? I don't think he is saying that at all. Most of us would of been happy with a season not fighting against relegation last year. But instead we are playing and losing against part time clubs!
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kingswood Polak
Without music life would be a mistake
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Post by kingswood Polak on Aug 20, 2014 10:32:06 GMT
Why feel sorry for a bloke who has cocked up at every possible point in his tenure as chairman? I hope it has caused no ill health, but beyond that I'm not gonna feel sorry for the man. He represents MY football club in a shambles of a way. Talking about three more players and building a squad? Well if the manager you employed hadn't wasted another pre season, perhaps we would have been ready and not needed a rude awaking. After all Higgs, you PROMISED the club would be ready and not under estimate the challenge. Like you also promised a top to bottom review.. No sympathy whatsoever. Nice to see yet another positive post from you "ashperry" - keep up the good work I agree with him. Why have sympathy for a guy who had ruined us ? Also had not even bothered to be at the games because he had better stuff to do. Either do the job or sell to someone who will turn up and care.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2014 10:37:48 GMT
Nice to see yet another positive post from you "ashperry" - keep up the good work I agree with him. Why have sympathy for a guy who had ruined us ? Also had not even bothered to be at the games because he had better stuff to do. Either do the job or sell to someone who will turn up and care. Nick would never sell up unless the offer is right. What i think he may do because everybody thinks he is a poor business man is to liquidate the club and take 50% of the assets It would be a poor business decision, but a quick and easy way to get his money back. I'm sure everybody would expect him to do that because in this forums words he is crap at everything he touches
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Post by supersteve73 on Aug 20, 2014 10:38:55 GMT
Jeez he looks worse than normal in that interview. I thought he just had a holiday as well?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2014 10:45:02 GMT
Jeez he looks worse than normal in that interview. I thought he just had a holiday as well? Yes he looks ill to me - stress can do that to people even multi millionaires
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kingswood Polak
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Post by kingswood Polak on Aug 20, 2014 10:50:35 GMT
I agree with him. Why have sympathy for a guy who had ruined us ? Also had not even bothered to be at the games because he had better stuff to do. Either do the job or sell to someone who will turn up and care. Nick would never sell up unless the offer is right. What i think he may do because everybody thinks he is a poor business man is to liquidate the club and take 50% of the assets It would be a poor business decision, but a quick and easy way to get his money back. I'm sure everybody would expect him to do that because in this forums words he is crap at everything he touches He has not shown himself to be very good has he ? I won't go over old ground but the club record is there to be seen. Tells fibs too. The only reason he admitted the investor is because it was fairly common knowledge otherwise he'd have kept on denying it. No one is interested. Without us there would be no Rovers don't ya know. He has brought this upon himself and his arrogant dismissal of fans hasace him unpopular. Back him all you want but this is HIS doing and there was an obvious split with GD.
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ashperry83
Rickie Lambert
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Post by ashperry83 on Aug 20, 2014 12:03:36 GMT
I agree with him. Why have sympathy for a guy who had ruined us ? Also had not even bothered to be at the games because he had better stuff to do. Either do the job or sell to someone who will turn up and care. Nick would never sell up unless the offer is right. What i think he may do because everybody thinks he is a poor business man is to liquidate the club and take 50% of the assets It would be a poor business decision, but a quick and easy way to get his money back. I'm sure everybody would expect him to do that because in this forums words he is crap at everything he touches He is clearly a far more successful business man than most because of his history in construction and I hugely respect him for that. In that field, he has achieved far more professionally than many of us will be able to. Massive, massive respect for that. But, in this is the big by for me. A successful business man isn't nailed on to be a successful chairman. His FOOTBALLING decision making has been atrocious. His ability to manage a big company is far different to how his football club should be run. The customer base is different for a start. I said about two years ago that his focus should be solely on the UWE stadium as he is the specialist in that area. If he wanted to remain as chairman, then he should have employed someone with footballing nous as a CEO to run the daily grind.
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kingswood Polak
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Post by kingswood Polak on Aug 20, 2014 12:14:14 GMT
Nick would never sell up unless the offer is right. What i think he may do because everybody thinks he is a poor business man is to liquidate the club and take 50% of the assets It would be a poor business decision, but a quick and easy way to get his money back. I'm sure everybody would expect him to do that because in this forums words he is crap at everything he touches He is clearly a far more successful business man than most because of his history in construction and I hugely respect him for that. In that field, he has achieved far more professionally than many of us will be able to. Massive, massive respect for that. But, in this is the big by for me. A successful business man isn't nailed on to be a successful chairman. His FOOTBALLING decision making has been atrocious. His ability to manage a big company is far different to how his football club should be run. The customer base is different for a start. I said about two years ago that his focus should be solely on the UWE stadium as he is the specialist in that area. If he wanted to remain as chairman, then he should have employed someone with footballing nous as a CEO to run the daily grind. Totally agree. He is not very good at delegating for sure. To think how happy we all we after we got through the planning with BCC. I think many of is older fans will never be able to find that happiness until it is in solid form. We have had so many virtual new stadiums, it is only sensible to feel this way given the history we have on this. I wish I could genuinely not care. It sounds easy to give up but, after so any years with Rovers, it is easier said than done. I hope we are in the FL and in a stadium of our own before I croak.
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Post by mancgas has left the building on Aug 20, 2014 12:24:00 GMT
I see the phrase 'anti board forum' quite a lot on the threads on this discussion forum.
I just wonder how in the name all all things good could anyone be completely pro board, given several years of failure after failure, several years of the lowest ever league positions in the clubs history, unable to control expenses with some of the largest crowd average figures in the bottom two leagues, time and time again choosing managers let them rip the squad apart and then fund 3 year contracts for injured and unproven players.
Personally I appreciate the fact people put up hard earned cash to prop up the club, and that they are historically in the main Rovers supporters for many decades even generations. That doesnt excuse mis-management and laise faire attitudes, dismissive responses when challenged about responsibility, and to be frank piss poor planning and resulting piss poor performance
I do agree, many folks on all social media are too quick to analyse and read into words a meaning which assumes Board error/misstatement or stupidity, and yes it happens too often.
But surely to goodness that's slightly understandable given the depths we've been led to . Isnt it?
It's also been increasingly apparent people just make stuff up to create a negative impression of the Board and Club. Personally I think that's a bigger problem than the label 'anti-board'.
I'd be amazed if 90% of fans were not a little 'anti', where appropriate of course, so surely the balance is understandable in favour of a negative view on our leaders.
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malago
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Post by malago on Aug 20, 2014 12:25:24 GMT
In an interview with Ali Durden at The Mem, Ali asks Higgs about whether the results of the top to bottom review were about to be published.
Higgs looked rather shocked at the question and mumbled something along the lines of "yes we've worked out the problem from last year, we didn't score enough goals".
Further proof that there hasn't been a review and that they're too blind to see that it's problems and issues that stem back nearly 15 years.
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jozer
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Post by jozer on Aug 20, 2014 15:30:22 GMT
Top to bottom review my 4r5e! The BoD all getting togetherover a nice liquid lunch and agreeing it was all John Ward's fault. Higgs is full of sh1t.
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Post by tbonegas on Aug 20, 2014 15:37:36 GMT
Sack the board.
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Post by bs5 on Aug 20, 2014 18:55:45 GMT
He talks of signing more players, the desperate loan transfers have have started about 6 weeks earlier than they normally do, nice of Higgs to set DC up, people will probably think DC had a big budget but hasn't used it properly or all of it, when it fact it's panic all round after just 3 games. He said Dunford was very much still a shareholder and i sensed from his tone that it will stay like that, yesterday had to be one of the biggest pointless non stories ever. If you call £750k a big budget
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