New owner interview

Thinking about this a bit more...

I don't think Wael would have binned JB at this stage if he was still the majority owner. He was still too invested in the JB regime, and probably too nice, to have done so

I don't think Wael would have gone public with the 'Fruit Market is dead' message either. He's too positive, or too much of a people pleaser, to have done so

And I don't think Wael would have gone with the 'we want club men, not the manager's men' change - as JB has stated that one of his conditions for joining was that he'd have control

Mr Al Saeed said they joined with the intention of making changes, and it seems he's very much made a start

Tom G on the verge and the scouse mafia must be having sleepless nights

I hope so.

The way the new guy worded it, it seems perfectly right to have club staff and not managers mates. There would always be a nagging doubt that if Barton gets another job, they would go with him. 

Yes these expensive clearouts and new slates take ages to gel, if ever they do, and keep recurring, perennially. The new regime clears out the rot, then becomes the rot, to be cleared out by another new regime. Rubbish. One director should recruit all coaching staff, who remain after a head coach or manager's departure, and who may replace said manager, like both DC and GC did. Long-term stability, cost efficiency, a club identity and philosophy.

Well Gorringe is meant to be attending the Supporters Club AGM next week and do a Q & A afterwards. I wonder if Mr Al Saeed will risk or allow him to attend the meeting,the South Stand debacle began with him and probably ends with his demise.
That's probably why they have stopped him featuring the IK piece in the programme.

The Concept - Any news from Tom in the Whitby programme?
A new owner, and nothing said by the CEO. Eh?
I can only draw one conclusion. And if that conclusion is correct, I really don't wish him any ill.

p.s. And I meant to comment on this before; something you posted recently on the Oxford MDT struck a chord ...

"Only just heard about the result. I just don't care any more.
Ah, it was the officials what done Rovers then. Got it. Barton hasn't laid into one of the team as a scapegoat then. This week, 'tis the officials what done the Gas.
When will this endless gobsh*tery end?
When will his brainless sycophants see through this crap?

Barton is a stain on BRFC. Hopefully it is not an indelible one."


You got a bit of abuse for it. Comments from a couple of people with stuff like "Bye, bye" ... "You won't be missed".

Not sure how it was for you.
For me I've had the feeling that I just don't care for quite some time. It's not as some might think, if you're reading those words in print, that it's a naaah nah-nah nah-nah, don't care anyway, turn your back and stomp off. No, it's just a sad realisation that the result of the game, either way, has no impact on you.

I used to come home from games with a sore throat from cheering the team on. But then I found myself just sat quietly watching the game or chatting.
Sometimes I used to get home with scrages on the shins from the seat in front, jumping in the air when we scored. But then found myself giving a cheer and quietly getting to my feet and applauding.
If we lost I used to have a gloomy rest of the weekend. But then no longer affected.

I'd gone from listening to away games on the Radio, or watching on I-Follow, to looking up the scores after the final whistle.
I'd stopped going to the early rounds of cup games that my season-ticket didn't cover.

It was a horrible feeling. Something that had been such a huge part of your life, for 50 years plus, now didn't have a meaning.
And to compound it all, I was reading forums and social media, that people who thought the same way as me were told "Bye, bye" ... "You won't be missed" ... "Go to Trashton".
Horrible. Barton gone and people said "Can we all get on now?" I don't know. I certainly won't forget those posters who made me feel like s**t.

I know of 4 people who had stopped going. None appear to be ready to return. It seems time has passed and they've found other things to do. One was more fanatical than me, every game home and away, but currently watching Mangotsfield instead. Another was heavily involved with BRFPA, wrote for the programme, but when I spoke to him at a gig in the summer he didn't seem to want to talk about Rovers at all - weekends now taken up with the family. 

And I think it's going to take some time for me to get the feeling back.
I wouldn't have gone Saturday if my dad didn't want someone to go with. But a cloud has certainly lifted, and it has been better.

Wouldn’t the Head of Football Operations be the senior executive who told the manager he had been relieved of his duties ?