Post by brizzle on Oct 7, 2014 13:52:34 GMT
Its true he loves the Gas and everything Irishrover has written is probably true, but we have what we have, until someone else with the money and drive comes along, once that happens Lake Como would look very inviting.
I don't doubt his sincerity and I want to believe that he can deliver but it's hard to believe based on what has actually happened on his watch. It is impossible ignore the fact that under his leadership the club has dropped to it's lowest status in over 100 years, is financially even less viable as a day to day operation than it was and is perceived (by a large chunk of it's fanbase) to be distant from it's own supporters. That is pretty much failure across the board isn't it? If anything I'm a bit surprised (and relieved really) he doesn't get a bit more stick than he does.
If the only defence is that we haven't gone under and haven't sold out to an asset stripper isn't that basically stripped back to the absolute bare minimum requirement of an owner/board? Honestly, I'm not someone who is naturally anti-board and really do have a lot of sympathy for Nick Higgs; but I just want people to tell me what it is about him that should inspire confidence that he can reverse this situation because from the outside looking in I can't see very much to go on. I'm frustrated and depressed at the Board more than I am angry - I want them to do better and learn from what has happened but not much of what has come out of the club in recent months has suggested this. Is that perceived as slagging him off?
All of this makes you realise what a disservice Geoff Dunford did to the club, when he refused to take Alan Sugar's enquiry seriously all those years ago. I often wonder whose best interests GD was serving at the time, BRFC's or his own?
Still as he's long gone now, and we are left with this awful and ongoing mess, it's quite possibly a moot point.
