Blackburn

Forest manager gone too after 5 months.

Blackburn’s greatest loss will be the same as ours was – the loss of Eric Black, an excellenet second-in-command.

not forgetting, by way of example :

– Fernandez: QPR – Warnock /Hughes /(Redknapp))
– Ambramovich: Chelski (too many to mention ….)
– Kuwaiti family : N Forest – S O’Driscoll (yesterday)

Common theme ??

Owners, who know fook all about football (or responsible financial management)

Whelan goodpost

At least they’ve got some ambition, ruthless in the pursuit of success, Whelan could learn alot from them.[/quote]

Are you saying Whelan isn’t ruthless? There’s an awful lot of people, a number on this board, who from personal experience wouldn’t agree with you. I’m afraid your comment shows a lack of understanding of business management.

Being “ruthless” alone doesn’t guarantee success. What is needed is a clear focus of where you want to be, getting the personnel in who can deliver your vision, taking action when necessary to alter the situation to get things going in the right direction. The ruthlessness comes in actually doing some of those things – to get the right personnel in may mean sacking someone or to get things going in the right direction may mean shutting a number of shops or changing supplier etc.

Just sacking an underling (ie the manager and his staff) without a clear replacement who will genuinely deliver your vision when the predecessor wasn’t given any time to put other parts of the plan in place is not ruthless (well, it is, but not with any purpose), just desperation.

DW for me every time.

I think Mr Doe had his tongue firmly in his cheek when he posted that, of I’m not very much mistaken.

The circus continues,some bollywood star linked now,there saying hes not hes just a guest at the club, so why turn up in a rovers track suit

They are now quoting that the Bollywood ‘star’ is doing some FA training badge, and understands the game from being an arsenal trainee. This will be the end for rovers. They might make it into a movie, loads of dancing and bad dubbing.

Urgh – I musn’t bite, I mustn’t bite, I musn’t…oh sod it

No ambition? Hmm…4th tier to top tier in 10 years
Sell your best – been doing that long before DW; only sure fire revenue stream
No new fans – Hmm…avg attendances of c1800 to c18000 in 10 years
Not learning – isn’t that more the manager’s responsibility?
Parachutes – a drop in the ocean compared to £ staying up

I’m certainly no Whelan sycophant, but depending on how you measure success you could argue that over the last 20 years we’d have a strong case of being one of the most successful clubs in Europe if not the world…and much of it down to, for the most part, sensible (if not ruthless) decisions of one man.