Re: 37 games to make the grade? : Thu Jul 07, 2022 7:26 pm  

jbuzza wrote:

We need someone who can take us forwards not backwards.

I'd argue then that we need a 100% new ownership model with new management in place.

This year started with "somebody" wasting £50k on stupid adverts before we slashed prices for kids and corporates, a senior manager "left" and after 2 adverts for new staff were blocked by Hughes and a half arsed effort to beg for volunteers we have been kicked out of our new home for 11 weeks.....ELEVEN FZXING WEEKS

If Hughes is serious about 5k in 4 years he needs to:
Allocate annual funds now and step away from any key decision making.
Employ a competent General Manager and give them scope to utilize whatever they can (temp/part time/community volunteers) in running the club

I'll say it again. Return to Ealing and partner with them.....pay less rent and help (where possible) with the development of the ground.....

Re: 37 games to make the grade? : Thu Jul 07, 2022 7:56 pm  

orangeman wrote:

If Hughes is serious about 5k in 4 years he needs to:
Allocate annual funds now and step away from any key decision making.
Employ a competent General Manager and give them scope to utilize whatever they can (temp/part time/community volunteers) in running the club

I don't know if Hughes was serious about his 5k target but it is a sensible one if the club is to become sustainable.

It would also be realistic if we were a competitve SL side and had someone other than Hughes making decisions over how the club is run.

Re: 37 games to make the grade? : Thu Jul 07, 2022 9:18 pm  

jbuzza wrote:

I don't know if Hughes was serious about his [b]5k[/b] target but it is a sensible one if the club is to become sustainable.

I believe I first mentioned that particular number in 2009. Wire-Quin will find the post....it mentioned flowers in a Railway Station (not a round-a-bout )

jbuzza wrote:

It would also be realistic if we were a competitve SL side

Not had that since 2005 when we finished 6th. The following year at The Stoop we finished 7th (3 points off 6th and ahead of Wigan) and Rea was replaced by Mc Dermott who never delivered higher than 9th.......and not close to play off football once.

jbuzza wrote:

and had someone other than Hughes making decisions over how the club is run.

This was my point earlier. If he is committed to the club, then it is time to lodge the funds for the next 4 years in a trust account and step back because his decision making in terms of the Football Club has been borderline criminal.
Loubser has to go. Replaced with a young enthusiastic General Manager who can illicit support from volunteers and community groups. The Club needs to return to being just that....a club, not a team with an emphasis on trying to surround the owner with enough sycophants in the gold lounge that he doesn't notice the shambles everywhere else. I am 100% convinced there is a direct link between trying to get the corporate area full and Loubsers job security.... it's vanity and narcissism driving the push there, not an extra 2k on game day revenue.

Hughes needs to write a cheque and rock up on match day. EVERYTHING ELSE needs to be run by a Professional.

SEVENTY TWO DAYS away from our New Home in a season that is 284 days means we were MIA for more than a quarter of the season........whomever signed off on this needs to be removed from any part of the negotiating process. 4 Grounds where we pay rent with the main one unusable for a quarter of the season, a figure bandied about of 200k a year and we've added not one fan and only managed to upsell a few corporate day tickets all because we didn't get enough of the cut from Trailfinders? You cannot ever convince me that Trailfinders wasn't a better deal for the club, especially when we had decided to go part time, so Hughes either pushed this through or Loubser/Milner pushed and He signed off on it, but either way, they are all responsible and all should never make a key decision about the club again.

Re: 37 games to make the grade? : Thu Jul 07, 2022 11:17 pm  

Watched Boris' resignation speech today and what a ramble it was. He rambled over a myriad positives that are not in fact positives and clearly still thinks himself a hero.

Watch it again folks then look up Hughes' rambling statement last November and compare and contrast.

No shame!

Re: 37 games to make the grade? : Fri Jul 08, 2022 9:56 pm  

Bent&Bongser wrote:

Watched Boris' resignation speech today and what a ramble it was. He rambled over a myriad positives that are not in fact positives and clearly still thinks himself a hero.

Watch it again folks then look up Hughes' rambling statement last November and compare and contrast.

No shame!

Nail on the head there buddy....on the head

Re: 37 games to make the grade? : Sat Jul 09, 2022 7:58 am  

If only if he resigned we had as many people waiting in the wings to replace him as the political party seems to have.

Re: 37 games to make the grade? : Sat Jul 09, 2022 10:11 am  

Bent&Bongser wrote:

Watched Boris' resignation speech today and what a ramble it was. He rambled over a myriad positives that are not in fact positives and clearly still thinks himself a hero.

Watch it again folks then look up Hughes' rambling statement last November and compare and contrast.

No shame!

I think about now I’d welcome some kind of communication from our leadership team, rambling or otherwise. It’s all random. Our squad is great but people leave and people join. Sometimes acknowledged sometimes not. Our coach is great then he leaves. We’re going to recruit a full time coach despite part time being great then nothing......

Re: 37 games to make the grade? : Sat Jul 09, 2022 10:49 am  

Silence from Hughes is deafening. Is he still interested ? Lobster probably waiting for hockey season to start.

Re: 37 games to make the grade? : Sun Jul 10, 2022 10:48 pm  

jbuzza wrote:

Silence from Hughes is deafening. Is he still interested ? Lobster probably waiting for hockey season to start.

Can anyone confirm if Hughes attended either game in Ebbsfleet?

Re: 37 games to make the grade? : Mon Jul 11, 2022 6:58 am  

I do not know if he was at the Sheffield game, but David Hughes was definitely at yesterdays game.