Inside The Boardroom

And mine are MW 😅

Excellent post. Virtually every fan cheered the end of the Hughes/ Redknapp era, "we have our Rangers back" etc. The board could not have been clearer: they had got their fingers badly burned, it knocked the club back at least five miserable years, and we were now going to do everything sustainably. If anyone disagreed with the new strategy, I don't remember hearing them complaining at the time. We had all learned our lessons. Or so I thought. 

I am genuinely stunned that posters should now admit that spending in Jan might well have resulted in either a massive fine or a points deduction - but they STILL think the board should have done it anyway! And they say it is the board, not they, that are lacking a grasp of economics!

Don't they also realise that it never ends with just one signing? Remember how we all were (me included - I hold my hand up) back in the day when we were signing player after player. It became like crack: "That's great we have signed X, now we just new a new right back/ left back" whatever. Because you upgrade in one area, suddenly the player next to him doesn't look quite good enough. So its a continuous process. And before you know it you have three squads worth of players, none of who you can shift because you have paid crazy wages that no one else will take on.

Just look around the Championship, can't you see that all these clubs now in trouble also thought they were just one signing away from 160m in the Premier League? Does what is happening to Derby or Reading in no way give some fans pause for thought? Forest have probably adopted the strategy that some fans on here are advocating: we will see how that ends up. Bristol City spent and spent and will almost certainly be one of the next clubs to get punished. Naki Wells was the missing piece in the jigsaw apparently: £5m later on a 31-year-old with huge wages and they literally can't give him away.

Certain fans say it is a business, so not like personal finances. But there is no other business sector where entrepreneurs respond to mounting debts by saying "I know, the solution is to add even more massive debt to the problem." Politically I've noticed a lot of posters on here seem fairly right of centre politically. Well the economic model they are pushing on the club was the Jeremy Corbyn model for running the country, probably even more extreme. Do they really think that approach works?

Here we go again must be on about the 30 th lap now its becoming tedious.

I have no political views as they all a bunch of cunts

Very true 🤣

I agree with all the posts re our recruitment. That has been good. And I agree that Les and the scouting team needs to take much of the credit for that.

Where I'm far less confident is the club's record on managerial recruitment under the current owners over the last 11 years. I'd give them about 2 out of 10 on that rating. So it's all very well sacking the manager but what faith do you have that the next one will be an improvement?

Once again, all roads lead back to this, I'm afraid. Who on the board has genuine football nous and experience.

If, by some miracle, they were able to get a decision like that correct, then we could genuinely go places because the club's infrastructure, player recruitment, academy, training ground (on the way) etc is arguably better than it's been in the club's history.

I think most people would like MW to succeed on here

Hes a good guy and we need stability

However we also need some success as we used to

Be londons top club 20 yrs ago too

We have improved and hes done some good things

But our firm has made a dramatic nosedive

Why not because we didnt sign a striker in january

Would Gordon Jago have been a realistic target years ago ?

That wins you nothing, General.


A large proportion of successful managers have had a big streak of hard man in there, they can play nice and put an arm around someone (like Warnock did with Adel), or they can get properly stuck in. Warburton always seems to me to be a bit one dimensional. 

It's an interesting idea. To be fair, other clubs rotate their managers more frequently than us and doing so has brought them greater success than us in several cases.

Therefore concepts and arguments against, such as 'stability', 'continuity', 'loyalty' etc do not always stand up to close scrutiny.

Why is it really such an unthinkable notion, per se, to change your manager after as dreadful a collapse as we have had?

Again, whether a better alternative is lined up is really a separate argument, but clubs that operate successfully that way WOULD invariably have a better alternative and plan lined up and WOULD have done their due diligence and research.

Therefore, once again, all road lead back to the board room, otherwise it's a perpetual locking the door after the horse has bolted cycle.

So perhaps a more pertinent question is why don't the club have someone on the board with more footballing nous and experience? Get that bit right and we wouldn't be getting into the pickles every 2-4 seasons of having to change the coach and rebuild the the squad, because you would have addressed the root cause of the problem at the club.

Moral of the story

Address the root cause of the problem first as the chicken comes before the egg.

In our case - Have the correctly qualified personnel at board level, in order to get the managerial recruitment correct to begin with.

What I can’t understand is our board are clearly all very successful businessmen. Now in business you have to get results it your business folds or taken over.
Now I know it’s a different sort of business in sport but end of day better you do more money club can earn and less u have to put in.

I don’t want bread man sacked, I really don’t.
But why did he not leave the team from December and January, alone.
There was nothing need to tinker the hell out of it.
There was no need to bring in a midfielder and upset the squad January.
The squad that got us to within a point of 2nd place was good enough.
Ball, Thomas, Amos and dozzel contributed to us getting to that position, and what thanks do they get? Dumped onto the bench and into the u23s to make way for Jeff farking hendrick.
The results have been poor ever since with moral clearly wiped out because of that farking transfer window.

When things are working, leAve them alone you silly fool.

Warburton upstairs? Please God, no.

Ok I understand David Dein as an example but he was a co owner and risking his own money and reputation.

Is the current position of DOF not the same but without the risk of losing money.

You need a Barry fry type, done every bloody job going in a club. Worked on a budget.