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Originally Posted by carpon
To me, this sort of revelation proves two things.
Firstly we have an extremely committed manager, who had to resort to such a selfless gesture to stump up the necessary funds, to enable him to sign a key player integral to his own plans. 
And secondly, for me at least, it would also shed a little light on why Leam probably decided that a No2 position at Chesterfield was a better prospect to him, than fire-fighting here at Stanley as our No1.  
We're a League Two team in status, run on Conference level gates, backed up by the business / commercial ethos of a Unibond league outfit. 
As a club, how much more negative press can we inflict on ourselves??? How many more times do we shoot ourselves in the foot???
And we wonder why the Accrington public don't come out in force to get behind it's team??
Those at the helm, i.e. those in power at Boardroom level, should be aware of one thing to be sure......There's only so many times you can wave SOS buckets around.
This club, namely it's commercial operation, needs to drag itself away from it's "tinpot" public image and start operating at the same level as it's playing staff.....professionally. |
First off, Carpon, this is possibly the best post I've ever read.
From my perspective, the positives in this are:
- if this story is confirmed, then James Beattie is obviously taking his first job in management very seriously and is doing everything he possibly can to make sure he's successful, which can only be good for us.
- he's obviously a fella, who wants to uphold his reputation as a professional and within the game, as he has played at the very highest level.
- it shows he understands the club. He could have colour in the press bemoaning this, but has just got on with focusing on building the best side he can.
The Negatives:
- why oh why should our manager be put in this position.
- we need at least one credible person charged with running all aspects of the club on a day to day basis, to avoid these situations again and to at least manage some of the publicity around situations like this. I won't get on my leadership soapbox!
- if we are living above our means, cut our cloth accordingly.
- the club and indeed it's reps on this forum could have come out and told the full truth here to give us the full picture, but I feel they've been economic with the truth, especially with regard to the exact position with HMRC.
It never dull supporting our club!