And Its Smith Posted December 31, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2016 14 minutes ago, Red white and red said: Some people are unbelievable, Rowett is another level to LJ!! It's a mute point anyway because he wouldn't touch us and LJ is here until 2097!!! Mute point! Haha. What an end to the year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red white and red Posted December 31, 2016 Report Share Posted December 31, 2016 3 minutes ago, RedDave said: Mute point! Haha. What an end to the year. I've had 18 pints... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swede Posted December 31, 2016 Report Share Posted December 31, 2016 Love to be a fly on the wall with SL Mark Ashton & Rowett! Sorry but I just can't see him fitting in with the powers that be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coxyboy Posted January 1, 2017 Report Share Posted January 1, 2017 1 hour ago, Mike Hunt-Hertz said: Must be great, having a batphone to SL. Not a bat phone just common sense .....unlike yourself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil_clevedon Posted January 1, 2017 Report Share Posted January 1, 2017 There's no vacancy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshtonGreat Posted January 1, 2017 Report Share Posted January 1, 2017 3 hours ago, GrahamC said: He got Brum to around the top six with absolutely no money and was a huge part of Burton's success. I'm not saying he would come here but I'm staggered by people having to "look him up". Fair enough, sounds like he has promise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GodEmperor Palpatine Posted January 1, 2017 Report Share Posted January 1, 2017 4 hours ago, Mike Hunt-Hertz said: I`d go for Pearson. I wouldn't Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Hunt-Hertz Posted January 1, 2017 Report Share Posted January 1, 2017 54 minutes ago, coxyboy said: Not a bat phone just common sense .....unlike yourself Ooh, I`ve been told. Sorry Captain Mainwaring, sir. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shelts Posted January 1, 2017 Report Share Posted January 1, 2017 Was seen in the Little Grovesner with Stony on Thursday..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRISTOL86 Posted January 1, 2017 Report Share Posted January 1, 2017 What's with the Rowett love in? Last time I looked he had the same win rate at this level as Lee Johnson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRISTOL86 Posted January 1, 2017 Report Share Posted January 1, 2017 4 hours ago, Londoner said: There is a reason he is being linked with a prem club. Is it anything to do with the Prem club being shite and desperate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shelts Posted January 1, 2017 Report Share Posted January 1, 2017 He has lovely hair and I love the shirt / tie jumper combo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fgrsimon Posted January 1, 2017 Report Share Posted January 1, 2017 2 hours ago, BRISTOL86 said: What's with the Rowett love in? Last time I looked he had the same win rate at this level as Lee Johnson. I work and play 5-a-side with a Blues supporter.... When Rowett took over they were financially a basket-case, the owner was in jail, they'd just lost 0-8(eight) at home to Bournemouth, were in 23rd place and they'd won 1 home game in 12 months. I don't think things have improved a huge amount off the pitch since then, they've got very little money but on the plus side either the owner is no longer in jail, or they've got a new owner who isn't in jail, or something. Despite all this they were 7th when he was sacked. Plus it's probably fair to say he laid the foundations at Burton in L2 for the team that is now in the Championship. "But apart from that what have the Romans done for us" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamC Posted January 1, 2017 Report Share Posted January 1, 2017 4 hours ago, fgrsimon said: I work and play 5-a-side with a Blues supporter.... When Rowett took over they were financially a basket-case, the owner was in jail, they'd just lost 0-8(eight) at home to Bournemouth, were in 23rd place and they'd won 1 home game in 12 months. I don't think things have improved a huge amount off the pitch since then, they've got very little money but on the plus side either the owner is no longer in jail, or they've got a new owner who isn't in jail, or something. Despite all this they were 7th when he was sacked. Plus it's probably fair to say he laid the foundations at Burton in L2 for the team that is now in the Championship. "But apart from that what have the Romans done for us" Yes, but someone on here watched them on Sky once and didn't like his style of football.. Clearly narrowly missing out on a job in the Prem this week was a fluke, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brizzlelou Posted January 1, 2017 Report Share Posted January 1, 2017 10 hours ago, Red white and red said: Some people are unbelievable, Rowett is another level to LJ!! It's a moot point anyway because he wouldn't touch us and LJ is here until 2097!!! He's cutting his contract short!?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanatopia Posted January 1, 2017 Report Share Posted January 1, 2017 14 hours ago, RedDave said: Swansea are appointing Paul Clement. Rowett is still available. Perhaps he can pick a settled team and show signs of progression. Maybe Rowett can buy players that improve the 11. Imagine watching a team every week working to a plan and getting better! What a year next year could be. Clement will not save them from the drop in my humbles. Rowett might have done. 4 hours ago, fgrsimon said: I work and play 5-a-side with a Blues supporter.... When Rowett took over they were financially a basket-case, the owner was in jail, they'd just lost 0-8(eight) at home to Bournemouth, were in 23rd place and they'd won 1 home game in 12 months. I don't think things have improved a huge amount off the pitch since then, they've got very little money but on the plus side either the owner is no longer in jail, or they've got a new owner who isn't in jail, or something. Despite all this they were 7th when he was sacked. Plus it's probably fair to say he laid the foundations at Burton in L2 for the team that is now in the Championship. "But apart from that what have the Romans done for us" Birmingham City have been in turmoil on and off since the late 1980's when they plummeted to the third tier for the first time. The Kumars (perhaps @ number 42) took them over in 1989 only to go bust when their shares in BCCI became worthless when the bank collapsed in 1992. David Sullivan came along and bought out their 89% share for £700k in what looks like an absolute steal. They gradually sold out to the now infamous and imprisoned Carsen Yeung from Honk Kong. During his tenure Birmingham returned to financial turmoil and he finally got shot last year when selling to Trillion Trophy Asia a BVI registered Chinese owned conglomerate. TTA is apparently wholly owned by Paul Suen Cho Hung so it is likely he who performed the trigger happy firing of Gary Rowett. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southvillekiddy Posted January 1, 2017 Report Share Posted January 1, 2017 11 hours ago, AppyDAZE said: Maybe we can ask Coventry for a swap and get Sisu to come in for SL. Get real ffs We don't need SL to go, far from it - but to make a change. He's a business man, I would hope he will finally see how he needs to change to bring success to BCFC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHAGa Posted January 1, 2017 Report Share Posted January 1, 2017 5 hours ago, GrahamC said: Yes, but someone on here watched them on Sky once and didn't like his style of football.. Clearly narrowly missing out on a job in the Prem this week was a fluke, too. Ha, I didn't say he was a bad manager because of it. If you'd have read my post, I watched them 2-3 times and they were uninspiring each time I watched. Maybe it was a coincidence but it just doesn't make me desperate for him to be our manager like some on here seem to feel. Especially when his W/L ratio is similar to LJ's. I don't think he's a bad manager but he's done nothing to prove he's anything more than an average Championship manager as of yet. People act as if he's got a load of promotions on his CV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivorguy Posted January 1, 2017 Report Share Posted January 1, 2017 6 hours ago, southvillekiddy said: We don't need SL to go, far from it - but to make a change. He's a business man, I would hope he will finally see how he needs to change to bring success to BCFC. 'finally' being the operative word here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southvillekiddy Posted January 1, 2017 Report Share Posted January 1, 2017 2 hours ago, Ivorguy said: 'finally' being the operative word here. What has constantly baffled me is that a successful business man must examine why and how a competitor is being successful and then apply those principles to their own business. ie. in this scenario - Look at how successful football clubs are run, most importantly appointing the best people available in each section of the operation AND LEAVING THEM TO GET THE HELL ON WITH IT. Just doesn't happen at BCFC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shelts Posted January 1, 2017 Report Share Posted January 1, 2017 21 minutes ago, southvillekiddy said: What has constantly baffled me is that a successful business man must examine why and how a competitor is being successful and then apply those principles to their own business. ie. in this scenario - Look at how successful football clubs are run, most importantly appointing the best people available in each section of the operation AND LEAVING THEM TO GET THE HELL ON WITH IT. Just doesn't happen at BCFC. Seriously. Does SL meddle too much? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivorguy Posted January 1, 2017 Report Share Posted January 1, 2017 2 hours ago, shelts said: Seriously. Does SL meddle too much? Bluntly he is out of his depth and comfort zone in running a football club as evidenced by the gap between promises and reality Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS4 on Tour... Posted January 1, 2017 Report Share Posted January 1, 2017 31 minutes ago, Ivorguy said: Bluntly he is out of his depth and comfort zone in running a football club as evidenced by the gap between promises and reality But he's appointed a highly experienced football Chief Operating Officer to run a lot of it for him...so that's good management? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchay Red Posted January 1, 2017 Report Share Posted January 1, 2017 8 minutes ago, BS4 on Tour... said: But he's appointed a highly experienced football Chief Operating Officer to run a lot of it for him...so that's good management? Straight from the mighty Oxford. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS4 on Tour... Posted January 1, 2017 Report Share Posted January 1, 2017 5 minutes ago, Frenchay Red said: Straight from the mighty Oxford. So you obviously don't know he was Chief Executive Officer at Watford FC for five years and a Director at West Bromwich Albion FC for 14 years.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchay Red Posted January 1, 2017 Report Share Posted January 1, 2017 3 minutes ago, BS4 on Tour... said: So you obviously don't know he was Chief Executive Officer at Watford FC for five years and a Director at West Bromwich Albion FC for 14 years.... Indeed, but he seemed to be moving in a downward direction don't you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS4 on Tour... Posted January 1, 2017 Report Share Posted January 1, 2017 5 minutes ago, Frenchay Red said: Indeed, but he seemed to be moving in a downward direction don't you think? Not at all, the vast majority of his time at WBA and Watford was when they were below or equal to the Championship...he's working his way up... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1bristolcity Posted January 1, 2017 Report Share Posted January 1, 2017 It's an odd one this....why Steve is hopeless at this football lark, he's minted, so he must have some idea how business works, and yet... Perhaps if he recruited someone with a footballing brain rather that surround himself with staff that are in tune with his lack of a footballing brain. This debacle that is BCFC needs a helping hand, out of our rose tinted bubble we are a joke, considered a huge soft touch and famously the biggest underachieving club in the history of THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE. Now I don't know of any other club that would tolerate a run like this, I actually like LJ and his Dad, but look where is Dad is now, hardly great DNA is it? I have almost resigned myself to another loss to-morrow, it hurts, but with every defeat the pain is less....and that is new territory for me, I love this club, but I and many others are being treated like we don't matter, note the lack of announcements by the management of late? But still want our support and money, come on someone stand up and be counted!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shelts Posted January 1, 2017 Report Share Posted January 1, 2017 46 minutes ago, Ivorguy said: Bluntly he is out of his depth and comfort zone in running a football club as evidenced by the gap between promises and reality Not really sure about your post. Think the club would be in massive trouble if he left , the club are running on losses. Tbf it's work in progress. Lovely ground , good training facilities, shed loads spent on the Academy and managers backed with cash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchay Red Posted January 1, 2017 Report Share Posted January 1, 2017 5 minutes ago, BS4 on Tour... said: Not at all, the vast majority of his time at WBA and Watford was when they were below or equal to the Championship...he's working his way up... Not difficult, coming from Oxford. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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