I share DBs caution about potential new owners. Have to hope that the Palioi won’t sell us down the river if a change of ownership goes through. Not all new owners are bad of course, you have relatively recent takeovers at Port Vale and Stockport for example which have turned out well.
Mark Palios reputation seems important to him. Some of the things he promised and delivered in the early period following taking over like good communication with the fans seem sadly lacking now. I’m unsure that acknowledging he’d made a mistake appointing Dawes amounts to a derogatory assertion given the fact of his dismissal amounts to the same thing.
Interesting examples there and you raise the issue of how fans change their long term views purely on the knee jerk of results.
Vale I know nothing little of, and of course with all clubs eras cannot be defined until after the event. I note the old company is being kept dormant with a £1 in it, you would have to suspect some shenanigans are in mind if things go sunny side down?
Stockport commendably are following the Palios method, all investment has been in cash and is credited only with equity. This a gold plated system that fans should long for. They actually failed to replicate our double promotion but look well set to achieve that this time. Critically our equivalent season which I am convinced the winter signings would have secured safety, ended in an historic non-footballing relegation and the damaged situation we remain in. Earlier the effects of Norwood going and only Morris looking up to div 1 standard was sobering
Palios will not sell us down the river however much abuse he gets. We do industrialise the unintelligent fan feedback and some. Demands that he sell up on twitter are as comical, moronic as they are depressing. It is like the manager of Asda screaming at his fish counter staff to sell more without noticing customers have ceased to even go near the counter.
My footballing view is always looking ahead, ie how many would cut it in the division above. The answer among proven contracted players, two, which sums up our lower table status but not necessarily our current dire position which I believe is false.
PS Long ago King was put out of his misery after relegation. I suspected then that seeing his poundshop table topping team dismantled and gravity reducing his team by thirty league places, a part of him was damaged. I now suspect Mellon getting his experienced Scouse backbone in Div 1 and having the perception of time to build a team to go up the league only to see it artificially destroyed, has had a similar mental effect. His Dundee get out was a foregone decision all would have made, but I suspect the damage lingered after his return. King recovered but it took years maybe Mellon will but not with us or maybe............................
. And you ducked my question too. But, whatever..
