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If you take a job knowing you cannot do it for whatever reason, is that honest?
To yourself?
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Did he take the job knowing he couldn’t do it properly? You’re questioning the man’s integrity here. I’d be more interested to hear what he has to say himself about it his tenure when it’s over. If he’s not gagged. Has he ever implied he’s involved in on field matters?
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I don’t think he knew how bad things were.
He does now and deteriorating by the day if that is possible.
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I think he took the job HOPING he could make a difference. He is doing his best he cares for the club like us and if he wasn’t around I dread to think what Swanny would be doing. All Swann has done is put Lee in the firing line nothing else has changed behind the scenes and until he is gone (Swann) this club will never move foreword. I just hope and pray that a takeover is soon for all of us.
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If you take a job knowing you cannot do it for whatever reason, is that honest?
To yourself?
To those expecting the job done properly?You’re right, no one should every try anything and it is terrible that someone thinks he might possibly be able to make a silk purse out of this sow’s ear.
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Well unless he can still see a deal going through its time for him to walk for his own integrity, he’s sold us the dream but still the nightmare goes on, how can he look himself in the mirror and say he’s delivered, all we wanted was a team to compete albeit in the NL nothing to much to ask, he asked for us to stick by them which the fans have they’ve bought the season tickets and the shirts in better numbers than last season bigger budget than more than half our lge, we told him talk was cheap on Donny station that day its actions we needed to see and that meant on the pitch as well. No one can say I haven’t been behind him from the start in most of my posts and have defended him, now’s the time for him to stand up or down as the case maybe.
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He’s the ‘Chief Operations Officer’. He looks after off field activities and by and large is doing a good job against the odds. He doesn’t manage on field activities, Hill does and he reports to Swann. Swann is responsible for the sale, not Lee. Anyway, not that he’s going to take a blind bit of notice what you think. And let me get this right, you want Lee to leave his post, is that right? What positive outcome would you expect for the club if he did that?
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Don’t stab the man in the back and leave nothing .Sure he is trying his best for the club, if he did not give a match preview people would be asking why .Damned if you do and damned if you don’t
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Some fair points awaywego, though I do think you’re blaming the wrong guy here. As you say Swann told him he was selling up. The fact it hasn’t happened yet isn’t Lee’s fault. There wasn’t a deadline for sale as far as I’m aware.
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Or, look at it the other way; why should he resign and sacrifice his income because his boss has let him down? How do we know he’s not actively seeking a way out without leaving himself high and dry? He doesn’t deserve to be out of a job and income. When he talked about helping to improve on field fortunes he might not have realised how little influence he would have. He might also have been over enthusiastic about everyone being in in together (not Swann obvs), pulling in the same direction?
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Of course I am not privy to exactly what is going on behind the scenes. Let’s face it the club has directors that don’t know exactly what is going on.
It seems obvious that if there really was a plan to do well in the National League this season then 2 things had to happen.
1. We would somehow have to increase crowds after 4 years of decline from the circa 2,000 they had dropped to.
2. We had to recruit almost a full team of players and coach and motivate them to compete in this league.
It would appear that number 1 was the responsibility of Lee Turnbull supported by the club staff and Neil Wright. Very difficult task but 3 games in – job done.
It would appear Keith Hill and his coaching staff have been given full autonomy and the available financial support to achieve number 2. Six games in they have massively under achieved.
The other thing the club was reportedly trying to achieve was new ownership. This was by his own admission the sole responsibility and focus of the current owner. He is to the surprise of no-one also underachieving.
I simply cannot understand why some people wish to blame Turnbull and Wright for anything that is going wrong at the moment. Why should they walk away from the club they demonstrably care about and what would be achieved by their doing so?
Conventional wisdom say a coaching team get 10 games at the start of a season to prove their worth. For many managers 5 straight abject defeats often short circuits that grace period.
I have given up wasting emotional energy on wondering what the owner is up to. Nine years of bullshit does that to me. Only my opinion but for the first time I am calling for the coaching staff to go. I have absolutely no confidence they can do anything about the situation on the pitch.
If they get the full 10 games then if they are still in the relegation places then they must go.
Anything else I would take as proof of the managed liquidation theory.
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Totally agree with all that apart from the last sentence. What makes you think he could succcessfully manage liquidation on this scale, given he doesn’t appear able to manage a piss up in a brewery?
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Hill gone. Well bugger me. All that typing 😀😀😀
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Does that put an end to the managed liquidation theory?
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