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All of this started long before Covid or the present cost of living crisis as well you know.
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‘…fourth, because he built a supposedly high class hotel in a low class town, and fifth, he’s an idiot.’
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I’m not attempting to defend Swann, NI, in fact the complete opposite. The point remains that his personal business interests are highly likely to be having a big impact on the decisions he makes and it seems reasonable to assume he’ll need every penny he can get out of the sale of the club.
Had this not been the case he might have been more inclined to sell and move on.
You’re not defending him, but you are giving him excuses on a plate, regardless of how legitimate they may be.
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How much empathy would Swann show to someone who wanted to knock a few million off the asking price because of Covid, cost of living crisis, and rising energy prices? None. Plus the fact we are non-league, and unless by some miracle, we get promoted before the end of next season back to L2 then the parachute payments are gone and the new owner has to find even more money to plug that gap.
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Sacking Hurst because he had a different viewpoint on how the team should be managed had nowt to do with his business interests.
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Topics: 80his business interests will almost certainly have been hit very hard, first, by the pandemic, second, by the cost-of-living crisis and, third, by dramatically rising energy prices.
As will every single other business in the UK if not the world but good business owners find ways to adapt and evolve. As has already been stated this decline started long, long before Covid and the energy crisis, it started the minute that arsehole walked through the door with his bullshine about how he was going to run the club properly and build a new stadium that we didn’t need and couldn’t afford.
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“Sacked and rightly so.”
I don’t think so!! Brought in some good players. Daring to challenge the overlords seemed to be his only ‘fault’.
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But maybe if he’d been playing for Hurst? Could have been us with a 6 figure player not the Cods?
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McAtee had a questionable attitude under Russ Wilcox but showed lots of promise under Hurst, I remember the 2-2 draw at Bradford, he was outstanding. Hurst was just turning things around and we were starting to play some decent football under him when the axe fell, completely stupid and unjustified decision IMO.
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We wouldn’t be in the national league if Hurst was in charge that’s for sure
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Now you are now missing the point CMC by digressing, Hurst would have kept us in the football league and the replies to your dismissal of his abilities have pointed to the reason why he should have been retained as a manager. The rot set in when Hurst left and the owner decided not to fund the club anymore to the level that would have kept us as a league club with a decent manager in charge.
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