by Northwalesblues » Tue Jan 25, 2022 2:55 pm
WTF mr Tan, what’s the Plan?
The one overriding fact is how the hell are we in this sorry state. 12 years ago Mr Tan bought a football club, a dream of anybody on this forum, it had three brilliant attractions; a City, a fan base & a stadium that were second to none, oh, and also a team and manager, capable of competing in the Premiership. He was and is a man in the “Billionaire” class i.e. obscenely wealthy, to whom all the money he’s spent on us is little more than “pocket money”, his huge cash generating businesses providing wealth that he couldn’t spend in a thousand lifetimes! Probably if you added together the wealth of all our previous owners, he’d surpass that 100’s of times over.
So what does he do then, apart from having a total lack of any football knowledge, and choosing to spend little or no time visiting his purchase, he chooses 2 highly paid people to do his bidding, to this day, accomplished “bank manager” types, with little or no football knowledge, no emotional connection with the club, who both have been allowed to spend the minimum time with the club, whilst they primarily concern themselves with their other businesses. Time and time again their combined lack of interest and time paying attention to running our club, have resulted in the many cock-ups, many of which should of and could of been prevented. By way of example, at our level and above, we should have a first team “coach”, not “manager”, because of the ineptness of our Board, our Coaches have had to “manage” and in many ways been the author of their own downfall, Malky who, in my humble opinion, one of the best, was undone by Moody, an effusing, self-confident lightweight, who would have been reigned in or not needed by a competent Board, one could go on with a litany of bad decisions that have been caused or fostered by the continuing lack of attention and ability of our board.
Using the premise that the “table never lies” 12 years on we now are perilously near to relegation, hoping to stay up by relying on clubs who don’t have mega-rich owners, being in disarray and points docked. Perhaps the plan is that in the coming seasons there will be at least three other teams that befall the same fate.
Come the end of the season, if 3 beleaguered sides ensure our championship status, what then? Without being critical we’ll have a squad that, forget comparing to Championship sides, will be mid league 1 quality! Without being disparaging with a low cost manager and without the contract end players, our squad cost will stand comparison with many league 2 sides.
Returning to “What’s the Plan Mr Tan”? Since my first match in 1963 I’ve seen good times many bad times, but I’ve never been as dismayed and confused as I’m today, for 10 years I’ve been running a leisure business in Snowdonia, 4 hours away, becoming a “plastic” and somewhat anaesthetised, however I only have one club, using this forum to keep me connected and in those 10 years I’ve never seen more pain and anger.
How or why Mr. Tan has kept those two as his “eyes and ears” for all these years beggars belief, they have been constant under achievers. Harping upon cost cutting and being a “proper” business is all well and good; today “Rome is burning”. Mr Tan spend your pocket money, get rid of the dynamic duo and save your club from the brick wall that’s just ahead.