And I can't comment about what other people said after the Powell decision. Personally, I was v.angry but was prepared to see how things played out. Still am. The concerns etc were there before Powell got the chop and unfortunately they're still niggling around now.
And I can't comment about what other people said after the Powell decision. Personally, I was v.angry but was prepared to see how things played out. Still am. The concerns etc were there before Powell got the chop and unfortunately they're still niggling around now.
Stop worrying, everything is going to be fantastic.
So relax, smoke a joint and remember everything is gonna be alright.
This whole network thing might coming crashing down around RD's ears, I am not blind to that possibility. It could be that we see the cream of the academy crop being shipped off to Belgium for the next five or six years, or that our best players run down their contracts only to sign for big money at Liege. BUT it could also be that RD really wants to prove his experiment and his vision are the future, or can be, and filters those not needed right now at Liege to Charlton, or sends some of their better prospects (and Belgium seems to have a few of those in the pipeline for once) to us to get them playing. People say that the likes of AA and Reza are too lightweight or unfit for this league, perhaps they are right, I think it is not unthinkable that RD did underestimate what the Championship can be like. BUT you don't get to be where RD is and have the success he has had by making the same mistakes twice, in business, in football, or in anything.
My judgment is totally out until the beginning of the next season when we know who the coach is, which players he's got, and where they came from. The appointment of Riga and the subsequent turnaround in results proves to me at least that while RD may have had a few misjudgments about this league specifically, a fool regarding the business of football he most certainly is not.
I'd rather RD where our best player can actually play, you know out on the pitch, than the previous 'mob' who didn't have two brass farthings to rub together, left us with a pitch more akin to a rice field, fought more court cases than I've had hot dinners and practiced, shall we say, dubious business practices.
@thenewbie said; BUT you don't get to be where RD is and have the success he has had by making the same mistakes twice, in business, in football, or in anything.
There will always be an exception to the rule like Muzza was with his choice of 3 Managers in 7 months and eventually a fourth from the third of those backroom staff changes. So glad those dark days are behind us..................... :-0
@thenewbie said; BUT you don't get to be where RD is and have the success he has had by making the same mistakes twice, in business, in football, or in anything.
There will always be an exception to the rule like Muzza was with his choice of 3 Managers in 7 months and eventually a fourth from the third of those backroom staff changes. So glad those dark days are behind us..................... :-0
He kept making mistakes in though, that's my point. Dowie, Reed, Pardew in immediate succession left a situation it would take a far better manager than Parkinson and a lot more money to have solved. RD wanted to replace a struggling manager and appoints Riga, who so far has done very little wrong and a whole lot right.
To be fair Muzza was also a very successful businessman and football chairman who had overseen a great period in our history when Curbs was at the helm. My point is that he was not beyond the realms of making the same mistake twice when the heat was on. So far so good with RD but it is still very early days in his association with us. Don't get me wrong I have an open mind on this Network set up but it is the unknown of this 'new' concept of running a football club that has many on here wary of the outcome.
Instead of worrying about the network there are two things the Trust might do: engage with Watford fans and find out about their experiences with Udinese and Granada - after all they were in the play-off final at Wembley last May. And do some proper research about Liege since Duchatelet and Riga were the owner-coach team there just two years ago... what decisions have been made at Liege, what is their recruitment policy (Japanese, Rumanian and African?), what is the real playing standard of Liege and Belgian football (not the belgian national team) - should we welcome any more players from there this summer or would this be a repeat of January? And what is the state of their finances.
All of the speculation, concern and crying wolf simply does not bring anything to the table. To me it is all about possible futures and right now there is a simple battle regarding staying up or going down which has nothing to do with Italy, Spain, Hungary, Germany or Belgium. Once that is resolved there is a longer term vision to develop and fans can either react to decisions or they can propose what should happen and how the club should engage with the fans. Until the CAFC management team agree to a meeting there is time to develop an understanding and an approach.
My guess is that the better that proposal is from the fans, the more the club might listen and the more that fans might unite behind the authors of that approach. There will always be those who do not want to be led or who object to the leadership or direction but there are a large number of fans who have a genuine interest in understanding the direction of the club along with some form of participation.
Duchatelet himself has gone on record as saying that he has learnt from his experiance at Liege and that there are some things like pricing where it is good to consult with the fans. On the other hand it is unlikely he or anyone else will consult over transfer dealings in or out. So what is the nature of the dialogue which fans can have? What is the Duchatelet vision for CAFC?
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Stop worrying, everything is going to be fantastic.
So relax, smoke a joint and remember everything is gonna be alright.
Roland.
You've got to finish that piece of advice.
Don't worry, bout a ting.....
My judgment is totally out until the beginning of the next season when we know who the coach is, which players he's got, and where they came from. The appointment of Riga and the subsequent turnaround in results proves to me at least that while RD may have had a few misjudgments about this league specifically, a fool regarding the business of football he most certainly is not.
BUT you don't get to be where RD is and have the success he has had by making the same mistakes twice, in business, in football, or in anything.
There will always be an exception to the rule like Muzza was with his choice of 3 Managers in 7 months and eventually a fourth from the third of those backroom staff changes. So glad those dark days are behind us..................... :-0
Yet thus far since he has taken over he ain't done much wrong
No one has so far given one good proven reason why you are all worried
All of the speculation, concern and crying wolf simply does not bring anything to the table. To me it is all about possible futures and right now there is a simple battle regarding staying up or going down which has nothing to do with Italy, Spain, Hungary, Germany or Belgium. Once that is resolved there is a longer term vision to develop and fans can either react to decisions or they can propose what should happen and how the club should engage with the fans. Until the CAFC management team agree to a meeting there is time to develop an understanding and an approach.
My guess is that the better that proposal is from the fans, the more the club might listen and the more that fans might unite behind the authors of that approach. There will always be those who do not want to be led or who object to the leadership or direction but there are a large number of fans who have a genuine interest in understanding the direction of the club along with some form of participation.
Duchatelet himself has gone on record as saying that he has learnt from his experiance at Liege and that there are some things like pricing where it is good to consult with the fans. On the other hand it is unlikely he or anyone else will consult over transfer dealings in or out. So what is the nature of the dialogue which fans can have? What is the Duchatelet vision for CAFC?