during the final couple of years or so on the old OS on the Your Views sections which was similar to CL many fans were shouting for Murray out. Yes he got it wrong over Dowie but without him we wouldn't have had all the Premier League years. Lightyears as it may seems now. My reaction to those posts was be careful what you wish for. Look now, those fans may have got their wish but now we have an owner who fans are even more vocal about wanting out. I just want to know if the Murray Out brigade are happy now? I mean Murray decides to sell and then you'll be saying that owner out. Gives me no pleassure in saying told you!
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I wish I'd win a four week roll-over jackpot on the €uromillions, no need to be careful.
Curbs, Varney, Murray - all key names that obviously worked great together. Curbs left and it crumbled. No where near as simple as I'm making it sound but it's basically what happened. People that just had a particularly good and healthy working relationship.
I don't know the man personally and have never met him so don't have a great insight. Some people have less positive things to say about him.
I will say and remind people that the man did suffer a sad story of personal tragedy. Will always hold a candle for him in that sense. Can't have been easy.
He's done a lot for this club and will choose to remember the good times of his very positive input.
A happy, strong , well supported club... all up in smoke
For many fans it will never be enough until we are challenging for a Champions League place. There were calls for qualification into Europe when Curbishley was here when our budget was one of the lowest in the division and we were still running up debts.
It's not easy running a football club. For all his faults I believe that RM wanted what we did. He was a fan first and a multi-millionaire second. Maybe he made some mistakes; maybe he ran out of miracles. Either way I don't think his integrity should even be questioned, something I can't say for the current owner or CEO!
I don't see any solution to the current problem that sets supporters against people who have access to RD and could represent the views of passionate supporters.
If we accept for a moment that however much we can't accept RD's way of managing CAFC, his objectives and our objectives do not have to be mutually exclusive.
The problem is the people he is relying on, and what advice he thinks he needs, rather than the advice he should be getting.
I have struggled to think of any action that could possibly solve that problem, I don't believe we can do anything that will make him sell up. So why not think about how he might be persuaded to accept:
1 His strategy for appointing management is flawed
2. He is relying too much on people who are unfamiliar with English football
3. He is not harnessing the value of whatever works in Belgium to develop talent
If RM and Keith Peacock could be persuaded to front up with RD and call a "do or die" crisis meeting to put arguments to RD that he cannot refute and change his advisers and key management team, it would be positive. Negative action to vent our anger and frustration needs to be resisted.
The one good thing about RD as an owner, is that he clearly has a social conscience and is a man of principles. Many owners are property developers and property developers never, ever, ever have enough cash. The temptation to suck cash out of a club or sell its assets when they are desperate for the next fix of a property deal, spells disaster when it comes.
For that reason I do not see selling CAFC to anyone just to rid ourselves of RD is the best idea.
RD will not respect gestures that challenge his motives. The only thing he cannot refute is failure of his management and he needs top get some home truths from people whose credential he cannot question. Supporter groups need to seek the right conduit for their views to be listened to, rather than try and bomb their way in.
How is another issue.