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Sandgaard - An occasional vignette of ego

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Best of luck to him. Had all good intentions, just was a bit shit38
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He was a crap football club owner but the opioid crisis is a real issue in America and a film educating people on that is a cool thing to have created. For all his failings I did quite like that we were owned by a bloke who made his money off pain management devices for seriously ill people rather than your standard unscrupulous businessmen, dodgy dealers and hedge fund managers like most others
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Feels like the US opioid epidemic has already been covered fairly extensively by other movies/tv series’.0
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World Famous for the timeless classic Mobo and Ivor Novello award winning song "Addicks to Victory" - Kerrang.4
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se9addick said:Feels like the US opioid epidemic has already been covered fairly extensively by other movies/tv series’.
It's an addictive genre.5 -
Gets a thumbs up from me…..I never disliked the bloke, he was simply way out of his comfort zone.
Would like to see him back at The Valley for a game…….if ever he’s in town.
He wasn’t a crook. 😏23 -
Well, now he's not here at least he won't be strutting around the pitch playing "Heroin"1
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Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:Well, now he's not here at least he won't be strutting around the pitch playing "Heroin"1
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se9addick said:Feels like the US opioid epidemic has already been covered fairly extensively by other movies/tv series’.
In short, it's not exactly an overly saturated market. So while I find him annoying (even if he wrote a banger of an anthem), and I have serious questions about how his firm bills Medicare and Medicaid, AND I would like to know if they have/had a working relationship with any of the pharmaceutical companies who pushed Opioid Rxs...yeah good job I suppose.2 -
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If he can beat the opening riff to "Cocaine" I'll eat my hat.
Nice bloke & would have been great if he had succeeded, but he knew less about football than I do about Opioids.3 -
Garrymanilow said:He was a crap football club owner but the opioid crisis is a real issue in America and a film educating people on that is a cool thing to have created. For all his failings I did quite like that we were owned by a bloke who made his money off pain management devices for seriously ill people rather than your standard unscrupulous businessmen, dodgy dealers and hedge fund managers like most others
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golfaddick said:If he can beat the opening riff to "Cocaine" I'll eat my hat.
Nice bloke & would have been great if he had succeeded, but he knew less about football than I do about mortgages.
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Yeah never disliked him so good luck to him. He's made his money coming from relatively nothing and now he's making films, buying football clubs not a bad life3
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Fair play. Certainly Thomas has an ego that needs massaging on a regular basis and I think he thought owning a successful football club would give him that but failed to realise it was very difficult to make it successful. Once the adulation of saving the club from crooks stopped and criticism started I think he lost interest. A movie no matter how worthy will be yesterday’s news very quickly and he’ll move on to the next “look at me, love me” project. Hard to dislike the bloke and I wish him well.6
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Can't stand the egotistical prick.9
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Frankly I disliked his arrogance..he refused to heed advice from people who knew better and the club suffered as a result5
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ShootersHillGuru said:Fair play. Certainly Thomas has an ego that needs massaging on a regular basis and I think he thought owning a successful football club would give him that but failed to realise it was very difficult to make it successful. Once the adulation of saving the club from crooks stopped and criticism started I think he lost interest. A movie no matter how worthy will be yesterday’s news very quickly and he’ll move on to the next “look at me, love me” project. Hard to dislike the bloke and I wish him well.
I can’t stand him. The most positive thing you can say about him is that he wanted to succeed/ didn’t set out with negative intentions, but I think you could almost argue the same for RD… he was an obscenely arrogant and deluded guy and by some accounts it sounds like actually quite unpleasant, and the way he went out was also not dissimilar to RD, seemed like very little regard for the club and his sole interest being trying to recoup his losses (substantial amount of which were self inflicted).Hard not to dislike the bloke, I do not wish him well.4 -
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paulsturgess said:ShootersHillGuru said:Fair play. Certainly Thomas has an ego that needs massaging on a regular basis and I think he thought owning a successful football club would give him that but failed to realise it was very difficult to make it successful. Once the adulation of saving the club from crooks stopped and criticism started I think he lost interest. A movie no matter how worthy will be yesterday’s news very quickly and he’ll move on to the next “look at me, love me” project. Hard to dislike the bloke and I wish him well.
I can’t stand him. The most positive thing you can say about him is that he wanted to succeed/ didn’t set out with negative intentions, but I think you could almost argue the same for RD… he was an obscenely arrogant and deluded guy and by some accounts it sounds like actually quite unpleasant, and the way he went out was also not dissimilar to RD, seemed like very little regard for the club and his sole interest being trying to recoup his losses (substantial amount of which were self inflicted).Hard not to dislike the bloke, I do not wish him well.4 -
At the beginning I liked all the razzmatazz, it felt great to have a very different owner to the usual but ultimately his ego, destroyed him.
As others have said, I think he had the right intentions just executed them badly, culminating in wife interference and Martin’s black box.
For the record, I didn’t mind, Addicks to Victory, not to replace RRR, ultimately backfired spectacularly.0 -
ShootersHillGuru said:paulsturgess said:ShootersHillGuru said:Fair play. Certainly Thomas has an ego that needs massaging on a regular basis and I think he thought owning a successful football club would give him that but failed to realise it was very difficult to make it successful. Once the adulation of saving the club from crooks stopped and criticism started I think he lost interest. A movie no matter how worthy will be yesterday’s news very quickly and he’ll move on to the next “look at me, love me” project. Hard to dislike the bloke and I wish him well.
I can’t stand him. The most positive thing you can say about him is that he wanted to succeed/ didn’t set out with negative intentions, but I think you could almost argue the same for RD… he was an obscenely arrogant and deluded guy and by some accounts it sounds like actually quite unpleasant, and the way he went out was also not dissimilar to RD, seemed like very little regard for the club and his sole interest being trying to recoup his losses (substantial amount of which were self inflicted).Hard not to dislike the bloke, I do not wish him well.Bad man - can’t really comment with proper qualification but his self interest, arrogance and the reported treatment of some club staff suggest it’s a discussion.Bad owner - absolutely 100% yes. Again, to compare against the standards that preceded him is mental. He was an awful, awful owner there is absolutely no argument that can be made to the contrary. Less awful than Southall et al - yes. Less awful than RD - debatable - Parzysek Vs Schwarz, potato patato. Objectively awful viewing his tenure in isolation from those before him - indisputable.1 -
I'd say it's equally easy to dislike him as it is to like him.
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His biggest mistake was refusing to accept any help from proper football people who could have helped him.
He thought his girlfriend and his son could run the club and bring success on their own.
Some of the things he said such as success is easy all you need to do is be smarter than everyone else summed him up.
He truly believed he was so clever he could achieve all the things he said.
Problem was he wasn't.5 -
He clearly bought us out of his own interest in making money, as would any new owner, they are not in it because they love the club, and the fact is, we were on the road to oblivion before he came in, I think we can all appreciate that bit, can we.
Now once in, the reality quickly set in and he really was out of his depth regarding actually running a professional football club, resulting in the lack of any realistic appointments, leaving his misses and son to cock everything up, he was clearly very naive, and a total egotistical person in the end.
So, let him do his own thing now, and us move on to what looks like a better alternative ownership....0 -
blackpool72 said:His biggest mistake was refusing to accept any help from proper football people who could have helped him.
He thought his girlfriend and his son could run the club and bring success on their own.
Some of the things he said such as success is easy all you need to do is be smarter than everyone else summed him up.
He truly believed he was so clever he could achieve all the things he said.
Problem was he wasn't.0 -
He's fine but should've stayed in his own lane.
Problem with people that get rich from nothing, they think they have the midas touch to all that follows. Rather than using your money to allow your companies to be ran by experts.1