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funny how you brand me, yet unable to commit to having a genuine face to face chat... powerful behind a computer screen.Richinns wrote: ↑28 Aug 2017, 16:47 Ignoring the troll.....I have to ask why we have basically given away the last three games by not being proactive in the decision to dismiss Nicholson? Taking the time to find the right man is all well and good but surely starting from a base of zero preparation in that process is a basic error to be making....
Happy to chat face to face....where do you want to meet? Under a bridge?!arrywithanh wrote: ↑28 Aug 2017, 16:49 funny how you brand me, yet unable to commit to having a genuine face to face chat... powerful behind a computer screen.
I think GIs lack of experience in, or ignorance of football has led to this. Last season Nicholson sailed very close to the wind in terms of performance and I think a football savvy board may very well have got rid of him in May instead of letting him spend on a new squad. Again a football savvy board sacking Nicholson at the end of last season would also have lined up the replacement whilst Nicholson was still in situ.Richinns wrote: ↑28 Aug 2017, 16:47 Ignoring the troll.....I have to ask why we have basically given away the last three games by not being proactive in the decision to dismiss Nicholson? Taking the time to find the right man is all well and good but surely starting from a base of zero preparation in that process is a basic error to be making....
Plainmoor78 wrote: ↑28 Aug 2017, 17:02 I think GIs lack of experience in, or ignorance of football has led to this. Last season Nicholson sailed very close to the wind in terms of performance and I think a football savvy board may very well have got rid of him in May instead of letting him spend on a new squad. Again a football savvy board sacking Nicholson at the end of last season would also have lined up the replacement whilst Nicholson was still in situ.
Again if a football savvy board had decided to sack their manager less than a month into the season they would/should of already had the replacement lined up.
I know you will disagree with this but I feel GI were hesitant to sack Nicholson at any point in the last six months because they thought he was popular with the support (which he seems to have been, although I personally never rated him as a manager based on last seasons performance). A more football savvy ownership would have discarded fan sentiment and struck when the iron was hot.
From a quick look at G.I.s accounts on the Companies House website, in a number of the years up to - but not including - the one ending December 2015, the company (and its parent) managed to avoid paying corporation tax (or only had nominal liabilities) even though it made handsome profits most years. "Utilisation of tax losses" being part of the mix. But not being a qualified accountant, I don't fully understand the mechanisms here.portugull wrote: ↑28 Aug 2017, 13:14 neal it could be that GI are looking for ownership of a loss making Football Club so they can put a tax loss against a big profit elsewhere.
Sometimes it suits a Company to do this as it mitigates the amount of Corporation Tax they have to pay.
Of course they have to see an upside as well and that is the sale of Plainmoor at a future date.GI are a very long standing Company and you can bet they know what they are doing.
I emphasise this is pure speculation on my part but stranger things have happened in Football.
Spot on ~ and for that you can thank the sycophants who were cheer leading for an out of his depth manager and celebrating scraping by and just avoiding relegation as some sort of achievement.Plainmoor78 wrote: ↑28 Aug 2017, 17:02 I think GIs lack of experience in, or ignorance of football has led to this. Last season Nicholson sailed very close to the wind in terms of performance and I think a football savvy board may very well have got rid of him in May instead of letting him spend on a new squad. Again a football savvy board sacking Nicholson at the end of last season would also have lined up the replacement whilst Nicholson was still in situ. Again if a football savvy board had decided to sack their manager less than a month into the season they would/should of already had the replacement lined up.
I know you will disagree with this but I feel GI were hesitant to sack Nicholson at any point in the last six months because they thought he was popular with the support (which he seems to have been, although I personally never rated him as a manager based on last seasons performance). A more football savvy ownership would have discarded fan sentiment and struck when the iron was hot.
merse btpir wrote: ↑28 Aug 2017, 22:39 Spot on ~ and for that you can thank the sycophants who were cheer leading for an out of his depth manager and celebrating scraping by and just avoiding relegation as some sort of achievement.
I agree with you.!
Now we see the legacy of that.