Agenda For The Supporter`s Board

The establishment of the proposed Supporters Board is to be welcomed. in spite of those who believe it is only prompted by the new football league regulations.

The less charitable will comment that the launch with outdated photographs and staff listed, indicates a lack of attention to detail which may limit the effectiveness of this body in the future.

Clearly recruitment of `the right` people is going to be of paramount importance, and the knowledge that impartial selectors are involved is a welcome development (there is no truth that Chumlax has been barred from applying).

However in order to establish a list of future priorities we do need the Board to examine the past so we can fully understand the current ownership situation, and the cooperation of forum members in adding to the agenda will be a vital constituent.

Agenda:

1. Were the keys to the safe ever located, and if so what was in it?
2, Was the female staff member who was arrested for non compliance with the Owner`s wishes ever released?
3. Why did Mr Simpson relinquish control of the club so abruptly - can we be sure no foul play was used?
4. Were the Russo brothers beneficiaries or victims of a miscarriage of justice?
5. Why did fan communications suffer so greatly after the departure of Aidy Boothroyd?
6. How can the management team be restructured to restore the excellence of scouting future players with potential?
7. Should we elevate the `Manager role` to have more influence than a Head Coach?
8. What steps are being taken to inject more funds into the club to reduce our reliance on a single individual?

Please add discussion points so that we can empower the new group to express fan concerns more fully.

 

Not really but points 6-8 are `current`- and there is loads of space for members to add the future aspirations.

 

Q. When are we getting a cheese room at the Vic?

 

What did the Ruzzo's have on Graham Simpson
What was the Machevelian plot with the Ruzzos and Bassini all about
How did they persuade Udinese to pay real money for Bayo

 

The main question for me is: when is @Chumlax going to be unbanned? #toughquestions #needanswers #resistance

 

Why only one supporter? Worrying if true.

 

1-5 - Have nothing to dop woth current ownership but I obviously realise they are jokes.
6 - They seem to still be finding gems so not sure what else they can do with other bigger sharks circling the pond.
7 - Nobody will have more influence than Gino, that is abundantly clear.
8 - I cant see any way that other parties will want to get involved with Gino given his value of the business and how much control he wants, this counts the same for selling the club.

 

Over to our financial expert for that one:

 

Despot!

 

Def not 6. Manga was a fraud. Serious lack of due diligence regarding his appointment. It transpired that he wasn’t the main ‘gem’ finder and that he was indeed merely a cog within his club’s recruitment team. What he did have was a great deal of PR and spin around him which we believed.

 

That's a bit insulting to him. He clearly did a good job at Frankfurt, including building the team of scouts around him.

Ok that wasn't necessarily going to translate to the Championship and it was a stupid appointment given how we work but no need to run down his previous achievements.

If you wanted to complain about anything, would focus on why we paid well over the odds for João Ferreira who has never really featured for us but had the same agent as Manga...

 

But that’s the point he didn’t build the scouting team at Frankfurt he was part of a management team that did. His boss, who I apologise to not being able to recall the name of was where the overall credit sat with.

 

Scott Duxbury?

 

No, Manga’s boss at Frankfurt

 

How do you know this?

 

Scott told him.

 

As Scott Duxbury would have been part of the decision making process in appointing him at Watford, I don’t think so as outlining this would make him look rather silly, again. Like the before hell or high water quote. I think the rhetoric around Manga is commonly now known within football.

 

I’m going to take a wild swing here and go for it’s something he once read on twitter and he’s decided to run with it as fact.

 

Oh does it matter. Manga came and went very quickly. I heard that he was useless via several sources and all that was around the club at the time was total confusion regarding recruitment, possibly not all his fault, where Giarretta was doing on thing and he was doing another leaving Bilic not knowing if he was on foot or horseback.

 

Racist

 

And that is all on Gino Pozzo who brought him and team in, while having family stooge Giaretta in an overlapping role. And at a time when transfer funds were about to dry up. Of course it wasn't going to work. Another absured decision by the owner.

 

I agree.

 

Crazy how people still push this line knowing that Manga was working within massive constraints and we all know all who had the last word no matter which players Manga dug up. All roads lead to Gino.

 

That was where his skill set was meant to be though as I recall - finding cheap diamonds in the rough. Instead he found Ferreira and Araujo.

Gino is a loony but Manga is still a dud.

 

i am sure it will improve engagement and communication between team ownership and supporters

 

And will it be adjacent to the biscuit room ?

because if it’s not , there could some logistical problems getting between the two .

 

This is Manga's current role .


He is now the Director of Squad Planning, Scouting, and Youth Academy at FC Schalke 04, as announced by the club in May 2024.


If he had any significant part in building the Frankfurt squad he wouldn’t be doing this job now .

Gino got mugged off , not for the first time .

 

Ex Plymouth manager ? “Wayne Rooney’s Schalke 04”?

 

Got themselves into massive financial trouble I thought, whole club was gutted as a result and they are in third tier of Germany now right? Still a massive club and the supporters are still showing up in numbers.