S.A.F.C. - the future

Not sure what the attendance was for the checkatrade games at home but I went to most of them when the east stand was the only option. It wasn't particularly 'rocking' shall we say!

 

Exactly!
He could countersue for defamation/loss-of-earnings if we lose? Don't really know if that's possible mind, but could be a wedge taken there?

 

We’ve sold 12 thousand season tickets if all those registered there bubbles are the folk gona be allowed in every 3rd game

 

Balls every 4th game

 

Sounds like there's been a few unexpected financial hits, Alvarez, Coleman, Covid, seat replacement probably wouldn't have happened if they'd known.

 

They would be allowed 2.5k. It's 4000 or 50% whichever is the lesser, so only teams with 8000 capacity or above would be allowed 4000

 

I met him while in charge. Was a Sunday morning on Blyth beach, his wife was there also (fit as ****). Introduced myself and got a pic. The guy was superb. Loved chatting football and didn’t have a good word to say about rodwell. Blamed Lee congerton for a lot of the failed signings. I was gutted when he got the bullet, I felt like the club had a real man with passion who would eventually have succeeded with Safc

 

100% agree. You could see the passion in him.

If he'd have been supported by the owners/CEO we could have had a long term manager that actually understood the fans

 

Pretty much this.

 

Aye, I liked Coleman as well. I was very optimistic when he came here, fair enough it wasn’t working out but how much of that was the mess behind the scenes. The likes of Chodwell should be ashamed of themselves

 

Without wishing to piss on anyone's chips.............perhaps Parkiola has had a 'road to Damascus' moment and realised his last throw of the dice is to get AM back in the fold........just saying.....

 

And so long as you are pro Donald and haven't criticised Parky

 

I liked him too, he knew the passion from the supporters but I think he underestimated how much of a shìt show the club was.
I see a lot say his tactics were just "pass to bale" but I think that's unfair.
The Welsh players loved Gary Speed and quite rightly. Great bloke and had built a good team ethos,
After the untimely passing of Gary, Coleman rallied them and earned their affection.
That goes a long way for a manager in my book.

It must of been a massive shock for him to come to terms with Chodwell as you say .

A massive wánker of a wage thief and a total embarrassment to the club,

 

Why the fook do i even bother clicking the echo ? I should know better by now.
Fresh claims ffs

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.su...-and-kyril-louis-dreyfus-eye-deal-3045300?amp

 

Yeah I liked Coleman. He was treated so badly and wasn’t given a hope in hell of shaping his own side. It was disgusting. McGeady ****ting on him on STID was a disgrace and shows what a ****house McGeady is. He was probably told to put some effort in.

 

This. **** mcgeady. I'd sooner likes of Diamond and Embleton got a chance ahead of him.

 

He's getting to play it for real!

 

The fact that Parkinson is still there gives me some hope that the takeover will be forthcoming.

To sack him now would mean Donald paying up his contract, which he’ll see as an un- necessary cost. Better (for him) to hold out until the sale goes through, giving Dreyfus the cost of sacking Parkinson.

Donald will also not want to recruit a new manager now on the suggestion of any forthcoming new owner (if he can find a new manger that’ll join in the circumstances) as the new regime would, you’d hope, push for a higher salary / cost for back room staff etc. Costs that Donald would see himself left with if the takeover was to fall through.

The fact that there are club staff still furloughed despite fixtures been resumed suggests that Donald is trying to save as much money as he can - likely to be a low budget version of the final months of Short's tenure - only spending what he absolutely has to once the decision was made that he was selling the club.

The fact that Donald asked Short to sack (and pay off) Coleman before he took the reigns shows his mindset here. He wanted a new manger to replace Coleman, but didn’t want to pay for it, so got the outgoing owner to sort it. If he can get the incoming owner to cough up for his most recent managerial mistake in Parkinson, all the better (for Donald).

Hopefully, the new regime pulls the trigger on day one and they have a replacement management team lined up.

 

The things you learn in that Athletic article. KLD went to Uni in Leeds