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Reply | Sack McNulty
at 08:53 23 Feb 2025
No chance of kick starting Project 5000 then. Hes been given a play off budget, that was stated earlier in the season. We are now losing matchday support rather than building on it. Nobody wants to watch this diet of boring, backward sterile football. You're making excuses for us to fail. The squad of players should have easily made the play offs. He's making excuses for the Tamworth game already, a part time club that is languishing in the bottom half of the league. If you are a player listening to your manager speaking like that you'd be drained of confidence before you even got onto the pitch. He's trying to pull the wool over the owners and the fans eyes, excuse after excuse and most fans can now see through it. Gibbons and himself looked like two little boys lost yesterday on the touchline, the players looked thoroughly cheesed off. They all downed tools and threw the towel in after an hour, tapped out. [Post edited 23 Feb 8:54]
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Reply | Match Thread, Dale v In form top of the table Barnet
at 17:10 22 Feb 2025
Total surrender that, we need a new manager. Easiest game of the season for Barnet. Lose next Saturday and it's season over. Good luck selling season tickets with McNulty and his side kick in the dugout.
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Reply | Leadership team
at 11:33 22 Feb 2025
The silence and compliance from the supporters trust is also a major disappointment, compounded by the fact they have Murray Knight in the Boardroom. A toothless organisation that is too busy currying favour with the likes of Gauge rather than doing what they were elected for, representing their members and protecting the club when they witness any wrongdoing. As a major shareholder ( members shares) they failed to do that at the infamous AGM and should have called the meeting out for what it was, a absolutely sham and a disgrace. |
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Reply | Leadership team
at 07:10 22 Feb 2025
100% correct. Chris Harrison was Gauge's advisor at the time and the non exec Director you refer to. His attack on Chris Dunphy was a disgrace and a sad reflection on both himself and Simon Gauge. Harrison was constantly telling anybody who would listen how nobody would ever invest in the club with real money and it was either Gauge's way or the highway...we'd have the likes of James Lawerence and a DJ from Norwich running the club now if we'd have listened to them two...World Soccer Holdings, a con man who lived in a flat in Preston who tricked Gauge into believing that he lived in a plush pad in St Annes. Gauge fell hook, line and sinker for it yet again and then had the temerity to blame the fans for scuppering the deal...no wonder nobody likes him. He tried to railroad the shareholders and the fans. He always knows best does Simon, his way or the highway.
It was the fans who ultimately saved the club and on more than one occasion when you look back over the last three or four years. They were even responsible for introducing the Ogden family to the club, nothing to do with Simon Gauge who was already in bed with a bunch of Americans at the time of the infamous AGM when his desperation to get the deal over the line stank the room out ...his fellow Directors will confirm that. According to him on the night there were no other credible candidates, a lot of people in the room that night knew that was a lie and he misled the shareholders and railroaded them into voting a certain way. A disgrace and a vote that should have been null and void. If he had a ounce of remorse he would now resign from his position and let the Ogdens and the supporters start with a new slate. I dont think his ego will let him do that though unfortunately so the Ogden family should put him out to grass and finally sort out the Boardroom once and for all. Then we can all move forward together as one and it will really be the start of a new era. [Post edited 22 Feb 8:00]
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Reply | Leadership team
at 06:45 22 Feb 2025
If i was the Ogdens i would give all those involved in buying back the Morton House shares a place alongside Jack the kitman and make them honorary members, or whatever the recognition is termed as. Gauge and his family put a lot of money in, make him a life president, we dont need two chairman. Put another plaque on the wall with their names on. I find it ridiculous really that Jack the kitman is given such recognition by the club, yet Chris Dunphy who was Chairman during two promotions to league one and oversaw the redevelopment of the stadium is completely snubbed by Simon Gauge and the Ogdens. That's a insult and a stain on the club and a sad reflection on Simon Gauges time as Chairman...childish and petty. A ex Chairman who has many good contacts in and around the Town and was responsible for RMBC investing in the Stadium during his time at the club. He lives in the vicinity, it beggars belief why Jamie Willoughby etc aren't contacting him and using him to help open doors. I can only think that Simon Gauge bears a grudge again but let's face it, Simon Gauge doesn't run the club anymore.
If they are serious about building the crowds this summer i would look at bringing Chris Dunphy back into the fold in a advisory capacity, invite Jamie Sarsfield back as a Director because of his business links and get up and go attitude and have a serious think about the entertainment on offer under McNulty, because there's very little to enthuse the floating supporter. Changes are needed and that would boost season ticket sales over the summer and further strengthen us off the pitch, bringing people in with strong local contacts within the Town that will help the Ogden family. [Post edited 22 Feb 7:03]
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Reply | Leadership team
at 16:38 21 Feb 2025
Contributing to the Ogdens matchday wine bill probably. It's a great question though, what does he contribute and what does Gauge contribute? He doesn't contribute in regards to expertise when it comes to business acumen and has no more knowledge when it comes to football than the average man on the terrace. If you had just purchased a football club you would seek out those who know the club, the ones who have been in the Boardroom and have local contacts. The Ogdens need to engage with Chris Dunphy and spend a couple of hours in his company, the best Chairman we've ever had. Jamie Sarsfield was ostracised from the club by the current board after helping to save the club, he's another dyed in the wool, straight talking guy who is missed. Get people like those involved with the Club again and season tickets would fly off the shelf, individuals who the fans can relate too and have a beer with. It's a fan club this, no room for people on the Boardroom who think they are doing you a favour by even speaking to you. The Ogdens and Jamie Willoughby need to start listening to their customers, the fans and take notice of what they are saying. Take Chris Dunphy out for dinner, it will be the best couple of hundred quid the Ogdens could spend. [Post edited 21 Feb 17:01]
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Reply | Match thread Halifax Town
at 08:46 20 Feb 2025
We did pass it around OK between both penalty boxes but i don't recall us creating one real chance throughout the game. I dont recall their keeper having to really extend himself. Keith Hill used to describe it as like watching a soft porn film..plenty of promise but nothing happening in the box. [Post edited 20 Feb 11:34]
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Reply | Match thread Halifax Town
at 23:33 19 Feb 2025
Yes, should definitely have had six points. I thought we played well at Southend but never looked like scoring tonight. |
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Reply | Match thread Halifax Town
at 23:08 19 Feb 2025
There were no chances to tuck away, we created nothing and over the ninety minutes we didn't invade the penalty area enough. It was another toothless display and Halifax were there for the taking. We need a new manager i think. |
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Reply | The race for seventh, midweek 18th/19th Feb
at 09:09 19 Feb 2025
Well summed up. Progress in the day to day running of the club is probably just as important as our final league position also. Unless the whole structure of the club is firing on all cylinders, or at least moving in the right direction, then everything else falls down. The changes in the leadership structure has been badly needed for a long time, so that gives us hope. [Post edited 19 Feb 9:46]
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Reply | The race for seventh, midweek 18th/19th Feb
at 07:37 19 Feb 2025
The importance of winning games seems as though it's secondary to the performance and the process when you listen to McNulty. I think thats the difference between us and most of the teams above us and it's reflected in the league table. They all seem to find that bit extra and win the games that they're expected to win in general. More fire in their belly's, more desire to fight, more ruthlessness from the dugout. We beat Halifax at home, in all honesty they ran rings around us that night, we need to be up for the fight from the first whistle tonight because Halifax will realise the significance of tonight's result and won't be taking a backward step. We're due a monumental cock up in defence while trying to play out, inviting pressure, hopefully McNulty will take into account the state of the pitch when he conducts his team talk and we don't see any of that tonight. It's about which team wants it the most tonight. [Post edited 19 Feb 8:35]
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Reply | The race for 7th (Saturday 15th Feb)
at 07:44 17 Feb 2025
Good post, attitudes at the club do have to change. Gauge should no longer be involved in the day to day running of the club or the decision making. The Ogdens have people in salaried positions to run the club now so it's the likes of Andy Duff who is responsible for overseeing these sort of things. I dont think Cameron Ogden would be very impressed if Simon Gauge was interfering with those that have been specifically tasked to do their job. Individuals with far more experience than Gauge will ever have and if they have any backbone they will remind him of that should he try to interfere and report it back to Cameron Ogden. Employment tribunals and compensation payments have cost the club in the past so let's hope the club is now run in a professional way and there is respect given to all members of staff. The last thing we need is any individuals sticking their beak in when people are trying to do their job [Post edited 17 Feb 9:25]
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Reply | The race for 7th (Saturday 15th Feb)
at 18:52 16 Feb 2025
Speaking of project 5000, in two weeks time we have a absolutely massive home game against Altrincham, beat them and we are one game from Wembley and would be favourites to win the first meaningful trophy in the history of the club. Does McNulty see the significance of the Altrincham game and does he embrace it? Do those in the Boardroom recognise the importance of this game? If you are looking at launching a 5000 project then this is a marketing dream for the club and could kick start a generation of new fans and significantly boost season ticket sales over the season if we can link Wembley tickets with early bird offers on season tickets.
I'm not confident anybody at the club has even recognised the significance of what is at stake though, theyve probably not even given it any in depth planning or thought. Mc Nulty will hate the pressure, even if it's the FA Trophy and he'll talk Altrincham up as though they are Real Madrid. If those in the Boardroom have the stomach for it they should be rallying the Town and looking at strengthening the forward line this week. Let's see how it pans out, it's the biggest game of our season but we'll probably wimp out of it like we do in big games. [Post edited 17 Feb 7:34]
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Reply | The race for 7th (Saturday 15th Feb)
at 15:51 16 Feb 2025
I dont think Gauge will leave of his own accord. Mc Nulty will either be sacked or he will wait for a better option to present itself. [Post edited 16 Feb 15:52]
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Reply | The race for 7th (Saturday 15th Feb)
at 03:06 16 Feb 2025
'Roll substitutions on and off' is just another ridiculous excuse. McNulty has the option to roll substitutions on and off also but he didn't do. He has a good squad and decent options on the bench. The league table says we have been superior to Southend all season so his attempt to pull the wool over the fans eyes with his 'football speak' doesn't wash unfortunately. It seems that the opposition manager outsmarted him with his in game substitutions. That's what happened. I watched the game on the telly and we are a reflection of the manager..nice to look at but too soft, lacking fire in our belly and a desire to kill off teams. Mc Nulty is managing us out of the plays offs, he'll have a excuse for it though and cite the three year plan. It's similar to BBM relegating us with a good squad of players, there's no character or steel in the team. [Post edited 16 Feb 7:53]
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Reply | Club Advisory Board
at 12:12 15 Feb 2025
I would like to think that those selected for a interview will also be savvy enough to interview those doing the interview at the same time. Interviews should never be a one way process. If i'm giving up my own time free of charge to help the Club then it will be me asking plenty of questions and then deciding if the position is right for me, it won't be the other way around i'm afraid. I won't be being interviewed by Gauge and Pockney neither, i value my time. I'm fine with anybody else. [Post edited 15 Feb 12:21]
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Reply | Leadership team
at 12:07 15 Feb 2025
Yes, I've never viewed him as being responsible for things like sending Ethan Brierley to train with a club that is the subject of a transfer embargo when we desperately needed him on the pitch. Nearly handing the club over to a bunch of wide boys and blaming the fans for scuppering the deal, that was a classic. The sticker on seats fiasco etc. I'd be surprised if that was down to GD. I view him as the quiet man but would imagine he's pretty good at his job. [Post edited 15 Feb 12:08]
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Reply | Club Advisory Board
at 07:26 15 Feb 2025
I'd be interested also .I'm assuming this is a separate entity to the Supporters Trust and not connected. It will also be interesting to know who will be conducting the interview and selection process. It is a good opportunity for fans to get involved with how the club is being run and a strong CAB is definitely needed because at the moment the fans have no voice or credible representation. [Post edited 15 Feb 7:37]
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Reply | Leadership team
at 19:59 14 Feb 2025
GD is a employee rather than a board member, there is a professionalism about him, even though it's a very quiet one. I dont believe he's been responsible for the naive and amateurish decision making over the last few years. Hes not the figurehead of the club neither or a member of the boardroom. I dont see him in the same light as SG and TP. I dont hold him in high regard, I'm hopeful that hes good at his job though. |
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Reply | Leadership team
at 22:29 12 Feb 2025
No, i haven't forgot any of that. Gauge should have thanked the fans for saving the club again but he didn't, he blamed the fans for interfering instead. He can never admit that he's wrong. He was wrong at the infamous AGM also, a very dark day in the history of our club. I'm not even convinced he would have chosen the Ogden family had the decision been left to him, thats how poor i think his decision making is. I did mention in a previous post about the ridiculous decision making coming out of the club over the last few years and his fellow Directors must also take some of the blame for that.. Hopefully this will stop now, Simon Gauge will fade into the background and we can stop talking about him. Start of a new era now off the pitch hopefully. [Post edited 12 Feb 22:37]
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