Graham Alexander - “There are other issues”

Lack of football knowledge outside of the manager
Poor coaches at first team level
Scatter gun recruitment
Huge overheads that mean we can’t compete
Disgrace of a pitch
Trainning ground that contributes to our injuries
Poor medical team
Lack of communication to fans - manager always on hook?
Lack of football strategy
Not enough non football bodies to run the organisation given its size.

All of the above is just a general lack of investment and care.

 

Tends to suggest there is some kind of interference with the first team. Reading the Mills thread and what he's said there it would suggest that he's been told to keep it quiet which is never a good thing.

 

Gone full Derek Adams look what happened there

 

Other issues = a systematically broken football club, absent owner, narcissistic and unqualified CEO, and incompetence and lack of integrity at all senior levels of the club.

 

The bottom line is there clearly are things that need to be addressed, whatever they are. But alas suspect they won't be. However boring Uncle Derek was, maybe he had already identified the start of the slide. Sustainability is not providing forward investment and is why we are in a huge downward spiral. Poor GA must wonder what he has walked into. For all our sakes I hope this does all get sorted but it certainly ain't a happy place to be right now

 

Do sacked managers have to sign NDAs? I’d be very interested in hearing what Derek or Mark have to say about the behind the scenes

 

Excellent summary

 

Reading further in the article and it really does suggest problems beyond....

“There are other issues but I’m not going to talk about them now.

“I’m not going to sit here and try and highlight other things that need doing just to protect my back.

“I’m big enough to take the responsibility but I know there are a lot of things that we have to do to improve to get this club winning

 

I don't know about managers signing NDA's or not. But I can see why you very rarely hear any sacked manager badmouthing the club they've left. Who's going to employ someone in the future if they're going to be critical of the club when they're invariably sacked? There's probably lots of private conversations between managers about clubs behind the scenes, but pretty much every manager at every level maintains the omerta because they want to be employed in the future.

 

Something is clearly wrong, All the managers appointed during Sparks reign , were decent for our level and you would have thought more than capable of getting us out of this league.
It must be above them that is holding us back.
Unfortunately there is no accountability for Rupp, will not even accept letters. Sparks is his sock puppet , he would have been sacked at any other business sustainability or not, a more clueless guy you could not find to run a football club, apart from Fordy .
Only kidding mate.

 

Be great if the ISG could get an updated version of DA thoughts on the going ons at City

 

But apart from that, things going well yeah?

 

I quote:

“There are other issues but I’m not going to talk about them now.

“I’m not going to sit here and try and highlight other things that need doing just to protect my back.

“I’m big enough to take the responsibility but I know there are a lot of things that we have to do to improve to get this club winning.”

What are the other issues you think?

 

The same issues that have been present for the last 4 years or more. They've all been very well documented for anyone actually willing to listen.

 

I think we can go back as far as Grayson who left as quickly as he arrived quoting problems with the set up

 

with the state of City I think other clubs would probably make an exception

 

Another reason we need more transparency in the accounts to see where this extra revenue goes

 

I’m just guessing that some of the issues might revolve around injuries. Maybe the physios aren’t up to the job, maybe the training pitches aren’t good enough and we know the pitch at VP is a shambles. After 7/8 years in charge you would have hoped the owner could have at least bought our own training facility. Nothing flamboyant but not on a floodplain. The inability to get out on the grass or injury inducing ground could be behind some of his frustration. What exactly has Rupp invested into this club?