Rhodes speaks

Should be our turn soon to win the Tom Banks memorial trophy ...

 

Confidence from the top dont expect promotion this season...tell us something we don't know

 

Good post

 

Interesting read. Interesting responses on here as well.

Seems the guy can't do right from wrong.

People hammer him for being silent and then hammer him for speaking out.

When the new CEO arrives we shall hear what plans they have for the club. Until then its carry on and remain calm.

 

Wouldn't surprise me or disappoint me too much, he seems like he's well clued up. He's cut his teeth over the last couple of years and the off the pitch stuff seems to tick along nicely. He's had my sympathy a couple of times recently when he's been hung out to dry after telling us fans things in good faith only to have egg on his face later.

We'd all love an experienced 'football' CEO with a track record of moving clubs forward but I guess most of them will be employed already at a level above City. It would be a fast track promotion for him but maybe a good option. He's not that much younger than when James Mason started his role at City and he did a good job in the main.

 

I don't think I've ever said Rupp was not a party to our decline, but what I will say is Rahic was very clever at what he did pulling the wool over everyone's eyes apart from those directly involved on a day to day basis.
At the time the likes of James Mason offered their expertise which Rahic very rarely took on board he knew football, would his partner Rupp believe the likes of Mason I'd suggest not, so ultimately he had little choice but to leave, luckily John Dewhirst managed to get a face to face meeting and got Rupp involved the rest is history.
So even though most of my comments were directed at what Rahic did and got away with Rupp was certainly too trusting and is equally as responsible as he was the major share holder and should have had more involvement in the running of the club, I believe when Rupp offered his apologies for what his co-partner did and said he would do all he can to get our club back to where we were before our demise suggest he realises he was also at fault.
There is no argument that as CEO during the last period Julian has to take his share of some very poor decisions football wise and ultimately financially.
As with yourself lets hope before the new guy takes over he has spoken with Rupp with regards his vision going forward and Stefan had backed it both as owner and benefactor.

 

It's s leap, but if it turned out to be Sparks or Mason then we really do need that Director of Football in the building in my view.

 

I believe that's what they do think. Perhaps if the club engaged more openly with fans they're quick to dismiss, they'd better understand the nature of the feedback they get. I can't think of many successful businesses who succeed on the basis of dismissing where its customers tell it that its going wrong.

 

@Bradford End a bit of backing for you in here. Hope you’ve thrown your hat in the ring

 

Seems they don’t care the supporters are hurting seeing our decline and seemingly cement ourselves in L2 , just looking to convince themselves they are doing it right, whilst our results on the pitch in a piss poor league continue to underwhelm.

Supporters want a team to be proud of, that is a very hard claim to make right now. Results on the pitch with Rhodes here picking managers have been shambolic. Bowyer signed dross on top of dross. Good accounting doesn’t paper over those huge cracks and they are not related to overspend, just poor choices.

Rhodes will no doubt stay on till the end of the season and then the new guy comes in and gives us new optimism to boost ST sales, no point bringing him now and having a flat season, no ST sales boost in that scenario.

 

The interview reads like the club is in admin. Just enough investment to keep it viable but no mention in regards to the fundamental reason we all attend... the football team. He's a massive part of the reason we're back in league 2. He sold out to those 2 idiots. Now he comes out having a pop at the very fans who have consistently put their faith and money into the club, in the hope our ambitions were aligned with theirs. We're just limping along, slowly dying as a force in the bottom league(if ever we were one). He's shown no enthusiasm whatsoever. We're no nearer to knowing if he's been successful in his search for a new CEO. He's identified a suitable candidate doesn't mean he's agreed to join us. We need Rupp to clarify his long term position.

 

I think it's worse than not caring if we're hurting. I think they're misjudging how many fans feel. When you misunderstand your customers, you create disengagement and it leads to a decline in trade. That's a fairly staple principle.

We seem to poorly judge much of what we do at all levels.

 

Unbelievably out of touch. Progress doesn’t nearly mean throw money at it. The recruitment has been horrendous for years, how about employing a team whose job it is to rectify this, that’s progress to me. Don’t get some people’s thinking.

 

Look at the varied responses on this forum. There are some who are notoriously 'glass is half full' who only ever see positives, there are some who are right at the other end, and most are somewhere in the middle, talking openly with a mixture of curiosity and concern about how we're being run and what our forward looking plan is. 'Ambition' is a generic term whereby I think fans just want to see something credible as to how we're planning for a better future, for sustainable improvement and to address obvious gaps in and around the club. The leader of this club clearly doesn't see that and in my opinion hes shown contempt for a significant portion of the fanbase. The sooner he's replaced by someone who wants to be here, who can re-engage the wider fanbase in a plan and who spends more time talking about how to make the football team better than justifying our budget lines, the better.

 

I wonder if our new CEO will be able to travel freely from country to country with all this Covid business

 

Rhodes has been here too long and has lost touch with too many of the fans, he is clearly an accountant first and foremost. I don’t feel that passion from the club ceo and owner. I feel like my club is in a never ending decline and going nowhere. Is it too much to hope we might be a strong force this season in L2, clearly so.

Agree though , it’s a misjudged interview, there’s disengagement, and Disillusioned fans, never a good recipe for success.

 

Not the most inspiring of missives from Mr Rhodes I would have thought that with more than half the teams in this league struggling, this season was an excellent chance at promotion again I think we have missed the boat. Can anyone imagine Mr Baldwin or Mr Jenkins being interviewed for the job by a man who hasn't had a 100th the success they have had
Surprised he picked today of all days to speak out would have thought he would have been too busy paying someone to take our "dead wood"