I do find it a bit sad how anyone can call a manger of ours who's been through what he has and albeit failing 'fistface'. The anger in some people is staggering.
I do find it a bit sad how anyone can call a manger of ours who's been through what he has and albeit failing 'fistface'. The anger in some people is staggering.
I have never posted on the site before, although as someone said the other day, I have been lurking around it for some time. I'm a long standing supporter and can remember the bad old days under the "old board" before the "revolution" happened. I was at the meeting in Digbeth Civic Hall when the news was announced that the old board had given in to the pressure and were stepping down to allow others to take over the club. I was also at the final in Rotterdam, our finest hour.
I can remember how depressing things were when the old board refused to budge and things were just getting worse.
At the moment things seem to be as bad as they were then, well almost.
Last week I spoke to someone I know and he mentioned that he was a long standing friend of our acting CEO Luke Organ. He said that Luke Organ is a very well respected figure in financial circles (try not to let that worry you). Despite being a relatively young man (most people are relatively young to me) he has a lot of experience and a reputation for getting things done in the right way. He manages his staff well and is respected by them. Apart from all of this he is also regarded as being a "good bloke".
Now I'm aware that this does not guarantee a good outcome for our club just because he's reported to be all of these things. For a start off he has to report to other people, some of whom we know nothing about. Our present predicament won't be solved by one person either, no matter how good they are at their job or whether the are a "good bloke", or not.
However, amidst all the doom and gloom understandably smothering us at the moment I did at take some comfort from this. At least we might have someone in a influential position who actually knows what he's doing.
Now I don't know Luke Organ and I might be clutching at straws (at times like this you have to clutch at something) but if he is allowed to influence events without too much negative interference we just might avoid the worst.
We don't know what is going on behind the scenes, will Tony Xia sell the club, will he carry on ?
Let's just hope we can get a tune out of Mr Organ (sorry for that, perhaps you'll forgive me as a newby). One thing I do know we could do with some justified positivity at the moment.
Emmo
Emmo
