Board meeting today about Hyypia

[Vegas Seagull]

I always go to every home game but am now thinking maybe I'll give some a miss.

Getting a season ticket in the late nineties and the Withdean years was a way of supporting the club because we were hand to mouth now it's is different.

There seems to be a disconnect between the fans and the management at all levels and with poor recruitment and strange manager choices I wonder if I can be bothered to rush back from work etc any more.....

50/50 on going to Millwall and will miss two games in Jan through holiday and will probably not bother on a few mid week games all the time Hyppia is there and we seem to persist with the failing recruitment set-up.

Season ticket next year? 50/50 will probably be able to pick and choose where I want to sit each game and those midweek games maybe swerved.

Can't actually believe I feel like this but I know from talking to many others I'm not alone.

Lightweight
Just because others may feel less than enthusiastic doesn't mean it's ok for you and others to overreact. I intend to renew for the next 40 years and I & all the 17 others who saw us through Gillingham are renewing annually and will continue to do so
This club does not need fickleness just when a dozen or so lukewarm games turn up, it only makes the good times better
Managers/CE's/players are not worth exiting over, they are only here for a few years and can be forgotten readily enough
Here's to the next 900

 

[GT49er]

Why not now? Maybe they will deal him a couple of aces in January? Maybe they realise no one can get a full house with this hand? Why would Sami leave now and look like a quitter with an apparently tarnished image, even if he doesn't believe he can turn it round, I would wait for the hand out to pay my mortgage and when every one has forgotten, apart from BHA, and go for another job.

Exactly - there's been a lot of speculation about how much it would cost the club to sack him - but how much would Sami's personal finances take a dive were he to resign of his own volition?

 

[Worried Man Blues]

This is why I cannot understand, no doubt someone will tell me!, is there not a clause in a manager's contract, if you take us into the relegation zone and we ask you to walk then you will??

Exactly - there's been a lot of speculation about how much it would cost the club to sack him - but how much would Sami's personal finances take a dive were he to resign of his own volition?

 

[Napier's Knee]

Exactly - there's been a lot of speculation about how much it would cost the club to sack him - but how much would Sami's personal finances take a dive were he to resign of his own volition?

Surely he's wealthy beyond our imagining having paid top-flight football for so long? i remember reading an article about Kieran Dyer, and apparently he is worth £30million - and Sami would have earned more than that and gives every impression of someone who would have been sensible with his money.

 

[Danny-Boy]

The point is any new manager would want his own selection of players, and probably backroom staff. After all it's not just Hyypia managing, Nathan Jones must take some responsibility.

How much time does it take to select someone (probably not in harness at the moment, otherwise there's even more compo to fork out) and then let them get a feel of the club? Xmas is not a good time with Boxing Day etc.

I think that Hyppia must win Friday, a draw might delay matters, but shouldn't.

 

[cardboard]

Friday will be the start of an epic run of form that will see us storm up the league.
Anyone who watched us at Gillingham and prior will know that the football we are watching now is Barcelonaesqe compared to some of that.

 

[spence]

Lightweight
Just because others may feel less than enthusiastic doesn't mean it's ok for you and others to overreact. I intend to renew for the next 40 years and I & all the 17 others who saw us through Gillingham are renewing annually and will continue to do so
This club does not need fickleness just when a dozen or so lukewarm games turn up, it only makes the good times better
Managers/CE's/players are not worth exiting over, they are only here for a few years and can be forgotten readily enough
Here's to the next 900

He isn't overacting. It's what he feels along with many others. Just because you don't agree with him it doesn't me you can take a dig at him for his views.

 

[Kosh]

It would seem they don't care as long as you are paying your monthly DD, which I assume most are. Watch them try and guilt trip and worm their way back into favour about a week before renewals are due, until then they will have no interest in what the fans think.

I'm surprised by you there - so you're saying a commercial business has no interest (couldn't care less) with regard it's customer base?!? That's like Asda deciding to poison a proportion of customers by knowingly selling a load of out of date stock... yeah who gives a toss?!? they'll keep coming back! Bollocks, You raise the point re renewals and I'm sure the impact on this side of the business will have been somewhere near the top of today's agenda. The club are invested in the long-term - and I'm sure the impact (and associated risk) of retaining Sami will be a huge area of concern for the powers that be. Relegation a commercial and financial disaster. I just don't share that attitude that the Albion as a 'business' couldn't care less re it's customer base (and related income streams), you have to know that's not the case, right?

It is and always will be about money - the game has long since abandoned the ideals of the local club for local people credo... it's cold hard business hand in hand with cold hard cash. This is how business works, i realise it's almost offensive to think of it like this, but be under no illusion the powers that be will be very worried by the unsustainable league position - the negative impact on the business too great to imagine. it's P&L and bottom line time baby! no different to any other commercial business.

Kosh

 

[Braggfan]

Friday will be the start of an epic run of form that will see us storm up the league.
Anyone who watched us at Gillingham and prior will know that the football we are watching now is Barcelonaesqe compared to some of that.

I don't know, it depends if Rod Thomas was playing or not.

 

[Skylar]

I find it unbelievable that the club are NOT managing the situation. Do they not care what we, as fans, think?

Easy Spicy, don't you know we're customers now. We are relegated and from where I'm sitting them the club will be happy either way what division we're in. Don't forget Berber comment when he said when the new fans come and hear the roar of the North Stand then they'll keep coming. I've never known fans attend because of the non roar but thought people attend to watch attractive entertaining football and goals.

 

[GT49er]

Surely he's wealthy beyond our imagining having paid top-flight football for so long? i remember reading an article about Kieran Dyer, and apparently he is worth £30million - and Sami would have earned more than that and gives every impression of someone who would have been sensible with his money.

Fair point, he's certainly likely to be wealthy way beyond MY imagination - but, when he was playing, players' wages weren't quite as ridiculous as they are now, and also I think Dyer might have netted more dosh from transfer activity and signing on payments. No idea how much he's on now - but I certainly wouldn't be in a hurry to walk out on that amount per week, whatever it is!

 

[spence]

Friday will be the start of an epic run of form that will see us storm up the league.
Anyone who watched us at Gillingham and prior will know that the football we are watching now is Barcelonaesqe compared to some of that.

Here we go, Gillingham, Archer years, Withdean years anymore? We are not a tinpot club anymore, move on because the club has.

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

Couldn't the club allege Gross Misconduct and take him to disciplinary? Or would that drag it out for weeks and delay a new appointment .... oh wait?

 

[cardboard]

Here we go, Gillingham, Archer years, Withdean years anymore? We are not a tinpot club anymore, move on because the club has.

Your point is what? - I said the football is much better than then and it is.

 

[Worried Man Blues]

That's just what Darlington said...........

Here we go, Gillingham, Archer years, Withdean years anymore? We are not a tinpot club anymore, move on because the club has.

 

[essbee]

Lightweight
Just because others may feel less than enthusiastic doesn't mean it's ok for you and others to overreact. I intend to renew for the next 40 years and I & all the 17 others who saw us through Gillingham are renewing annually and will continue to do so
This club does not need fickleness just when a dozen or so lukewarm games turn up, it only makes the good times better
Managers/CE's/players are not worth exiting over, they are only here for a few years and can be forgotten readily enough
Here's to the next 900

That is a rose-tinted glasses perspective if ever I heard it.

 

[Barnham Seagull]

Lightweight
Just because others may feel less than enthusiastic doesn't mean it's ok for you and others to overreact. I intend to renew for the next 40 years and I & all the 17 others who saw us through Gillingham are renewing annually and will continue to do so
This club does not need fickleness just when a dozen or so lukewarm games turn up, it only makes the good times better
Managers/CE's/players are not worth exiting over, they are only here for a few years and can be forgotten readily enough
Here's to the next 900

Feckless? Lightweight?

Have been going since old enough to and never miss a home game unless away on holiday and even then try to book around. Countless away days and a season ticket holder for 16/17 years in a row and before that except when Archer and Bellotti were at the top table.

If me and others (many) are thinking the same it will make the regime take notice as it seems hard cash is the only thing that does. So, so bit.

 

[Icy Gull]

I'm surprised by you there - so you're saying a commercial business has no interest (couldn't care less) with regard it's customer base?!? That's like Asda deciding to poison a proportion of customers by knowingly selling a load of out of date stock... yeah who gives a toss?!? they'll keep coming back! Bollocks, You raise the point re renewals and I'm sure the impact on this side of the business will have been somewhere near the top of today's agenda. The club are invested in the long-term - and I'm sure the impact (and associated risk) of retaining Sami will be a huge area of concern for the powers that be. Relegation a commercial and financial disaster. I just don't share that attitude that the Albion as a 'business' couldn't care less re it's customer base (and related income streams), you have to know that's not the case, right?

It is and always will be about money - the game has long since abandoned the ideals of the local club for local people credo... it's cold hard business hand in hand with cold hard cash. This is how business works, i realise it's almost offensive to think of it like this, but be under no illusion the powers that be will be very worried by the unsustainable league position - the negative impact on the business too great to imagine. it's P&L and bottom line time baby! no different to any other commercial business.

Kosh

I'm not going to argue with anything you say but are you getting the impression that the club give a shit what the fans think?

 

[Icy Gull]

Friday will be the start of an epic run of form that will see us storm up the league.
Anyone who watched us at Gillingham and prior will know that the football we are watching now is Barcelonaesqe compared to some of that.

Yeah I know but I'm enjoying it less as I felt real affinity to the club in those dark days, I feel they'd rather sell me something these days and that is taking priority over the football We won't be going on an epic run of form if Hyypia is still here either

 

[Ernest]

Has the board meeting finished yet ?