Dick Knight

[cjdavis]

said before but who the hell is going to take over? No one is going to invest in a team with no ground, or at least to the level that every on here and the phone in wants.
There aren't many millionaires looking to spunk a few million on a club and get nothing in return and if they exist they will go for the top teams

I don,t pretend to know who would take over, but again, I,m tired of hearing that no-one will will invest etc. etc.....to the best of my knowledge, there are already several people on the board investing.......why should they be the only ones....?
I don,t this either....but.....who in their right mind would invest substantial funds with the attitude of our Chairman....?

 

[Trigger]

This whole situation is down to knight not dealing with the managers position b4 the start of the season thus not allowing a new manager any chance to sign some decent free transfer players which were around at the time.
His tight fistedness will now take us back to where he started with us..

And yet he expects people to shell out £25 a throw for every home game...

 

[Giraffe]

This whole situation is down to knight not dealing with the managers position b4 the start of the season thus not allowing a new manager any chance to sign some decent free transfer players which were around at the time.
His tight fistedness will now take us back to where he started with us..

Er isn't that a familiar story. Remember the Hinshelwood season! I just feel so sorry for Deano because sadly Knight never takes responsibility when things go wrong.

 

[rool]

This whole situation is down to knight not dealing with the managers position b4 the start of the season thus not allowing a new manager any chance to sign some decent free transfer players which were around at the time.
His tight fistedness will now take us back to where he started with us..

Agreed, which is why it was stupid to sack mcghee when any incoming manager, let alone one with limited experience and contacts, can only make a handful of loan signings until January.

DK has shown a chink in his armour and the more uncomfortable it gets it could start falling off.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

I think he has put a fair percentage of his money in. Probably not a fortune but percentage wise I reckon he's on a par with the majority of chairman. I dont think we can fault him for that, its the decisions regarding footballing matters where he has let us down - and more than once I'm afraid.

I would disagree, especially when we were in the Championship, I would have thought as a chairman he was the lowest investor of all the league.

I do agree that his decisions on footballing matters leave a lot to be desired and this first started back when in preseason a number of years ago when he didn't appoint a new manager due to being away on family business. Back then I couldn't understand why our cheif executive (who, as in all businesses, runs the day to day business) could not have made the decision whilst in contact with Knight but no we had to wait until Knight was ready and ended up with a disaster and like now no quality in the playing squad.

I have always felt very uncomfortable with Kinght after he stated that no one man will ever have control of this club again, but then proceeded to make all the decisions that affect the playing side on his own.

What people quite often forget is that Martin Perry was not a supporter of Brighton and he has not invested any great amount of money into the club, he was and is employed to do a job. A job which before the "liberal wanker" did not exist. The day to day business was done by the club secretary. We now have both so apart from stadium issues, which can not take up every day all day Perry should be running the club. This should be accessing all aspects of the business and the playing side should be focused just the same as anything else. It is after all the product that the business produces. With this in mind last year, forcasts would have shown that if the product was losing ground in its sector then to stop the slide investment would be needed. This did not happen and not only did revenue go down by direct sales but also indirect such as advertising etc. The potential of the business is now serverely damaged. As a cheif executive of a business you could say Perry has failed in his duty to instruct the board on a course of action to avoid this loss.

Now there's people that will say this is bollocks but business is business whether its making baked beans or running a football club either way the chairman are normally just spokesmen for the board and in the background the chief exec. is running the business.

Many on here praise Perry for the work he has put into falmer but if you look at what he has succeeded in doing, it paints a somewhat different picture. Seven years on no planning for a new stadium (for whatever reason), club losing more money, lower season ticket sales, drop in overall attendances, lower standard on the playing staff, no new real investment.

Now he may have his hands tied by Knight but you never hear Perry talk about anything other than Falmer, why not?

I'm not running Perry down but would like to try and put a different angle on how this club is run. Knight is coming under more and more critisism on his running of the club and perhaps we should be questioning just how the club is run and who makes the decisions.

 

[3gulls]

Get your f***ing wallet out...

If you can find it.

YEP! What he said! Or just f*** off Tight!

 

[Skint Gull]

I,m sick and tired of hearing about "no money", and "Falmer, Falmer , Falmer"....................any Chairman, who,s spent nearly four years getting an extra 2000 seats put in, and then UTTERLY FAILS to invest in the team, needs his business head examined...!!!!
Our ground can now hold about 9,000.........unbelievably inept investment in the squad of players, means gates are now about 5,000. I make that 4000 empty seats at approximately £24 a time.......nearly £100,000.00 a game down.......£2,300,000.00 over a season. Not to mention people spending money on merchandise etc. etc.
We got relegated twice from the Championship due to chronic lack of investment.......carry on with Dick Knight,s policy, and we,ll be out of business before Falmer can become a reality.
Gates of 5,000....and probably less in the mid-winter is doing more harm to our case for Falmer than anything else...!!

Almost certainly the post of the day! As you say, its not about donations from the board, its about investment that will pay for itself if done properly! Not complicated

 

[3gulls]

I,m sick and tired of hearing about "no money", and "Falmer, Falmer , Falmer"....................any Chairman, who,s spent nearly four years getting an extra 2000 seats put in, and then UTTERLY FAILS to invest in the team, needs his business head examined...!!!!
Our ground can now hold about 9,000.........unbelievably inept investment in the squad of players, means gates are now about 5,000. I make that 4000 empty seats at approximately £24 a time.......nearly £100,000.00 a game down.......£2,300,000.00 over a season. Not to mention people spending money on merchandise etc. etc.
We got relegated twice from the Championship due to chronic lack of investment.......carry on with Dick Knight,s policy, and we,ll be out of business before Falmer can become a reality.
Gates of 5,000....and probably less in the mid-winter is doing more harm to our case for Falmer than anything else...!!

KNIGHT! The comunity club says it's time for you to go!

 

[Don Tmatter]

This whole situation is down to knight not dealing with the managers position b4 the start of the season thus not allowing a new manager any chance to sign some decent free transfer players which were around at the time.
His tight fistedness will now take us back to where he started with us..

Nail on the head.

 

[vulture]

Get your f***ing wallet out...

If you can find it.

too many moths in there

 

[The Large One]

Rubbish thread.

 

[BensGrandad]

Rubbish thread.

Maybe but an element of truth in what people are saying.

In his defence, it is very easy for people to say that'you have to speculate to accumulate' but that is always with somebody elses money not their own.

I heard it so many times from customers when I had a pub.

Incidentally do the accounts not show that he has been repaid a large amount of the money that he invested, or did I read them wrong. If I did I apologise now.

 

[3gulls]

Rubbish thread.

Hello, the Arse-wipe is back!

 

[BensGrandad]

Let me say here and now this not a pop at DK and I didnt hear Southern FM.

My son, who listens to Southern FM, said that it started with Nicky K Shevlin and was continiued by Jack The Lad that MM didnt have the money to bring in players and neither has DW so it is time for DK to come clean.

This left me thinking, taking into account Nicky K Shevlin's association with Bob Booker, was this:

a. Bob Booker speaking through her
b. Her saying what she had heard from BB
c. Her own view of what is happening, with no inside knowledge whatsoever.

I do not know the answer but if anybody else heard it was this the general view of how it came across.

 

[Ernest]

And now we have Martin Perry thinking it is not worthwhile to man the ticket office the afternoon before a game.