Time for Knight to go?

[Ernest]

Liar = someone who makes a statement which is not true

Dick Knight in 2002 'I will appoint a manager with First Division experience to replace Peter Taylor'

 

[BensGrandad]

i'm for him staying but for all those who say quit who the hell is going to replace him?

I agree with him staying. The most obvious candidate to replace him is Derek Chapman.

 

[The Large One]

Liar = someone who makes a statement which is not true

Dick Knight in 2002 'I will appoint a manager with First Division experience to replace Peter Taylor'

He did - eventually. And if Coppell had not pissed about during that close season, he would have been in place at the start of the 2002/03 season.

 

[The Large One]

I agree with him staying. The most obvious candidate to replace him is Derek Chapman.

Who, as I understand it, is not interested in being chairman.

 

[Ernest]

He did - eventually. And if Coppell had not pissed about during that close season, he would have been in place at the start of the 2002/03 season.

Sorry for not putting in the 'eventually'

 

[Marc]

my god NSC has got some f***ing stupid ****s on here, right in the middle of fighting for our stadium and you want the chairman to resign?!? f***ing pathetic!

 

[BUTTERBALL]

I WANT LEON KNIGHT OUT NOW!

 

[surrey jim]

I will stick with DK until someone who can prove they will invest in the club and will not be in total control comes along. I would not however like to see DK off the board completly, he saved the club and is trying to get a new stadium its not as if he is ditching a sinking ship.

 

[BensGrandad]

Who, as I understand it, is not interested in being chairman.

Thats a pity and I am not talking about next week, next month or even next year.

 

[king Wombat]

You don't have a 'point of view', you have an agenda driven by rage, frustration and pride. And a certain level of ignorance. But OK, I'll pick your post apart.

The same guy who has lied and dragged us down to where we are now.
I dont think he should go but only because the farce of falmer is still on-going. If that goes down the pan he can fcuk off.

One, you have absolutely no idea how to run a football club. And you certainly have no idea how to run a football league club with so few comparative assets.

Two, the tone of your post indicates someone that you have no faith in - you called him a liar (the sort of phrase the phrase the rest of us reserve for Norman Baker or Ann de Vecchi). BTW what specficially are his lies?

Three, we are in a far higher position than when Dick Knight took over. He has *cough* 'dragged us down' from a position that he had elevated us to. You want him to take take the blame for doing that, while giving him no credit for taking us to a position from where we were 'dragged down' in the first place.

Four, if Falmer goes down the pan (which it won't - do keep up), the man will walk anyway. But it won't be because of you.

You sprout all this rubbish without coming up with one single answer to what you perceive are major problems, and you have the neck label me a joke? Good one. He has had anything but a walk in the park. He has had to operate a club on less than a shoestring, in the face of a number of hostile factors from people who don't want the club on their doorstep, to people who are happy to see the club wither and die. 'A Walk in the Park' is just about the stupidest comment I have heard about running Brighton & Hove Albion for the past nine years.

So all these things together, along with the disruption to his personal life, and the cost to his personal wealth, which he may not see yet for ANOTHER five years (that would make 14 years of pumping hundreds of thousands of pounds into the club and not seeing it again), and you slamming him for it, tell me why I should not think you ungrateful?

agree with him.

those of you who are talking sh*t can f*ck off as far as im concerned.

no actually thats a request.
sling your hooks and taking your whining nonsense somewhere else.

 

[Schrödinger's Toad]

The word legend is easily given out at this club I see.

A legend is Micky adams or Bob geldoff

So not the man who actually saved the club then, just the one who spent his money?

 

[Bromley shrimp]

Was it really the right time to sell CKR, and then sack Mcghee a few days later....?? Opinions are opinions.....but timings of important decisions are down to Dick........and I,m worried....!! Is it right to plough all the money into Falmer......and so very little into the playing side..... Surely our postion in a higher grade of football is a more compelling reason to grant our city a decent football ground......??

The answer is CKR should have stayed. As an aside it was the last straw combined with the lack of performance at Bristol.

The ground will cost £30,000,000.
CKR probably went for £100k (please correct this figure) a relative drop in the ocean, so again a totally wrong decision to sell him because in the grand scheme if £100k is THAT important we don't have a product or certainly not one that can be sustained.

The balance between black hole vs player budget is definitely wrong and that is DK's call.

 

[Basil Fawlty]

If it wasn't for DK we wouldn't have a club, I want DK to be in charge untill we move into Falmer.

 

[¡Cereal Killer!]

I think we need someone who who can take us further, I cant see us ever getting in the Premiership with DK unfortunatly

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

He did - eventually. And if Coppell had not pissed about during that close season, he would have been in place at the start of the 2002/03 season.

What do mean about Coppell pissing about? Did Knight ask him to be manager and Coppell turned him down initially?

 

[cjdavis]

He did - eventually. And if Coppell had not pissed about during that close season, he would have been in place at the start of the 2002/03 season.

As I understood the situation at the time.....Coppell didn,t turn us down.....Dick Knight didn,t get back to him and offer the job............I don,t have irrefutable proof of this however...

 

[3gulls]

The other question is - How does anyone KNOW that Dick Knight has 'taken the club club as far as he can'?

Because we are now going backwards at a fast pace?

 

[Nemesis]

I think we need someone who who can take us further, I cant see us ever getting in the Premiership with DK unfortunatly

And I can't ever see us getting the new stadium without DK.

Without him we'd have disappeared and all of the ungrateful scrotes would be on a Spurs or Arsenal board moaning about those clubs.

If DK gets on here he must sometimes wonder why he bothers.

 

[El Presidente]

Because we are now going backwards at a fast pace?

.......and the cause of that is

1. The legacy of Archer Stanley and Bellend
2. Lewes LDC
3. Karma, we struck lucky with Zamora and Knight, but luck runs out eventually.

 

[NMH]

I suspect DK of doing a Tony Blair right now. Persistent in repeating mistakes, well-meaning but wrong, no ruthless streak that is sometimes necessary, too attached to the trees to see that they are actually wood.