[BaggieSteve]

Dowling’s statement made me really angry. It was the outrageous assertion that redundancies would be required in non playing staff if we signed Gayle on his existing wages. To make a direct causal link between signing Gayle and firing staff was, in my opinion, a disgrace. Like all of us, I fully appreciate the need for the club to be financially strong but, bearing in mind the aim should be to regain our premiership status, then I would suggest a good way to do it would be to sign one of the best three strikers of in the division and look for savings elsewhere, savings that don’t require firing back room staff. We shall sell Rondon regardless, and we are releasing other well paid professionals including Morrison and Barry. It’s this lack of empathy with the supporters that really angers me, particularly when accompanied by a plea for us to “trust them” as Dowling said in his statement. I wouldn’t trust them to organise a p*ss up in a brewery, their incompetence is attaining breathtaking proportions. All we need now is for them to make another incredibly successful managerial appointment as indicated by their recent track record