06-12-2020, 19:56
I tend to be dubious about Trusts in general. Trust seems to be the one thing they neither reward, nor deserve. So I'm probably the wrong person to take notice of. When those involved say they are lifelong supporters who am I to doubt their bona fides? I don't expect them to prove to me they deserve my trust by anything more than being absolutely open about everything possible.
I don't expect to know the minutiae of our financial position, but if we are short of money and that restricts our new manager to searching the bargain basements for players I'd like us to say that. If developing players means finding the discards of the cut-throat youth programmes of bigger clubs and unearthing hidden talent lower down the football pyramid then that should openly be our policy. Our expectations are then likely to be realistic and we can applaud the successes and understand the failures.
A supporters' trust buying shares runs up against the same questions as the current Trust. Are they men and women of good faith? Do they share our aims? Will they tell us where we are going, or where they are taking the rest of us?
For many years we have fumbled around in darkness and half-light. We've seen what our first eleven and subs are doing on field and after that the questions and the guesswork begin. Even with Cookie as manager we ended up with a period of secretly knowing he was off to Portsmouth, all our best players had prices on their heads and we were vaguely wondering if that left us with any chance against a good team like Preston in the play-offs. Trust and/or the lack of it run through a club like Blackpool Rock, from fans' forums to the field of play. So far it appears to me the Trust appointed well in Mr Rowe following a really sensible process in which they admitted their own lack of expertise. Whether ditching Mr Pemberton is worthy of similar accolades heads us into the realm of individual morality. I would only have done it if he refused my offer to finance bringing in some new talent - and I don't imagine he had that chance ........
It is very early days. We are on a better track I hope. And irrelevant as it is, things would look a lot better with a 2-1 win at Sutton.
I don't think we can only recruit from places where Dancing had a good time. Scouting trips to South Africa are going to be expensive for a start, and Spanish players aren't exactly queueing for a game in the National League.
I don't expect to know the minutiae of our financial position, but if we are short of money and that restricts our new manager to searching the bargain basements for players I'd like us to say that. If developing players means finding the discards of the cut-throat youth programmes of bigger clubs and unearthing hidden talent lower down the football pyramid then that should openly be our policy. Our expectations are then likely to be realistic and we can applaud the successes and understand the failures.
A supporters' trust buying shares runs up against the same questions as the current Trust. Are they men and women of good faith? Do they share our aims? Will they tell us where we are going, or where they are taking the rest of us?
For many years we have fumbled around in darkness and half-light. We've seen what our first eleven and subs are doing on field and after that the questions and the guesswork begin. Even with Cookie as manager we ended up with a period of secretly knowing he was off to Portsmouth, all our best players had prices on their heads and we were vaguely wondering if that left us with any chance against a good team like Preston in the play-offs. Trust and/or the lack of it run through a club like Blackpool Rock, from fans' forums to the field of play. So far it appears to me the Trust appointed well in Mr Rowe following a really sensible process in which they admitted their own lack of expertise. Whether ditching Mr Pemberton is worthy of similar accolades heads us into the realm of individual morality. I would only have done it if he refused my offer to finance bringing in some new talent - and I don't imagine he had that chance ........
It is very early days. We are on a better track I hope. And irrelevant as it is, things would look a lot better with a 2-1 win at Sutton.
I don't think we can only recruit from places where Dancing had a good time. Scouting trips to South Africa are going to be expensive for a start, and Spanish players aren't exactly queueing for a game in the National League.