it's a no-win situation for the board really

I agree that mistakes were made, BUT they were made by the manager - he chose who to buy, sell, loan, loan, loan etc...

If the board had stepped in and vetoed any signings or sales, then the fans would be up in arms against them - a la the Martin O'Neill / Dean Windass / Robert Chase saga.

The board have to either back the manager or sack the manager. In our case they obviously backed the manager and gave him the funds to buy the players he wanted - and it worked for a while, we had playoffs and the championship after all. I guess that they just thought that if they kept backing him then he would put it right. Eventually they came to the realisation that he wouldn't be able to and sacked him.

But they were right not to meddle in the selection of players - that's what they employ the manager for. You can't have a situation whereby the board keep a manager on but don't let him make decisions.

Also, they can't very well come and criticise Worthington's judgement now; it's not very professional and it would serve absolutely no purpose. The fans have to accept the past and move on, and trust that Grant's judgement will be good and we will move forward again.

We should be grateful that we now have a board that give the manager funds to strengthen the team, rather than selling our best players and banking the cash and not letting it out again (or even siphoning it off into their own private businesses).

Look at what happened at Luton - Mike Newell got in players for next to nothing, then the board went over his head and sold them off for huge profit, then blamed the manager and sacked him. They thoroughly deserved to be relegated purely for that. It has echoes of our own relegation from the Premiership first time round.

Posted By: Hull Canary on July 2nd 2007 at 13:10:33

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official site (NCFC) - Dave in France, Jul 2, 12:28:13
- If they could swallow some pride (NCFC) - megson, Jul 2, 12:42:08
  - it's a no-win situation for the board really (NCFC) - Hull Canary, Jul 2, 13:10:33
    - Yes, but there appears to have been no oversight at all (NCFC) - BerlinCanary, Jul 2, 13:43:00
      - too be fair I don't think we are hardly struggling for cash at the moment (n/m) (NCFC) - Brandonio, Jul 2, 13:52:15
      - and is the club going bust? (NCFC) - Hull Canary, Jul 2, 13:51:02
        
        That's not really my point (NCFC) - BerlinCanary, Jul 2, 14:03:59
        
        I'm sure that this board always had it under control (NCFC) - Hull Canary, Jul 2, 14:14:05
      - if he did it within his budget and didn't overspend i don't see how they could complain (n/m) (NCFC) - blindasabat, Jul 2, 13:47:09
        
        Well, to me, it's irresponsible to provide that kind of budget (NCFC) - BerlinCanary, Jul 2, 13:57:00
        
        that's really got fuck all to do with it though (NCFC) - blindasabat, Jul 2, 14:06:41
        
        at the top clubs it doesn't happen that way indeed... (NCFC) - Brandonio, Jul 2, 14:02:10
        
        exactly (NCFC) - Dave in France, Jul 2, 13:54:08
    - Absolutely spot-on - a rare dose of pragmatism on here... (n/m) (NCFC) - Greeny, Jul 2, 13:34:39
    - Great post. (n/m) (NCFC) - tim berry, Jul 2, 13:33:03
  - if we do sign all these players to come straight into the first team (NCFC) - Dave in France, Jul 2, 12:47:12
  - The same thing seems to be going on at Newcastle (NCFC) - lurd, Jul 2, 12:46:08
    - agree - especially if they get Gudjohnsen (NCFC) - Hull Canary, Jul 2, 12:56:23
- Have you seen these guys in training Dave?? (NCFC) - phrankin, Jul 2, 12:33:15
  - Yeah but, Neil, (NCFC) - CB41, Jul 2, 12:43:10
    - Get it right! (NCFC) - bongo33, Jul 2, 13:01:34

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