jollysuperstar wrote:Alan appreciate that you are employed by Newport County in what roll I have no idea.
Of course all your contributions will come with rose tinted glasses that's understandable.
IMO the 3 most important employees at any football club are of course the manager, the CEO and thirdly the Commercial manager.
The Chairman and board are unpaid.
Gavin is there to chair and lead the board as agreed by those who elected him to be chairman.
He wasn't appointed to dictate policy on his own, lets hope that was never the case.
It appears Alex cannot make any decisions without asking Gavin first to me that makes his job untenable.
He clearly has seen the opportunity to move on to better things.
I wish him well as I felt he was the only professional person on the County payroll.
Finance is 100% so important to us therefore if they had employed this young lady in the position of assistant or trainee manager I would have no truck with that but they have thrown her in at the deep end unfortunately.
No idea and none of my business but is she maybe off with stress related problems I certainly hope not. Have had that close by in my family
Who was going to train her up to be a competent Commercial manager perhaps Alan could tell us as I do not know anybody on the payroll capable of doing that, if there was somebody wouldn't they have the job anyway.
So many problems off the field and with Alex on his way and as Exile stated to which I 100% agree maybe the bird has flown, sponsors should of been signed up whilst we were having our few hours of Glory against Leeds and Spurs.
If nobody capable applied for the Commercial managers job it should of been re advertised and remained vacant until the suitable candidate was found.
Pay good money to get a good candidate who will more than pay there way for us and generate the finance we require.
It seems we will just soldier on hoping for another transfer fee and a possible cup run
Nothing has changed from the Billy Lucas days when annually he would flog somebody for £7/£10k and keep us going for another season.
The worry is that it is too late to get the sponsorship levels required to move another step forward.
I salute Rob for coming up with his idea that he has stated today but why did the old brigade never think how important sponsorship is for us to be successful in the future.
We have a contributor with 2 advertising boards who has not even had the courtesy of a phone call even.
how poor is that?

Alan G Bryant wrote:

jollysuperstar wrote:Alan appreciate that you are employed by Newport County in what roll I have no idea.
Of course all your contributions will come with rose tinted glasses that's understandable.
IMO the 3 most important employees at any football club are of course the manager, the CEO and thirdly the Commercial manager.
The Chairman and board are unpaid.
Gavin is there to chair and lead the board as agreed by those who elected him to be chairman.
He wasn't appointed to dictate policy on his own, lets hope that was never the case.
It appears Alex cannot make any decisions without asking Gavin first to me that makes his job untenable.
He clearly has seen the opportunity to move on to better things.
I wish him well as I felt he was the only professional person on the County payroll.
Finance is 100% so important to us therefore if they had employed this young lady in the position of assistant or trainee manager I would have no truck with that but they have thrown her in at the deep end unfortunately.
No idea and none of my business but is she maybe off with stress related problems I certainly hope not. Have had that close by in my family
Who was going to train her up to be a competent Commercial manager perhaps Alan could tell us as I do not know anybody on the payroll capable of doing that, if there was somebody wouldn't they have the job anyway.
So many problems off the field and with Alex on his way and as Exile stated to which I 100% agree maybe the bird has flown, sponsors should of been signed up whilst we were having our few hours of Glory against Leeds and Spurs.
If nobody capable applied for the Commercial managers job it should of been re advertised and remained vacant until the suitable candidate was found.
Pay good money to get a good candidate who will more than pay there way for us and generate the finance we require.
It seems we will just soldier on hoping for another transfer fee and a possible cup run
Nothing has changed from the Billy Lucas days when annually he would flog somebody for £7/£10k and keep us going for another season.
The worry is that it is too late to get the sponsorship levels required to move another step forward.
I salute Rob for coming up with his idea that he has stated today but why did the old brigade never think how important sponsorship is for us to be successful in the future.
We have a contributor with 2 advertising boards who has not even had the courtesy of a phone call even.
how poor is that?

From what I recall people were having hissy fits because they did not employ her until January, now you're saying the board should have waited. Can you not recall the hysteria. Unbelievable

Alan G Bryant wrote:What true fans ? We have an average crowd of 3,000 and less than a dozen warriors , i did used to think it was a dozen or so, it seems I was wrong.

Alan G Bryant wrote:What true fans ? We have an average crowd of 3,000 and less than a dozen warriors , i did used to think it was a dozen or so, it seems I was wrong.

Alan G Bryant wrote:What true fans ? We have an average crowd of 3,000 and less than a dozen warriors , i did used to think it was a dozen or so, it seems I was wrong.

Bush wrote:

Willthiswork wrote:It may be a supply and demand scenario. Are there the highly qualified and suitable sport/football related people out there interested in a role with Newport?

92 CEO jobs in league football available. Are you saying there are less than 92 people in the U.K. and maybe abroad who wouldn’t want to be a CEO at a football league club?

Alan G Bryant wrote:What true fans ? We have an average crowd of 3,000 and less than a dozen warriors , i did used to think it was a dozen or so, it seems I was wrong.

County#9 wrote:We've even managed to p*** lliswerry football club off who have been allowing us the use of their facility over the velodrome . They were kind enough to meet and allow the club to use the facilities and we couldn't even give them some free tickets as a thank you .

The club didn't look after the facility. Couldn't be bothered to secure the facility properly after being told numerous times so now they won't be allowing us back after speaking to a lliswerry official yesterday .

jollysuperstar wrote:

Alan G Bryant wrote:

jollysuperstar wrote:Alan appreciate that you are employed by Newport County in what roll I have no idea.
Of course all your contributions will come with rose tinted glasses that's understandable.
IMO the 3 most important employees at any football club are of course the manager, the CEO and thirdly the Commercial manager.
The Chairman and board are unpaid.
Gavin is there to chair and lead the board as agreed by those who elected him to be chairman.
He wasn't appointed to dictate policy on his own, lets hope that was never the case.
It appears Alex cannot make any decisions without asking Gavin first to me that makes his job untenable.
He clearly has seen the opportunity to move on to better things.
I wish him well as I felt he was the only professional person on the County payroll.
Finance is 100% so important to us therefore if they had employed this young lady in the position of assistant or trainee manager I would have no truck with that but they have thrown her in at the deep end unfortunately.
No idea and none of my business but is she maybe off with stress related problems I certainly hope not. Have had that close by in my family
Who was going to train her up to be a competent Commercial manager perhaps Alan could tell us as I do not know anybody on the payroll capable of doing that, if there was somebody wouldn't they have the job anyway.
So many problems off the field and with Alex on his way and as Exile stated to which I 100% agree maybe the bird has flown, sponsors should of been signed up whilst we were having our few hours of Glory against Leeds and Spurs.
If nobody capable applied for the Commercial managers job it should of been re advertised and remained vacant until the suitable candidate was found.
Pay good money to get a good candidate who will more than pay there way for us and generate the finance we require.
It seems we will just soldier on hoping for another transfer fee and a possible cup run
Nothing has changed from the Billy Lucas days when annually he would flog somebody for £7/£10k and keep us going for another season.
The worry is that it is too late to get the sponsorship levels required to move another step forward.
I salute Rob for coming up with his idea that he has stated today but why did the old brigade never think how important sponsorship is for us to be successful in the future.
We have a contributor with 2 advertising boards who has not even had the courtesy of a phone call even.
how poor is that?

From what I recall people were having hissy fits because they did not employ her until January, now you're saying the board should have waited. Can you not recall the hysteria. Unbelievable

What is unbelievable are your Rose Tinted Glasses are now glowing brightly.
Seriously what Hysteria about a young lady with no experience being appointed to be trained up in the hope that one day she could get to grips with the serious financial implications of keeping our wonderful club going.
Its not her fault but whoever decided that was the option rather than hold out for a more experienced candidate.
I really hope it was not just down to the cheapest alternative.
Alan you embarress yourself by continually having a pop at true fans who worry about our club
We are not so called Keyboard warriors.
ps was it your wife who had the pop at Rob Sant at the last but one meeting.
Only asking as I am sure she was tied in some way to the club like yourself.?

Stan A. Einstein wrote:

Alan G Bryant wrote:What true fans ? We have an average crowd of 3,000 and less than a dozen warriors , i did used to think it was a dozen or so, it seems I was wrong.

I have been supporting Newport County since 1967. I think I must have watched my club getting on for 1,000 times. I was at Spurs in a 40,000 crowd and at Ruislip with 300 fans.

You may not agree with my views. You may even think as some have said that I am poison to the club. But having travelled many thousands of mile and spent many thousands of pounds watching Newport County I would really like to know what gives you the right to tell me or people like me that I and they are not true fans.