Reply To: Hardy

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Notts fan here..

So much to say about Hardy.

When he first came in I was opened minded and he did do some good things – attendances went up because some of the offers and PR he did.

The issue is he runs the club with his ego, any business acumen he has went out the window and everything was about him.

I never think its a good idea to have an owner on twitter and this proved to be the case, even before the photo incident he was constantly arguing with fans and upsetting people. He upset Forest so much with what Hardy thought was banter that they recalled Ryan Yates who was on loan with us and we were never the same team after he left.

He made everything about him, the food stands were called Big Als and there was a painting of him in the family stand. He signed up his son to the academy and from what I was told he wasnt very good. Half time entertainment was kids trying to score goals against his kid. None of the staff liked him – he sacked a load of them when it emerged there was a whatsapp group where they slagged him off constantly. He did allegedly get on very well with one female member of staff.

All this could be forgiven if he made better football decisions. Rather than bringing in a decent CEO and giving the manager a budget he was very influential over signings. I am convinced we signed Oxlade Chamberlain because Hardy is a Liverpool fan and dreamt of becoming friendly with the family. We signed players on big money and big contracts which neither he or the club could afford.

He sacked Nolan after a few games and then paid big money to get Kewell who he sacked a few games later. By the time Ardley arrived the club was rotton with a huge squad who were falling out with each other and all sorts. The relegation was inevitable because he had just ran the club like he was playing football manager.

By the time he left wages werent being paid and he was happy to try and sell the club to an out and out conman. He wont accept any of this is his fault and it angers me to think he has the money to buy another club whilst fans had to send in donations for our office staff to get paid.

I hope he has learnt his lesson but his twitter account says different (oh he used to have a load of sock accounts too) If he promised to leave twitter and to appoint a good CEO who would run the club and allow the manager to run the football side he might be ok but I just dont trust a word he says