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“Angry, anonymous middle-aged men (endorsed by a supposedly impartial podcast and forum)”
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He’s a ‘politician’ – what do you expect.
Better.
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Looks like the contract wasn’t expired after all according to the latest podcast. If so we are potentially paying off another management team unless a clause was inserted within the deal.
WG assured us it was so it must have been true.
Do the Iron Hour people have any knowledge or is this WG style guesswork?
Jimmy signed an 18 month contract and no extension has ever been announced.
If it was an 18-month contract then maybe there was some negotiating to do over pay (etc) for a couple of months outstanding (if there were a couple of contracted months outstanding at the time of leaving, that is).
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Not sure, something has certainly happened during the last few days. If he was going I’d imagine it would have been announced on Monday. This seems to have come out of the blue.
The game was Saturday, Sunday was a rest day for all concerned.
Perhaps not all of the Board was available for a meeting immediately on Monday, so it was held over ’til Tuesday (or whenever). If you’re running a Board that is seriously co-operative then you wouldn’t just ‘fire’ someone from the important position of team manager and announce it like flicking a switch. You would discuss the whole situation and make your suggestions for a new scenario without that person (and with someone else). You would want to discuss and negotiate with the person who is leaving etc etc etc (particularly if, as seems to be the case, it was a contract not being renewed rather than a sacking). I don’t think announcing it a mere few days after the game indicates ‘something happening’ this week that is untoward. It seems to me to indicate Michelle and co have handled it calmly, decisively and relatively quickly. Professionally, in other words.
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I questioned him joining Swanny on the board again when there was no sensible reason for doing so…
I also thought this month-or-so stint back on the board was strange, but perhaps it was a chance to get a look at the books.
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As it is, he is just a bit part of the board and I hope and doubt Michelle is being swayed by him, trusts her own judgement and gives equal thought to input from Roj, Sharp, Akther et al.
I hope she gives way more than equal thought. These others have, after all, put actual money where their mouths are – and, in the case of Akther, provided serious expertise which has proved crucial for the club’s survival.
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There’s no point being so vitriolic about it, but I have less trust in his judgement now.
I’m certainly not being vitriolic, just calling it exactly as I see it as I believe that’s what it merits.
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If he didn’t see through WHAM… then he’s not a good judge of character.
Disregard the Hilton stuff in and of itself, it’s just part of a bigger picture: Ego.
Elliott’s MO has always been to stand next to power, next to money, next to kudos, next to attention… whoever it is… as he’s smart enough to know standing in that spot make others assume he is powerful, monied and important himself.
Anyone else remember the arse-clenching cringe of him getting himself onto the team sheet of the Wembley 1999 side which re-formed for a charity match? One of the lowest moments at GP, imho.
Wasn’t he also a Swann supporter when it suited?
Think back to the ‘Elliott / Sharpe’ thing 18 months or so ago. It was Sharpe with the actual money!
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He certainly wasn’t the only one trying to get his bearings during the nightmare we have gone through.
That’s a bit of a nonsense. He wasn’t trying to get his bearings at all. He knew exactly where he was / wanted to be.
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