A futile attempt I guess to stop all the Thorn stuff (7 Viewers)

[Otis]

If it's true and he has been asked to stay on as manager then I am not sure there is too much point continuing the Thorn debate is there?

I'm sure everyone has had their say. Would be very easy for me to continue to criticise Thorn, but I pretty much stopped a while ago because it seemed to have become futile and it's all rather stale now too.

We could of course spend the next 3 months discussing whether he is briiliant or crap and whether he should or shouldn't be allowed to continue or not, but if he has been asked to stay on then I can't see how it can serve any purpose.

What we need to concentrate on now is Sisu, rebuilding, what players will go, hope we should keep and which players we should be bringing in etc.

Just seems a bit daft if as I am thinking these debates continue raging all the through the Spring and Summer months when AT is going to be the man in charge come August.

As I say, I am quite sure that this thread will fall on deaf ears, but it is worth a try.

 

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[Brighton Sky Blue]

All debating is pointless while SISU remain at the club Otis. They will continue to sell anyone of value and give us super cheap loans, and not many, in return-Thorn or no Thorn, their removal is of prime importance for City to halt its decline and begin a revival.

 

[Otis]

Agree.

Can just envisage 30 more Thorn threads though of 40 pages + saying he is to blame/he's not to blame etc.

Now the season is over and he is to stay on then it all seems a bit pointless doesn't it?

If a takeover appears to be happening then a this of course would all start again and quite rightly too.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Coming back from a day's walking I was on the same train as several different sets of fans-Charlton, Wycombe, Brighton, and Blues. I got asked who I supported, and the unequivocal response from all of them was, 'You poor bugger'. Yes, even fans of a team struggling in the league we're going into feel sorry for us.

As for me, after Saints, I am not going to a single City game, ever, until they are gone from our club. Debates about Thorn or who we should keep/look to sign in the summer are all irrelevant whilst they are at the helm-this club has been dragged through the dirt by these people and I refuse to spend any more of my money watching it suffer. As I said-forget Thorn, the backroom staff, and the players-the cancer is at the top of the club and it needs to be removed.

 

[sylus]

in a weird type of way...i would imagine that thorn would perfer sisu here,as they would be the only people to keep him on as manager..also, i dont see thorn refusing the position..like i have said before....he is in a win win situation while sisu are here..cos they dont give a shit about us...however,if sisu was to go...thorn would to..garanteed..

 

[Sub]

otis i think the take over could be well and truly dead and buried, if the possible new owners wanted a championship club not a mickey mouse league club

 

[Tonylinc]

Could not agree more BSB

 

[Otis]

otis i think the take over could be well and truly dead and buried, if the possible new owners wanted a championship club not a mickey mouse league club

Sure someone said that Gary Hoffman was in the directors box today.

Might mean nowt though.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

otis i think the take over could be well and truly dead and buried, if the possible new owners wanted a championship club not a mickey mouse league club

Relegation has been likely all season long-and appeared inevitable at the time when talks were made public by SISU; all I can see is the consortium lowering what they're prepared to hand to SISU, who will play yet more hardball to get a better deal.

 

[wingy]

Did'nt Fisher make some sort of refference to it .

 

[Grendel]

Actually I would say the opposite. The false sparring between thorn and sisu over the last few days is a huge concern. It is now obvious more than ever that thorn is hugely in bed with sisu and effectively is their PR man. He and his cronies will destroy the club.

 

[Sub]

we can only hope but with SISU at the helm there will be no way back trust is gone completly, although i applaud all the fans that will buy a season ticket for next year untill there are some drastic changes at the top of the club and the way it is ran i can see alot of fans not paying the money up front and just picking and choosing the games they go to and who could blame them ? SISU have done so much damage to the fan base it is unreal even after all the years of the previous owners and how poor the club was run i have never seen so many fans disheartend and driven away. sad times indeed

 

[sylus]

sisu shafted him once....and he wants shafting again.... sound very desperate to me....from a desperate man...

 

[Otis]

Well not so sure Fisher is exactly a Sisu man though.

Pretty sure he has been put in there to try and be the middle man. He obviously isn't going to speak out against Sisu, but I don't think he is a Sisu puppet as such.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Actually I would say the opposite. The false sparring between thorn and sisu over the last few days is a huge concern. It is now obvious more than ever that thorn is hugely in bed with sisu and effectively is their PR man. He and his cronies will destroy the club.

Tim Fisher is a more effective spin doctor than old Paul Fletcher-they don't need Thorn.

 

[Grendel]

sisu shafted him once....and he wants shafting again.... sound very desperate to me....from a desperate man...

The only thing thorn is desperate for is his next contract. He is desperate for sisu to stay and has zero interest in the clubs fortunes.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

With SISU gone though Duffy, do you not think it likely the new regime will want a totally clean slate?

 

[Grendel]

Tim Fisher is a more effective spin doctor than old Paul Fletcher-they don't need Thorn.

They do as someone has to be called "manager" and no-one would except the terms of employment other than good old AT.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

There are countless muppets in football desperate for a managerial post.

 

[Otis]

And we've got Waldorf?

 

[sylus]

With SISU gone though Duffy, do you not think it likely the new regime will want a totally clean slate?

with a new regime in place...there is no way thorn will be manager.....

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Stranger things have happened sylus. Like someone getting a better tan than Ken, for instance.

 

[Grendel]

Actually BSB they don't. Name a major buy-out and the manager kept his job?

 

[sylus]

Actually I would say the opposite. The false sparring between thorn and sisu over the last few days is a huge concern. It is now obvious more than ever that thorn is hugely in bed with sisu and effectively is their PR man. He and his cronies will destroy the club.

this is probably not to far from the truth..thorn is just a yes man......

 

[stupot07]

Otis - I think you've failed again....

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Actually BSB they don't. Name a major buy-out and the manager kept his job?

Ferguson staying at United, Ranieri staying at Chelsea-but I'm not putting those up as credible examples. My comment was more in jest than seriousness.

 

[Grendel]

Ferguson staying at United, Ranieri staying at Chelsea-but I'm not putting those up as credible examples. My comment was more in jest than seriousness.

Raneira didnt stay long and the point is serious. A new investor would never ever keep him. Thorn likes his toast SISU side up and he will keep them here as long as he can even if the club suffers as a result. Payday is the only day for Thorn.

 

[sylus]

Thorn likes his toast SISU side up........

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Raneira didnt stay long and the point is serious. A new investor would never ever keep him. Thorn likes his toast SISU side up and he will keep them here as long as he can even if the club suffers as a result. Payday is the only day for Thorn.

Duffy, when I said 'stranger things have happened', that was in jest. My point that SISU's departure is essential for the club to go forward encompasses Thorn departing with them too is what I was getting at with my 2nd response to the thread.

 

[Grendel]

Thorn likes his toast SISU side up........

Its an old one - Also there's Thorn worships from the SISU temple and the SISU dollar is the only currency for Thorn.

I did think I may be a bit paranoid but after this weeks events It's clear I am right.

 

[Colonel Mustard]

Whatever one may think of AT, all these subjects are interconnected. It will be impossible to go a long summer without AT's management being discussed. For example, all it will take is for one post saying that the club's misfortunes this year were 100% down to SISU for the Thorn debate to re-emerge.

And y'know, this is a message board about Coventry City Football Club. It occupies a tight corner of the internet and our focus. ALL subjects are tiresome and repetitive, and our influence on the club's activities is minuscule, but I guess it's what we choose to do.

 

[Waldorf]

And we've got Waldorf?

I'm buggered if I'm going to take it on.