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Post by Barney still in B-Block on Jul 22, 2019 17:17:01 GMT
That club has completely lost its soul.The little chap who handed me my season ticket this morning didn't exactly do so with any great empathy for the situation. Might even have expected a fixture list? Nothing. I don't think it ever had one, to be honest. Investors wanting to be anonymous. Articles of association entirely devoted to keeping the riff-raff at arms length, while cheerfully pocketing their dollar. And written with the full compliance of a small but select part of the HUST board. A revolving door to the chairman's office/boardroom, with some frankly laughable excuses as to why. Pension theft on an almost unheard of scale. Dismantling of a perfectly functioning and very well-respected academy set-up, and replacing it with this fiasco. Giving a successful manager an admittedly (by the current incumbents no less) uncompetitive budget, and then sacking him when his squad was, to some anyway, uncompetitive. And then splashing the cash when the more palatable face of management was appointed. Andrew Munsley. Nope. Never had one.
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Post by colebridgebull on Jul 22, 2019 17:32:00 GMT
I just cant think of any logical reason as to why you would play games in Yate. Why not Abergavenny or Ludlow if its seen as impossible to play in Herefordshire. I'm just confused as to the reasoning in all of this. It just doesn't seem to make any sense. It does if you bear in mind the closeness of Yate to Bristol, together with the easy access to the M5/M4. This has nothing to do with finding the best young talent for the benefit of Hereford FC. Once you get to that point, sadly all becomes much clearer.
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Post by mikeunderpenyard on Jul 22, 2019 18:11:45 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2019 18:25:02 GMT
It's an embarrassment, is what it is. Just when you think you've seen the last of money-grabbing, power-obsessed, ego-fuelled halfwits running your local football club, another lot move in.
The worst thing is that they genuinely don't see what they're doing wrong.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2019 18:33:08 GMT
I think Mr Beadle, rather carelessly, gave them an opportunity to get rid of him. But it had nothing to do with matters on the pitch, of course. He was, in all fairness, a football man whom, along with Jenkins, the football public of Hereford were happy to hang their hat on. It won't happen with the present incumbents. The new chairman came in and said "we are Hereford, we are from the Meadow End."
We shall see. I'm watching.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2019 19:03:01 GMT
As long as this chap Richards - who has some good attributes - is in Hereford to do a second job, the whole enterprise is, of course, doomed to failure. I find it utterly astonishing that the impecunious people running the club cannot see this.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2019 19:20:13 GMT
I would acknowledge, however, that they will be less concerned that a man whose career is that of a teacher will not be tempted to make a couple of quid on the side. In all fairness.
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Post by lexington on Jul 22, 2019 19:23:20 GMT
It's an embarrassment, is what it is. Just when you think you've seen the last of money-grabbing, power-obsessed, ego-fuelled halfwits running your local football club, another lot move in. The worst thing is that they genuinely don't see what they're doing wrong. Isn't it all about being "sustainable"? No one has any skin in the game. No one takes any risk. Everyone has a short memory. This'll all blow over soon.
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Post by portlyottersdad on Jul 22, 2019 19:32:35 GMT
I may be being a bit thick here but on the academy’s schedule on BN Yate is not mentioned at all?
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Post by mikeunderpenyard on Jul 22, 2019 19:40:06 GMT
They're coaching schedules not game fixtures.
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Post by portlyottersdad on Jul 22, 2019 19:43:10 GMT
OK cheers
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Post by timmeee on Jul 22, 2019 21:03:50 GMT
Colebridgebull has it on the nose. I think even Mr Watson accidentally lets the cat out of the bag in his email:
‘Playing in a central venue in Yate’
He means that Yate is the central venue. Central to Bristol, Cardiff, Swansea, Swindon and Reading. Probably even Nailsworth.
The decent talent gets picked off early by these clubs and Mr Bevan gets himself a nice fee for finding them. I’ve no doubt HFC gets some kind of financial reward for passing the players their way, albeit almost certainly smaller than Bevan.
The kids that aren’t picked up by the big clubs return to train in Herefordshire for a few years and parents continue to pay out big fees for the privilege. If they are lucky they could end up on Herefords books.
But the best players will have gone. We’ve missed the chance to train them up, develop them, give them first team game time and (importantly for the long term success of the club) we’ve missed the chance to sell them to Ipswich for £100,000 and lost the selling on fee when they sell them to Wolverhampton Wanders for £3.5 million.
This whole setup isn’t what is best for the lads and their families or what is best for HFC in the long run. This is about a few chaps getting as much money as they can and we seem to have landed ourselves in the middle of it.
This is not what I expected from our ‘community club’. Everything else up to this point I can get behind to some degree but not this.
To say I am disappointed is an understatement.
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Post by gefod on Jul 22, 2019 21:51:05 GMT
I felt cyber sick after reading that article. Is that the best that these people could come up with? To quote ww, good riddance.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2019 23:51:27 GMT
Sad to see the HUST chairman grinning inanely as he hands over 10k of supporter's donations. HUST should fold as they serve no purpose for the supporters, only the HFC board.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2019 6:53:41 GMT
The only thing they've ever achieved is not supporting one season - and I'm not sure that was an achievement.
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Post by Barney still in B-Block on Jul 23, 2019 8:38:40 GMT
Sad to see the HUST chairman grinning inanely as he hands over 10k of supporter's donations. HUST should fold as they serve no purpose for the supporters, only the HFC board. I know this chap, and have plenty of time for him as an individual, but agree 100% with the sentiment. Was hopeful that HUST would become something more than just a fund-raising arm of HFC, but doesn't look like that's going to happen.
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Post by mikeunderpenyard on Jul 23, 2019 10:44:17 GMT
Hopefully the newly appointed "Community Engagement Manager" can shed some light on this farce.
Purely coincidence that he was once employed by Newport i assume.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2019 18:42:16 GMT
Obviously, with the majority of families broken these days, not only do the parents have to juggle their children from A to B from one vehicle to another in, say, Hereford, they also now have to take on the further distraction of getting the little feckers from Hereford to Yate.
Too many divorces. Too many broken families. Too many miles.
Enough is enough.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2019 19:00:20 GMT
In fact we want our sovereignty back. Park up the warring families outside the old toilets on Widemarsh Common. No need for Dave Evans as a backstop. Make our own laws again and get Peter Isaac to take us on laps past the Lads Club. Not the Girls Club.
Get Nigel Boris Eugene Yarwood to (re) energise us.
No more directives from Yate. Yes. We want our sovereignty back.
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Post by mikeunderpenyard on Jul 23, 2019 19:04:14 GMT
What country pub have you visited this afternoon?
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