Post by El Huracán!!!! on Mar 24, 2004 22:34:59 GMT 1
Here the letter that is going to go to every member of the board and senior member of Staff at the club after the Hereford game - if you dissagree with anything in this letter then you have not been watching in the last 2 years (or longer) and even more so the last season.
This is not a place for debate - just add your name if you want to be part of this - the club will know how feel!!!!
Dear sirs
If I could take just a moment of your day to read and respond to this letter from the loyal fans of Shrewsbury Town
Going back to 1977 Town had just beaten Portsmouth 6-1 in an old div 3 game, I said to who I was with “we’ll go up this season, we are awesome”, then a few weeks/months later Brian Hornsby is sold to Sheffield Wednesday and because no one is brought into replace him we drop down and finish the season mid-table. Then in the summer of 1980 and after 2 seasons to remember Paul Maguire leaves Town for Stoke City for £250,000, had he stayed I still say to this day we would have been so close to gaining promotion to the top flight that next season, but we end up scr@ping down the bottom…because yet again no replacement for Maguire is found.
We then have 8 seasons in the old div 2, now no one moans about lack of ambition or stars like Maclaren, Cross, Pearson, Ogrizovic following Hornsby and Maguire out of the GM door as they wanted to better themselves, but is a replacement found for them?...NO….Do we as fans complain? NO.
We then move into the “Belly Up” period which the club get relegated to the old div 3 and then the new div 3 within 3 seasons and we the fans still seem to sit back as we are used to the knock backs.
Things go ok for a few seasons, we get promoted, we have a couple of cup runs and also reach a Wembley final and guess what? Relegation. But, a large majority say the man in charge shouldn’t be sacked as he’ll get us back up…even though the last year and a bit it clearly shows his impersonation of a technician is rather poor.
The club then employ an old favourite for money cutting purposes , but he falls out with a couple of our better players in basically a squad “man made” or should that read “King made” squad ready for Non league football. So, one player leaves to better himself (I’ve heard that before) and the other gets given a free transfer. Good move by King NOT!, as within 2 years he moves on for £200,000. But does anyone complain? Not really.
We then come oh so close to relegation into Non League, but aided by a chairman’s hardy words “This will never happen again” were just happy to have stayed up.
Things then improve for a couple of seasons, but then the majority let a famous cup win shadow over a very poor league season, the negative amongst us are told “ he’ll sort it out”…BIG MISTAKE 6-0 at Boston should have been his farewell.(I’m not blaming one supporter for sticking by him).
We are now a Non League club, with a group of League players playing possibly- no definitely the worst football I have ever witnessed by STFC, managed by a man who basically hasn’t a clue what do to when the players get on the pitch. He gives players instructions which they fail to follow, formations which are different ever 5 minutes and has a backroom staff far TOO LARGE and NOT NEEDED!
NO LONGER DO WE WANT TO SIT BACK AND EXCEPT WHAT’S GIVEN OUT, WE WANT TO BE HEARD.
LIKE THE BOARD WE PUT MONEY INTO THE CLUB..WE NOW WANT A SAY.
So as the fans of the club and major contributors to the club in many ways (be it cash, time or effort)there are a few simple questions that we would like some answers to:
1) If one of your firms had a management team who had brought such utter disaster to your organisation in five years as you have would you leave them in charge?
2) If the manager of one of your firms made a performance related promise at the beginning of the year and then failed how would you deal with it?
3) If your recruitment consultant gave you three manager in five years who all failed abysmally at the task given to them how would you treat the recruitment consultant?
4) If a management team at one of your companies alienated a large percentage of your regular and trusted clients by consistently feeding them half baked promises for the future and never fulfilling anything how would you react?
5) If a senior director of one of your companies refused to ever meet his customers or clients would you consider them to be weak?
6) what were your personal expectations at the start of this season regarding the league position of the club?
I thank you for your time, as the fans of the club it would be appreciated if some response could be given as you silence will condemn you in the long run
Yours Glyn Price, John Phillips
(kickinpretty and sshrew i dont know your names??)
This is not a place for debate - just add your name if you want to be part of this - the club will know how feel!!!!
Dear sirs
If I could take just a moment of your day to read and respond to this letter from the loyal fans of Shrewsbury Town
Going back to 1977 Town had just beaten Portsmouth 6-1 in an old div 3 game, I said to who I was with “we’ll go up this season, we are awesome”, then a few weeks/months later Brian Hornsby is sold to Sheffield Wednesday and because no one is brought into replace him we drop down and finish the season mid-table. Then in the summer of 1980 and after 2 seasons to remember Paul Maguire leaves Town for Stoke City for £250,000, had he stayed I still say to this day we would have been so close to gaining promotion to the top flight that next season, but we end up scr@ping down the bottom…because yet again no replacement for Maguire is found.
We then have 8 seasons in the old div 2, now no one moans about lack of ambition or stars like Maclaren, Cross, Pearson, Ogrizovic following Hornsby and Maguire out of the GM door as they wanted to better themselves, but is a replacement found for them?...NO….Do we as fans complain? NO.
We then move into the “Belly Up” period which the club get relegated to the old div 3 and then the new div 3 within 3 seasons and we the fans still seem to sit back as we are used to the knock backs.
Things go ok for a few seasons, we get promoted, we have a couple of cup runs and also reach a Wembley final and guess what? Relegation. But, a large majority say the man in charge shouldn’t be sacked as he’ll get us back up…even though the last year and a bit it clearly shows his impersonation of a technician is rather poor.
The club then employ an old favourite for money cutting purposes , but he falls out with a couple of our better players in basically a squad “man made” or should that read “King made” squad ready for Non league football. So, one player leaves to better himself (I’ve heard that before) and the other gets given a free transfer. Good move by King NOT!, as within 2 years he moves on for £200,000. But does anyone complain? Not really.
We then come oh so close to relegation into Non League, but aided by a chairman’s hardy words “This will never happen again” were just happy to have stayed up.
Things then improve for a couple of seasons, but then the majority let a famous cup win shadow over a very poor league season, the negative amongst us are told “ he’ll sort it out”…BIG MISTAKE 6-0 at Boston should have been his farewell.(I’m not blaming one supporter for sticking by him).
We are now a Non League club, with a group of League players playing possibly- no definitely the worst football I have ever witnessed by STFC, managed by a man who basically hasn’t a clue what do to when the players get on the pitch. He gives players instructions which they fail to follow, formations which are different ever 5 minutes and has a backroom staff far TOO LARGE and NOT NEEDED!
NO LONGER DO WE WANT TO SIT BACK AND EXCEPT WHAT’S GIVEN OUT, WE WANT TO BE HEARD.
LIKE THE BOARD WE PUT MONEY INTO THE CLUB..WE NOW WANT A SAY.
So as the fans of the club and major contributors to the club in many ways (be it cash, time or effort)there are a few simple questions that we would like some answers to:
1) If one of your firms had a management team who had brought such utter disaster to your organisation in five years as you have would you leave them in charge?
2) If the manager of one of your firms made a performance related promise at the beginning of the year and then failed how would you deal with it?
3) If your recruitment consultant gave you three manager in five years who all failed abysmally at the task given to them how would you treat the recruitment consultant?
4) If a management team at one of your companies alienated a large percentage of your regular and trusted clients by consistently feeding them half baked promises for the future and never fulfilling anything how would you react?
5) If a senior director of one of your companies refused to ever meet his customers or clients would you consider them to be weak?
6) what were your personal expectations at the start of this season regarding the league position of the club?
I thank you for your time, as the fans of the club it would be appreciated if some response could be given as you silence will condemn you in the long run
Yours Glyn Price, John Phillips
(kickinpretty and sshrew i dont know your names??)