wasnt there something with GAC logistics as well?

Yeah, you're right.

I don't think that being 'popular' is the issue to be honest. Like a politician promising 'jam today', any sports club chairman can make himself popular by making the sort of announcements that fans want to hear. Being popular doesn't make the decision correct though, especially when it leads to even more unpopular decisions having to be made further down the line (often by someone else) in order to get back onto an even keel. Being chairman means sometimes you have to announce unpopular board choices.

Caisley [icould[/i have laid it on the line when we were at VP, he could have said that moving back to Odsal wasn't possible and that there was no alternative to staying at VP, whereas he actually presented it as the direct opposite, saying we had no choice [ibut[/i to go back to Odsal (due to drop in gates). Much as most fans definitely wouldn't have been happy to stay there (includes me, btw), presented in that fashion we would have had no real option but to accept it, and I guess that the vast majority [iwould [/ihave accepted it. It's surprising what you can put up with when you risk losing everything.

When the board negotiated the compensation deal which was intended to to last until (I think) 2018 and then virtually spent it, in just a few short years chasing glory, it was a dereliction of duty imo. This wasn't just CC of course, as I understand it the other board members [icould[/i have outvoted him, but he was, as chairman, the leading light and the figurehead of the board, so the opprobrium falls on him I guess.

I don't think there is any way to present 'Harrisgate' which will make it smell any sweeter. It is simply the worst decision since the night Abraham Lincoln said to his wife "shall we go out tonight and take in a show..."?

Bit of Blackadder there?

Didn't the old BISA hold a survey when we were at VP and it showed the Club the majority of older fans wanted Odsal and of those that were happy with VP were recently joined fans at that time

Wouldn't it be ironic if the campaign to move back to Odsal was the thing that caused the bankrupting of the club?

Dontcha think?

I try not to think about it. Irony would be the last thing on my mind.

Just when I was starting to think that my nickname wouldn't mean anything to anyone Uncle Chris does me proud. I am one very annoyed monkey on hearing that Caisley wants back in. The audacity of the bloke. He has more faces than the City Hall clock and runs on a very big, but frail, ego. He has the business sense of a polished house brick and, single-handedly, very nearly brought the club down. Known by staff at Walker-Morris as "the GIA - the Great I Am". I don't dispute his love for the game or his knowledge of its culture and organisation, but please!!!. He is a solicitor, not an accountant, not a businessman, not a money man. He is though a players agent. That tells us a lot. If it takes another 10 years to get back up there I would much rather do it without that man. The current board have had to work damned hard to shovel the sea of s**t he created and he thinks he can just waltz back in??? Fortunately, the board, collectively (apparently) have more than his proportion of shares. I could write a book on the guy (and his dad) and it wouldn't be pleasant. His reputation as an arrogant control freak goes before him and his departure was clearly timed to prevent his ego-driven incompetence being exposed big-time. GH must have been wetting himself. The Ego may not have landed yet but if he's asking for clearance we should watch the skies and shoot on sight - metaphorically speaking, of course.

rlDismissedrl by Hood. Pleased to say.

I assume this story came from a kite flown by Caisley, but who knows?

the previous poster clearly has strong views on the subject, and sounds like he is speaking from a position of experience?

I'd never trust anyone with a moustache (unless it was a Hall hot porn imitation obvioulsy).

How about lawyers with a moustache...regardless of style...?

My theory stands.

It's an American police 'tache.

Which one? Caisley looks dodgy, Hall looks like Gareth Hale.

Caisley's most likely to wear the mirrored glasses, that is if the mirrors face inwards.