Spoke to AK today. Saw him collecting glasses etc. Strikes me he was a restaurant owner in a former life.

No real future for SL at the Hive.

How can you have lack of funds in a licensed league ?.
If your at rock bottom in the league the only way is up.
If your youth development is crap you have the opportunity to develop it because you cant be relegated so no need to over spend on the first team.
IMO a lack of funds is a bad arguement

So, you are saying they shouldn't have been investing in the first team but in marketing. So you attract new spectators to watch a team get thrashed? How long will they stay fans?

Yep i'm saying the club should have invested long term in marketing and youth development whilst in the licensed league,they chose not to and they are paying the price for it now.
Also how long ago is it when london werent one of the whipping boys

Your opinion or a quote from AK?

My opinion based on very little! I did spk with AK.

Wire quin, so he collected glasses, but what did he say

he's going to invest the cash he saves on paying people to collect glasses in the development of new RL talent in the region

Gus could always make himself useful and collect glasses.

He'd probably drop half though.

.....and jbuzza thinks I go ON and ON....Jheeeeeze.

Well I was using attempted humour to point (pint?) out that the CEO doesn't really have a job.

What you were doing in response is anybody's guess.

He keeps it short and to the point though.

It would seem that the club have opened up a direct line of communication with Mark Rammond. If you want to know what David is thinking or how poor Gus is taking all the "unfounded" criticism, ping rammo an email and he'll sort you out with an update.

Indeed I did.
2 Things emerge from this titbit BTW.....
one is that although I repeatedly advised him to stay away from these boards, Gus couldn't help himself and regularly responded to my musings on here via text. This would point to my so called or apparent "cyber bullying" as not being harsh enough

Secondly, I have received texts on more than one occasion from him at 3am NZ time. If I wanted to "cyber bully" Gus, I have enough comms experience to ensure that his mobile would ring every minute, with 2 texts in between calls, 24 hours a day. These "communications" would come from multiple servers around the word and would not be able to be blocked by his carrier, so he would need to change his number. That is cyber bullying.....

Pointing out his failings as a CEO that are all there for people to see is not bullying! Same way we had a pop at DH's pet project as a coach, his pet project as a CEO is a valid a target for criticism!