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| The start of what could be a very exciting period for this club.
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| Fantastic, beyond my wildest dreams at the start of the season.
As for Pearson I thank him for everything he has done for the club and leaving us in good hands. But if the new owners are genuinely happy with the lease and lease negotiations I'm not really seeing a reason for him to stay. Time for some new ideas in the CEO role I feel
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| A huge thanks to AP for leading the club to our Wembley wins and for guiding the club through covid, it was definitely time for a change and an injection of cash that will hopefully have us back in the mix for trophies.
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| Surprised to see Adam's stepping away completely (going off the tone of his statement) when it was said previously he will stay in a consultancy role. A new CEO been identified already perhaps?
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| Great news. Mr Adam Pearson thank you for your services to FC. Also for giving me the greatest sporting day of my life. Good luck in what ever you do
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| Great news!
Thank you Adam for everything you have done for the club, especially our two Wembley wins!
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| Happy Christmas everyone!!!!
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| great news, we have 3 years to turn the club around, by the end of that period we have to be challenging again.
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| Great news indeed to have it finally confirmed and made official.
I know some maybe won't agree but I do think Adam deserves an huge amount of thanks for taking on ownership of the club and delivering 2 of the best days in the clubs history and the owner who finally got rid of the Wembley monkey. Yes he made some mistakes and no doubt will be the first to admit it. That said he has steered the club single handedly through some very difficult times following an unprecedented pandemic and global lockdown and at least keep the club alive. He has also ensured he has handed the club over to very respectable and genuine people with financial clout behind them.
On to the future I believe that AT & DH will take this club and an upward trajectory and have it back challenging at the top of the game before too long.
So thanks Adam for everything and welcome aboard Andrew & David (OBE)
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| Quote: "Great news indeed to have it finally confirmed and made official.
I know some maybe won't agree but I do think Adam deserves an huge amount of thanks for taking on ownership of the club and delivering 2 of the best days in the clubs history and the owner who finally got rid of the Wembley monkey. Yes he made some mistakes and no doubt will be the first to admit it. That said he has steered the club single handedly through some very difficult times following an unprecedented pandemic and global lockdown and at least keep the club alive. He has also ensured he has handed the club over to very respectable and genuine people with financial clout behind them.
On to the future I believe that AT & DH will take this club and an upward trajectory and have it back challenging at the top of the game before too long.
So thanks Adam for everything and welcome aboard Andrew & David (OBE)
Hindsight is a wonderful thing but if he had his time again I reckon he'd do the below differently
Not put faith in McRae (seemed sensible at the time given his experience in the game and at the club but 10 internationals signing was a breach of the trade descriptions act)
Not sack Gentle (6th place and a cup final wasn't bad going given a weak squad)
Improve the squad for 2018 (some of the cup winners had a year or 2 much milage on the clock by that point)
Sack Radford earlier (tough for any coach to come back from that many defeats)
Not keep hiring assistants (job too big to have on the job training) and replaced Motu with another DOR with RL experience
But it's very hard to say what if, in alternative timelines we could have been coached by Watson, Lam, kept Last... and who knows what would have happened next. Even if lockdown had hit a week or two earlier Radders may have remained into 2021.
But yeh 2 cup wins ultimately outweigh a lot of the doom
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| Best outcome we could possibly have imagined, given the state of the game and the economy.
Hopefully the regime can unlock the potential of the club finally.
Probably announce the new middle soon!
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| Great to have this sorted after what's been a lengthy process. Lets hope that this is the start of a successful time for the club, although I feel patience is required.
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| Obviously we've all known this was coming for a few weeks now, but to have it officially confirmed today is very gladdening news for all.
There is clearly a lot of hard work still to be done before we are back challenging at the top once more, but at least we now have the tools (and hopefully the right personnel) to begin tackling the job in hand.
One thing's for sure, we're all way more optimistic about the future than we were as last season dribbled to its depressing end, rescued from almost the very brink of oblivion in my view.
Fingers crossed, let's hope we look back on today as the moment a great period commenced for our great club. Keep the faith everyone, good times may be here again soon.
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| Excellent news. Thanks to AP who put too much faith in the wrong people but who, i felt, always had the best interests of the club at heart.
Welcome aboard the 2 new owners - at a combined wealth of £1/2bn must be one of the wealthiest ownership groups in SL, possibly 2nd only to the guy at wigan
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| Quote: "Great to have this sorted after what's been a lengthy process. Lets hope that this is the start of a successful time for the club, although I feel patience is required.'"
Some patience needed yes as the squad does have some weaknesses, however my view is the standard in SL has dropped and outside of the top 3 or 4 decent teams it's a lottery of who's squad has stayed fit, what iffy ref calls they have had etc so I don't feel it's a massive mountain to climb over the next few years.
We just need a bit of a spark, even 2 home wins in a row would feel like a miracle after what we have seen.
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