Tilley was the right fit for the manager at Wycombe then he got sacked and the new guy obviously didn’t fancy him, to be fair Wycombe have soared up the table since

There are people that can be dead and alive at the same time though. Some post here ...

The one thing that gets forgotten was that Schrodinger was stating that the cat couldn't be alive and dead at the same time, which he thought disproved a quantum mechanics theory. The best explanation I have ever read is a few posts down here [Link]

$6M you'd have been better off looking this explanation [Link]

Oops I’m so sorry clearly I meant Double SLIT Experiment please do not google double spit experiment.

6mdm keep away from The Double Spit Experiment then. A very simple experiment but the results are the stuff of fever dreams.

I'm not sure many people in the world understand quantum mechanics.

OI - true. With Neufville, the Bradford supporters I knew were unsure when they signed him and didn't know anything about him* and didn't see how he could take Halliday's place - 2 weeks later he was one of their best signings ever! They've not mentioned him much recently though

Just spent the last 10 minutes watching clips about Schrodinger's cat. Maybe this cold I've got has temporarily (hopefully) nullified my brain but whilst I don't understand it's quantum mechanics meaning, strangely I do get how what it's supposed to mean applies to Nick Drapers witticism about budgets being both good and bad at the same time.

My view on the Goodman situation at the time was that if Palace wanted to further his development more with a L1 loan, then he may have been better off staying with us behind a defence that he already been successful with. I'm less fussed now though.

I think part of Tilley and Neufville was money but a lot was ambition. Neufville has done OK and Bradford are still in with a reasonable chance of promotion. Not sure what went wrong for Tilley at Wycombe, he is clearly good League 1 standard. Maybe he'll choose to come back if Wycombe want him off the wage bill but he might equally get sold to a richer League 1 club.

I think that’s why they kept doubling down AIoW - an apology won’t cover the stuff they’ve done. They’ll have to go.

NickD's Schrodinger's Budget,comment had me chocking on my dry roasted peanuts. AFAICT Nick Robertson has been pretty hands on, he spoke well at the meet the board meeting and was cited as being involved with exploring possible outside investment/enablement, I think. I do agree with Laurence in regard to the shenanigans around the voting and losing good business people in the process. I seriously hope that the investigation proves in favour of Shane and that there's a prominent and fulsome apology forth-coming.

But, then again, I'm still baffled by the decision to let Ball go.

Trig - re: Orsi. Personally, I think we'd have been better off taking our transfer budget this season and used it keep Tilley and Neufville. The impact of Tilley since January would go some way to back this up and we are really still playing with the rest of the play-off team otherwise (apart from Harbottle and Goodman* not being with us now and Seddon with us now)

I’m assuming the player jumping is called Jake…?

However I am still seeking accountability for the way the boards and ESG and secretariat behaved over the last two elections and one incident further back. I’m not going to give a running commentary on these things but interesting to know that two regulatory bodies will soon be investigating rather than just seeing the trust to report on itself and say that everything was done properly and well.

It is interesting that Iain Macnay, who probably has the most experience on the boards of building and running a business, was telling us years ago that we needed more external investment. He got lots of grief, including from me, but maybe he did know what he was talking about.

I don’t think I’ll be standing for election again this year - I think the board will use the new constitution to stop me being a member for a start and, tbh, I think Elvis has left the building in terms of being able to run the trust/club better now. Any improvements I might have sought to fight tooth and nail to make up against the quicksand of the current boards would be too little too late.

Orsi has at least now scored a goal for Crawley

and you have the fantasy £400,000, which we cannot be told about even though we are owners. It is no way to run a business.

Nick - the DTB got sidetracked with personal grievances which resulted in Rule 10, and that saw business minded people resign from the Board in protest, and never suitably replaced.

We didn’t make anywhere near the amount of money we expected from the Orsi deal.

Oddly, I think that we are pretty well run on a micro level (matchday operations, selling tickets etc), but quite badly run at the strategic level, where the DTB in particular have been way too slow to react to the looming financial disaster that we have been able to see for the last few years, and seem to have now left it too late to have an orderly transition from trust ownership to whatever comes next.

Good Times article, and sensible stuff from Ivor, as always, but nothing that we didn't know. WJ - that stuff from Michele at the meeting was technically correct, but irrelevant, as it was basically looking back to the period when we had a lot of big transfer sales (AAH, Rudoni etc) and saying that we didn't make a loss over that period. That is correct, but would only be relevant now if that level of transfer income was sustainable, which it isn't, as shown by the fact that it hasn't been repeated last year or this.