We have, with both the previous and current regime, sufferred from 'chairman overload' when it comes to dealings with the media. I don't really mind who makes the important announcements (although I'd prefer it to be the manager) but could the designated spokespersons please button it until there is actually something of significance to say; to be fair, in that respect, TP is a model of rectitude.

Bexley Dave

Can you hear the Brighton sing? I can't hear a ******* thing!

"The most arrogant, obnoxious bunch of deluded little sun tanned, loafer wearing mummy's boys I've ever had the misfortune of having to listen to" (Burnley forum)

...you're right syd, no way should we expect anything from Mr Murray, he is now left with trusting the repaired leg and that can reduce sadly his impact to a degree where everyone will end up hating him!
No one can predict how things are going to pan out for us with goalscoring and cover for players and of course we have no say... I still feel along the lines that we do not need to and that somebody is going to become a hero in that department, in so much that they will score enough.

.......has our coach driver done a Poo'yet, without thinking about Gus!

...Stoke are truly nuts.

.......has our coach driver done a Poo'yet, without thinking about Gus!

In fairness to SB these quotes that everyone has debated for 13 pages on here come from the BBS in answer to direct questions.

Edited by Plane (23 Jan 2014 12.28pm)

I agree.
They are damned when they do and would be damned if they did not ! I think the engagement with supporters is to be welcomed.

I think ultimately this is true (that they are damned if they do and damned if they don't), but it's somewhat ironic. Here's why. In a number of posts recently, those who disagree with the board over our transfer policy have been criticised (often unfairly) as being a reflection of a modern age where we want everything immediately and are not prepared to wait for things to happen. It's true; in so far as a lack of patience is certainly a hallmark of the world we now live in. But it's not without irony that the same people who are lauding the board for their presumed patience and financial restraint are the same people who also applaud their engagement with supporters, which in reality is only likely to encourage false expectations, increase frustration, and encourage second-guessing.

This is not to criticise supporters or the board in any personal way. It is simply to raise the subject for discussion. My only conclusion is that for a long time (in history), the board of a football club would not have felt the need to directly update supporters on future policy (indeed, even as recently as a decade ago this was true) and I don't think it is at all clear that having a board who communicate with us through an Internet fan site and seem determined to talk in fairly granular detail on confidential subjects is a good thing.

Again, that is not to openly criticise CPFC2010...it it merely to say that I do not think it is absolutely clear that their communications strategy is sensible or desirable. And as Parish is a "media expert", I think it's quite appropriate to question him about this. I don't (personally) think it follows at all that "all noise is good noise" when it come to speaking out or that the board discussing future transfer possibilities with fans is a desirable state of affairs.

I think we need to move beyond the notion that the board are good because of the way they communicate with supporters. There isn't any evidence that at least some areas of their conversation are helping anyone and it's far from certain that discussion before the fact is preferable to a lucid and full explanation after the fact. Either way, I think this is a central point that merits discussion. I also think some fans are very lightweight and not intellectually very rigorous in their analysis; they are so flattered and impressed that the board is even speaking to them that their palpable delight blinds them to asking questions that still need to be asked.

Edited by sydtheeagle (23 Jan 2014 12.53pm)

Sydenham by birth. Selhurst by the Grace of God.