Least Bad SUFC Owner since 1980

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Who is the Least Bad SUFC Owner since 1980?

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1980 because that's when I started going regularly and you've got to draw the line somewhere.
I've not included the assorted Chairmen, administrators and puppets just the main men.
Who do you reckon and why?
 



You're choosing flavours of turd here but I went for Brealey. He had a plan for the club which was actually quite visionary. When it was torpedoed by the council he wanted out hence the cutback on spending on players. And, whatever his many faults, old Reg left the club in a better position than he found it. You can't say that about McCabe.

Woolhouse had a certain comedy value and MacDonald had a big chequebook for all of three months.
 
I've gone for MacDonald although I hated him and Green as much as the next man at the time.
At least he built us a very decent stand (unlike Brealey's Kop) and backed both his manager's with cash in the short-term.
Ok, he lost his bottle and interest when crowds didn't immediately soar to 30,000+ and he started getting flack.
But I think if Kendall had taken us up through the play-offs, he would have backed him in the Premiership as well and probably have got us established up there.
Yet another big, "what if"!?
 
3 years ago, I would never have said Brearley, but "Fit and Proper" has made me re-assess his legacy.
 
Can't vote for Brearley because of those poor indian mill workers we used to get leaflets about...

I voted McCabe, but I didn't feel good about it.
 
WalthamstowBlade said:
You're choosing flavours of turd here but I went for Brealey. He had a plan for the club which was actually quite visionary. When it was torpedoed by the council he wanted out hence the cutback on spending on players. And, whatever his many faults, old Reg left the club in a better position than he found it. You can't say that about McCabe.

Woolhouse had a certain comedy value and MacDonald had a big chequebook for all of three months.
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And the Thatcher government on appeal....
 
WalthamstowBlade said:
You're choosing flavours of turd here but I went for Brealey. He had a plan for the club which was actually quite visionary.
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#YES , the ground was to have a running track (fold away ) and would have saved us all the council tax we continue to pay for the Don Valley, had a semi circular kop stand which looked unique, but was scuppered by the piggy backing masons on the council
 
Sothall_Blade said:
I've gone for MacDonald although I hated him and Green as much as the next man at the time.
At least he built us a very decent stand (unlike Brealey's Kop) and backed both his manager's with cash in the short-term.
Ok, he lost his bottle and interest when crowds didn't immediately soar to 30,000+ and he started getting flack.
But I think if Kendall had taken us up through the play-offs, he would have backed him in the Premiership as well and probably have got us established up there.
Yet another big, "what if"!?
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He'd probably have moved the whole club to somewhere near Glossop if we'd have spent any length of time top flight. Always despised this side of the Pennines.

Gone for Brealey. His latter day fuck ups still didn't take us down to where he started from.
 
blade too long said:
#YES , the ground was to have a running track (fold away ) and would have saved us all the council tax we continue to pay for the Don Valley, had a semi circular kop stand which looked unique, but was scuppered by the piggy backing masons on the council
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And the Piggy backing masons in the Tory government....
 
blade too long said:
one look at that list
suddenly McCabe looks cuddly
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Brealey took over a near bankrupt Fourth Division club and turned it into a near bankrupt First Division club, sold it, took it back, and turned it into a near bankrupt Second Division club.

Woolhouse took over a near bankrupt First Division club, made it a bit more bankrupt, then had it taken off him because he couldn't afford to pay for it (because he actually was bankrupt).

MacDonald took over a near bankrupt Second Division football club and left a possibly slightly less bankrupt Second Division football club.

McCabe took over a little way off bankrupt Second Division club and turned it into a little way off bankrupt Third Division club.

Sad to say, but old Reg's record stacks up pretty well.
 
Like choosing between the electric chair and hanging! :eek:

having read 'Fit and Proper' Brealey probably shades it. If you ask me in 3 weeks time and the unlikely has happened McCabe might have inched in front!
 
Darren said:
And the Piggy backing masons in the Tory government....
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And a government of another persuasion would have made any difference? You do have a bee in your bonce.
 
WalthamstowBlade said:
You're choosing flavours of turd here but I went for Brealey. He had a plan for the club which was actually quite visionary. When it was torpedoed by the council he wanted out hence the cutback on spending on players. And, whatever his many faults, old Reg left the club in a better position than he found it. You can't say that about McCabe.

Woolhouse had a certain comedy value and MacDonald had a big chequebook for all of three months.
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I agree. Your post sums it up for me. I certainly think Reg's heart was in the right place as well. Shame it didn't work for him.

"Sam" Hashimi might have been on that list as well....

;)
 



Darren said:
And the Thatcher government on appeal....
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Knew you couldn' resist the anti-Thatcher sentiment. How about a comment on this post

ZoneManWilf said:
Can't vote for Brearley because of those poor indian mill workers we used to get leaflets about...
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I would have thought the latest Bangladeshi factory incident would have you finding a Blades connection somewhere. Here's the opportunity!:)
 
Bladesway said:
And a government of another persuasion would have made any difference? You do have a bee in your bonce.
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Nah he'd only be happy with Scargill as President Dictator of a one party Socialist state. Mind his parties might be fun (if you're that way inclined);).
 
BornOnShoreham said:
I agree. Your post sums it up for me. I certainly think Reg's heart was in the right place as well. Shame it didn't work for him.

"Sam" Hashimi might have been on that list as well....

;)
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Wasn't Sam just a stalking horse to force Woolhouse to put up or shut up? He'd been teasing Brealey for about three years about buying him out. As it turns out he just didn't have the cash.
 
Reggie was screwed over by the council pigs otherwise who knows where we would be, as a proportion of his wealth he probably put more into the club than KM ever will.
 
Surely one left us 2 divisions higher than where he found us, the other 1 division below?

Brealey is the piece of dog shit I'd rather eat.

UTB
 
KenMcnaughtsNuts said:
went for brealey as least bad option.

mcdonald wanted us to merge with the pigs ffs.
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And one day it will happen if we want to ever bridge the widening gap between us and the Premiership. I don't want it and I don't care if we don't ever go in that filthmongering league ever again but until Sky decide they don't want to play any more merger is the only way we will ever compete properly.
 
I would have voted for Sam Hashimi because he/she/it has done least damage to us.
 
Bladesway said:
And a government of another persuasion would have made any difference? You do have a bee in your bonce.
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#

You've missed my point entirely.

My point was to try and get rid of the perennial myth that the Council turned down Brealey's scheme because they were left wing and he was a Tory and/or because they were all Wednesday fans. The fact that it was also turned down by the Tory government with no known Wednesday affiliations rather suggests that is bollocks.
 



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