This, 100%. The way that fanzine conducted themselves after Wilson was sacked was absolutely disgraceful.
You had an agenda. It was a romance appointment, we all knew it was going to end in disaster and it did. People claim he had an eye for a player which he did to an extent but he had no idea how to use them. Asif relegation from the championship wasn't bad enough we were well on our way to league 2 under his stewardship. Luckily the owner did want the fans wanted and sacked him, it was the right thing to do at the right time. Unfortunately the fanzine saw this as the perfect opportunity to tear Patrick Cryne to bits. Quizzing him on how he was running the club, why he hadn't sold us on, why he added James to the board and after all that you then had the audacity to accuse Patrick of letting James sign players and make team changes, which was utter ********. Mr. Cryne and Mansford agreed to meet you, something that not many owners across the world would do. You stood there accusing cryne of the things I said earlier, it was ******* bang out of order and 99% of the supporters said the same. As someone who knows the Cryne family extremely well it sickens me when I think of the things you accused them of. You created an atmosphere by spreading rumours, it was terrible.
And rightly so... They had an agenda, the created crazy rumours and the fans saw straight through it.
An agenda? Do me a favour. Just asking reasonable questions. I saw and heard John Dennis deal with worse.
I suggest you listen back to the interview that we made publicly available. I asked a single question a number of times that was avoided or was attempted to be turned into something it wasn't. I asked 'what is James's involvement?'. I never said or implied he picked the team. I'm not daft enough to think Danny Wilson would allow that. But, at the time, his involvement in signings wasn't clear. People believed he wasn't involved at all. That's later proved not to be the case. And you're absolutely right, Mr Cryne & Mr Mansford did agree to meet us. They also agreed for that meeting to happen in front of people and be uploaded to the internet so all could take whatever from it. No hidden agendas. No secrecy. No backroom meetings. If you think me challenging a man who owned my football club's decisions whilst sitting low in League 1 after a relegation is a disgrace then I don't think we can have a conversation. I stand by everything I said & did because, quite honestly, at least I had the balls to ask hard questions in a hard situation. I'd really appreciate examples of where the fanzine tore Patrick personally to bits too.
Semantics. Who came up with “The Plan”? James wasn’t it? Ergo he had a hand in identifying/signing players.
What crazy rumours? Not being a dick, genuinely interested because not once did I ever publish or tweet something that was knowingly false (apart from Martin Cranie spunking on toast).
Reasonable? Come off it pal. I suggest you have another listen to it then. Others have said you received alot of stick over it, there's probably a reason for that. Patrick had the right to do whatever he wanted to do, it was his football club. He made the right the decision, the decisions he made got us in a position to get promoted. It wasn't an interview, it wasn't even a chat, it was interrogation. You made accusations that was miles away from the truth and created a bad atmosphere across the fans. You wasn't representing the fans that day, you represented yourself.