Graham Rodger Demoted

So here we have Jason Stockwood, former vice chairman of Simply Business- a company that was voted best place to work in the entire country, not once but twice, and Jason himself won the best overall business leader award. These awards led to the company being accredited as a certified B Corporation, which he is trying to repeat for GTFC and will be the first football club ever to achieve this if/when it happens.

And yet, some disgruntled acolytes of the old regime, which failed miserably to to move the club in a forward direction despite almost 2 decades of trying, are labelling the new guys as some kind of draconian organisation whose employees are being mistreated and leaving in droves.

Yeah right.

Quoted from ginnywings

So here we have Jason Stockwood, former vice chairman of Simply Business- a company that was voted best place to work in the entire country, not once but twice, and Jason himself won the best overall business leader award. These awards led to the company being accredited as a certified B Corporation, which he is trying to repeat for GTFC and will be the first football club ever to achieve this if/when it happens.

And yet, some disgruntled acolytes of the old regime, which failed miserably to to move the club in a forward direction despite almost 2 decades of trying, are labelling the new guys as some kind of draconian organisation whose employees are being mistreated and leaving in droves.

Yeah right.

Comments of which have been proven false by multiple employees. Take the groundsman situation…

Two ways of looking at it; the previous regime was useless and lacked vision and desire to be anything other than sycophants and for the club to merely exist. People that worked for that regime did so, probably with good intentions but chose to either turn a blind eye or fed the leader and followed through with his wishes which ultimately saw the club relegated out the league twice. So they’re either spineless and didn’t really care or they too were/are as incompetent and were complicit in that…thus, needing to be removed. Sweep away the rubbish and start again.

Or, the new owners have come in, they’ve given people a chance, they tried to remain sentimental but pragmatic, they’ve recruited to support those people or indeed, perhaps because they’ve got to actually do something now and are held to account and they aren’t able to do that, so, the nee owners move them on. Much like what happens in any failing business that’s taken over.

There’s also a third in which people have may be just decided that they don’t want the hassle anymore so are retiring kr leaving for pastures new, which is fine.

The hearsay and twaddle about working conditions or difficulties working for, let’s face it, significantly more successful folk than Fenty is merely that. Only comes from those who ‘liked’ or supported Fenty too…funny that don’t you think.

Fleming, gone? Is he missed? Clearly not.
Day, Marley, gone? Missed? Most definitely not.
Any other deadwood that’s been moved on, missed? Again, clearly not…

Really shown your arše in this thread eh Noche? Starts a thread to have another go at the new owners and within a couple of hours has absolutely shat his pants, furiously back-pedalling and trying to score points by arguing who is/was the safeguarding officer of the Sports & Education Trust as if anyone cares.

Utterly humiliating. I can only assume you get some kind of weird sexual pleasure from being humiliated in public given the amount of time you spend on here embarrassing yourself in new and ever more tragic ways.

Quoted from ginnywings

So here we have Jason Stockwood, former vice chairman of Simply Business- a company that was voted best place to work in the entire country, not once but twice, and Jason himself won the best overall business leader award. These awards led to the company being accredited as a certified B Corporation, which he is trying to repeat for GTFC and will be the first football club ever to achieve this if/when it happens.

And yet, some disgruntled acolytes of the old regime, which failed miserably to to move the club in a forward direction despite almost 2 decades of trying, are labelling the new guys as some kind of draconian organisation whose employees are being mistreated and leaving in droves.

Yeah right.

It's not Jason Stockwood that they have a problem with though. It's somebody who he has never worked with before, so maybe it's entirely possible that they don't live up to the standards he intends to set. The question is, does he address that or let them continue.

Are you & Noche the union reps in the GTFC office?

I don’t understand.

Look, as I’ve said, Graham Rodger has bitten the dust, is being demoted. Don’t any of you care about that?

Not saying it’s the wrong decision. All I’m saying is that  we should have some sympathy in respect of someone  that has lost the job that they was doing. It must be really difficult to remain in the club with someone coming in to do the role that you was supposed to be doing.

Quoted from pen penfras

It's not Jason Stockwood that they have a problem with though. It's somebody who he has never worked with before, so maybe it's entirely possible that they don't live up to the standards he intends to set. The question is, does he address that or let them continue.

We know who you mean, she’s clearly knocked you back.

Perhaps, as CEO she takes her role seriously and like all good CEOs, holds people to account…they don’t like it so they cryarse about it.

Let’s face it, anyone that worked on thr non playing side under Fenty’s tenure has on had to put up with his tantrums and say ‘yes sir, no sir’ for the last few years, take their wages and not give a excrement…

Sweep the floor with the lot. The club was rotten, no time for sentiment…

Quoted from pen penfras

It's not Jason Stockwood that they have a problem with though. It's somebody who he has never worked with before, so maybe it's entirely possible that they don't live up to the standards he intends to set. The question is, does he address that or let them continue.

Maybe it's also entirely possible that these people writing you letters about how much they miss John are bone idle and don't live up to the standards the board intend to set?

Quoted from jamesgtfc

Maybe it's also entirely possible that these people writing you letters about how much they miss John are bone idle and don't live up to the standards the board intend to set?

I think it’s more entirely possible that these people writing letters are either a) non existent or b) a figment of imagination in a certain someone’s head or c) written by the very small group of individuals with huge chips on their shoulders, to go along with the green envy and jealousy of those whom are now in situ.

Quoted from pen penfras

It's not Jason Stockwood that they have a problem with though. It's somebody who he has never worked with before, so maybe it's entirely possible that they don't live up to the standards he intends to set. The question is, does he address that or let them continue.

Ok. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and say that maybe there is someone causing a problem and it's pretty obvious who you mean.

If there are genuine grievances there from some employees and it is being brought to the attention of the relevant parties, then you would expect that people with the track record the new owners have would address the problem. If in fact there is a problem I might add.

A lot of fans were desperate for new ownership and a new direction after years of going backwards as a club. It's always a bit of a gamble who you end up with; just look at Swann up the road. We ended up with two local guys made good, both of whom are Town fans and both of whom seem to be responsible employers going on their past records. There will always be people who have their noses pushed out of joint when a new broom sweeps clean. I've seen it myself at a company I worked for.

To my mind, we couldn't have wished for better people to take over than we got and maybe there are some feathers being ruffled, but I trust that eventually they will more likely take us forward than not, and in a more responsible manner than most football chairmen would work. They have only been in charge for about 9 months, so I'm sure there is still a certain amount of restructuring going on yet.

The plain and simple fact is that we went nowhere and were going nowhere as things stood before they arrived. That is indisputable and is reflected in our league position, which is very many places and a few leagues lower than the starting point of the last owner. To expect to carry on doing things in the same way, with the same people in post, is just madness.