I agree
Where else in the country can 16 year olds not ready for the professional game get first team football?
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I'm unsure how she made so much money, she comes across as clueless. Totally clueless.
Up for an award too, I hear.
Get it sorted, Petrie!!!
As good a grilling as I’ve heard auld Anne get on Sportsound just now. Thoroughly unconvincing answers.
Squirming. Love it.
Her running Scottish football! FFS, She's utterly out her depth
When I listen to her talk about football management I get the same feeling I get when I watch people attempt to sing on episode 1 of an X Factor series. Absolute cringe. I can't listen!
I actually don't think she's coming across too badly. Hope they ask her if the chimp that does her typing is working on the complete works of Shakespeare.
I’m sure they will continue their “backing”. They’ve got nowhere else to go.
But I also remember them ridiculing criticism of their main stand project and dismissing us as bitter and jealous. It turns out the project has been an utter disaster, still with no definitive end date or final cost.
“All is Barry” is an apt rallying cry for a support who will believe anything they are told, it seems. Over and over again.
Contrast to Hibbys who, if Petrie told them it was Thursday, would ask him to prove it.
Is English a Yam after all? He was just saying "if we don't get to Hampden next year..."
Hopes to have the stand finished by the end of the year!!!
She said she wasn't sure if Craig Levein actually takes the players for training. Sounds like she's well on top of things :greengrin I couldn't listen to anymore.
That said, the bit about the bi-annual overhaul of the team having not cost them in financial terms. Even the most deluded Hearts fan isn't going to buy that....and arguably it is the deluded Hearts fans' money that has been wasted. I'm sure most of them could reel of numerous players that have been a waste of a wage in the Budge era.
Doesn't sound like Levein is leaving any time soon, be it as head coach or DoF, which is good news. If I was a Jambo I'd not be happy to hear it is up to him what he wants to do and when. Cushiest/safest job in Scottish football. Budge will never sack him, it will take a fans' revolt to get him out
Not really, Alison Newell left the company in 2001 , but the company name didn't change.
Budge did not build the company herself though, by 2005 there were 10 other directors on the board.
I think budge knew her stuff on I.T., trouble for the Yams is she thinks it makes her an expert on all things.
Whatever happened to that Morganleith guy?
Anybody else reckon he's actually #allisbarry?
You're having to go back a fair bit for that theory to hold water, my man.
Budge also resigned in 2001 and then resigned again after the completion of the French take over. I dealt with N&B over the years prior to the sale and they were woefully poor on deadline management, cost over runs, over promising and under-delivering. All Budge traits.
Budge did not found the company, she was a co-founder with Alison Newell. Alison Newell was the majority shareholder and Ann Budge only acquired 100% control through a Management Buy Out in 2001 when Alison Newell decided to enjoy early retirement. Budge then flogged the company on to SOPRA. The French came in and she got booted as CEO.
Budge had good connections in the incestuous Edinburgh Financial sector in the days before Goodwin took the relatively tiny RBS on a global rampage, Bank of Scotland was still a small independent bank and Standard Life like the other two used Walker as a core system and the same wee group of people who went on the merry go round between the three were all part of the Barnton and D Mains dinner cicuit.
Any word on final capacity yet, or are they still keeping it hush hush?