Ron Martin speaks to Chris Phillips

[Chrisb]

Interesting that he mentions his son attending matches - as has been posted on here, I think he will hand over some responsibility to him, probably once the new CEO has established himself.

 

[HypoTypo]

Interesting that he mentions his son attending matches - as has been posted on here, I think he will hand over some responsibility to him, probably once the new CEO has established himself.

 

[geoffmundo]

Anton Ferdinand, £120k just to pay off his contract....! How much to pay off Cox....Kiernan.....

 

[Mr Browns Ghost]

I wonder who the new CEO is, awful that agents ask to move their player mid season and that we need to pay them up also... just ****ing unbelievable

 

[borientater]

Never understand why it is that if a player makes it know he wants to leave that the club need to pay up his contract , after all they are going straight into another job and presumably getting paid from that job (Kiernan). I would say that as soon as they or their agents ask for a move they are in breach of contract and it's then up to the club as to how they wish to proceed

 

[Fairport]

As has been said many many times the clubs future and RM’s continued tenure are totally entwined- if he succeeds we do and vice versa.

Utterly astonishingly some seem to imagine that administration would be a good thing. I am at an utter loss to understand what imaginings make this so. Most of the debt is interco- we get to write off £600k and all the same problems continue after as before and we get hit with further embargos and point deductions. Utter madness.

I even saw on social media the suggestion that Ron should resign!!! Really- that would help.

He has given a fairly detailed interview. You can believe it or not. Some will believe none of it but yet at the same time manage to believe almost any conspiracy theory along as it plays to a theme.

FWIW the money will get paid next week- the 3 signings will get registered, results will pick up, we will go down and I believe next year will be positive one.

Amongst the interview there were some new snippets of information (BTW I thought he went out of his way not to dig out Ben Clarkson despite the injury related nightmares). Interesting on FF he indicated a recent change to the application replacing some of the retail elements with more housing? This chimes with a lot of comments on here regarding the retail developments/wonder if that includes the cinema piece. Anyhow RH and FF will go an awful long way to delivering the councils commitment on new housing.

Agree with a lot of your post but not that administration would necessarily be a disaster. About 40 clubs in the past 25 years have gone into administration then been bought out, for example, Southampton, Bournemouth, Charlton. Not exactly a disaster for them!

 

[BrettieAngell]

Yep

FWIW the money will get paid next week- the 3 signings will get registered, results will pick up, we will go down and I believe next year will be positive one.

Fair play to you, but I honestly dont know how anyone can feel positive about next season at the moment but hey this is Southend right?

 

[Rayleigh boy]

Keirnon - "lifestyle change and a sunny clime"...

really did not like playing football for a living

 

[Steve Giles]

Agree with a lot of your post but not that administration would necessarily be a disaster. About 40 clubs in the past 25 years have gone into administration then been bought out, for example, Southampton, Bournemouth, Charlton. Not exactly a disaster for them!

Don’t think Charlton fans would agree after their long battle with their Belgium owners

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

Keirnon - "lifestyle change and a sunny clime"...
really did not like playing football for a living

Especially after playing in Scotland??.

 

[EnzoBlue]

Although everyone will slate him i'm sure , I have to be honest its one of the most indepth insights hes provided at the club for YEARRRSSS. Gives you at least some idea of the ****show we've had to watch our club fall into.

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

Anton Ferdinand, £120k just to pay off his contract....! How much to pay off Cox....Kiernan.....

Yep, it really is disgusting, especially with clubs losing much needed money each week.

 

[Yer Blues]

W

Ian Hutchinson would have demanded less money to manage us, and he's doing well at Grimsby now.

Who?

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

W

Who?

People are getting the Hutchinson's mixed up, and now the Holloway's.

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

So where do we go from here?. Where will the money come from to press on for the foreseeable future?.
Revenue will diminish next season, less STH & away fans for starters?. And if results not good home attendances will fall?.
RM seems to be trying to stop water gushing downhill with a fork?.

 

[Shrimpet steve]

The bloke is 100% incompetent of running us he needs to **** off now.

Without him the club goes under!!

 

[GBJ]

Ron has once again managed to convince enough people, that he is wearing a flesh coloured body-stocking, and that the emperor is not in fact, naked.

He’s very craftily taken aim at Brown, Powell, Bond, Harry Redknapp, some players, The Academy, Ben Clarkson, Sol & HMRC.

However, not a single one of those persons/entities sets or manages the budgets within this business. Ron does.

So don’t go worrying about those big, unpaid debts racking up against our club, just focus on blaming our problems on one of those things from the list above.

- £600k minimum payment required? Nevermind that, don’t you know that Chris Powell signed a big, bollockless Frenchman, which is the reason for our downfall.

- Unpaid wages? Yes, but let’s not forget that Phil Brown lost the dressing room a few years ago.

- The club is minus £200k every month on the balance sheets? Forget that, we should have never gotten rid of those unmanageable players.

And to top it off, this has been going on for the the better part of a decade. Same man, same problems. How? Just how is that possible?

How do you sit down in the summer to do your budget forecasts, and see that you’ve got X amount to spend, but actually ignore that figure & simply spend whatever you like. What a load of Bollocks.

Anyone here manage to overbudget themselves on a monthly basis? Every month? For 10 years?

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Now let’s get to the odds parts of that.

- Sol & Larsson were the top two candidates for the job. Lols. Why did Millwall block AB’s move then? If we were never interested in him & Tilly taking the reigns, Millwall wouldn’t have had to block it. Load of cobblers.

- Chris Powell only wanted players he could manage. Wait, that’s a bad thing? The fact that we’re currenty the laughing stock of English Football isn’t because of that man’s recruitment, it’s because we’ve been plagued by those **** unmanageable attitudes since the days of Phil Brown.

- Perhaps Bondy could have departed a game or two before he finally did? Sure, although that would have meant Ron cutting his month-long holiday short. Honestly, just think about that. Your business - as Ron likes to refer to it - is in clear and obvious decline, but you couldn’t possibly drag your pasty backside away from your deckchair long enough, to address the problem. Get ****ed.

- “We paid off HMRC in January, but they got us embargoed again”. Once again, it’s HMRC’s fault. How many times over the last decade is that now? Don’t get me wrong, I despise the taxman as much as the next person, but us being under an embargo has got **** all to do with them. They’re not biased. They’re not out to get us. We’re just ran terribly.

- Five weeks the Larsson saga dragged on. Five. Anyone still believe it all fell apart because of some coach not wanting the job? The sooner this stadium fiasco is sorted, the better. Only then will we see any kind of change at this club.

 

[GBJ]

Without him the club goes under!!

We may well go under, with him.

 

[kentblues]

Yep


Fair play to you, but I honestly dont know how anyone can feel positive about next season at the moment but hey this is Southend right?

It’s either that or buy a flat cap, be eternally miserable and practice saying “I don't belieeeeve it”..

 

[Smiffy]

Ron has once again managed to convince enough people, that he is wearing a flesh coloured body-stocking, and that the emperor is not in fact, naked.

He’s very craftily taken aim at Brown, Powell, Bond, Harry Redknapp, some players, The Academy, Ben Clarkson, Sol & HMRC.

However, not a single one of those persons/entities sets or manages the budgets within this business. Ron does.

So don’t go worrying about those big, unpaid debts racking up against our club, just focus on blaming our problems on one of those things from the list above.

- £600k minimum payment required? Nevermind that, don’t you know that Chris Powell signed a big, bollockless Frenchman, which is the reason for our downfall.

- Unpaid wages? Yes, but let’s not forget that Phil Brown lost the dressing room a few years ago.

- The club is minus £200k every month on the balance sheets? Forget that, we should have never gotten rid of those unmanageable players.

And to top it off, this has been going on for the the better part of a decade. Same man, same problems. How? Just how is that possible?

How do you sit down in the summer to do your budget forecasts, and see that you’ve got X amount to spend, but actually ignore that figure & simply spend whatever you like. What a load of Bollocks.

Anyone here manage to overbudget themselves on a monthly basis? Every month? For 10 years?

—————————————————————

Now let’s get to the odds parts of that.

- Sol & Larsson were the top two candidates for the job. Lols. Why did Millwall block AB’s move then? If we were never interested in him & Tilly taking the reigns, Millwall wouldn’t have had to block it. Load of cobblers.

- Chris Powell only wanted players he could manage. Wait, that’s a bad thing? The fact that we’re currenty the laughing stock of English Football isn’t because of that man’s recruitment, it’s because we’ve been plagued by those **** unmanageable attitudes since the days of Phil Brown.

- Perhaps Bondy could have departed a game or two before he finally did? Sure, although that would have meant Ron cutting his month-long holiday short. Honestly, just think about that. Your business - as Ron likes to refer to it - is in clear and obvious decline, but you couldn’t possibly drag your pasty backside away from your deckchair long enough, to address the problem. Get ****ed.

- “We paid off HMRC in January, but they got us embargoed again”. Once again, it’s HMRC’s fault. How many times over the last decade is that now? Don’t get me wrong, I despise the taxman as much as the next person, but us being under an embargo has got **** all to do with them. They’re not biased. They’re not out to get us. We’re just ran terribly.

- Five weeks the Larsson saga dragged on. Five. Anyone still believe it all fell apart because of some coach not wanting the job? The sooner this stadium fiasco is sorted, the better. Only then will we see any kind of change at this club.

Bang on ??