Okay it’s simmered a little on the ‘Welcome’ thread and threatened to boil over on FM before the main protagonist scarpered, so let’s have it out...Mel Morris...hero or villain?
You’d have thought at times that MM was to blame for all our ills.
I just can’t see it that way. To me he’s a generous owner and, as a DCFC supporter - man and boy - clearly has the club’s welfare at heart in a way that other, more opportunist, owners simply can’t.
He’s made mistakes...though perhaps not as many as we think. Sacking McClaren the first time was, imo, inevitable. Clement has proved since that he’s a coach not a manager. Pearson was always a gamble that went horribly wrong and although I never understood bringing McClaren back a second time we’ve eventually, imo, ended up with the right man.
Throughout that period we have never fully understood how much of the responsibility lies with Morris and how much with Rush who MM ‘inherited’ and did not actually appoint.
It seems that bad, possibly financially very dubious, advice was given about the signing of certain players which will hopefully eventually all ‘come out in the wash’.
Throughout what is now nearly three years since he took charge he has financed huge deals, invested in the academy and the stadium and backed a number of supporter initiatives. In return we have come close, but never close enough, to promotion and he has endured taunts and ridicule from a vociferous minority of supporters who have accused him of everything from ignorance to egotistical interference.
Despite all this he’s continued to back the club in every possible way. Seems to me he’s now owed a little bit back, in terms of respect and support, from those who are constantly sniping.
Thoughts?
You’d have thought at times that MM was to blame for all our ills.
I just can’t see it that way. To me he’s a generous owner and, as a DCFC supporter - man and boy - clearly has the club’s welfare at heart in a way that other, more opportunist, owners simply can’t.
He’s made mistakes...though perhaps not as many as we think. Sacking McClaren the first time was, imo, inevitable. Clement has proved since that he’s a coach not a manager. Pearson was always a gamble that went horribly wrong and although I never understood bringing McClaren back a second time we’ve eventually, imo, ended up with the right man.
Throughout that period we have never fully understood how much of the responsibility lies with Morris and how much with Rush who MM ‘inherited’ and did not actually appoint.
It seems that bad, possibly financially very dubious, advice was given about the signing of certain players which will hopefully eventually all ‘come out in the wash’.
Throughout what is now nearly three years since he took charge he has financed huge deals, invested in the academy and the stadium and backed a number of supporter initiatives. In return we have come close, but never close enough, to promotion and he has endured taunts and ridicule from a vociferous minority of supporters who have accused him of everything from ignorance to egotistical interference.
Despite all this he’s continued to back the club in every possible way. Seems to me he’s now owed a little bit back, in terms of respect and support, from those who are constantly sniping.
Thoughts?
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