I think it could cause a revolt of Fullertonesque proportions if the answer to his contract question was 6 years..!
I feel sick at the thought of it.!
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I think the best owners are like the best referees, generally not seen and not heard unless they really need to be.
We know more than anyone as we have had our fair share of social media / publicly active owners and it's not ended well.
It's refreshing that we have owners who are low profile and have installed a very professional, calm and measured approach to running the club.
I believe Ray Trew and Alan Hardy both started out with good intentions for the club, but one of their weaknesses was that they both wanted to be at the centre of the "story", which is a nice place to be when things are going well, but a very hostile place to be when things go badly. I don't think either of them really calculated that by putting themselves in the foreground, especially on social media, they would become the lightning rod for all the anger and dissatisfaction when things went wrong, and this in turn soured their relationship with the club and its supporters to the point of being irreparable.
The Reedtz brothers seem to be a different entity. They appear to be football geeks (in the politest sense, I'm one myself!) and their desire to own a football club seems to be driven primarily by that love of football rather than any desire for fame, adulation and love. In fact, they seem to favour a deliberately low profile, leaving the stage to the footballers themselves. They have also kept their promises and ambition statements very modest and realistic, compared with some of hyperbole used by their predecessors. As such, they're less likely to become the focus of intense criticism based on wild, unfulfilled promises, and thereby less likely to go through a process where the relationship with the fans sours to the degree it did with Trew and Hardy.
I hope that's the case anyway. These guys simply seem to want to run the club sensibly, invest sustainably, and patiently wait to see where it takes us. After many years of the 'boom and bust' rollercoaster, this more 'zen' approach is something of a relief, even if it means we make slow rather than spectacular progress.