Quote Originally Posted by spaldy View Post
Orta's a hard one to defend in any regard and Celino is "mad as a hatter".

However, over the years most any dealing I have with leaders such as politicians, company execs, bureacrats, educators and yes even sports teams is marked by incompetence, corruption, avarice and an insatiable lust for power. To keep some semblance of positive on an generally negative world I've distilled it down to one simple question.

Is my family or I better off than they were before dealing with the that person. If the answer is yes I consider myself blessed. If not it just affirms my belief in those classes of people.

As crazy as it sounds. The answer was yes for both Radz, Orta and Celino. We are better off than were were with GFH or Bates. However, I think we are going to be much better off with the 49's than the others.
Exactly - Orta for all his many faults bought us Bielsa (my favourite all time manager for us that I have seen) and Rapha (up there with Speed, Batty and Gary Mc as my all time favourite player).

The way he spoke to fans at Brentford, his belief in Yeeee Ha, how he treated Bielsa and the nonsense with the loan clauses were all appalling though.

Radz was perhaps a wee bit naive when we got to the Prem and wasn’t able to make the further changes needed to be successful but he got us there and did bring on board the 49ers who seem to be doing pretty well so far having been dealt a poor hand.