Chaz Slater:

[SwalePie]

Some of you are hilarious. So you say KEEP OUT OF FOOTBALL MATTERS HARDY!!!! So he appoints a director of football and takes a step back as he realises he's got alot to learn. Next you say HARDY WE DON'T NEED A DIRECTOR OF FOOTBALL YOU ONLY NEED A MANAGER. The manager doesn't run the entire club and wouldn't want to, that's too much on his shoulders.

So do you want Hardy running it or someone who is more experienced like Hart?

Can't have it both ways.

Well said. In addition, why wouldn't he want some say in where his hard won millions are going? He's bought a business, not donated to a local charity. Some people on here are gobsmackingly naive.

[SmiffyPie]

Well said. In addition, why wouldn't he want some say in where his hard won millions are going? He's bought a business, not donated to a local charity. Some people on here are gobsmackingly naive.

He hasn't bought a business. A football club cannot be run as a business. Yes, the catering and people buying a pint can be subject to business principles but Notts County Football Club is not a business. He should have no input in the way the football is played or managed because he hasn't got a clue. And yes, some people are shockingly naive and add gullible to that.

[Bohinen]

Well said. In addition, why wouldn't he want some say in where his hard won millions are going? He's bought a business, not donated to a local charity. Some people on here are gobsmackingly naive.

OK Swalepie, please could you provide me some examples of good business practice Hardy has applied since he took over the club.

[pielover]

OK Swalepie, please could you provide me some examples of good business practice Hardy has applied since he took over the club.

Im not Swale but I can give you some.

First it seems he got the club back on a decent footing after Trew. It was in a mess.

He changed the sponsorship model, its connected the club to many more local businesses and seeing as it was carried on this season it must work.

He's done a lot of stuff around hospitality.

I think the point is he's probably quite good at business but absolutely crap at football.

[SwalePie]

OK Swalepie, please could you provide me some examples of good business practice Hardy has applied since he took over the club.

Only the obvious ones such as reducing ticket prices thereby increasing attendance etc. With regard to the football side no not particularly. Good business practice is a totally subjective term though to be honest. In business the score is kept in currency rather than opinions. In the world of 'management' there tend to be current fashionable practices, but in the entrepreneurial world of ownership and business growth there are few rules. I am curious though, why direct the question to me specifically? I never mentioned 'good business practice' in the post you quoted, merely that he'd bought a business.