What kind of legacy does Tony really want to leave behind?

[UlleyMiller]

You pick up the sword, you carry the flag, you fall on your sword when your interest wanes. Being a club Chairman is definitely not for the faint hearted or anyone with short pockets.

Rest assured, Tony Stewart will go down in Rotherham United folklore for those that care to view him like you/I do. I will always be eternally grateful for how he saved my club and delivered what he did but, like all fairground rides this one is due to stop soon.

Pretty much where I'm at. It would be laughable to think anyone would buy a football club without having access to decent advice, a good understanding of how owners are viewed when things aren't on a never-ending upward spiral, and funds to see it through to at least a point where they can walk away unharmed. It's also likely that if you do a half decent job you'll get the losses covered and the asset (the club, en masse) will appreciate. Sympathy will always be limited. Respect for what he did will remain. Clearly had no obligation to buy in, nor to take the risk of building NYS when we were in L2, and he will remain part of the club's history whatever happens.

It's easy to be passionate when it's not your money... yeah, maybe. It's also easy to ignore the lot, and disregard thousands of fans who's relationship with the club is a huge part of their life when you have the sort of financial insulation and freedom that comes with being in a position to own a club... which is how TS will end up being viewed by a number of fans if there are no real signs of trying to turn our situation around.

I'm full of respect for TS and think the positives over his tenure far outweigh any negatives, but I'm also of the belief that people who acquire vast fortunes require a certain amount of good luck on top of any work ethic, business acumen and specialist skills they may have, and for that reason I've no doubt that others who maybe missed out on the good luck when running their businesses, would have also been very good owners too. In other words, pay the due respect to owners who do the right things, but let's stop short of glorifying them to a point where we ignore the unspoken responsibility they have to do right by the fans until they depart.

[Stovicmiller]

I will always Say hello M8. No matter what you have written on your forehead

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[caytonmiller]

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Obviously that's if your in the hospitality. Can't be communicating with these peasant in the stands 😛

[Brin]

Obviously that's if your in the hospitality. Can't be communicating with these peasant in the stands ��

Just when I'm singing your praise to NWC you have to spoil it with your toffee nosed 'prawnie' stance, I just hope they leave the shell on your next sandwich.....

[MillerBill]

After listening to the Rob Scott interview the club appears to be in disarray, which is quite alarming.Explaining in an excellent interview by Chris Gill, that the club is grossly mismanaged and underfunded.Unless we invest more the club will continue to struggle which is a shame, when we the fans have been paying one of the highest season ticket prices.At this time, three loanees have left the club and we have only brought in a young lad who is only just 17.We have got a small squad that needs strengthening with three very important matches coming up and still no signings.

[Spuddy Speight]

Every match is important to the supporters but does the club see it that way? We are currently being trampled on by most of the opposition put before us these days. Someone has got to try and stop the rot and decay. It costs money.

If we are relegated to League Two it will still cost a few extra bucks to even survive there.
There are no easy rides in any of the lower leagues.

Whatever the current message is coming from TS/PD/MH, investment is required as some of the current squad of players appear to be losing faith in their own abilities on the pitch and look as though they aren't good enough even to pull on a Miller's shirt.

[ragingpup]

After listening to the Rob Scott interview the club appears to be in disarray, which is quite alarming.Explaining in an excellent interview by Chris Gill, that the club is grossly mismanaged and underfunded.Unless we invest more the club will continue to struggle which is a shame, when we the fans have been paying one of the highest season ticket prices.At this time, three loanees have left the club and we have only brought in a young lad who is only just 17.We have got a small squad that needs strengthening with three very important matches coming up and still no signings.

Where did Scott give an opinion that the club is grossly mismanaged and underfunded Bill? I didn't catch any of that?

I heard him explain how the 75% FFP allowance (or whatever its called in Lge 1) to cushion the fall into the league below, was used in previous seasons to help us bounce back up (together with excellent management at the time) but this season it was reduced to 50% so we have to cut our cloth accordingly. He clerly said on a number of occasions that Stewart is committed to not putting the club at risk and accordingly we can only use funds that we generate through ticket sales and other promotional work. He said that we simply have to work within that budget but other clubs will have a greater fan base and commercial activities, but others will have less and that he could predict in each of the lower leagues pretty much where each club would finish based on what he knows is their streamed income, and his predictions are usually correct to within 3 places.

He said that at the moment it feels like we are pretty much at the position we were when we started in the new stadium, without theincome streams generated from successive dallying in higher league and Wembley visits. I suspect that much of that revenue was thrown at the winter transfers under Taylr and then the early signings from Evans, again using historic income streams from the championships but that 'gamble' in both cases didn't work out and we are where we are.

He did say however, that he felt that we are weak in communicating with our fans, that the fans would be more understanding if they heard in more detail how the funding was being managed, but as he said that isn't in his pay grade to rectify, clearly one for the Chairman.

But I don't remember any statement "explaining that the club is grossly mismanaged and underfunded". Which bit of the interview are you saying he did this?