I can't claim to know the ins and outs of Glovers time at the club, but no one has ever heard his side of the story.
Nieve he may have been, but there were people at the club that were a lot more experienced and supposedly clued up that either encouraged him or gave him stinking advice.
The rumours of the crazy salaries that got handed out must have been true. Elstons missis was a particularly shocking example.
If you know a lot more then why not reveal it ?
I'd love to know more about this devil incarnate Glover.

You may have a point on the players but that applies to all new Owners.

However as a supposed business man he knows about balancing the books and filling in a tax return. Failure to do those is hard to excuse and can't be blamed on Elston or his wife. The buck stops at Glover imho.

Ted made similar poor decisions but at least it took him 15 years before he finally lost control of the finances, took Glover two years!

Don't think I can explain it any better hth

Yes those rumours of crazy salaries were true.

Even small things like I mentioned previously such as energy on wrong tariffs over a period of time mounted up. On top of that meters werent read so what had been paid in the past were inacurrate.

Brian Smith mentioned heating of which I have a story regarding running up the bills. I wont go into it though.

Then why bring it up?

Ok I will.

Ive already mentioned regarding tariffs.

Anyone not familiar you get charged per unit and that the prices vary if you are on domestic or on business. We were on domestic, and we are a business.

In the flats they use electric storage heaters which as an element is involved thus using more energy and on a higher tariff. Sunday night, you still with me.

On top of that, staff went home, management too, leaving the heaters on full and with doors open.

Call me tight, picky or whatever, but isnt all the above a goid example of wasting money:

We all have kids and can hear all parents say, put the light out, its like Blackpool etc.

Could have paid for an extra player or creditor if we had paid less on our fuel bill.

I know it is small fry but is an example as to what happened.

Shouldn't Brian Smith have been concentrating on onfield matters rather than electric misuse?

I shared a box with a mate during the Glover era - he had a very successful business, and approached Glover with a proposal that could have generated *significant* income for the club; he was directed to Elston, who listened politely, then did absolutely nothing to follow it up. We tried a few more times to push it forward, but gave up in the end as it clearly wasn't going anywhere.

Match days were highlighted by Glover and his hangers on getting leathered in their box, and poor old Martin Hopkins running round like a blue-d fly, trying to leverage the corporate clients all on his own; Martin was the unsung hero of the Glover regime in my view.

Sounds about right that Bren to be honest.

I once had a suggestion of something, which I suggested to James Elston, and I got that line "your not paid to think", and then blanked me.

I agree about Martin, and would even mention Dav Longo in that bracket too.

This is interesting stuff, giving an insight into how the club ran in those days. I remember being impressed with the sheer hard work of Martin Hopkins and Davide Longo. Wasn't there also a bloke called Martin Empsall who used to run himself ragged for the club? He could have been a volunteer though, in which case Feline would also need a honourable mention!