Mad Dog Posted March 3 Report Share Posted March 3 https://guernseyliteraryfestival.com/speakers/pat-nevin So one of the guest speakers is Pat Nevin and I'm thinking of going. Not because I'm interested in his book as it's not the sort of thing that I normally read but just to listen to him talk about his life. Thinking of the opportunity to ask questions at the end, what would any of you like to ask him if you could? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllyMax Posted March 3 Report Share Posted March 3 1 hour ago, Mad Dog said: https://guernseyliteraryfestival.com/speakers/pat-nevin So one of the guest speakers is Pat Nevin and I'm thinking of going. Not because I'm interested in his book as it's not the sort of thing that I normally read but just to listen to him talk about his life. Thinking of the opportunity to ask questions at the end, what would any of you like to ask him if you could? Other than being pals with a multi-millionaire, what qualifications do you think you had to be Chief Executive of a football club ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeyin Posted March 3 Report Share Posted March 3 1 hour ago, AllyMax said: Other than being pals with a multi-millionaire, what qualifications do you think you had to be Chief Executive of a football club ? "What first attracted you to millionaire John Boyle?" 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
well_said Posted March 3 Report Share Posted March 3 Tell him he's an r/sole and always will be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grizzlyg Posted March 3 Report Share Posted March 3 Why did you ruin my night in Feb 83 when Clyde put us out the Scottish cup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mio Posted March 4 Report Share Posted March 4 When we went into administration and were trying to get as much money into the club as possible. We arranged a game with Chievo (they were here to play Dundee in a friendly and agreed to play us too without any charges) Does Nevin feel any guilt or regret, as our CEO at the time, to take on a punditry gig with sky on the same night as the chievo game and not attend fir park. Can he see that maybe, just maybe, the fans saw this as someone who really didn’t give a shit. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
well_said Posted March 4 Report Share Posted March 4 See my previous post on this topic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeyin Posted March 4 Report Share Posted March 4 As bad as Nevin was as CEO, the man who appointed him should take most of the blame. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stv Posted March 5 Report Share Posted March 5 If your book carrier falls flat check out this thread on steelmen on line :- New Investment Options 12349 February 23 by Kmcalpin 1 FOLLOWER 215 REPLIES 8.4K VIEWS Seriously , i still think he wasn’t a bad wee guy , just he didnt have a clue what he was doing just like most ex football players. Mixed up with the big boys who were too smart for him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelboy Posted March 5 Report Share Posted March 5 1 hour ago, stv said: If your book carrier falls flat check out this thread on steelmen on line :- New Investment Options 12349 February 23 by Kmcalpin 1 FOLLOWER 215 REPLIES 8.4K VIEWS Seriously , i still think he wasn’t a bad wee guy , just he didnt have a clue what he was doing just like most ex football players. Mixed up with the big boys who were too smart for him. I'm not sure that's the case. Nevin was overly generous with contracts but the bottom line is he working to a budget until Boyle pulled the rug from him. We were pretty much put into Admin at the exact same time Boyle founded Zoom Airlines. I don't think the timing is a coincidence and it looks like he just decided to stop spending money on a football club and sank it into an airline instead. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
si91 Posted March 5 Report Share Posted March 5 IIRC, Nevin spoke at the Glasgow launch of his book and he told a story of a controlling company rather than Boyle making decisions. Motherwell were part of the portfolio and if finance was affected in one part of the company, Motherwell suffered too. Nevin spoke about being called to meetings in town to discuss the finance and hoping to get things correct but the money taps being turned off by this company. As I said, I may have picked that up wrongly but that was my take at the time of the book launch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelboy Posted March 5 Report Share Posted March 5 59 minutes ago, si91 said: IIRC, Nevin spoke at the Glasgow launch of his book and he told a story of a controlling company rather than Boyle making decisions. Motherwell were part of the portfolio and if finance was affected in one part of the company, Motherwell suffered too. Nevin spoke about being called to meetings in town to discuss the finance and hoping to get things correct but the money taps being turned off by this company. As I said, I may have picked that up wrongly but that was my take at the time of the book launch. Let's hope history isn't about to repeat itself...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Dog Posted July 19 Author Report Share Posted July 19 Completely forgot to update this, mainly because I couldn't get the photo of me and Pat small enough to comply with site rules. Anyway, it was a thoroughly enjoyable evening, Pat's a great speaker, took loads more questions than the compère wanted him to and stuck around for ages at the end. I was able to have a good chat with him and so did my mates who are from Dundee, Fife, Glasgow, all over really. A few of us bought his book too which I have now read and I have to say that I feel very differently about him now. John Boyle needs to take a larger portion of the blame along with the money men at his company Hamilton. Pat seemed to be an honest, kind and intelligent person who was as upset and annoyed as anyone when the cutbacks started. Also, Pat's insights into some of the behind the scenes stuff like Billy Davies' mental state, Eric Black's coaching ability, Terry Butcher putting David Kelly in his place and many others was really eye-opening. All-in-all, I understand the hate but he put his heart and soul into the club for those three or so years. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twistandshout1983 Posted July 20 Report Share Posted July 20 15 hours ago, Mad Dog said: Completely forgot to update this, mainly because I couldn't get the photo of me and Pat small enough to comply with site rules. Anyway, it was a thoroughly enjoyable evening, Pat's a great speaker, took loads more questions than the compère wanted him to and stuck around for ages at the end. I was able to have a good chat with him and so did my mates who are from Dundee, Fife, Glasgow, all over really. A few of us bought his book too which I have now read and I have to say that I feel very differently about him now. John Boyle needs to take a larger portion of the blame along with the money men at his company Hamilton. Pat seemed to be an honest, kind and intelligent person who was as upset and annoyed as anyone when the cutbacks started. Also, Pat's insights into some of the behind the scenes stuff like Billy Davies' mental state, Eric Black's coaching ability, Terry Butcher putting David Kelly in his place and many others was really eye-opening. All-in-all, I understand the hate but he put his heart and soul into the club for those three or so years. I bought the Pat Nevin book last year and was a great read . Lot of things he mentioned that people would never have known was going on behind the scenes One thing I picked up on was that wee Billy Davies who I loved as a player and was happy when he got the manager role was a very difficult person to deal with at times Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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