I've just watched part 1 of this and it's fascinating viewing. A couple of things stood out.
1) the relationship between King and Douglas Park is clearly infinitely worse than I thought. King goes after him very, very personally here. Not the voting against him soundbite in the paper, but a very personal attack on his integrity and his competence. King may very well be justified in doing so, who knows. But it's very incendiary.
2) he suggests that we (those who introduced resolutions to remove the incumbent board of C1872) were somehow tools of David Graham and the RIFC board. I can categorically say that it's utter bollocks.
Personally, I have never had any contact with anyone in any position of authority at club (with the exception of James Bisgrove and that's only because I emailed him a couple of times when I've been on the end of the shambolic and contemptuous customer service for Club 72 season ticket holders. My interactions with him have been solely on that subject, and he did act to sort out the both issues.). None of our criticisms of the Board of C1872 came from the club; they came from C1872's own pronouncements, Companies House filings and failures.
1) the relationship between King and Douglas Park is clearly infinitely worse than I thought. King goes after him very, very personally here. Not the voting against him soundbite in the paper, but a very personal attack on his integrity and his competence. King may very well be justified in doing so, who knows. But it's very incendiary.
This is my problem with King in a nutshell, this and his manipulation of the C1872 board to try and control the wider fan base. Considering his apparent talents as a business genius, nailing his colors to that particular organization was not that clever at all.
i wont defend the executive board as I’m far from happy with their stewardship of the club in recent months. The public and very personal attacks are not a good look and his choice of messamger (DR) is beyond contempt.
More importantly, all of the evidence would suggest that King is behaving true to form. His actions are largely driven by ego and a desire to serve his own meeds rather than the good of the club, in fact, I would argue his methods are very damaging to the club. As he tries and fails to rally te wider fan base behind him, raer than read he room and re think, his attacks become more vicious, public and personal against our Chairman.
I obviously don’t know but it would appear a lot of this stems from the executives boards decision to compete directly for our money with a club led share issue directly off the back of Kings attempt to use C1872 to recover his own investment. That for me was the start of Kings attacks on Park.
I also don’t like he way e rewrites history. He takes no personal responsibility for the 10’s of £M squandered through his personal mis management of our kit deals and his vain attempts to out maneuver he fat man. He also criticizes he board on a number of other mistakes that happened with him in charge, including the absolutely disgusting price fixing of club merchandise.
I have lost a lot of respect for the man. I have issues with the current board but we as a fan base don’t need Dave King sniping from the sidelines and dressing it up as some valiant attempt to save the club Mk2. It’s disingenuous, insulting and is damaging the club.
He is behaving very much like the jealous ex.