New Chairman... This should be fun....

[Lessingham Canary 99]

Wasn''t a dig Sheff !

[Crafty Canary 495]

That''s another vote in her pocket for Delia at board meetings. Presumably he will actually turn up for board meetings unlike her other poodle Stephen Fry.

We have replaced a well respected business man with a positive reputation in the City with old Balls Up with a reputation for helping to screw up the country. You couldn''t make it up.

[Branston Pickle 3,632]

Decent appointment - I don''t think people realise that the true running of things lies with the CEO, which is why he''s healthily paid.

As for the auditor/accountant thing, having worked 20+ years as a management accountant, my experience is that most auditors don''t seem to know their arses from their elbows.

[snake-eyes 13]

Shef

I have worked in industry!

Again making personal assumptions without knowledge.

No wonder you made FD. Recently witnessed one cut the audit department to the bone in his company as a cost cutting exercise even though the department was at worst cost neutral! And this was against our advice!

It is no wonder the financial position of that company is dangerously fragile!

As for Balls being Chancellor now, all i can say is thank god he is not! Whilst the banks still have a lot to answer for the reasons are far deeper than that and Borrowing even more when borrowing was too high anyway is economic suicide! Is that what you would recommend for your company? Keynesian theory has its limitations but hey all i was doing was stating an opinion not based on political leaning but on finance. A world that i work in!

Your bitterness may be born from experience but by stating auditors can be bought off you are intimating i can be and that i have no integrity? I assume you are a member of a professional organisation? I am sure they would like to know about all these crooked Auditors you know.

[snake-eyes 13]

My experience Branston is that the only people who criticise Auditors are crooked accountants!

[morty 0]

Anyone got any more puns on "Balls"?

[shefcanary 2,383]

Less, I''m happy for Snake-eyes to continue on his own. I have drafted plenty of replies but I can see everyone else already has him licked.

Anyway, back on topic, Delia has appointed someone who I am sure she has taken counsel about. He has time on his hands and probably has some contacts. I''m not sure he has ever chaired a Board of this type before so expect not everything will turn out perfect. You could argue he is too much of a fan as well. But his recent snub by the good people of outer Leeds will make him think long and hard over any decision required by him so not expecting any change in the club''s strategy. The timing of the announcement now may mean our transfer business is done, or the board are uncertain about where to act on Neil''s proposals. So not expecting any shock surprises.

[Lessingham Canary 99]

Agreed Branston.

If you were Delia and Co, would you leave Ed Balls sitting in the Barclay, or would you bring him in and see what he can bring to the table ? seems a no brainer, no matter where your politics take you, a man of his background / education must bring some value surely ? (and he hates Ipswich)

[Katie Borkins 1]

My Xmas stripper name is Jingle Balls

[mrs miggins 0]

Welcome aboard Ed! I''m sure this appointment will be met with heartfelt cheers and genuine optimism.

[snake-eyes 13]

Squit

Ignorance must be bliss!

[A Load of Squit 5,116]

[quote user="morty"]Anyone got any more puns on "Balls"?

[/quote]

Bouncebackability. It''ll be used when we next win (hopefully tomorrow).

[Katie Borkins 1]

Niagra Balls

[morty 0]

Rob Butler tweeted a pic of Ed and Delia.I asked him if Delia was touching Balls in it.He didn''t reply.

[Captain Canary 0]

Just when you think our Board couldn''t make more of a pigs ear of it they manage to prove you wrong

It was never this bad under chase

[A Load of Squit 5,116]

These Accountants V Auditor spats are as exciting as being an Accountant or an Auditor!

[Lessingham Canary 99]

Anyone got any more puns on "Balls"?

Waveney would have, but is a bit deflated currently...................... Back of the net !

[Katie Borkins 1]

Like all good lotteries, it''s time to Release the Balls...

[Lessingham Canary 99]

Apparently the appointment came about, when at a recent board meeting Delia stressed the importance of maintaining PL status, and Stephen Fry (via Skype) said it''s bonn take a lot of balls.

[Lessingham Canary 99]

Gonna not bonn*

[morty 0]

Stephen Fry and Balls.Theres a pun there somewhere.....

[Lessingham Canary 99]

That would be an almighty c*ck up

[morty 0]

In a press release this afternoon Stephen Fry said he quite liked the look of Balls.....

[Syteanric 1]

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Camerone Jerome seriously needs to up his game...

[JF 694]

Good luck to him. Unpaid role so isn''t costing the club anything and he may bring some new ideas to the table

[firedawg 0]

Yeah but you could be a ''shit'' auditor, so it means fuck all.

[A Load of Squit 5,116]

[quote user="firedawg"]Yeah but you could be a ''shit'' auditor, so it means fuck all.[/quote]

Is this fiscal trash talk?

[south of the border 0]

My view for what its worth is that we have figurehead appointment as chairman in much the same way as when Stephen Fry was appointed to the board. A backward step in my opinion.

In 2009 when the club were close to administration Alan Bowkett undertook to renegotiate the clubs loans. The rest they say is history. Debt free and in the premier league.

Now here''s a hypothetical question. Would Mr Ed Balls have necessary business experience to do what Bowkett did for the club in 2009?

[morty 0]

[quote user="south of the border"]My view for what its worth is that we have figurehead appointment as chairman in much the same way as when Stephen Fry was appointed to the board. A backward step in my opinion.

In 2009 when the club were close to administration Alan Bowkett undertook to renegotiate the clubs loans. The rest they say is history. Debt free and in the premier league.

Now here''s a hypothetical question. Would Mr Ed Balls have necessary business experience to do what Bowkett did for the club in 2009?[/quote]Build a time machine, go back and discover the existence of a parallel universe perhaps?Could Ed Balls have stopped Hitler? Theres another hypothetical question.

[firedawg 0]

Yes he would.